The NLP Seminar “Behaving according to protocol: How communicative projects are carried out differently in different contexts”, by Ellen Breitholtz, will take place on Monday, 28th April, at 10 a.m., in Loria’s room A008.

Abstract: There are a number of theories and models for capturing the aspects of organisations that are systematically related to the modes and genres of communication taking place within them. In this talk I will consider the micro-level of organisations and communities and present a model of how similar communicative projects are carried out differently within different activities. Central to this account is the notion of conversational games, which can be seen as strategies for realising communicative projects while assigning speaker roles to dialogue participants.

Bio: Ellen Breitholtz is lecturer at Gothenburg University. Her research focuses on formal modeling of dialogue and on various aspects of pragmatic reasoning. She works on Enthymemes (logically incomplete argument) and Topoi (principles of reasoning) in Dialogue. She also participate in different research project on NLP and mental health.