28.1779, Calls: Computational Linguistics, Semantics/France

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LINGUIST List: Vol-28-1779. Tue Apr 11 2017. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 28.1779, Calls: Computational Linguistics, Semantics/France

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Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2017 18:05:10
From: Livy Real [livyreal at gmail.com]
Subject: 12th International Conference on Computational Semantics

Full Title: 12th International Conference on Computational Semantics 
Short Title: IWCS 

Date: 19-Sep-2017 - 22-Sep-2017
Location: Montpellier, France 
Contact Person: Christian Retoré
Meeting Email: christian.retore at lirmm.fr
Web Site: http://www.lirmm.fr/iwcs2017 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Semantics 

Call Deadline: 15-Apr-2017 

Meeting Description:

The aim of the IWCS conference is to bring together researchers interested in
the computation, annotation, extraction, and representation of meaning in
natural language, whether from a lexical or structural semantic perspective.
IWCS embraces both symbolic and statistical approaches to computational
semantics, and everything in between.

Topics of Interest:

The areas of interest for the conference include all computational aspects of
meaning of natural language within written, spoken, or multimodal
communication. Papers are invited on topics in these and closely related
areas, including the following:

- Representation of syntax-semantics interface
- Representing and resolving semantic ambiguity
- Shallow and deep semantic processing and reasoning
- Hybrid symbolic and statistical approaches to representing semantics
- Alternative approaches to compositional semantics
- Inference methods for computational semantics
- Recognizing textual entailment
- Deep learning and semantics
- Learning by reading
- Methodologies and practices for semantic annotation
- Machine learning of semantic structures
- Statistical semantics
- Computational aspects of lexical semantics
- Semantics and ontologies
- Semantic web and natural language processing
- Semantic aspects of language generation
- Semantic relations in discourse and dialogue
- Semantics and pragmatics of dialogue acts
- Multimodal and grounded approaches to computing meaning
- Semantics-pragmatics interface

Final Call for Papers:

Two types of submission are solicited:

Long papers: 

Formatting instructions  
Submission: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwcs2017 
Deadline 15 April 2017 
Long papers should describe original research and must not exceed 10 pages
references excluded — see formatting instructions. The program committee may
accept as a short paper a  paper intially submitted as a long paper if the
committee thinks it is better suited. When fully accepted, long papers  will
be published in the conference proceedings and in the ACL Anthology, and will
have a full oral presentation at the conference. When accepted as short papers
they will be offered the same publication and presentation possibilities as
accepted short papers.

Short papers:

Formatting instructions  
Submission: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwcs2017 
Deadline: 15 April 2017
Short papers typically are system description with demonstration or project
descriptions, or ongoing research and  must not exceed 5 pages references
excluded — see formatting instructions. Accepted  short papers will be
published in the conference proceedings and in the ACL Anthology, and will
have a lightning talk at the conference, followed by a poster/demo session for
discussion.

A remark on dual submission Papers that have been or will be submitted to
other meetings or publications must indicate this at submission time. Authors
of papers accepted for presentation at IWCS 2017 must notify the program
chairs by the camera-ready deadline as to whether the paper will be presented.
All accepted papers must be presented at the conference to appear in the
proceedings. We will not accept for publication or presentation papers that
overlap significantly in content or results with papers that will be (or have
been) published elsewhere.

Preprint servers such as arXiv.org or HAL and workshops without published
proceedings are not considered as prior publications for this purpose. Authors
should state in the online submission form the name of the workshop or
preprint server and title of any such non-archival version, so that reviewers
can be informed appropriately.

Please follow the information for authors for instructions on formatting your
paper. 
Papers should be electronically submitted in PDF format via easychair:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwcs2017

There are separate call for papers for the workshops. 

IWCS 2017 program committee:

Co-chair Claire Gardent CNRS LORIA  Nancy
Co-chair Christian Retoré Université de Montpellier & LIRMM CNRS 
Workshop chair: Richard Moot CNRS LIRMM & Université de Montpellier
Hackaton chair: Mathieu Lafourcade Université de Montpellier & LIRMM CNRS 

Important Dates:

15 April 2017: Submissions due (long and short)
13 July 2017  Notification of acceptance
4 September 2017: Final camera-ready papers due
19 September 2017:  IWCS Workshops 
20-21-22 September: IWCS main conference

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