CLASP Concluding Conference 2026
Gothenburg

All sessions will be in room J222.

Day 1

Time Programme
09:15 – 09:30 Registration and opening
09:30 – 10:30 Keynote 1: Katrin Erk (chair: Sharid Loáiciga)

Exploring mental and computational representations of word meaning
10:30 – 10:50 Coffee break
10:50 – 11:30 Oral session 1 (chair: Ellen Breitholtz)

The Informative Speech Act: Linguistic Disambiguation on the Basis of Epistemic Probability of Interpretations
Jean-Philippe Bernardy, Julian Grove & Christine Howes

Probing Discourse Coherence with a Polarity Reversal and the Explanation Relation
Aleksandre Maskharashvili and Symon Jory Stevens-Guille
11:30 – 11:40 Short break
11:40 – 12:20 Oral session 2 (chair: Staffan Larsson)

Human-centred Conversationally Explainable AI: 5 Challenges.
Alex Berman

Three Conversationalists Walk Into a Bar… Humorous Puzzles for Dialogue Inference.
Vladislav Maraev, Ellen Breitholtz & Christine Howes
12:20 – 13:40 Lunch at Näckrosen
13:40 – 14:20 Oral session 3 (chair: Hyewon Jang)

Working with Under-Resourced Languages in the Era of Large Language Models: Bribri case study.
Sharid Loáiciga & Rolando Coto-Solano

Typicality is the Key Insight.
Asad Sayeed
14:20 – 14:30 Short break
14:30 – 15:10 Oral session 4 (chair: Asad Sayeed)

Multimodal Cues for Sarcasm Identification-Signal or Noise?
Hyewon Jang & Diego Frassinelli

A Scalable Framework for Automated Multimodal Language Biomarkers in Clinical Neurology: The Open Brain AI Platform.
Charalambos Themistocleous
15:10 – 15:30 Coffee break
15:30 – 16:30 Keynote 2: Alex Clark (chair: Robin Cooper)

Learnability of  Syntactic Structures beyond context-free grammars
18:00 – 22:00 Dinner at Villa Belparc

Day 2

Time Programme
09:30 – 10:30 Oral session 5 (chair: Jean-Phillippe Bernardy)

From Types to Vectors to Spiking Neurons.
Robin Cooper, Jonathan Ginzburg, Staffan Larsson, Andy Lücking & Bill Noble

Recognizing Entailment: A Meta-inferential Study of Recognizing Textual Entailment.
Rasmus Blanck, Stergios Chatzikyriakidis & Bill Noble

Zeugma: A Neuro-Symbolic System for Knowledge Graph Extraction and Reasoning over Historical Texts.
Stergios Chatzikyriakidis, Thanos Bitzilis & Giorgos Paspatis
10:30 – 10:50 Coffee break
10:50 – 11:30 Oral session 6 (chair: Bill Noble)

Right Words Wrong Choices: Probing Object Naming in Vision-and-Language Models.
Nikolai Ilinykh & Ece Takmaz

Beyond Pixels and Words - Towards Grounded and Interactive Language Generation and Understanding
Simon Dobnik
11:30 – 11:40 Short break
11:40 – 12:40 Keynote 3: Joakim Nivre (chair: Christine Howes)

Perspectives on Universal Dependencies
12:40 – 12:45 Closing remarks
12:50 – 13:45 Lunch at Näckrosen