30.1618, Calls: Cog Sci, Comp Ling, Neuroling, Philosophy of Language, Semantics/France

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LINGUIST List: Vol-30-1618. Fri Apr 12 2019. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 30.1618, Calls: Cog Sci, Comp Ling, Neuroling, Philosophy of Language, Semantics/France

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Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2019 23:59:15
From: Orin Percus [orin.percus at univ-nantes.fr]
Subject: OASIS 2

Full Title: OASIS 2 

Date: 16-Oct-2019 - 18-Oct-2019
Location: Nantes, France 
Contact Person: Orin Percus
Meeting Email: oasis2-info at services.cnrs.fr
Web Site: http://oasis.cnrs.fr/oasis2 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics; Neurolinguistics; Philosophy of Language; Semantics 

Call Deadline: 15-Jun-2019 

Meeting Description:

Ontology As Structured by the Interfaces with Semantics 2 (OASIS 2) will take
place in Nantes, France, on October 16-18, 2019.  This is the second in a
series of interdisciplinary conferences on formal semantic ontology organized
by the CNRS-funded international research network OASIS. 

Invited speakers:

Sudha Arunachalam (New York University)
Rose-Marie Déchaine (University of British Columbia)
Nicola Guarino (ISTC - CNR)
Angelika Kratzer (UMass Amherst)
Brent Strickland (IJN - CNRS)

Description:

The OASIS conference series aims to promote conversation and
cross-fertilization across different disciplines, using ontological questions
as shared reference points. The broad questions in the background are these:

1. What basic ontological building blocks do we use to talk and think about
the world?
2. How do these building blocks get combined? 
3. How do grammatical and cognitive phenomena motivate the answers to the
first two questions?

We welcome contributions from semanticists as well as from researchers in
domains of cognition that interface with semantics.  We would like the OASIS
conferences to help foster new perspectives and to provide a forum around
which a new research community can coalesce.

The first installment of the series, OASIS 1 (Paris, November 2018) brought
together researchers from formal semantics, natural language syntax,
philosophy, psychology/psycholinguistics, language development,
neuroscience/neurolinguistics, and computational linguistics.  Some aspects of
the exchanges at OASIS 1 are summarized on the OASIS 1 site
(http://oasis.cnrs.fr/oasis1) and on Gillian Ramchand’s blog
(https://gillianramchand.blog/2018/11/ ).  The range of talks at OASIS 1 gives
an indication of the kinds of topics that we welcome at OASIS conferences. 
There were, for instance, talks about flexible aspects of linguistic meaning,
about categorization in verbal vs. nonverbal populations, about the
acquisition of counterfactuality and its linguistic expression, and about the
format of syntactic structure from an embodied cognition perspective.  The
OASIS credo at http://oasis.cnrs.fr/credo lists a variety of topics relevant
to the broad questions that interest us.

Call for Papers:

We invite submissions of abstracts for 30-minute oral presentations (+ 10
minutes discussion) on any topic pertaining to the shared interests and
assumptions of the OASIS network, as well as for poster presentations with
lightning talks. Abstracts should be submitted via the EasyChair page:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=oasis2 . The submission deadline is
9am GMT on Saturday June 15 2019.

Abstracts must be anonymous and should be at most 2 pages (A4 or US Letter) in
length, including examples and references, using a 12pt font with 1 inch (2.5
cm) margins on all four sides. These limitations will be strictly enforced. A
single author can send no more than one singly-authored and one co-authored
abstract, or two co-authored abstracts. Your submission should specify whether
it is to be considered for an oral presentation or a poster. We will not
accept papers that at the time of the conference have been published or have
been accepted for publication.

Please keep in mind that this is an interdisciplinary conference, and write
your abstract accordingly. This means that the broad goals of the research
(e.g., to understand language architecture, to understand brain architecture)
and any subgoals should be mentioned. We very much welcome work that brings
attention to data from less-familiar languages; if you propose such an
abstract, keep the dataset as streamlined as possible to give the audience a
chance to understand the issues at stake. Finally, if you work in a formal
framework, your proposal must be explained in words as well as in your formal
framework.

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