Program

8.30 – 9.00	Registration
9.00 - 9.05	Sylviane Granger (Head of the Linguistics Research Unit, Institute for Langage and Communication) Welcome
9.05 – 9.15	Thomas François (CENTAL, ILC) & Magali Paquot (FNRS, CECL, ILC) Introduction to the workshop
9.15-10.15	Frederick J. Newmeyer (University of Washington, University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University) The question of linguistic complexity: historical perspective
10.15 – 11.15	Benedikt Szmrecsanyi (KULeuven, Belgium) Measuring complexity in contrastive linguistics and contrastive dialectology
11.15 – 11.30	coffee break
11.30 – 12.30	Alex Housen (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium) L2 complexity – A Difficult(y) Matter
12.30 – 14.00	Lunch time
14.00 – 15.00	Philippe Blache (CNRS & Universite d'Aix-Marseille, France) Evaluating complexity in syntax: a computational model for a cognitive architecture
15.00 – 15.15	coffee break
15.15 -16.15	Advaith Siddharthan (University of Aberdeen, UK) Automatic Text Simplification and Linguistic Complexity Measurements
16.15 – 17.00	Thomas François & Magali Paquot Synthesis & round table

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