Monday, September 19

Lecture (11:00 - 12:00): Introduction to information structure

• Basic term focus
• Basic term topic
• Basic distinctions of givenness
• Slides

Practice Session (2:00 - 3:00)

• Annotate Göttingen Text w.r.t. Givenness/Newness
• Annotated Text
• Installation of QUDA Tool

Tuesday, September 20

Lecture (11:00 - 12:00): Questions under Discussion

• Contrast
• QUD Principles
• QUD Annotation
• Slides

Practice Session (2:00 - 3:00)

• QUD Annotation of pre-segmented Göttingen
• Annotated Text

Wednesday, September 21

Lecture (11:00 - 12:00): Discourse Structure

• Segmentation
• Status of adjuncts
• Discourse relations
• Slides

Practice Session (2:00 - 3:00)

• QUD Annotation of Obama speech

Thursday, September 22

Lecture (11:00 - 12:00): Topics

• Analysis of sentence vs. discourse topics
• Slides

Practice Session (2:00 - 3:00)

• Annotation of topics: Text for annotation

Literature

• see slides