Sinn und Bedeutung 17 Ecole Normale Sup´erieure, Paris

September 2012

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Sinn und Bedeutung: 17th edition • Thanks to the main organizers: • Regine Eckhardt • Ede Zimmermann • Arnim von Stechow, who first contacted us. • Sponsors: • IEC: Department of Cognitive Science at ENS [LSCP & IJN] • ESF: Euriy grant attributed to Philippe Schlenker

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Organization: (cascading) human crowdsourcing • think about the badges you were asked to finish yourself! • Committee members: Claire Beyssade, Emmanuel Chemla, Vincent Homer, Philippe Schlenker, Benjamin Spector (Thanks as well to Isidora Stojanovic)

• Secretary: Gr´egoire Winterstein • More assistance: Heather Burnett, Alexandre Cremers, J´er´emy Zehr These are all people who should be able to help you navigate here

• Reviewers, authors: I’ll come back to that 3/8

Practical information • Program change • Deo Ashwini: cancelled • Florian Schwarz and Sonja Tiemann will give a talk this afternoon.

• Anna Howell will present her work on Monday. • Two announcements • Conference buffet: Sunday after the business meeting • EALing: next week

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Some numbers: Submissions • 170 submissions from 27 countries • Acceptance rates (global=27%):

χ(14) = 8.7, p = .85

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Some numbers: Submissions - gender • 170 submissions – based on first author:

W = 3850, p = .35

χ(2) = .45, p = .80

• More submissions from males,

(χ(1) = 2.8, p = .092),

But fair selection among the submissions

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Some numbers: Reviewers – Thank you! • 107 reviewers from 12 countries, 501 reviews (2.95 reviews/submission, 4.68 reviews/reviewer)

Females: Males:

Reviewers 43 64

(p = .10)

Reviews 202 299 (p = .11)

Rates 4.7 4.67 More males than females (χ(1) = 4.1, p = .042)

Fair choice (χ(1) = .007, p = .93)

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Acquaintance between reviewers and authors?

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