[HPSG-L] CfP: Partiality, Underspecification, and Natural Language Processing - PUaNLP 2016

[Roussanka Loukanova]

CALL FOR PAPERS

Partiality, Underspecification, and Natural Language Processing - PUaNLP
2016

Special Session at ICAART 2016

http://www.icaart.org/SpecialSessions.aspx

Rome, Italy | 24 - 26 February, 2016

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SCOPE

Computational and technological developments that incorporate natural
language are proliferating. Adequate coverage encounters difficult problems
related to partiality, underspecification, and context-dependency, which
are signature features of information in nature and natural languages.
Furthermore, agents (humans or computational systems) can participate in
informational content, or influence its flow as information conveyors and
interpreters.

The session covers theoretical work, advanced applications, approaches, and
techniques for computational models of information and its presentation by
language (artificial, human, or natural in other ways). The goal is to
promote intelligent natural language processing and related models of
thought, mental states, reasoning, and other cognitive processes.

TOPICS

The session invites contributions relevant to the following topics, without
limitations to them:

- Type theories for applications to language and information processing

- Computational grammar of natural language

- Computational semantics of natural languages

- Computational syntax-semantics interface

- Parsing

- Multilingual processing

- Large-scale grammars of natural languages

- Models of computation and algorithms for natural language processing

- Integration of interdisciplinary methods, e.g., formal, computational,
model theoretic, graphical, diagrammatic, statistical, and other related
methods

- Computational models of partiality, underspecification, and
context-dependency

- Models of situations, contexts, and agents, for applications to language
processing

- Bio-information and natural language

- Language processing based on biological fundamentals of information and
languages

- Computational neuroscience of language

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IMPORTANT DATES

Paper Submission: November 23, 2015
Authors Notification: December 9, 2015
Camera Ready and Registration: December 17, 2015

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PAPER SUBMISSION

Prospective authors are invited to submit papers in any of the topics
listed above.

Instructions for preparing the manuscripts (in Word and Latex formats) are
available at ICAART 2016 website (http://www.icaart.org/). Please, check
the page Guidelines and Templates:

http://www.icaart.org/GuidelinesTemplates.aspx

Papers should be submitted electronically via the web-based submission
system at: http://www.insticc.org/Primoris

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PUBLICATIONS

The publication rules for PUaNLP are the same as for ICAART conference.
Regular Papers classified as Full Papers will be assigned a 12-page limit
in the Conference Proceedings, while Regular Papers classified as Short
Papers have an 8-page limit. For more details, see the Guidelines and
Templates of ICAART 2016:

http://www.icaart.org/GuidelinesTemplates.aspx

All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the
SCITEPRESS Digital Library. It is planned to publish a short list of
revised and extended versions of presented papers with Springer in a LNAI
Series book.

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ORGANIZERS

Roussanka Loukanova, Stockholm University, Sweden
M. Dolores Jiménez-López, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain
Henning Christiansen, Roskilde University, Denmark

CONTACT INFORMATION

If you have any question please feel free to contact us at the following
addresses:

M. Dolores Jiménez-López (mariadolores.jimenez at urv.cat)
Roussanka Loukanova (rloukanova at gmail.com)