---------------------------------------------------------------------<br>24th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information<br>ESSLLI 2012<br>August 6-17, 2012<br>Opole, Poland<br><a href="http://www.esslli2012.pl">http://www.esslli2012.pl</a><br>
Call for Course and Workshop Proposals<br>---------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>The European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI) is<br>organized every year by the Association for Logic, Language and Information<br>
(FoLLI, <a href="http://www.folli.org/">http://www.folli.org/</a>) in different sites around Europe. The main focus of<br>ESSLLI is on the interface between linguistics, logic and computer science.<br>ESSLLI offers foundational, introductory and advanced courses, as well as<br>
workshops, covering a wide variety of topics within or around the three main areas<br>of interest: Language and Computation, Language and Logic, and Logic and<br>Computation. Previous summer schools have been highly successful, attracting up<br>
to 500 students from Europe and elsewhere. The school has developed into an<br>important meeting place and forum for discussion for students and researchers<br>interested in the interdisciplinary study of Logic, Language and Information. For<br>
more information, visit the FoLLI website, as well as the ESSLLI 2011 website:<br><a href="http://esslli2011.ijs.si/">http://esslli2011.ijs.si/</a>.<br><br><br>CALL FOR COURSE AND WORKSHOP PROPOSALS<br><br>The ESSLLI 2012 Program Committee invites proposals for foundational,<br>
introductory, and advanced courses, and for workshops for the 24th annual<br>Summer School on important topics of active research in the broad interdisciplinary<br>area connecting logic, linguistics, computer science and the cognitive sciences.<br>
<br>All proposals should be submitted via the EasyChair system, using a prescribed<br>form that is available on the ESSLLI 2012 website, no later than:<br><br>June 19, 2011 (extended)<br><br>Authors of proposals will be notified of the committee's decision by September 15,<br>
2011.<br><br><br>GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION<br><br>Proposers of courses and workshops should follow the guidelines below while<br>preparing their submissions; proposals that do not conform with these guidelines<br>may not be considered.<br>
<br>Courses are taught by 1 or max. 2 lecturers, and workshops are organized by 1 or<br>max. 2 organizers. Lecturers and organizers must have obtained a Ph.D. or an<br>equivalent degree at the time of the submission deadline. Courses and workshops<br>
run over one week (Monday-Friday) and consist of five 90-minute sessions.<br>Lecturers who want to offer a long, two-week course should submit two<br>independent one-week courses (for example, an introductory course in the first<br>
week and an advance course in the second). The ESSLLI program committee has<br>the right to select only one of the two proposed courses.<br><br><br>FOUNDATIONAL COURSES<br><br>These are strictly elementary courses not assuming any background knowledge.<br>
They are intended for people who wish to get acquainted with the problems and<br>techniques of areas new to them. Ideally, they should allow researchers from other<br>fields to acquire the key competencies of neighboring disciplines, thus <br>
encouraging the development of a truly interdisciplinary research community.<br>Foundational courses should have no special prerequisites, but may presuppose<br>some experience with scientific methods and general appreciation of the field of<br>
the course.<br><br><br>INTRODUCTORY COURSES<br><br>Introductory courses are central to the activities of the Summer School. They are<br>intended to provide an introduction to the (interdisciplinary) field for students,<br>
young researchers, and other non-specialists, and to equip them with a good<br>understanding of the field's basic methods and techniques. Such courses should<br>enable experienced researchers from other fields to acquire the key competencies<br>
of neighboring disciplines, thus encouraging the development of a truly <br>interdisciplinary research community. Introductory courses in a topic at the<br>interface of two fields can build on some knowledge of the component fields; e.g.,<br>
an introductory course in computational linguistics should address an audience<br>which is familiar with the basics of linguistics and computation. Proposals for<br>introductory courses should indicate the level of the course as compared to<br>
standard texts in the area (if available).<br><br><br>ADVANCED COURSES<br><br>Advanced courses should be pitched at an audience of advanced Masters or Ph.D.<br>students. Proposals for advanced courses should specify the prerequisites in detail.<br>
<br><br>TIMETABLE FOR COURSE PROPOSAL SUBMISSION:<br>Jun 15, 2011: Proposal Submission Deadline<br>Sep 15, 2011: Notification Deadline<br>Jun 1, 2012: Deadline for receipt of camera-ready course material by the ESSLLI<br>
2012 local organizers<br><br><br>WORKSHOPS<br><br>The aim of the workshops is to provide a forum for advanced Ph.D. students and<br>other researchers to present and discuss their work. Workshops should have a<br>well-defined theme, and workshop organizers should be specialists in the theme of<br>
the workshop. The proposals for workshops should justify the choice of topic, give<br>an estimate of the number of attendants and expected submissions, and provide a<br>list of at least 15 potential submitters working in the field of the workshop. The<br>
organizers are required to give a general introduction to the theme during the first<br>session of the workshop. They are also responsible for various organizational<br>matters, including soliciting submissions, reviewing, drawing up the program,<br>
taking care of expenses of invited speakers, etc. In particular, each workshop<br>organizer will be responsible for sending out a Call for Papers for the workshop<br>and to organize the selection of the submissions by the deadlines specified below.<br>
The call for workshop submissions must make it clear that the workshop is open to<br>all members of the ESSLLI community and should indicate that all workshop<br>contributors must register for the Summer School.<br><br>TIMETABLE FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSAL SUBMISSIONS:<br>
Jun 14, 2011: Proposal Submission Deadline<br>Sep 15, 2011: Notification Deadline<br>Oct 15, 2011: Deadline for submission of the Calls for Papers to ESSLLI 2012 PC<br>chair<br>Nov 1, 2011: Workshop organizers send out First Call for Papers<br>
Dec 15, 2011: Workshop organizers send out Second Call for Papers<br>Jan 15, 2012: Workshop organizers send out Third Call for Papers<br>Feb 15, 2012: Deadline for submissions to the workshops<br>Apr 15, 2012: Suggested deadline for notification of workshop contributors<br>
Jun 1, 2012: Deadline for submission of camera-ready copy of workshop<br>proceedings to the ESSLLI 2012 Local Organizers.<br><br>Workshop speakers will be required to register for the Summer School; however,<br>they will be able to register at a reduced rate to be determined by the Local Organizers.<br>
<br><br>FORMAT FOR PROPOSALS<br><br>Forms for submitting course and workshop proposals are available on the ESSLLI 2012 website.<br><br>The proposers are required to submit the following information:<br><br>* Contact address and fax number<br>
* Name, email, affiliation, homepage of each lecturer / workshop organizer (at most<br>two per course or workshop)<br>* Title of proposed course/workshop<br>* Abstract (abstract of the proposal, max 150 words)<br>* Type (workshop, foundational, introductory, or advanced course)<br>
* Areas (one or more of: Computation, Language, Logic, or Other)<br>* Description (describe the proposed contents of the course and substantiate<br>timeliness and relevance to ESSLLI in at most one A4 page)<br>* Tentative outline of the course / expected participation in the workshop<br>
* External funding (whether the proposers will be able to obtain external funding for<br>travel and accommodation expenses)<br>* Further particulars (e.g., course prerequisites, previous teaching experiences, etc.)<br><br>
<br>FINANCIAL ASPECTS<br><br>Prospective lecturers and workshop organizers should be aware that all teaching<br>and organizing at the summer schools is done on a voluntary basis in order to keep<br>the participants' fees as low as possible. Lecturers and organizers are not paid for<br>
their contribution, but are reimbursed for travel and accommodation expenses (up<br>to fixed maximum amounts, which will be communicated to the lecturers upon<br>notification). Lecturers and workshop organizers will have their registration fee<br>
waived. In case a course or workshop is to be taught/organized by two people, a<br>lump sum will be reimbursed to cover travel and accommodation expenses for one<br>of them; the splitting of the sum is up to the lecturers/organizers. It should be<br>
stressed that while proposals from all over the world are welcome, the School<br>cannot guarantee full reimbursement of travel costs, especially if lecturers or<br>organizers have to come from outside of Europe.<br><br>The local organizers would highly appreciate it if, whenever possible, lecturers and<br>
workshop organizers find alternative funding to cover travel and accommodation<br>expenses, as that would help us keep the cost of attending ESSLLI 2012 lower.<br><br><br>ESSLLI 2012 PROGRAM COMMITTEE<br><br>Chair: Andreas Herzig (Institut de recherche en informatique de Toulouse and CNRS)<br>
Local Co-chair: Anna Pietryga (Opole)<br><br>Area specialists:<br>Language and Computation:<br> Miriam Butt (Sprachwissenschaft, University of Konstanz)<br> Gosse Bouma (Groningen University)<br>Language and Logic:<br>
Regine Eckardt (Language and Literature, University of Göttingen)<br> Rick Nouwen (UiL-OTS, Utrecht University)<br>Logic and Computation:<br> Natasha Alechina (CS, University of Nottingham)<br> Andreas Weiermann (Mathematics and Computation, Ghent University)<br>
<br>ESSLLI 2012 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:<br>Chair: Urszula Wybraniec-Skardowska and Janusz Czelakowski (University of Opole)<br><br>ESSLLI 2012 website: <a href="http://www.esslli2012.pl">http://www.esslli2012.pl</a><br><br>
EasyChair submission page:<br><a href="https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esslli2012">https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esslli2012</a><br><br>