Program

All of the abstracts can be downloaded as a single pdf file here.
Post-conference update: some authors have shared their slides; they have been added to the program below

Wednesday, May 6th
20.00
Early bird gathering (Restaurant/café Suudlevad Tudengid, Raekoja plats 10)


Thursday, May 7th
9.30 - 10.00
Registration (lobby of the Jakobi 2 building)
Note: all room numbers refer to rooms in the same building, Jakobi street 2.
10.00
Welcoming words. Auditorium 226 (entrance from the lobby)
10.15
Plenary: Andrei Popescu-Belis
Chair: Andres Karjus. Auditorium 226.
11.15
Coffee (lobby of the Jakobi 2 building)


Section 1. Chair: David Ogren. Room 106.
Section 2. Chair:  Hanna Jokela. Room 103.
11.45 - 12.15
12.20 - 12.50
12.50
Lunch break

Section 1. Chair:  Eleri Aedmaa. Room 106.
Section 2. Chair:  Triin Todesk. Room 103.
14.15 - 14.45
Tkachenko, Alexander; Petmanson, Timo; Laur, Sven: Named Entity Recognition in Estonian
14.50 - 15.20
15.25 - 15.55
15.55
Coffee. Note: this coffee break will take place in room 114 instead (same floor as the lobby).
Section 1. Chair:  Pärtel Lippus
Chair: Timo Petmanson.
16.25 - 16.55
Martins, Pedro Tiago; Boeckx, Cedric; Theofanopoulou, Constantina; Ramirez, Javier; Zhang, Elizabeth; Castillo, Gonzalo; Shi, Edward; Alamri, Saleh; Martinez Alvarez, Anna; Dogru, Gokhan; Leivada, Evelina: Why put 'bio' in bio-linguistics?
17.00 - 17.30


19.00
Informal evening gathering (Restaurant Vilde, Vallikraavi 4)
Friday, May 8th
10.00
Plenary: Mónica Tamariz
Chair: Peeter Tinits. Auditorium 226.
11.00
Coffee (lobby of the Jakobi 2 building)

Section 1. Chair: Helen Plado. Room 106.
Section 2. Chair:  Roger Gee. Room 103.
11.30 - 12.00
12.05 - 12.35
12.40 - 13.10

13.10
Lunch break
14.30
Plenary: Dylan Glynn
Chair: Kadri Muischnek. Auditorium 226.
15.30
Coffee. Note: this coffee break will take place in room 114 instead (same floor as the lobby).
16.00-17.00
Language Science Pecha Kucha workshop  Chair: Peeter Tinits. Room 106.
Klavan, Jane; Pilvik, Maarja-Liisa; Uiboaed, Kristel: Predicting constructional choice in Estonian
Bogdanova-Beglarian, Natalia; Sherstinova, Tatiana; Blinova, Olga; Martynenko, Gregory: Corpus Studies of Russian Everyday Speech and Oral Communication
Yallop, Roger Michael Alan: Hedging in the peer review process; slides


18.30
Reception on the 6th floor glass hall of Department of Mathematics and Informatics (Liivi 2)
Saturday, May 9th

Section 1. Chair: Iuliia Goman. Room 106.
Section 2. Chair: Maarja-Liisa Pilvik.
Room 103.
10.00 - 10.30
10.35 - 11.05
Müntel, Mait; Isak, Kärt; Härm, Tiina: A new approach to language learning
11.05
Coffee (lobby of the Jakobi 2 building)
11.35
Round table discussion: Why linguistics? With Dylan Glynn (Paris), Heiki-Jaan Kaalep (Tartu), Gerson Klumpp (Tartu), Mónica Tamariz (Edinburgh), Tiia Tulviste (Tartu).
Chair: Daniel Cohnitz (Tartu). Room 106.
~13.00
Closing words



Informal post-conference lunch (TBA)