MILLing - Program

Day 1 – Monday 14th October

08:30	Registration
09:15	Welcome and introductory remarks
09:30	Keynote 1: Napoleon Katsos (session chair: David Pagmar)
10:30	Fika (Swedish: “a coffee and a treat”)
11:00	Oral session 1 (session chair: Mattias Appelgren) 11:00 Staffan Larsson, Jenny Myrendal and Bill NobleNot Just Semantics: Word Meaning Negotiation in Social Media and Spoken Interaction 11:20 Jonathan David Thomas, Andrea Silvi, Emil Carlsson, Moa Johansson and Devdatt DubhashiLearning Efficient Recursive Numeral Systems via Reinforcement Learning 11:50 Goranka Blagus Bartolec, Gorana Duplančić Rogošić and Antonia Ordulj INIKOL - Collocational Database for Learning Croatian as a Foreign Language 12:10 Alex Tilson and Frank FoersterToward Real Time Word Based Prosody Recognition
12:40	Lunch at Restaurant Näckrosen
13:30	Oral session 2 (session chair: Amy Han Qiu) 13:30 Saba Nazir and Mehrnoosh SadrzadehHow Does an Adjective Sound Like? Exploring Audio Phrase Composition with Textual Embeddings (presented online) 13:50 Loulou KosmalaA Learning through gesture: embodied repetitions in tandem interactions 14:20 Hamdan Hamid Al-Ali, Elsa Soares, Goncalo Leal, Rita Valente, Nicole Agrela, Alexandra Marquis and Hanan AldarmakiTowards Automated Game-Based Early Screening for Language Disorder 14:40 Hadi Wazni, Kin Ian Lo and Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh VerbCLIP: Improving Verb Understanding in Vision-Language Models with Compositional Structures (presented online)
15:00	Fika
15:30	Keynote 2: Catherine Pelachaud (session chair: Vladislav Maraev)
17:30	Boat Trip to Reveljen (from Stenpiren)
19:00	Dinner Event at Reveljen

Day 2 – Tuesday 15th October

10:00	Keynote 3: Charles Yang (session chair: Bill Noble)
11:00	Fika
11:20	Oral session 3 (session chair: Erik Lagerstedt) 11:20 Ekaterina Voloshina and Oleg SerikovCritical Size Hypothesis: How Model Hyperparameters Correlate with Its Linguistic Abilities 11:40 Bastian Bunzeck and Sina ZarrießFifty shapes of BLiMP: syntactic learning curves in language models are not uniform, but sometimes unruly 12:10 Julia Edeleva, Martin Neef, Jiaming Liu and Martin ScheidtL2 Interaction in Heterogeneous Learner Groups during Content and Language Integrated Learning: The Experience of Rail.lexis and beyond
12:40	Lunch at Restaurant Näckrosen
13:45	Poster session (with Fika) [poster format: A0 portrait] Himmet Sarıtaş and Seyda OzcaliskanThe effect of addressee presence on L2 gesture production: Do L2 learners gesture for themselves or the communicative partner? Tommaso SgrizziThe Acquisition of Infinitival Clauses and The Developmental Advantage of Restructuring Verbs: A Growing Trees Perspective David Pagmar, Tove Gerholm, Thomas Hörberg and Östen DahlParental assessed productive vocabulary predicts later formal language, not later language use Petter Kallioinen and Tove GerholmJoint attention and play - a data-driven summary of longitudinal, multimodal, child-parent interactions Alexander BermanSemantic coordination in conversational explanations of predictive models: Preliminary findings Mattias Appelgren and Simon DobnikTo Your Left: A Dataset and a Task of Spatial Perspective Coordination Anna Teresa Porrini, Veronica D’Alesio and Matteo Paolo GrecoThe Processing of Expletive Negation: A Developmental Study David Arps and Yulia ZinovaIt is difficult, but not impossible: Measuring Scalar Activation in Language Models Christine Howes, Erik Lagerstedt, David Pagmar, Ellen Breitholtz and Claire Prendergast“Ice cream is super yummy” How children and ChatGPT respond to why and how questions
15:00	Closing Keynote: Robin Cooper (session chair: Sharid Loáciga)