2016 Schedule

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Time Location
Friday, August 12 2016
4:30 – 6:30 Reception HH Don Craig Atrium
6:30 – 7:30

Randy Allen Harris

Cognition, Computation, and Chiasmus; Chiasmus, Computation, and Cognition

HH 1104
Saturday, August 13 2016
9:00 – 9:30 Coffee, pastries, fruit DC 1301
9:45 – 10:00

Randy Allen Harris and Chrysanne Di Marco

Welcome – Issues and Interests

DC 1304
10:00 – 10:50

Chris Reed and John Lawrence

10:00 – 10:20: Structural Techniques for Argument Mining
10:20 – 10:50: Discussion

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11:00 – 11:50

Chrysanne Di Marco

11:00 – 11:20: Using OWL for Rhetorical Ontology Building
11:20 – 11:50: Discussion

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12:00 – 1:00 BBQ Lunch DC 1301
1:00 – 1:50

Jelena Mitrović

1:00 – 1:20: Processing of Rhetorical Figures for Serbian – Tools, Lexical Resources and Implementation
1:20 – 1:50: Discussion

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2:00 – 2:50

Cliff O’Reilly

2:00 – 2:20: Ontological Engineering for Rhetorical Figures and Beyond
2:20 – 2:50: Discussion

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2:50 – 3:10 Coffee Break DC 1301
3:10 – 4:00

Ashley Kelly

3:10 – 3:30: The Problems of Prolepsis
3:30 – 4:00: Discussion

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4:10 – 5:30

Marie Dubremetz

4:10 – 4:30: Syntax Matters for Rhetorical Structure: The Case of Chiasmus

Daniel Hromada

4:30 – 4:50: Fast and Frugal Detection of Chiastic Protofigures in English Subsection of CHILDES Corpus
4:50 – 5:30: Discussion

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Sunday August 14 2016
9:30 – 10:00 Coffee, pastries, fruit DC 1301
10:00 – 10:50

Michael Ullyot

10:00 – 10:20: Toward an Augmented Criticism
10:20 – 10:50: Discussion

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11:00 – 11:50

Ying Yuan

11:00 – 11:20: On Argumentative Functions of Litotes
11:20 – 11:50: Discussion

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12:00 – 1:00 Lunch DC 1301
1:00 – 2:00

Ashley, Chris, Chrysanne, Cliff, Daniel, Jelena, John, Marie, Michael, Randy, & Ying

Compuational Rhetoric: Lessons Learned, Future Directions – Discussion

DC 1304
2:00 – 2:30

Chrysanne Di Marco and Randy Allen Harris

Closing Remarks

DC 1304

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This research is supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
We would also like to thank the following offices and agencies for additional support:

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