11.2734, Calls: Comp Semantics, Lexical Functional Grammar
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Subject: 11.2734, Calls: Comp Semantics, Lexical Functional Grammar
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Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 16:34:01 EST
From: Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse at cs.rutgers.edu>
Subject: Third Workshop on Inference in Computational Semantics
2)
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 20:50:57 -0800
From: Christopher Manning <manning at cs.stanford.edu>
Subject: 6th International Lexical Functional Grammar Conference - LFG2001
-------------------------------- Message 1 -------------------------------
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 16:34:01 EST
From: Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse at cs.rutgers.edu>
Subject: Third Workshop on Inference in Computational Semantics
* FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS *
third workshop on
INFERENCE IN COMPUTATIONAL SEMANTICS
ICoS-3
Siena, Italy, June 18-20, 2001
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~kohlhase/event/icos3/
(Submission deadline: March 15, 2001)
ABOUT ICoS
- --------
Traditional inference tools (such as theorem provers and model
builders) are reaching new levels of sophistication and are now widely
and easily available. A wide variety of new tools (statistical and
probabilistic methods, ideas from the machine learning community) are
likely to be increasingly applied in computational semantics. Most
importantly of all, computational semantics seems to have reached the
stage where the exploration and development of inference is one of its
most pressing tasks - and there's a lot of interesting new work which
takes inferential issues seriously.
The Workshop on Inference in Computational Semantics (ICoS) intends to
bring researchers from areas such as Computational Linguistics,
Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, and Logic together, in
order to discuss approaches and applications of Inference in natural
language semantics.
ICoS-1 took place in Amsterdam on August 15, 1999 with an attendance
of over 50 researchers. A selection of the papers presented at ICoS-1
has been published in a special issue of the Journal of Language and
Computation.
ICoS-2 took place in Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, on July 29-30,
2000. Although the attendance was only 30, it was an intense and
communicative meeting. A selection of the papers presented at ICoS-2
will be published in the Journal of Language and Computation.
ICoS-3 will be co-located with the the International Joint Conference
on Automated Reasoning (IJCAR 2001, which takes place June 18-23, 2001
at Siena, Italy. IJCAR is a joint meeting of all major conferences on
automated theorem proving (CADE, FTP, TABLEAUX), and is therefore a
good chance to meet the theorem proving community.
ICoS-3 is endorsed by SIGSEM, the Association for Computational
Linguistics (ACL) Special Interest Group (SIG) on computational
semantics.
DATES
- ---
People who would like to submit a paper, system descriptions or who
would like to attend the workshop should consider the following dates:
Submission Deadline: March 15, 2001.
Notification: April 15, 2001.
Final Versions: May 15. 2001.
Early Registration until: June 1., 2001.
ICoS-3 Tutorials June 18, 2001.
ICoS-3 Workshop: June 19-20, 2001.
IJCAR: June 18-23, 2001
INVITED SPEAKERS
- --------------
We anticipate having three invited talks at ICoS-3. One will be given by
Alexander Koller (Saarbruecken)
The other speakers will be announced in due course.
Tutorials
- -------
We will start off the workshop with two tutorials on June 18. This
gives the researchers from automated reasoning and computational
semantics respectively to get an understanding of the other field
before the actual workshop. The tutorials will given by
Claire Gardent (CNRS, Nancy): Computational Semantics
for automated reasoners
Uli Furbach (Univ. Koblenz): Automated Reasoning
for computational semanticists
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
- ---------------
The program committee for ICoS-3 consists of the following people:
Patrick Blackburn, INRIA Lorraine (co-chair)
Michael Kohlhase, Carnegie-Mellon University (co-chair)
Johan Bos, Edinburgh
Peter Baumgartner, Koblenz
David Beaver, Stanford
Dick Crouch, Xerox Parc
Maarten de Rijke, Amsterdam
Nissim Francez, Haifa
Udo Hahn, Freiburg
Gerard Huet, INRIA Rocquencourt
Dale Miller, State College
Martha Palmer, UPenn
Stephen Pulman, Oxford
Matthew Stone, Rutgers Univ
Jun-ichi Tsuji, Tokyo
Bonnie Webber, Edinburgh
SUBMISSIONS
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We invite three kinds of submissions
(LaTeX2e, 11pt, one column, a4paper (not a4wide.sty)):
- research papers on inference methods in computational semantics as well
as their applications (15 pages),
- system descriptions (6 pages), System descriptions should focus on
actual implementations, explaining system architecture issues and
specific implementation techniques. Every system description should be
accompanied by a system demo at ICoS-3.
- system demos (2 page abstracts): People who would like demonstrate
systems that address inference in computational semantics should send
two-page abstracts.
Research papers and system descriptions will be peer-refereed by the
programme committee above, system demos are only screened for
appropriateness by the program chairs.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: March 15, 2001.
NOTIFICATION: April 15, 2001.
The primary means of submission will be electronic, in PostScript
format. Submissions should be sent to the organizers.icos3 at ags.uni-sb.de
In addition to the (informal) workshop proceedings, we plan to publish
a special issue of the Journal of Language and Computation devoted to
ICoS-3. Shortly after the workshop, authors will be contacted by the
editors for special issue, inviting them to contribute; we may ask you
to incorporate comments/discussions/... arising during ICoS-3 into
your paper. Details on the publication schedule for the special issue
as well as formatting instructions will be announced at the workshop.
Registration and Further Information If you have any questions, please
contact the local organizers at icos3 at ags.uni-sb.de.
FURTHER INFORMATION
- -----------------
If you have any questions, please contact the local organizers
Patrick Blackburn and Michael Kohlhase via icos3 at ags.uni-sb.de.
For actual information concerning ICoS-3 please consult
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~kohlhase/event/icos3/
-------------------------------- Message 2 -------------------------------
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 20:50:57 -0800
From: Christopher Manning <manning at cs.stanford.edu>
Subject: 6th International Lexical Functional Grammar Conference - LFG2001
SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS
LFG2001
2001 INTERNATIONAL LEXICAL FUNCTIONAL
GRAMMAR CONFERENCE
25 June - 27 June 2001
The Department of Linguistics, University of Hong Kong
URL: http://www.hku.hk/linguist/research/LFG2001.html
Abstract submission receipt deadline: 15 February 2001
Submissions should be sent to the LFG Program Committee
(see addresses below)
The 6th International Lexical Functional Grammar Conference will be
held by the Department of Linguistics at the University of Hong Kong
from Monday June 25 until Wednesday June 27, 2001.
LFG-2001 welcomes work both within the formal architecture of
Lexical-Functional Grammar and typological, formal, and computational
work within the 'spirit of LFG', as a lexicalist approach to language
employing a parallel, constraint-based framework. The conference aims
to promote interaction and collaboration among researchers interested in
nonderivational approaches to grammar, where grammar is seen as the
interaction of (perhaps violable) constraints from multiple levels, including
category information, grammatical relations, and semantic information.
Further information about the syntactic theory LFG can be obtained from:
http://clwww.essex.ac.uk/LFG/ and
http://www-lfg.stanford.edu/lfg/
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
We are pleased to announce that Sam Mchombo will give an invited talk at
the conference.
SUBMISSIONS
The conference will primarily involve 30-minute talks, poster/system
presentations and workshops. Talks and poster presentations will focus
on results from completed as well as ongoing research, with an emphasis
on novel approaches, methods, ideas, and perspectives, whether
descriptive, theoretical, formal or computational. Presentations should
describe original, unpublished work.
POSTERS
This year we're going to encourage an active poster session. All
presenters will be invited to display posters and to have a chance to
chat in more detail with participants about their work. In addition we
will accept papers for poster presentation only.
WORKSHOPS
Workshops are a small group of talks (2-4) on a coherent topic that
can be expected to generate opposing views and discussion with the
broader audience. Participants to workshops are usually
invited. Workshop papers should be distributed in advance among
participants and participants should refer to each others approaches.
At this point in time, we welcome suggestions for workshops from
potential organisers or people with certain interests. Suggestions for
workshops should be sent to the local organizers at:
abbodomo at hkusua.hku.hk.
TIMETABLE
Deadline for receipt of talk submissions: 15 February 2001
Late deadline for poster-only submissions: 15 March 2001
Acceptances sent out: 31 March 2001
Conference: 25 June - 27 June 2001
SUBMISSION SPECIFICATIONS
Abstracts for talks must be received by February 15, 2001, while
poster-only abstracts will be accepted until March 15, 2001. All
abstracts should be sent to the program committee chairs at the address
given below. For workshops, further site information or offers of
organisational help, contact the local organisers at the address below.
Submissions should be in the form of abstracts only. In contrast to
previous years, we are not acccepting the submission of full papers.
Abstracts should be one A4 page in 10pt or larger type and
include a title. Omit name and affiliation, and obvious self
reference. A second page may be used for data, c-/f- and related
structures, and references.
Submissions should indicate whether they wish to be considered only as a
talk, as either a talk or a poster, or only as a poster/demonstration.
In the absence of specification, submissions will be considered for both
classes, and the program chairs may decide that certain submissions are
better as poster presentations than as read papers.
Abstracts may be submitted by email or by regular mail (or by
both means as a safety measure). Email submission is preferred.
Regular Mail:
Include:
- Eight copies of the abstract/paper.
- A card or cover sheet with the paper title, name(s) of the
author(s), affiliation, address, phone/fax number, e-mail address, and
whether the author(s) are students.
Email:
Include the paper title, name(s) of the author(s), address, phone/fax
number, email address, and whether the author(s) are students in the
body of your email message. Include or preferably attach your paper as
either a plain ASCII text, PDF, HTML, or postscript file. Postscript
files require special care to avoid problems: make sure your system is
set to include all fonts (or at least all but the standard 13); if using a
recent version of Word, make sure you click the printer Properties
button and then the Postscript tab, and there choose Optimize for
Portability; on all platforms make sure the system is not asking for a
particular paper size or other device-specific configuration. It is
your responsibility to send us a file that us and our reviewers can
print. You can often test this by trying to look at the file in a
screen previewer such as Ghostview.
All abstracts will be reviewed by at least three people.
Papers will appear in the proceedings, which will be published online
by CSLI Publications. Selected papers may also appear in a printed
volume published by CSLI Publications.
ORGANISERS AND THEIR CONTACT ADDRESSES
Send abstract submissions and inquiries about submissions to:
Program Committee Chairs:
Chris Manning <manning at csli.stanford.edu>
Rachel Nordlinger <r.nordlinger at linguistics.unimelb.edu.au>
Mail:
LFG2001
c/- Chris Manning
Linguistics Department
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-2150
USA
Contact the local conference organisers at:
Email: abbodomo at hkusua.hku.hk
Mail: Adams Bodomo
Department of Linguistics,
The University of Hong Kong,
Pokfulam Road, HONG KONG
ALL OTHER INFORMATION including accommodation and registration
details will be included in a subsequent call for participation. Some
details are already posted on the conference website:
http://www.hku.hk/linguist/research/LFG2001.html
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