30.4357, Confs: Cog Sci, Comp Ling, Philosophy of Lang, Pragmatics, Semantics/Netherlands

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Subject: 30.4357, Confs: Cog Sci, Comp Ling, Philosophy of Lang, Pragmatics, Semantics/Netherlands

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Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2019 00:15:46
From: Jakub Szymanik [jakub.szymanik at gmail.com]
Subject: Computational and Experimental Explanations in Semantics and Pragmatics

 
ESSLLI Workshop on Computational and Experimental Expla 
Short Title: ExpSem2020 

Date: 10-Aug-2020 - 14-Aug-2020 
Location: Utrecht, Netherlands 
Contact: Jakub Szymanik 
Contact Email: jakub.szymanik at gmail.com 
Meeting URL: https://www.jakubszymanik.com/CoSaQ/events/explanations-semantics/ 

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

Meeting Description: 

(Workshop during European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information
2020)

Computational and Experimental Explanations in Semantics and Pragmatics

The field of natural language semantics has undergone what some refer to as an
‘experimental turn’ and is arguably currently undergoing a ‘computational
turn’. By expanding the toolbox available to the semanticist, these two turns
have the effect of expanding the phenomena that can be explained and the
varieties of semantic explanation that can be offered. Given this wider
toolbox and purview, we aim to gather a workshop to showcase exciting new work
that develops new semantic explanations using experimental and computational
methods, as well as to invite broader reflection on the methodology of
semantics now and in its future.

Topics of potential interest include but are not limited to:

- Experimental semantics and pragmatics
- Graded/non-categorical semantic theories and explanations
- Information-theoretic measures and explanations in semantics and pragmatics
- Semantic universals
- Learnability and evolution of semantics and pragmatics
- Bayesian approaches to semantics and pragmatics
- Probing neural models for learned semantic representations
- Semantics in emergent communication protocols
- The methodology of semantics
 






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