GALL Programme
Wednesday, 29th July, 2026
| 15:00- | Arrivals | |
| 19:10-21:00 | Dinner at Hotel Ullensvang | |
Thursday, 30th July, 2026
| 9:30-10:00 | Gerald Penn | Salutations/coffee |
| 10:00-11:00 | Shalom Lappin | Do neuro-symbolic systems improve the performance of deep neural networks? |
| 11:00-12:00 | Roussanka Loukanova | Type theory of acyclic recursion and acyclic algorithms |
| 12:00-14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00-15:00 | Stefan Müller | Large language models: the best linguistic theory, a wrong linguistic theory, or no theory at all? |
| 15:00-16:00 | Frank Richter | Can grammars talk? |
| 16:00-16:30 | Coffee break | |
| 16:30-17:30 | Janina Radó | Grammars, LLMs and psycholinguistics |
| 19:00-21:00 | Dinner | |
Friday, 31st July, 2026
| 9:00-10:00 | Gert Webelhuth | Do German-trained LLMs track grammatical relationships? |
| 10:00-11:00 | Coffee break | |
| 11:00-12:00 | Shuly Wintner | Investigating the grammar of code-switching in human-machine dialogues |
| 12:00-13:00 | Lunch | |
| 13:00-18:00 | Group | Hiking! |
| 19:00-21:00 | Dinner | |
Saturday, 1st August, 2026
| 9:00-10:00 | András Kornai | The bleaching of syntax |
| 10:00-11:00 | Coffee break | |
| 11:00-12:00 | Iva Ivanova | Measuring semantic complexity with embeddings: static vs. contextual representation |
| 12:00-14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00-15:00 | Gerald Penn | TBA |
| 15:00-16:00 | Coffee break | |
| 16:00-17:00 | Jingcheng Niu | Towards a grammatical description native to LLMs |
| 19:00-21:00 | Dinner | |