2nd CFP - Student session - LACL 2005

[Renaud Marlet]

                 2nd Call for papers
*****************************************************
             Student Session - LACL'2005
     Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics
*****************************************************
              Deadline : March 15, 2005

LACL'2005 is the 5th edition of a series of international
conferences on logical and formal methods in computational
linguistics.  It addresses in particular the use of proof
theoretic and model theoretic methods for describing natural
language syntax and semantics, as well as the implementation
of natural language processing software relying on such models.

*** STUDENT SESSION ***

For the first time, LACL'2005 will feature a student session.
Students (not having defended yet their PhD thesis or defending
it in 2005) are invited to submit short papers (2 or 3 pages)
on the same topics as LACL.  Submitted papers may present only
partial but promising work.

This student session offers a good opportunity for students
to acquaint themselves with the world of research : digest
writing exercise, feedback from the program committee, oral
presentation exercise, feedback from LACL attendants.

Students whose articles will be selected for the student
session will benefit from reduced registration fees for the
LACL conference.

*** PAPER SELECTION ***

Submitted articles will be reviewed by a program committee
made of a a group of experienced researcher as well as a
group of chosen PhD students.  Each article will be reviewed
by at least one experienced researcher and one of these PhD
students.

*** PAPER PRESENTATION ***

Students whose papers will be selected will present their
work in a poster session at the LACL conference.  The papers
will also be grouped and edited as an INRIA research report.

*** TOPICS ***

Computer scientists, linguists, mathematicians and philosophers
are invited to present their work on the use of logical methods
in computational linguistics and natural language processing,
in natural language analysis, generation or acquisition.
  * LOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF SYNTACTIC FORMALISMS:
     - categorial grammars,
     - minimalist grammars,
     - dependency grammars,
     - tree adjoining grammars,
     - model theoretic syntax,
     - formal language theory for natural language processing,
     - data-driven approaches,
  * LOGIC FOR SEMANTICS OF LEXICAL ITEMS, SENTENCES, DISCOURSE
    AND DIALOG:
     - discourse representation theory,
     - Montague semantics,
     - compositionality,
     - dynamic logic,
     - game semantics,
     - situation semantics,
     - generative lexicon,
  * APPLICATIONS OF THESE MODELS TO NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING:
     - software for natural language analysis,
     - software for acquiring linguistic resources,
     - software for natural language generation,
     - software for information extraction,
     - question answering and human computer interaction in
       natural language,
     - evaluation and scalability

*** SUBMISSION FORMAT ***

Papers are be 2 to 3 pages long, including bibliography and
possible figures and appendices.  Articles, in PDF format,
should be sent by email to lacl at labri.fr, with the keywords
"student session" in the mail subject.

*** IMPORTANT DATES ***

- Paper submission deadline : March 15th, 2005
- Notification of acceptance : March 31st, 2005
- Camera-ready papers due : April 15th, 2005
- Student session : during LACL (April 28-30th, 2005)

*** SCIENTIFIC INQUIRIES ***

- Philippe Blache, blache at lpl.univ-aix.fr
- Edward Stabler, stabler at ucla.edu

*** PRACTICAL INQUIRIES ***

- Renaud Marlet, marlet at labri.fr
- Maxime Amblard, amblard at labri.fr

*** PROGRAM COMMITTEE ***

- chairs: Ph. Blache, E. Stabler
- members of the LACL 2005 program committee,
- PhD students (presently or until recently):
    . Maxime Amblard -- LaBRI, Bordeaux
    . Leonoor van der Beek -- University of Groningen
    . Paul Egre -- Institut Jean Nicod, Paris
    . Severine Fratani -- LaBRI, Bordeaux
    . Marie-Laure Guenot -- LPL, Aix en Provence
    . Eric Kow -- LORIA, Nancy
    . Erwan Moreau -- LINA, Nantes
    . Veronique Moriceau -- IRIT, Toulouse
    . Jean-Philippe Prost -- Macquarie University, Sydney
    . Benoit Sagot -- INRIA-Talana/Lattice, Paris

*** ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ***

R. Marlet, M. Amblard, J. Busquets, R. Moot

*** MORE DETAILS ***

http://lacl.labri.fr/student_session