CO-SPONSORED EVENTS HELD AT THE HUMANITIES CENTER
Symposium on Questions
Friday May 11, 2012 | 03:00
-05:00 PM
| Stanford Humanities Center Board Room
The Stanford Symposium on Questions
Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Language and Information and the Stanford Humanities Center
May 11–12, 2012, at the Humanities Center, 424 Santa Teresa St.
Friday, May 11
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Welcome and Introductory Remarks
The neuroscience of questions?
Dynamic logics of questions and issues
John Perry, Philosophy and CSLI: LILAC Katja Zelljadt, Humanities Center
Dan Flickinger, CSLI
Patrick Suppes, Philosophy and
CSLI: Suppes Brain Lab
Stanley Peters, CSLI, Linguistics
Johan van Benthem, Philosophy and CSLI: LILAC
Herb Clark, Psychology
Colleen Crangle, CSLI: Suppes Brain Lab
Tim Hallahan, Stanford Law School Pentti Kanerva, CSLI: LILAC
Rick Sommer, Pre-Collegiate Studies John Perry, Philosophy and CSLI: LILAC Cleo Condoravdi, CSLI
Ali Farghaly, CSLI: LILAC
Paul Skokowski, Symbolic Systems Dan Flickinger, CSLI
Saturday, May 12
9:30 am 10:15 am
11:00 am - 5:30 pm
Wordless questions, wordless answers What makes a question a good question: lessons from the biomedical sciences Questions lawyers use at trial
Latent semantic analysis
Lunch
Questions and roles
Open questions about (acceptable and unacceptable) exclamative answers Coffee break
Linguistic and functional taxonomy
of questions
Not too implausible theory of questions Toward automation of tutorial dialogues
Stanford Symposium on Questions Website Address:
http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/symposium