The ESSLLI 2024 best short paper award was presented to Zhuang Chen for his contribution Capturing even-hosting comparatives: A novel argument for the degree-based analysis of even from Mandarin observations.

The ESSLLI 2024 best long paper award was presented to Claire Ott for her contribution Structural Similarity: Formalizing Analogies using Category Theory.

Honorable mentions were given to Matilda Häggblom (Axiomatizing approximate exclusion atoms) and to Giorgio Cignarale, Stephan Felber and Hugo Rincon Galeana (A sufficient Epistemic Condition for solving Stabilizing Agreement).

Preliminary proceedings are available at https://tinyurl.com/ESSLLI24ST

The Student Session will take place from Monday 29, July to Friday 9, August. Regular presentations last 20 minutes plus 5 minutes for questions. Lightning talks (related to poster presentations) last 5 minutes. The poster session takes place on Friday 2, August. All sessions happen at 15.50 and last one hour.

Location: Jean Monet

Week 1

Monday, 29/7, 15.50 - 16.50

• Student Session opening
• Cordelia Berz, Counterfactual Logic in Explanations of Algorithmic Decisions - LOCO
• Yiwen Ding, Game semantics for weak positive modal µ-calculus - LOCO
• Matilda Häggblom, Axiomatizing approximate exclusion atoms - LOCO - Lightning talk

Tuesday, 30/7, 15.50 - 16.50

• Hugo Heagren, Bad Practices: Unintended consequences of practice-based theories of reference - LOLA
• Ling Sun, A type-based compositional approach for measurement and adjective scales - LOLA
• Zhuang Chen, Capturing even-hosting comparatives: A novel argument for the degree-based analysis of even from Mandarin observations - LOLA - Lightning talk
• Maruša Brežnik, Exploring the acquisition of third person dative and accusative clitic pronouns in slovenian: a comparative study - LOLA - Lightning talk

Wednesday, 31/7, 15.50 - 16.50

• Susanne Sophie Schmalwieser, The contemporary Cyborg: Establishing categories for LLM and AI evaluation within a post-humanist paradigm based on an exemplary analysis of HuggingGPT - LACO
• Logan Swanson, Syntactic Learning over Tree Tiers - LACO 
• Vivian Holzapfel and Laura Strieker, Arithmetic Circuits and Feedforward Neural Networks - LACO - Lightning talk
• Seyed Habib Hosseini Saravani - Are Large Language Models Lexicon-sensitive? - LACO - Lightning talk

Thursday, 1/8 15.50 - 16.50

• Jiayi Zhou, Two Classes of Intensifiers in Mandarin Chinese: From Subjectivity to Evidentiality - LOLA
• Yixuan Yan, Time and Modality in Mandarin Counterfactual Reasoning - LOLA
• Melanie Loitzl, Giving directions in Bavarian German - LOLA - Lightning talk
• Liesbet De Vos, GeoQuery-LSFB: towards a benchmark for semantic parsing of French-Belgian Sign Language - LOLA - Lightning talk

Friday 2/8 15.30 - 16.50

• Beth Dissertation Award Ceremony (15:50 - 16:20)
• Poster Session (15:30 - 15:50 and 16:20 - 17:00)
  • Matilda Häggblom, Axiomatizing approximate exclusion atoms - LOCO
  • Zhuang Chen, Capturing even-hosting comparatives: A novel argument for the degree-based analysis of even from Mandarin observations - LOLA
  • Maruša Brežnik, Exploring the acquisition of third person dative and accusative clitic pronouns in slovenian: a comparative study - LOLA
  • Vivian Holzapfel and Laura Strieker, Arithmetic Circuits and Feedforward Neural Networks - LACO
  • Seyed Habib Hosseini Saravani - Are Large Language Models Lexicon-sensitive? - LACO
  • Melanie Loitzl, Giving directions in Bavarian German - LOLA
  • Liesbet De Vos, GeoQuery-LSFB: towards a benchmark for semantic parsing of French-Belgian Sign Language - LOLA

Week 2

Monday 5/8 15.50 - 16.50

• Soyoung Kim, The Semantics of Future: Korean Modals - LOLA
• Chenxi Xia, The resolution of silence: towards an Attention-Coherence approach to Mandarin pronoun resolution - LOLA

Tuesday 6/8 15.50 - 16.50

• Giorgio Cignarale, Stephan Felber and Hugo Rincon Galeana, A sufficient Epistemic Condition for solving Stabilizing Agreement - LOCO
• Alakh Dhruv Chopra and Oriola Gjetaj, An automata-theoretic characterisation of Kleene algebra with domain - LOCO

Wednesday 7/8 15.50 - 16.50

• Josef Doyle, Morgane Ziegler and Teodor-Stefan Zotescu, Modal All Logic - LOLA
• Edward Dong, Generating Under the Influence: An Adversarial Approach to Modeling Stylistic Influences at the Literary Soirée - LACO

Thursday 8/8 15.50 - 16.50

• Hongkai Yin, Modal translation of the ordered and the grooved fragments of first-order logic - LOCO
• Claire Ott, Structural Similarity: Formalizing Analogies using Category Theory - LOCO

Friday 9/8 15.50 - 16.50

• Zhenghao Zhou, Language Models Show Gradient Inverse Frequency Effects in Structural Priming: Implications for In-Context Learning - LACO
• Yue Zou, Variation in verbal agreement with comitative constructions in Russian - LACO

The Student Session closing and Best paper award ceremonies will happen during the ESSLLI closing ceremony.