The Society for Text and Discourse will hold its 18th Annual Meeting
in the FedEx Institute
of Technology at the
University of Memphis July 12-15, 2008.
The conference which promises to become a great event features:
- Distinguished Scientific Contributions Award: Walter Kintsch
- Keynote speakers Nick Chater and Susan Brennan
- Over 90 accepted presentations and posters on dialogue, embodiment,
instruction and cognition, text comprehension, and sentence processing!
- ST&D Banquet at STAX Record Company
Keynote speakers include Susan Brennan, Nick Chater and Walter Kintsch
Susan Brennan is Associate Professor in the
Departments of Psychology and Computer Science at S.U.N.Y. at Stony Brook. She is internationally known for her work on
interactive spoken dialogue.
Nick
Chater is Professor of Cognitive and Decision Sciences, Department
of Psychology, University College London. He is the well-known for
his work on language acquisition and language evolution.
Walter
Kintsch is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University
of Colorado in Boulder. He is kmown for his work on text and discourse
comprehension and latent semantic analysis.
The ST&D Conference will be preceded by the ST&D Workshop (July 11-12, 2008), the 11th Conference (July 8-11, 2008) of The International Society
for the Empirical Study of Literature and Media (IGEL) and the IGEL Summer Institute (July 5-8, 2008)
