26.3542, Calls: Computational Linguistics, Pragmatics/Germany

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Subject: 26.3542, Calls: Computational Linguistics, Pragmatics/Germany

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Date: Fri, 07 Aug 2015 10:59:31
From: Jon Stevens [stevens at zas.gwz-berlin.de]
Subject: Computational Pragmatics

 
Full Title: Computational Pragmatics 
Short Title: CompPrag2016 

Date: 24-Feb-2016 - 26-Feb-2016
Location: Constance, Germany 
Contact Person: Ralf Klabunde
Meeting Email: compprag2016 at linguistics.rub.de

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Pragmatics 

Call Deadline: 16-Aug-2015 

Meeting Description:

Computational Pragmatics (CompPrag2016)
Workshop at the 38th Annual Conference of the German Linguistics Society (DGfS) in Constance, February 24-26.

Organizers:

Anton Benz, Ralf Klabunde, Sebastian Reuße, Jon Stevens

Invited Speakers:

Kees van Deemter, University of Aberdeen
t.b.a.

Computational pragmatics can be understood in two different senses. First, it can be seen as a subfield of computational linguistics, in which it has a longer tradition. Example phenomena addressed in this tradition are: computational models of implicature, dialogue act planning, discourse structuring, coreference resolution (Bunt & Black 2000, and others). Second, it can refer to a rapidly growing field at the interface between linguistics, cognitive science and artificial intelligence. An example is the rational speech act model (Frank & Goodman 2012) which uses Bayesian methods for modeling cognitive aspects of the interpretation of sentence fragments and implicatures. Computational pragmatics is of growing interest to linguistic pragmatics, first, due to the availability of theories that are precise enough to form the basis of NLP systems (e.g. game theoretic pragmatics, SDRT, RST), and second, due to the additional opportunities which computational pragmatics provides for advanc
 ed experimental testing of pragmatic theories. As such, it enhances theoretical, experimental and corpus-based approaches to pragmatics.

2nd Call for Papers:

Extended Call -- New Deadline August 16

We are now accepting abstracts for the Computational Pragmatics workshop at the DGfS 2016 meeting through Sunday, August 16.

Invited Speakers:

Kees van Deemter (University of Aberdeen)
Noah Goodman (Stanford)




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