29.1534, Calls: Comp Ling, Gen Ling, Lexicography, Semantics, Syntax/Bulgaria

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Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2018 18:40:30
From: Timm Lichte [lichte at phil.hhu.de]
Subject: Ambiguity: Perspectives on Representation and Resolution

 
Full Title: Ambiguity: Perspectives on Representation and Resolution 
Short Title: ARR 

Date: 06-Aug-2018 - 10-Aug-2018
Location: Sofia, Bulgaria 
Contact Person: Timm Lichte
Meeting Email: ambiguity2018 at phil.hhu.de
Web Site: https://ambiguity2018.phil.hhu.de 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics; Lexicography; Semantics; Syntax 

Call Deadline: 13-Apr-2018 

Meeting Description:

There are various approaches to ambiguity from a wide variety of perspectives.
This is due to the fact that ambiguity exists and arises on many different
levels of natural language. We want to bring together scholars working on
different aspects of ambiguity, in particular to approach the following
questions:

  1. What is the “core” of this phenomenon?
  2. What is the common ground in approaching the phenomenon?
  3. What can be gained by combining different approaches?

Our special focus is thus on bringing together approaches seeing ambiguity as
a mere computational problem and approaches seeing it as a linguistic
phenomenon with some interest in itself.

Invited Speakers:

Gemma Boleda (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Diego Valota (Università degli Studi di Milano)


Final Call for Extended Abstracts:

Extended deadline: April 13
Workshop on Ambiguity: Perspectives on Representation and Resolution (ARR)

Workshop at ESSLLI 2018
August 6-10, 2018

https://ambiguity2018.phil.hhu.de

Natural language is overloaded in the sense that linguistic symbols can, and
usually have, two or more (but enumerably many) possible interpretations from
which the hearer has to choose a specific one without being explicitely told
to do so. This is what we want to call ambiguity, distinguishing it from the
notions of underspecification and vagueness. Understood in this general way,
ambiguity exists and arises on virtually all levels of linguistic modelling,
and resolving ambiguity undoubtly is one of the main challenges when dealing
with language in communication.

As a consequence of this diversity, a variety of perspectives exists on how to
represent and resolve ambiguity. Also depending on the linguistic object at
hand, some represent ambiguity in the semantics by means of, for example,
plain disjunction, complex types, or game theoretic models. Some leave it to
syntax and assume, for example, two lexical entries for /bank/ that reflect
the two different readings. At the same time, however, it is still unclear
what semantic ambiguity should be attributed to in logical terms. Finally, if
resolution fails, from a philosophical or inferential point of view, one
should be interested in the question: given a sentence ambiguous between two
readings, does another sentence follow from the two of them? Hence possible
treatments of ambiguity include resolution, representation and reasoning.

Our main goal is hence to work towards a unified perspective on ambiguity, and
for this, we want to bring together researchers from various backgrounds
(linguistics, computational linguistics, computer science, logic, philosophy).

Important Dates:

April 13: Submission deadline (extended deadline)
May 02: Notification
May 14: Camera-ready version

Deadlines are midnight Pacific Standard Time (UTC−8).

Submissions:

Extended abstracts should lay out original, unpublished research and/or
implementation results. We invite extended abstracts of 2 pages, excluding
references. All submissions are electronic and in PDF format via the EasyChair
system. Information about the author(s) and other identifying information such
as obvious self-references (e.g., “We showed in [12] …”) and financial or
personal acknowledgements should be omitted in the submitted abstracts
whenever feasible.

Extended abstracts may contain a clearly marked appendix and data files to
support its claims. While reviewers are urged to consult this extra material
for better comprehension, it is at their discretion whether they do so. Such
extra material should also be anonymized to the extent feasible.

Use the following link for submission:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=arr18

Contact:

Chairs & Organizers
 
Timm Lichte (Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf)
Christian Wurm (Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf)

Email: ambiguity2018 at phil dot hhu dot de

Further information about the conference is available at the website:
https://ambiguity2018.phil.hhu.de




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