22.4623, Confs: Pragmatics, Semantics/Japan

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Subject: 22.4623, Confs: Pragmatics, Semantics/Japan

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Date: 18-Nov-2011
From: Alastair Butler [ajb129 at hotmail.com]
Subject: Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics 8

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Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 10:53:51
From: Alastair Butler [ajb129 at hotmail.com]
Subject: Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics 8

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Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics 8 
Short Title: LENLS8 

Date: 01-Dec-2011 - 02-Dec-2011 
Location: Takamatsu, Japan 
Contact: Alastair Butler 
Contact Email: ajb129 at hotmail.com 
Meeting URL: http://www.is.ocha.ac.jp/~bekki/lenls 

Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics; Semantics 

Meeting Description: 

Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics 8 (LENLS8)
Workshop Site: Sunport Hall Takamatsu, Takamatsu
Dates: December 1-2, 2011
Contact Person: Alastair Butler
Contact Email: lenls8 at easychair.org 
Workshop URL: http://www.is.ocha.ac.jp/~bekki/lenls/

LENLS is an annual international workshop focusing on formal 
semantics and pragmatics. It will be held as one of the workshops of 
JSAI isAI 2011, sponsored by The Japan Society for Artificial 
Intelligence (JSAI).

On 3 December there will also be special tutorial lectures at the 
workshop venue by Frank Veltman (University of Amsterdam) and Eric 
McCready (Aoyama Gakuin University).

Tutorial Lectures:

Lecturer:

- Frank Veltman (University of Amsterdam)
- Eric McCready (Aoyama Gakuin University)

Location:

'Sunport Hall Takamatsu'
Takamatsu 2-1, Sunport, Takamatsu-shi, Kagawa-ken, Japan

Time Table (Tentative):

10:00-12:00 Session 1
12:00-13:30 Lunch
13:30-17:30 Session 2 

Chair: Alastair Butler (JST/Tohoku University) 

Invited Speakers:

Frank Veltman (University of Amsterdam)
Kentaro Inui (Tohoku University)

Organizing Committee:

Alastair Butler (Chair)
Daisuke Bekki
Eric McCready
Yoshiki Mori
Yasuo Nakayama
Katsuhiko Yabushita
Tomoyuki Yamada
Shunsuke Yatabe
Kei Yoshimoto

Information on Takamatsu:

http://www.takamatsu.or.jp/eng/
http://www.city.takamatsu.kagawa.jp/english/access/
http://www.my-kagawa.jp/eg/ 

Call for Participation:

Logic and Engineering of 
Natural Language Semantics 8 (LENLS8) 

Workshop Site: ''Sunport Hall Takamatsu'', 
Takamatsu 2-1, Sunport, Takamatsu-shi, Kagawa-ken, Japan
Information/Registration： 5th Floor
Conference Rooms:5th and 6th Floor
Dates: December 1-3, 2011
Contact Person: Alastair Butler
Contact Email: lenls8 at easychair.org 
Website: http://www.is.ocha.ac.jp/~bekki/lenls/

Chair: Alastair Butler (JST/Tohoku University) 

Invited Speaker(s):

Frank Veltman (University of Amsterdam)
Kentaro Inui (Tohoku University)

Information on Takamatsu:

http://www.takamatsu.or.jp/eng/
http://www.city.takamatsu.kagawa.jp/english/access/
http://www.my-kagawa.jp/eg/

LENLS is an annual international workshop focusing on formal 
semantics and pragmatics. It will be held as one of the workshops of 
JSAI isAI 2011, sponsored by The Japan Society for Artificial 
Intelligence (JSAI).

Registration:

The proceedings of the workshop will be available at the conference 
site for registered persons. Please follow the link below and register 
yourself until 24th November 2011.

http://www.ai-gakkai.or.jp/jsai-isai/2011/index.html#registration 

Program:

December 1st (Thu), 2011

09:00-10:00: 
Reception

10:00-10:10: 
Opening Remarks

10:10-11:40: 
Session 1
Yoshiki Mori
'Back To the Future, Back From the Future  - To and Fro For the 
Counterfactual Future In the Past -'
Yurie Hara, Yuli Feng and Shigeto Kawahara
'Emphatic Stress as Epistemic Conflict: A case study of Mandarin 
Chinese'
Chungmin Lee
'Dynamic Perspective Shifts in Evidentials: Evidence from Korean'

11:40-13:00: 
Lunch

13:00-15:00: 
Session 2
Mauricio Hernandes
'Players who don't know how to play. An Haskell implementation of 
unawareness.'
Oleg Prosorov
'A Sheaf-Theoretic Framework for Dynamic Semantics'
Margot Colinet and Gre'goire Winterstein
'Linking probabilistic accounts: polarity items and discourse markers'
Hiroko Ozaki and Daisuke Bekki
'Extractability as Deduction Theorem in Subdirectional Combinatory 
Logic'

15:00-15:30:
Coffee break

15:30-16:30: 
Session 3
Gre'goire Winterstein
'Ludics and Presupposition Projection'
Nicholas Asher and Jason Quinley
'Begging Questions, Getting Answers and Basic Cooperativity'

16:30-17:30:
 Invited Talk 1
Frank Veltman (University of Amsterdam)
 '(TBA)'

December 2nd (Fri), 2011

08:30-09:00: 
Reception

09:00-10:30: 
Session 4
Yo Sato and Wai Lok Tam
'Underspecified types and the semantic bootstrapping of common 
nouns and adjectives: a simulation with a robot's sensory data ''
David Yoshikazu Oshima
'The Japanese particle yo in declaratives: Relevance, priority, and 
blaming''
Katsuhiko Yabushita
'Japanese NPI Dare-mo as Unrestricted Universal Quantifier'

10:30-11:00: 
Coffee break

11:00-12:00: 
Session 5
J.-R. Hayashishita and Daisuke Bekki
'Conjoined nominal expressions in Japanese: Interpretation through 
monad'
Christina Unger
'Dynamic semantics as monadic computation'

12:00-13:30: 
Lunch

13:30-15:00: 
Session 6
Satoru Suzuki
'Measurement-Theoretic Foundations of Gradable-Predicate Logic'
Tzu-Keng Fu
 'Universal Logic and the Logical Many-valuedness'
Alastar Butler and Kei Yoshimoto
'Towards a self-selective and self-healing evaluation'

15:00-15:30: 
Coffee break

15:30-16:30: 
Invited Talk 2
Kentaro Inui (Tohoku University)
'Toward Deep Processing of Language in the Era of Large-scale 
Knowledge Resources:  Time for Formal Semantics to Meet NLP Again''

Alternates:

Eric Mccready
'Trust in Evidential Testimony'

December 3rd (Sat), 2011

On the 3rd December, there will also be special tutorial lectures at the 
workshop venue by Frank Veltman (University of Amsterdam)  and Eric 
McCready (Aoyama Gakuin University).

Lecturer:

- Frank Veltman (University of Amsterdam)
- Eric McCready (Aoyama Gakuin University)

 Location:

'Sunport Hall Takamatsu', 
Takamatsu 2-1, Sunport, Takamatsu-shi, Kagawa-ken, Japan

Time Table:

10:00-12:00 Session 1: Tutorial Lecture by Eric McCready

Title:  Theories of Evidentiality

Abstract: Evidentiality has been an increasingly popular  research area 
in formal semantics and pragmatics. In this talk, I introduce several 
influential recent theories of evidentials  and (some of) the phenomena 
that they have been used to analyze. I also discuss the suitability of 
theories of evidence found in the epistemological and philosophy of 
science literature for the foundations of the theory of evidentiality and 
indicate what I take to be the characteristics required for such a theory.

12:00-13:30 
Lunch

13:30-17:30 
Session 2: Tutorial Lecture by Frank Veltman

Title: ''Or else, what?''

Abstract: In this talk I will present the theory of imperatives  that I have 
developed in the past five years and apply it to a  number of problems 
involving disjunction. In particular I will  use it to analyse pseudo-
imperatives and a variant of the Miners Paradox. 

Organizing Committee:

Alastair Butler (Chair)
Daisuke Bekki
Eric McCready
Yoshiki Mori
Yasuo Nakayama
Katsuhiko Yabushita
Tomoyuki Yamada
Shunsuke Yatabe
Kei Yoshimoto

Contact:

lenls8 [[at]] easychair.org

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