Dr. Chungmin
Lee
Topic: Formal and Theoretical
Linguistics
Prof. Chungmin Lee received his
doctorate degree in linguistics at Indiana
University. He has
been teaching Linguistics and Cognitive Science at Seoul National University
since 1973 in the Department of Linguistics and Cognitive Science Program of
the University. He also taught at UCLA (1986-88) and LSA Linguistic
Institutes (UCSC-1991, UCSB - 2001, Michigan State - 2003). He has
published articles in leading journals in Linguistics including Language,
Linguistic Inquiry, Foundations of Language, Language Sciences and so on.
He has worked on (in)definites,
negative polarity, topic-focus, tense-aspect-modality, anaphora, argument
structure, speech acts, in semantics, syntax, pragmatics, language
acquisition and natural language processing. He served on the editorial
board of Linguistics and Philosophy (1997-2003) and Journal of East Asian
Linguistics (1999-2002, as area editor:1992-1998), and
served as an Editor of Pragmatics (2001-2006), and is currently on the advisory
editorial board of Journal of Pragmatics (2001-), on the special editorial
board of The Journal of the Linguistic Society of Japan (2001-), and editor-in
chief of Journal of Cognitive Science (Seoul).
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Dr. Gary Simons
Topic: Language Documentation
Dr.
Gray Simons is the Associate Vice-President for Academic Affairs of the Summer
Institute of Linguistics (SIL), in Dallas, Texas. He is
also the executive editor of the SIL Ethnologue,
which is an encyclopedic reference work cataloging all
of the world’s 6,912 known living languages. He earned his Ph.D. and M.A. degrees in
Linguistics at Cornell
University. He is currently an adjunct associate
professor of
Language Development, Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics, and an adjunct
assistant professor of Linguistics, University
of Texas at Arlington.
Dr. Simons research interests include Digital language
documentation, description, and archiving; Markup languages and text encoding;
Computational linguistics; Programming languages; Historical and comparative
linguistics; and Austronesian linguistics.
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Dr. Haizhou Li
Topic: Digital Signal Processing
Dr.
Haizhou Li is the Department Head for Human Language
Technology of the Institute for Infocomm Research
(I2R) in Singapore. He is
also an adjunct Associate Professor of the School
of Computer Engineering of Nanyang Technological University
in Singapore. He received the B.Sc,
M.Sc and Ph.D degrees in
electrical & electronic engineering from the South China
University of Technology
(SCUT) in 1984, 1987 and 1990, respectively. Dr Li's current
research interests include automatic speech recognition, speaker recognition,
spoken language recognition, and natural language processing. He is a
recipient of the National Infocomm Award 2001 and the
TEC Innovator's Award 2004 in Singapore.
He is now the Vice President of the COLIPS, and Executive Committee Member of
Asian Federation of NLP.
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Dr. Patrick
Saint-Dizier
Topic:
Computational
Lexical Semantics
Prof.
Patrick Saint-Dizier is the head of the Informatique Linguistique et Programmation Logique (ILPL) at IRIT-CNRS in Toulouse, France. He is a CNRS research director and he heads
the computational linguistics and question-answering aspects of STIC-Asia, also
called 'A Multilingual Processing of Language in a Lexico-Semantic
Perspective: Application to Question-Answering'.
His
main research interests are:
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lexical semantics of predicative forms: verbs (Volem Project) and prepositions (PrepNet
project), emphasizing a conceptual approach. Development of syntactic (subcat frames, alternations) and semantic representations
(thematic structure, lexical conceptual structure representations, some
pragmatic aspects).
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text syntax and semantics, structure of rhetorical
structures, application to the procedural text structure (TextCoop
project), and also to the organization and the expression of explanations and
argumentation in texts.
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formal models for language processing: underspecification, types and lambda-calculus for semantic
representation computation, type coercion and co-composition, Generative
Lexicon.
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application area: question-answering applied to how-to
questions, cooperative response generation based on navigation tools
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Dr.
Trevor Johnston
Topic: Sign Language Linguistics
Trevor
Johnston is Professor in the Department of Linguistics, Macquarie University,
Sydney, Australia. He is regarded as a leading Australian
researcher of Auslan (Australian Sign Language). He
is the author of the first dictionary of Auslan of
which there has now been three editions (in book, CD-ROM and Internet formats)
and a number of papers describing the grammar of Auslan,
signed language lexicography, and signed language transcription. He has had a
considerable record of public and academic presentations in the field of sign
linguistics, language policy, and professional development for teachers of Auslan. Trevor Johnston has also
conducted research in the area Auslan assessment,
especially as a first language, in the evaluation of sign bilingual education
programs, and on sociolinguistic variation in Auslan.
He is the director of the Auslan corpus project
funded by the Hans Rausing Endangered Languages
Project and to be archive at the School
of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He is also Chief Investigator on
two ARC (Australian Research Council) funded projects: (1) corpus-based
research into how the use of space can realise and
encode grammatical roles and grammatical relations in Auslan
(with Dr Louise de Beuzeville); and (2) research into
the Auslan/English interpreter-mediated communication
in health and medical settings, focussing on
developing, sharing and harmonizing the use of medical terminology in Auslan through Auslan Signbank (an internet-based dictionary of Auslan). He is also currently comparing variation in Auslan and British Sign Language (a closely related sign
language) for evidence of grammaticalization and
language age.
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Dr. Sachiko Shudo
Formal
Semantics and Pragmatics
Japan
Sachiko Shudo is
Associate Professor of English and Linguistics in Waseda University
in Tokyo. She received
her Ph.D. (1998) in linguistics from Georgetown
University. Her
dissertation, The Presupposition and the Discourse Function of the Japanese
Particle mo, was published in Routledge’s
Outstanding Dissertation in Linguistics Series. Before joining Waseda University in 2005, she worked for the University of Tokyo’s
Research Center for Advanced Science and
Technology as a visiting fellow for several years. Her main research interests
include pragmatic issues involving presupposition of additives and scalar
particles. She is also conducting research in the area of language and law.
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Dr. Danilo T. Dayag
Discourse Pragmatics
Philippines
Dr. DANILO T. DAYAG
is the Chair of the Department of English and Applied Linguistics and former
Vice Dean of the College of Education, De La Salle University, Manila,
Philippines, where he holds the rank of Associate Professor. A holder of a
Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics, he was Visiting Professor at the College of World
Englishes, Chukyo University, Nagoya, Japan, from
April 2006 to March 2007. He has presented papers in the USA, Japan, Singapore,
Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Thailand, and has served as module developer and
national trainer for the Module on Written Communication for Teachers in the
Commission on Higher Education’s Continuing Education Program (CEP):
English Language Proficiency Training Program. His scholarly articles have
appeared in journals such as World Englishes
(Blackwell Publishing), Asian Englishes (ALC Press, Tokyo, Japan),
Asia Pacific Education Review (Seoul National University,
South Korea), and the
Philippine Journal of Linguistics (Linguistic Society of the Philippines) of
which he is the editor. His recent publications on Philippine English have been
included in volumes like World Englishes and
Miscommunications (Waseda
University International, Tokyo, Japan)
and Philippine English: Linguistic and Literary Perspectives (Hong Kong University
Press). His first single-authored book
is entitled Metadiscourse, Argumentation, and Asian Englishes: A Contrastive Rhetoric Approach (University of Santo Tomas Publishing House, in press).
He has recently completed the compilation of The Corpus of Asian Magazine
Advertising: The Philippine Database and is the convener of the La Salle Corpus of Philippine Languages (LASCOPHIL). Dr. Dayag’s research interests are
in the areas of discourse analysis, contrastive (intercultural) rhetoric, World
Englishes, and semantics and pragmatics.
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