25.4472, Confs: Computational Ling, Semantics, Philosophy of Lang, Syntax, Pragmatics/Japan

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Subject: 25.4472, Confs: Computational Ling, Semantics, Philosophy of Lang, Syntax, Pragmatics/Japan

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Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2014 15:41:29
From: Eric McCready [mccready at cl.aoyama.ac.jp]
Subject: Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics 11

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Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics 11 
Short Title: LENLS 11 

Date: 22-Nov-2014 - 24-Nov-2014 
Location: Tokyo, Japan 
Contact: Koji Mineshima 
Contact Email: lenls11 at easychair.org 
Meeting URL: http://www.is.ocha.ac.jp/~bekki/lenls/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Philosophy of Language; Pragmatics; Semantics; Syntax 

Meeting Description: 

Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics 11 (LENLS 11) 
November 22-24, 2014 

Contact Person: Koji Mineshima (Ochanomizu University) 
Contact Email: lenls11 at easychair.org 
Website: http://www.is.ocha.ac.jp/~bekki/lenls/ 

Workshop Site: 

November 22, 2014
Ochanomizu University
Room 207-209, Science Building 3, Tokyo, Japan
http://www.ocha.ac.jp/en/index.html

November 23-24, 2014
Raiousha Building, Keio University, Hiyoshi campus, Kanagawa, Japan
http://www.keio.ac.jp/en/maps/hiyoshi.html

Chair:

Koji Mineshima (Ochanomizu University) 

Co-chairs:

Daisuke Bekki (Ochanomizu University/National Institute of Informatics) 
Eric McCready (Aoyama Gakuin University) 
          
Invited Speakers:

- Chris Barker (New York University) 
- Kimiko Nakanishi (Ochanomizu University) 
- Christopher Tancredi (Keio University) 
- Matthew Stone (Rutgers University) (To be confirmed)

LENLS is an annual international workshop on formal syntax, semantics and pragmatics. It will be held as one of the workshops of the Sixth JSAI International Symposia on AI (isAI2014) (http://www.ai-gakkai.or.jp/isai/) sponsored by the Japan Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI) (http://www.ai-gakkai.or.jp/en). 

This year we are planning to hold a student session. The details will are below. 

Important Dates:

Deadline for onsite registration: November 10, 2014
LENLS11: November 22-24, 2014

We will also hold a one-day workshop at Kyoto University on November 28, 2014, with two invited speakers, Chris Barker and Matthew Stone. The detailed information will be announced on the website.
http://www.is.ocha.ac.jp/~bekki/lenls/

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 November 10, 2014.  https://www.ai-gakkai.or.jp/isai/registration

Sponsor: 

LENLS is being organized by an alliance of 'Establishment of Knowledge-Intensive Structural Natural Language Processing and Construction of Knowledge Infrastructure' (http://www.extreme-bigdata.jp/workshop/jebdp-1/speakers.html#SadaoKurohashi) project, funded by JST CREST Programs 'Advanced Core Technologies for Big Data Integration' 
(http://www.jst.go.jp/kisoken/crest/en/research_area/ongoing/areah25-6.html).

Workshop Organizers/Program Committee: 

 - Koji Mineshima (Ochanomizu University) 
 - Daisuke Bekki (Ochanomizu University/National Institute of Informatics) 
 - Alastair Butler (PRESTO JST/Tohoku University) 
 - Richard Dietz (University of Tokyo) 
 - Eric McCready (Aoyama Gakuin University) 
 - Yoshiki Mori (University of Tokyo) 
 - Yasuo Nakayama (Osaka University) 
 - Katsuhiko Sano (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) 
 - Katsuhiko Yabushita (Naruto University of Education) 
 - Tomoyuki Yamada (Hokkaido University) 
 - Shunsuke Yatabe (West Japan Railway Company) 
 - Kei Yoshimoto (Tohoku University) 

Program:

Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics 11 (LENLS11)


First Day: 
November 22, 2014, Saturday
Ochanomizu University

12:30-12:50
Reception

12:50-13:00
Opening remarks

13:00-14:30 
Session 1:

Kristina Liefke
Codability and Robustness in Formal Natural Language Semantics
Alain Lecomte
An interaction framework for dialogue: combining Ludics and Type Theory with Records
Yurie Hara
Radical Inquisitive Investigation into Cantonese Biased and Neutral Questions
  
14:30-14:45 Coffee break

14:45-16:15
Session 2:

Stergios Chatzikyriakidis and Zhaohui Luo
Using Signatures in Type Theory to Represent Situations
Ribeka Tanaka, Koji Mineshima and Daisuke Bekki
Resolving Modal Anaphora in Dependent Type Semantics
Krystian Jobczyk
Temporal verbs and adverbs: 'often' and 'many times' and their fuzzy-integral-logic based modeling
  
16:15-16:30 Coffee break

16:30-17:30
Invited Talk 1:

Kimiko Nakanishi
Scalarity of EVEN


Second Day: 
November 23, 2014, Sunday
Keio University, Hiyoshi campus

9:00-9:30 
Registration and coffee break

9:30-10:30
Invited Talk 2:

Mizoguchi Riichiro
Ontology engineering - Theory and practice (from the JURISIN workshop)

10:30-10:45 Coffee break  

10:45-12:00
Student Session:

Daniel Tiskin
Specific Opaque Readings and Proportional Determiners
Makiko Kato
Japanese plural marker 'tachi' and associativity
Yu-Mi Jo
Temporal Pluractional Adverbs in Korean: Focusing on Tatali, Nanali, and Halwuhalwu
 
12:00-13:00 Lunch

13:00-14:30
Session 3:

Daisuke Bekki and Eric McCready
CI via DTS
Bruno Mery, Richard Moot and Christian Retore
Computing the Semantics of Massive Entities using Many-Sorted Types
Oleg Kiselyov
Canonical Constituents and Non-canonical Coordination: Simple Categorical Grammar account
  
14:30-14:45 Coffee break

14:45-15:45
Session 4:

Eric McCready
Honorific Denotations
Philippe de Groote and Yoad Winter
A type-logical account of quantification in event semantics
  
15:45-16:00 Coffee break

16:00-17:00
Invited Talk 3:

Matthew Stone
Logic and Probability in Grounded Semantics (shared with the JURISIN workshop)     

17:00-17:15 Coffee break

17:15-18:15
Invited Talk 4:

Chris Tancredi
Focus and Givenness
  
19:00 Banquet


Third Day: 
November 24, 2014, Monday
Keio University, Hiyoshi campus

9:30-10:00 Coffee break

10:00-11:30
Session 5:

Lisa Bylinina, Natalia Ivlieva, Alexander Podobryaev and Yasutada Sudo
A Non-Superlative Semantics for Ordinals and the Syntax of Comparison Classes
Laurent Prevot and Jan Gorisch
Crossing Empirical and Formal approaches for studying French feedback items
Alastair Butler and Kei Yoshimoto
Semantic Visualisation with Flame Graphs
  
11:30-13:00 Lunch

13:00-14:30
Session 6:

Lasha Abzianidze
Towards a Wide-coverage Tableau Method for Natural Logic
Elena Castroviejo and Berit Gehrke
A good intensifier
Shinya Okano and Yoshiki Mori
On CG management of Japanese weak necessity modal 'hazu'
  
14:30-14:45 Coffee break

14:45-16:15
Session 7:

Satoru Suzuki
Measurement-Theoretic Foundations of Observational-Predicate Logic
Yasuo Nakayama
Formal Analysis of Epistemic Modalities and Conditionals based on Logic of Belief Structures
Zhiguo Xie
An epistemic modal for strict comparison in Mandarin Chinese

16:15-16:30 Coffee break

16:30-17:30
Invited Talk 5:

Chris Barker
The Logic of Scope
  
Alternates:

Osamu Sawada
Polarity sensitivity and update refusal: the case of the Japanese negative 'totemo'
Richard Zuber
On the logical reducibility of reflexives








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