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[Twelfth Amsterdam Colloquium]

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             AC99 SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS


          THE TWELFTH AMSTERDAM COLLOQUIUM
              December 18 --  21, 1999



The Twelfth Amsterdam Colloquium will be held from Saturday 18 until
Tuesday 21 December 1999, at the University of Amsterdam. The Amsterdam
Colloquia aim at bringing together logicians, philosophers, linguists and
computer scientists who share an interest in the formal semantic study of
natural and formal languages. The spectrum of topics covered ranges from
descriptive (semantic analyses of all kinds of expressions) to theoretical
(logical and computational properties of semantic theories, philosophical
foundations).

The program of the Twelfth Amsterdam Colloquium includes six invited
lectures by renowned experts in the field, as well as 40 talks selected by
an international program committee. The following people have accepted our
invitation to give a plenary lecture:

 -> Irene Heim (MIT, Massachusets)
 -> Bill Ladusaw (UCSC, Santa Cruz)
 -> Jeff Pelletier (University of Alberta)
 -> Mark Steedman (University of Edinburgh)
 -> Richmond Thomason (University of Michigan)
 -> Ede Zimmermann (IMS, Stuttgart)

Besides, Lofti Zadeh gives a special guest lecture upon invitation by Johan van
Benthem's Spinoza project *Logic in Action*.

The colloquium also accommodates two thematic sessions, one on
"Non-Monotonicity
and Natural Language" and one "Discourse and Communication. Structured
Information Exchange".




   *Submission of abstracts for the regular program*

The Colloquium has room for 40 contributed talks of approximately 40
minutes. Authors may submit an *anonymous* abstract of *two pages* (at most
1000 words). The abstract must include a short 10 line *summary* clearly
indicating subject matter and conclusions.

A *separate leaflet* should specify the author's name, affiliation, postal
address, e-mail address plus the title of the contribution. Submission by
e-mail is encouraged, provided that the abstract, summary and personal
details are in postscript.

Abstracts can also be submitted for presentation at one of the thematic
sessions. In this case the leaflet should clearly state so. Submissions
which are not accepted for presentation at the thematic sessions, can still
be accepted for presentation  in the regular program.

The *deadline* for submission of abstracts is September 1, 1999. Authors
will be notified of acceptance by October 15. Extended 6 page abstracts,
*to be included in the proceedings*, are due November 15. The proceedings
will be distributed at the conference.

*Multiple submissions* are allowed, but no single author is allowed to give
more than one presentation. In case authors are involved in more than one
submission, one or more of which are co-authored, then it should be
indicated clearly which author is actually going to give the presentation.



   *Important dates*

 -> 07-07-97 Second Call for papers
 -> 01-09-97 Deadline for submissions
 -> 15-10-97 Notification of acceptance
 -> 15-11-97 Deadline for Proceedings
 -> 18 -- 21 December 1999 Twelfth Amsterdam Colloquium



   *Organization*

 The Amsterdam Colloquia are organized every two years under the auspices
of the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) of the
University of Amsterdam. The organizing committee of the Twelfth Amsterdam
Colloquium consists of Paul Dekker, Gwen Kerdiles, Michiel van Lambalgen,
Anouk Perquin, Frank Veltman and Marco de Vries.

For further information, contact:

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                    Organizing Committee Twelfth Amsterdam Colloquium
               ILLC/Department of Philosophy, University of Amsterdam
       Nieuwe Doelenstraat 15, NL 1012 CP, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
       http://www.illc.uva.nl/AC99/           mailto:AC99 at wins.uva.nl

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