(8:30-9:00) Opening session
- 'Schrikkelspaties' - a quadrennial focus on empty spaces (J. Scrick)
(9:00-10:45) Session 1: Space usage and understanding
- Putting the space in perspective (G. Boys)
- The ace of space - the importance of space in communication (S. Andersson)
- Misunderstandings through unintentional misbehaviour in space usage (I. Gordon & G. Boole)
- The intelligent use of space - the baby and the bathwater (V. Aggarwal)
(10:45-11:00) Coffee break
(11:00-12:45) Session 2: Space semantics
- Unsupervised space extraction from the web: an experimental study (J.B. Moufot)
- Conceptual dependency: a theory of natural space understanding (T. Stover)
- What's in a space: structural foundations for semantic networks (P. Kurosawa)
- Beyond space extraction: a probabilistic approach to sentence compression (P.A. Cabral)
(12:45-13:45) Lunch break & Expo
There will be a lot of space in the Expo Hall
(13:45-15:30) Session 3: Cross-language space issues
- The complexity of space translation (P. Aleksandrov)
- Resolving ambiguity for cross-language space retrieval (W. Stützle)
- Space ambiguity in second language acquisition (S. Al-Riyami)
- Scriptio discontinua: the use of spaces in Medieval Latin (B. Graziosi)
(15:30-15:45) Coffee break
(15:45-17:30) Session 4: Space processing and modeling
- Adaptive space processing by neural network models (B. Peeters)
- Lexical knowledge representation and space processing (A. Nemec & V. Weiss)
- Discourse strategies for generating natural-language spaces (N. Pearlmutter)
- An empirical study of smoothing techniques for space modeling (K. Doya)
(18:30-21:00) Conference dinner
The conference dinner will be held in the Space Bar.
