31.356, Calls: Cognitive Science/Bulgaria

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Subject: 31.356, Calls: Cognitive Science/Bulgaria

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Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2020 17:04:02
From: Roussanka Loukanova [rl.stpuu at gmail.com]
Subject: Natural Language and Argumentation 2020

 
Full Title: Natural Language and Argumentation 2020 
Short Title: NLA'20 

Date: 17-Jun-2020 - 19-Jun-2020
Location: L'Aquila, Italy, Bulgaria 
Contact Person: Roussanka Loukanova
Meeting Email: rl.stpuu at gmail.com
Web Site: https://www.dcai-conference.net/special-sessions/nla20 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science 

Call Deadline: 31-Jan-2020 

Meeting Description:

Special Session on Natural Language and Argumentation 2020 (NLA'20) at DCAI'20
17th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Artificial
Intelligence
L'Aquila, Italy, 17-19 June 2020
https://www.dcai-conference.net/special-sessions/nla20

We are in the reality of natural and computational systems of argumentation
provided by reasoning, with natural and artificial languages. Intelligent
systems of argumentation target advanced methods for exchanging, saving,
reasoning, accessing, and updating information in memory.  The special session
on Natural Language and Argumentation (NLA) covers theories and applications.
Formal models of argumentation like the Dung framework assume that natural
language arguments have properly been mapped to logical formulas or partial
proofs. Argument mining, when mainly working with existing machine learning
methods, encounters difficulties to properly analyse arguments and relations
between arguments, over general data, and especially when natural language
expressions involve logical constructions. On the other side, traditional
methods map sentences to logical formulas, which can be available after having
been handled by a theorem prover. E.g., categorial analyses yield discourse
representation structures, by using a parser (like Boxer, or Grail), and
theorem provers (e.g., Coq) handle corresponding logical representations. The
first two approaches (the Dung framework, and typical argument mining) suffer
from the lack of development of the relations between natural language texts
and dialogues, and do not handle the logical structure of meanings, while the
third one (the predominant, traditional logical approach) is limited by the
lack of sophisticated semantic lexicon for encompassing the logical structure
carried by some words, and interconnections with other methods.
We welcome submissions on the topics of Natural Language and Argumentation,
without limiting to them, across approaches, methods, theories,
implementations, and applications,


Call for Papers: 

Topics: 
We welcome submissions on the following topics, without limiting to them,
across approaches, methods, theories, implementations, and applications, in
support of argumentation:

- Formal models of argumentations (e.g., Dung's framework)
- Logic of preferences
- Argument mining
- Theorem provers and assistants
- Model checkers
- Theory of computation
- Theory of information
- Natural language inference
- Beliefs, attitudes, persuasions - theories and applications
- Formal languages in support of reasoning and argumentation
- Algorithms related to natural language and argumentation  - theories,
implementations, applications
- Mapping NL expressions into logical representations
- Syntactic and semantic analyses of natural language
- Computational methods to natural language - approaches, theories
- Computational syntax, semantics, and/or interfaces between them
- NLP argument mining
- Ambiguity and underspecification in syntax and semantics
- Discourse and context dependency
- Reasoning with ambiguity and underspecification
- Interactive computation, reasoning, argumentation
- Computation with heterogeneous information
- Reasoning with heterogeneous and/or inconsistent information
- Dialog, interactions
- Interdisciplinary approaches to language, computation, reasoning, memory,
relevant for  argumentation
- Argumentation in AI applications: e.g., to business, economy, justice,
health, medical sciences

Important Dates: 
Paper submission deadline: 31 January, 2020
Notification of acceptance: 09 March, 2020
Camera-Ready papers due: 30 March, 2020
Conference: 17-19 June, 2020

Paper Submission: 
All papers must be formatted according to the AISC, Springer, template, with a
maximum length of 8 pages, including figures and references. The templates and
a link to the submission page can be found at:
https://www.dcai-conference.net/submission

Publication: 
For inclusion of an accepted paper in the conference proceedings, at least one
of the authors will be required to register and attend the symposium




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