Thursday 12.09.2019 Event Speaker(s)
9.15-9.30 Welcome and Introduction Katharina Ehret, Aleksandrs Berdicevskis, Alice Blumenthal, Christian Bentz (organisers)
9.30-10.15 Keynote 1 “Language complexity and how to measure it: a quantitative typological perspective” Michael Cysouw
10.15-10.45 Coffee break
10.45-11.10 Quantifying types of morphological complexity Taraka Rama & Çağrı Çöltekin
11.10-11.35 Phonological and morphological complexity from a quantitative and typological perspective Yoon Mi Oh
11.35-11.50 Measuring inflectional and derivational complexity Olga Sozinova, Tanja Samardžić & Christian Bentz
12.00-13.00 Lunch
13.00-13.45 Keynote 2 “Language complexity in second language acquisition research” Folkert Kuiken
13.45-14.10 Complexity of head and dependent marking across languages: Comparing description-based and corpus-based metrics Kaius Sinnemäki & Vil­jami Haakana
14.10-14.35 Combining productivity and predictability for measuring morphological complexity Ximena Gutierrez-Vasques
14.35-15.05 Coffee break
15.05-15.50 Keynote 3 "Linguistic complexity and computational linguistics" María Dolores Jiménez-López
15.50-15.15 Why is this sentence complex? Cherry-pick the optimal set of features! Dominique Brunato & Giulia Venturi
from 18.30 Workshop dinner


Friday 13.09.2019 Event Speaker(s)
9.00-9.15 Welcome of FRIAS director Bernd Kortmann
9.15-10.00 Keynote 4 “Language complexity and Sign Language” Evie Malaia
10.00-10.30 Coffee break
10.30-10.55 Measuring psycholinguistic difficulty of processing through variability of information density Arturs Semenuks
10.55-11.40 Keynote 5 “Linguistic complexity and processing: Old data, new perspective” Vera Kempe
11.45-12.10 Summary presentation of statistical comparison & evaluation of shared task results Katharina Ehret, Aleksandrs Berdicevskis, Alice Blumenthal, Christian Bentz (organisers)
12.10-13.15 Lunch
13.15-14.00 Interactive session - Discussion “Methodological issues” All participants
14.00-14.30 Coffee break
14.30-15.15 Interactive session - Discussion “Relation to theory” All participants
15.15-15.30 Workshop summary & farewell Katharina Ehret, Aleksandrs Berdicevskis, Alice Blumenthal, Christian Bentz (organisers)