28.2716, FYI: NASSLLI 2018 at CMU: Call for Course and Workshop Proposals

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Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2017 14:03:23
From: Mandy Simons [mandysimons at cmu.edu]
Subject: NASSLLI 2018 at CMU: Call for Course and Workshop Proposals

North American Summer School in Logic, Language and Information
NASSLLI 2018
June 23 - 29 2018
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA

The eighth North American Summer School for Logic, Language, and Information
(NASSLLI) will be hosted by Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA, from
June 23 - June 29, 2018. The summer school is aimed at graduate students and
advanced undergraduates in the fields of Linguistics, Computer Science,
Cognitive Science, Logic, Philosophy, and other related areas. NASSLLI brings
these disciplines together with the goal of producing excellence in the study
of how minds and machines represent, communicate, manipulate and reason with
information. The NASSLLI community recognizes that advances in modeling and
analyzing these processes requires the contributions of multiple inter-related
disciplines. NASSLLI provides a venue where students and researchers from one
discipline can learn approaches, frameworks and tools from related disciplines
to apply to their own work. Courses offered at NASSLLI range from intensive,
graduate level introductory courses to inter-disciplinary workshops featuring
prominent researchers presenting their work in progress. 

NASSLLI 2018 will consist of a series of courses and workshops, most running
daily from Monday June 25 - Friday June 29.  In addition, there will be
intensive training in a small set of foundational topics the weekend prior to
the start of courses (Saturday June 23 - Sunday June 24). 

Call for Course & Workshop Proposals

We invite proposals for courses and workshops that address topics of relevance
to NASSLLI's central goal. We particularly encourage submissions which
illustrate cross-disciplinary approaches, especially courses showing the
applicability of computational methods to theoretical work, and the use of
theoretical work in practical applications. Courses involving a hands-on
component (e.g. actual experience with NLP tools, coding, or machine learning
algorithms) will be very welcome. We also welcome proposals from researchers
and practitioners working on relevant areas in the technology industries.
NASSLLI welcomes a variety of approaches and methodologies (logics, cognitive
and computational modeling, machine learning, experimental approaches) as long
as the material is relevant to language, information or communication. All
courses should be accessible to a heterogeneous audience of motivated graduate
students. By default, courses and workshops meet for 90 minutes on each of
five days. Classes may be co-taught by up to two people. (See below for more
information on workshop organization.)

Courses and workshops should aim to be accessible to an interdisciplinary,
graduate level audience. Courses may bridge multiple areas, or focus on a
single area, in which case instructors should include introductory background,
try to avoid specialized notation that cannot be applied more widely, and
spend some time discussing how the topic is relevant to other fields. 

Workshop schedules are identical to course schedules, but usually consist of a
series of presentations by different researchers; they may also include panel
discussions. A workshop will be more accessible if its program is bracketed by
broader-audience talks that introduce and summarize the week's presentations.
Please note that NASSLLI cannot provide reimbursement for travel and
accommodation for workshop presenters. Workshop proposals must include
information about how the organizers expect these expenses to be covered.

Course and workshop proposals from women and underrepresented minorities are
particularly encouraged.

Submission Details

Submissions should be submitted using EasyChair
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nasslli2018

and should indicate:

1) person(s) in charge of the course/workshop and their affiliation(s)
2) type of event (course or workshop)
3) course/workshop title
4) an outline of the course/workshop up to 500 words
5) Special equipment (if any) needed to teach the course
6) a statement about the instructor's experience in teaching (including in
interdisciplinary settings)
7) anticipated travel costs

Workshop proposals must include (a) acknowledgement of the organizers'
understanding that NASSLLI will not provide reimbursement for invited
participants and (b) an explanation of how these costs will be covered.

Important Dates:

September 30, 2017: Course and Workshop Proposals Due
December 1, 2017: Decision Notifications Sent

The final program will be circulated in December 2017.

Financial and Practical Details:

Course instructors and workshop organizers:

All instructors and workshop organizers will receive a reduced rate for
registration. We will aim to reimburse reasonable travel expenses for at most
two instructors per course, and at most two organizers per workshop. In
addition, we will make available appropriate accommodation for participating
faculty, and will aim to cover the accommodation costs for
instructors/organizers utilizing this accommodation, subject to the two-person
per course/workshop limit. The availability of reimbursement will depend on
available funding, which is still uncertain. We encourage all
instructors/workshop organizers to fund their own travel and accommodation if
this is feasible, since this will allow us to use more of our funding for
students scholarships and for reimbursement for instructors without funding
sources.

Please note that reimbursable travel is restricted to direct travel to and
from Pittsburgh. (Instructors with more complex travel plans must contact the
organizing committee before booking.) Due to federal mandates, we can only
reimburse air travel booked on US-based airlines.

Additional information for workshop organizers:

NASSLLI2018 cannot reimburse travel, accommodation or registration expenses
for lecturers/speakers invited by workshop organizers. Registration for these
invitees will be at reduced cost. Workshop proposals should include a plan to
obtain funding for reimbursement of invitees, or should state that all
invitees will fund their own travel and accommodation.

Contact Information: 

For questions relating to proposals and proposal submission, please email: 
nasslli2018 at easychair.org. 

For questions relating to local organization, please email
nasslli2018 at gmail.com. 

More information on our website: nasslli2018.com .

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science
                     Computational Linguistics
                     Discourse Analysis
                     Philosophy of Language
                     Pragmatics
                     Psycholinguistics
                     Semantics
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics

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