[HPSG-L] Call for papers: Fifth Workshop on Natural Language and Computer Science

[Ash Asudeh]

Fifth Workshop on Natural Language and Computer Science
NLCS '18
July 7-8, 2018
Oxford, UK
http://www.indiana.edu/~iulg/nlcs.html

A workshop affiliated with Federated Logic Conference (FLoC) 2018
Endorsed by the Association for Computational Linguistics Special Interest Group on Computational Semantics.
We are grateful to Jesus College, Oxford, for their support of our workshop.

AIMS AND SCOPE

Formal tools coming from logic and category theory are important in both natural language semantics and in computational semantics. Moreover, work on these tools borrows heavily from all areas of theoretical computer science. In the other direction, applications having to do with natural language has inspired developments on the formal side. The workshop invites papers on both topics. Specific topics includes, but are not limited to:

• logic for semantics of lexical items, sentences, discourse and dialog
• continuations in natural language semantics
• formal tools in textual inference, such as logics for natural language inference
• applications of category theory in semantics
• linear logic in semantics
• formal approaches to unifying data-driven and declarative approaches to semantics


INVITED SPEAKERS

Ann Copestake, University of Cambridge
Aurelie Herbelot, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Ash Asudeh, Oxford University/Carleton University
Simon Charlow, Rutgers University
Valeria de Paiva, Nuance.com<http://Nuance.com>
Thomas Graf, State University of New York, Stony Brook
Aurelie Herbelot, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
Larry Moss, Indiana University, Bloomington
Christian Retoré, Université de Montpellier
Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, Queen Mary University of London
Annie Zaenen, Stanford University

PAPER SUBMISSIONS

Extended abstracts of up to 10 pages may be submitted through Easychair:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nlcs18


ORGANIZERS

Ash Asudeh, Oxford University/Carleton University
Valeria de Paiva, Nuance.com<http://Nuance.com>
Larry Moss, Indiana University, Bloomington

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission: May 1, 2018
Author Notification:May 15, 2018
Electronic versions due: May 31, 2018
Workshop: July 7-8, 2018