26.552, Calls: Computational Ling, Ling Theories, Philosophy of Lang, Semantics/Spain

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Subject: 26.552, Calls: Computational Ling, Ling Theories, Philosophy of Lang, Semantics/Spain

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Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 17:20:40
From: Christian Retore [christian.retore at lirmm.fr]
Subject: TYpe Theory and LExical Semantics

 
Full Title: TYpe Theory and LExical Semantics 
Short Title: TYTLES 

Date: 03-Aug-2015 - 07-Aug-2015
Location: Barcelona, Spain 
Contact Person: Christian Retoré
Meeting Email: christian.retore at lirmm.fr
Web Site: http://www.lirmm.fr/tytles 

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

Call Deadline: 31-Mar-2015 

Meeting Description:

Part of ESSLLI 2015
TYTLES: TYpe Theory and LExical Semantics
Barcelona, August 3-7 2015

(Robin Cooper, University of Gothenburg  & Christian Retoré, LIRMM & université de Montpellier) 

The pioneering work of Ranta (1994) on using Type Theory for NL semantics has initiated a strong interest in the use of Type Theories for representing formal semantics. And even though Type Theory was initially mainly concerned with compositional and formal semantics, a number of linguists, logicians and computer scientists noticed the relevance of type theory for lexical semantics as well. Around 2000 the paper “the metaphysics of words in context” by Asher & Pustejovsky (2001) initiated Type Theoretic approaches to lexical coercions and meaning transfers by investigating extension and refinement of the type system used by Montague. Accounts for this type of phenomena need to capture ordinary selectional restriction phenomena (e.g. a “chair” may not “bark”, in an ordinary context), while at the some time they have to ensure some flexibility for adapting meanings to contexts in case of meaning transfers, co-predication etc. The study of this kind of phenomena is of course not new. Their study goes back at least till the 80’s (Bierwisch, Nunberg, Cruse among others). What is relatively new is the study of these phenomena from the perspective of Type Theory and this approach is by now quite successful as valuable and recent type theoretical contributions on incorporating lexical considerations into compositional semantics show (Asher, Bassac, Chatzikyriakidis, Cooper, Luo, Melloni, Mery, Moot, Prévot, Pustejovsky, Ranta, Real, Retoré).

Call for Papers:

Authors are invited to submit 4-page abstracts before March 31 on any subject related to the workshop, including:

- Linguistically motivated variants of type theories (subtyping)
- Lexical semantics in type theory (compositionality and the lexicon)
- Interaction between lexical semantics and type theoretical semantics
- Classical semantic questions in richly typed frameworks (plurals, quantification, generics)
- Modelling specific questions in type theory (nouns, deverbals, events, adjectives, adverbs, ontological aspects,)            
- Computational aspects and implementation of type theoretical semantics (natural language inference, proof assistants,…)

Important Dates:

Submission of 4-page abstract (PDF) before March 31, 2015
Please use https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tytles-2015
Notification of acceptance: April 30, 2015
Revised 4 page abstracts due: May 15, 2015
Conference date and location: Barcelona August 3-7, 2015

For the conference webpage, see ESSLLI 2015: http://www.esslli2015.org 

Program Committee:

Robin Cooper (University of Gothenburg, CoChair), 
Christian Retoré (Université de Montpellier, & LIRMM CoChair) 
Alexandra Arapinis (CNR, Trento)
Nicholas Asher (CNRS, Toulouse)
Christian Bassac (Université Lyon II)
Stergios Chatzikyriakidis (CNRS et LRIMM, Montpellier)  
Shalom Lappin (King’s College, London)
Zhaohui Luo (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Chiara Melloni (CNR, Verona)
Bruno Mery (Université de Bordeaux)
Richard Moot (CNRS, Bordeaux)
Glyn Morrill (Universitat Polytècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona) 
Larry Moss (Indiana University, Bloomington)
Reinhard Muskens (Universiteit Tilburg)
Livy Real (Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba)







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