28.1263, Calls: Computational Ling, Gen Ling, Historical Ling, Philosophy of Lang, Typology/Georgia

Tue Mar 14 20:41:14 UTC 2017

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Subject: 28.1263, Calls: Computational Ling, Gen Ling, Historical Ling, Philosophy of Lang, Typology/Georgia

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Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2017 16:41:06
From: Wiebke Petersen [petersen at phil.hhu.de]
Subject: 12th International Tbilisi Symposium on Language, Logic and Computation

Full Title: 12th International Tbilisi Symposium on Language, Logic and Computation 
Short Title: TbiLLC 2017 

Date: 18-Sep-2017 - 22-Sep-2017
Location: Kakheti, Georgia 
Contact Person: Wiebke Petersen
Meeting Email: petersen at phil.hhu.de
Web Site: http://events.illc.uva.nl/Tbilisi/Tbilisi2017/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Philosophy of Language; Typology 

Call Deadline: 01-Apr-2017 

Meeting Description:

The Twelfth International Tbilisi Symposium on Language, Logic and Computation
will be held on 18-22 September 2017 in Kakheti, Georgia.

Programme:

The programme will include the following tutorials and a series of invited
lecturers.

Tutorials:

Language: Jakub Szymanik (University of Amsterdam)
Logic: Sam van Gool (City College of New York and University of Amsterdam)
Computation: Ana Sokolova (University of Salzburg)

Invited Speakers:

Language:
Gemma Boleda (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Ruth Kempson (King's College, London)

Logic:
Alexander Kurz (University of Leicester)
Eric Pacuit (University of Maryland, tbc)

Computation:
Dexter Kozen (Cornell University)
Alex Simpson (University of Ljubljana)

Workshops:

There will also be a workshop on ''Language entitled Signs and gestures --
exploring the divide between sign language and speech-accompanying gestures''
organised by Daniel Hole (University of Stuttgart).

More information will be available on the TbiLLC website:
http://events.illc.uva.nl/Tbilisi/Tbilisi2017/

Final Call for Submissions:

TbiLLC 2017: Extended Submission Deadline

The Twelfth International Tbilisi Symposium on Language, Logic and Computation
will be held on 18-22 September 2017 at Lagodekhi in the Kakheti region in
Georgia. The Programme Committee invites submissions for contributions on all
aspects of language, logic and computation. Work of an interdisciplinary
nature is particularly welcome. Areas of interest include, but are not limited
to:

- Natural language syntax, semantics, and pragmatics
- Linguistic typology and semantic universals
- Language evolution and learnability
- Historical linguistics, history of logic
- Natural logic, inference and entailment in natural language
- Logic, games, and formal pragmatics
- Logics for artificial intelligence
- Constructive, modal and algebraic logic
- Algorithmic game theory
- Computational social choice
- Formal models of multiagent systems
- Information retrieval, query answer systems
- Distributional and probabilistic models of information and meaning

Authors can submit an abstract of three pages including references (12 pt,  2
cm margins) at the EasyChair conference system here:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tbillc2017

Important Dates:

Submission deadline (extended): 1 April 2017
Notification: 1 June 2017
Final abstracts due: 1 July 2017
Registration deadline: 1 August 2017
Symposium: 18-22 September 2017

Further details can be found at:
http://events.illc.uva.nl/Tbilisi/Tbilisi2017/

Programme Committee:

Samson Abramsky (Oxford University)
Kata Balogh (University of Duesseldorf)
Guram Bezhanishvili (New Mexico State University)
Nick Bezhanishvili (ILLC, University of Amsterdam)
Rajesh Bhatt (UMass Amherst)
Filippo Bonchi (University of Pisa)
Valeria De Paiva (University of Birmingham)
David Gabelaia (TSU, Razmadze Mathematical Institute)
Brunella Gerla (University of Insubria)
Nina Gierasimczuk (ILLC, University of Amsterdam)
Helle Hvid Hansen (Technical University of Delft)
Daniel Hole (University of Stuttgart)
George Metcalfe (University of Bern)
Alessandra Palmigiano (Technical University of Delft)
Wiebke  Petersen (Chair, University of Duesseldorf)
Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh (Queen Mary University of London)
Alexandra Silva (Chair, University College London)
Sonja Smets (ILLC, University of Amsterdam)
Rui Soares Barbosa (University of Oxford)
Luca Spada (University of Salerno)
Carla Umbach (Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, ZAS, Berlin)
Galit W. Sassoon (Bar Ilan University)
Henk Zeevat (ILLC, University of Amsterdam)

Publication Information:

Post-proceedings of the symposium will be published in the LNCS series of
Springer.

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