[parislinguists] Fwd: [sem] First CFP: ESSLLI Workshop on Challenges & Alternatives to Strict Compositionality

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Subject: [sem] First CFP: ESSLLI Workshop on Challenges & Alternatives to 
Strict Compositionality
Date: Donnerstag 01 Januar 1970 01:00
From: Manfred Sailer <manfred.sailer at phil.uni-goettingen.de>
To: info at folli.org

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                        First Call for Papers

                           CALL FOR PAPERS

                             Workshop on
            Emprical Challenges and Analytic Alternatives
                     to Strict Compositionality

         URL: http://www.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de/~fr/esslli/05/

                          August 8-12, 2005

                         organized as part of
        European Summer School on Logic, Language and Information
            ESSLLI 2005 http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/esslli05/
                    8-19 August, 2005 in Edinburgh


Workshop Purpose:

Compositionality has been a key methodological theme in natural language
 semantics. Recently, a number of innovative systems for combinatorial
 semantics have been proposed which seem not to obey compositionality at
 first sight. Such systems are based on unification, underspecification,
 linear logic or categorial grammar, to name the most prominent research
 areas. The motivation behind these systems is often computational, but the
 mechanisms they employ also provide new insights and analytical alternatives
 for outstanding problems in the combinatorial semantics of natural
 languages. These include scope ambiguities, multiple exponents of semantic
 operators, cohesion, ellipsis, coordination, and modifier attachment
 ambiguities.

The workshop aims to provide a forum for advanced PhD students and
 researchers whose interests lie in empirical issues or logic. It will give
 them the opportunity to present and discuss their work with colleagues and
 researchers who work in the broad subject areas represented at ESSLLI. We
 wish to invite papers discussing linguistic data which pose a challenge to
 compositionality as well as papers presenting new mechanisms for defining a
 compositional semantics which can address well-known challenges in
 innovative ways.

Workshop Topics:

Topics for submission may include but are not limited to:

    * presentations of certain empirical phenomena which seem to challenge
strict compositionality. Empirical papers should point out precisely why the
 discussed phenomenon poses analytical problems.
    * presentations of semantic formalisms. This type of presentation should
stress the potential usefulness of the proposal for the analysis of empirical
 challenges. * papers which combine the empirical and formal aspects
 directly.

Submission Details:

Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract for a 30-minute
 presentation (followed by 15 minutes of discussion).

Submissions should

    * not exceed 8 (eight) pages, including all figures and references. * be
 in pdf (preferred), ps or ASCII.
    * be sent electronically to manfred.sailer at phil.uni-goettingen.de by
 March 9, 2005 (see the deadlines listed below).
    * be anonymous and, therefore, accompanied by a separate information
 sheet containing: author name(s), affiliation(s), e-mail and postal
 address(es), and the title of the paper.

The submissions will be reviewed anonymously by the workshop's programme
 committee and additional reviewers. The accepted papers will appear in the
 workshop proceedings published by ESSLLI. The final versions will be 15
 pages, in pdf format. Details will be specified on the workshop homepage
 (http://www.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de/~fr/esslli/05/).

Workshop Format:

The workshop is part of ESSLLI and is open to all ESSLLI participants. It
 will consist of five 90-minute sessions held over five sonsecutive days in
 the first week of ESSLLI. There will be 2 slots for paper presentation and
 discussion per session. On the first day the workshop organizers will give
 an introduction to the topic.

Invited Speakers:

N.N.

Workshop Programme Committee:

    * Sigrid Beck (Potsdam)
    * Gosse Bouma (Groningen)
    * Markus Egg (Saarbruecken)
    * Howard Gregory (Goettingen)
    * Fritz Hamm (Tuebingen)
    * James Higginbotham (Los Angeles)
    * Wilfrid Hodges (London)
    * Pauline Jacobson (Providence)
    * Graham Katz (Osnabrueck)
    * Albert Ortmann (Duesseldorf)
    * Gerald Penn (Toronto)
    * Adam Przepiorkowski (Warsaw)
    * Frank Richter (Tuebingen, co-chair)
    * Manfred Sailer (Goettingen, co-chair)
    * Mark Steedman (Edinburgh)
    * Henriette de Swart (Utrecht)
    * Zoltan Szabo (Ithaca)
    * Thomas Ede Zimmermann (Frankfurt)

Important Dates:

Submission: March 9, 2005
Notification: April 18, 2005
Preliminary programme: April 23, 2005
ESSLLI early registration: May 1, 2005
Final papers for proceedings: May 18, 2005
Final programme: June 22, 2005
Workshop dates: August 8-12, 2005

Local Arrangements:

All workshop participants including the presenters will be required to
 register for ESSLLI. The registration fee for authors presenting a paper
 will correspond to the early student/workshop speaker registration fee.
 Moreover, a number of additional fee waiver grants will be made available by
 the Organization Committee on a competitive basis and workshop participants
 are eligible to apply for those.

There will be no reimbursement for travel costs and accommodation. Workshop
 speakers who have difficulty in finding funding should contact the local
 organizing committee to ask for the possibilities for a grant.

Further information:

About the workshop: http://www.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de/~fr/esslli/05/
About ESSLLI: http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/esslli05/



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