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 Putting Text-Level Linguistics into Statistical Machine Translation Slides 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	Pirinen, Tommi; Toral, Antonio: The Role of Linguistics in Improving Statistical Machine Translation as Scientific Field and as End-Result	Lindström, Liina; Lippus, Pärtel: Expressing uncertainty as a gender-specific use of language: a glance at Estonian data
12.20 - 12.50	Lin, Huei-Chi: How Syntax Is Helpful for Statistical Machine Translation?	Kalinauskaitė, Danguolė: Understanding Minimalist Communication: A Study of Short Text Genres
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	Kutuzov, Andrey; Miryasova, Olga: Social unrest through the prism of language: computational linguistic at sociology service Slides
14.50 - 15.20	Feldman, Anna; Peng, Jing: Linguistic Insights for Building Language Technology	Vedernikova , Elena: Dynamics of ethnolinguistic vitality of Maris
15.25 - 15.55	Petmanson, Timo: Estnltk — open source tools for Estonian natural language processing	Goman, Iuliia: Perception of environmental accountability among representatives of different generations in Russia
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	Buckmaster, Robert: The Why of an Intelligence Corpus; and How: Ethical and Construction Issues	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	Badia, Toni: Why linguistics: Why linguistics: from a technological perspective Slides	Koudria, Svetlana; Davtian, Elena: Text Linguistics Approach in Clinical Survey Research and in Diagnostics of Mental Disorders
19.00	Informal evening gathering (Restaurant Vilde, Vallikraavi 4)
	Friday, May 8th
10.00	Plenary: Mónica Tamariz Why (evolutionary) linguistics?  Slides 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	Samedova, Nezrin: Perfectivity As An Attention Phenomenon: The Aspectual Theory Expects Neural Evidence	Karjus, Andres; Veski, Liisi: Utilizing Linguistic Resources for Historical Text Clustering Slides
12.05 - 12.35	Hanegreefs, Hilde; Pluymaekers, Mark: The Quick Scan: Tailor-made language advice for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) Slides	Wohlfarter, Eva; Resch, Claudia: The Austrian Baroque Corpus ABaC:us: What does the linguistic annotation add?
12.40 - 13.10	Pärn, Katre: Linguistics in semiotics: metaphorical models and methodological innovations
13.10	Lunch break
14.30	Plenary: Dylan Glynn Society, Cognition and Language. Understanding human thought and behaviour. Slides 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 Aedmaa, Eleri: Statistical methods for particle verb extraction from text corpus Bogdanova-Beglarian, Natalia; Sherstinova, Tatiana; Blinova, Olga; Martynenko, Gregory: Corpus Studies of Russian Everyday Speech and Oral Communication Goman, Iuliia: Teaching Business Communication Skills in English: Analysis of the Content  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	Gee, Roger: How corpus linguistics can inform L2 vocabulary instruction: The use of frequency levels	Sherstinova, Tatiana: Studies of Everyday Speech at the Intersection of Disciplines
10.35 - 11.05	Müntel, Mait; Isak, Kärt; Härm, Tiina: A new approach to language learning	Martynenko, Gregory: From Coenoses to Style and Harmony: on Interdisciplinary Potential of Linguistics
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)