19.327, Calls: Computational Ling/Poland; Computational Ling,Pragmatics/Japan

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Subject: 19.327, Calls: Computational Ling/Poland; Computational Ling,Pragmatics/Japan

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1)
Date: 29-Jan-2008
From: Joanna Rabiega < jrabiega at ipipan.waw.pl >
Subject: IIS 2008 Workshop on SLU and DS 

2)
Date: 28-Jan-2008
From: Eric McCready < mccready at cl.aoyama.ac.jp >
Subject: Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics 5

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Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 13:18:38
From: Joanna Rabiega [jrabiega at ipipan.waw.pl]
Subject: IIS 2008 Workshop on SLU and DS
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Full Title: IIS 2008 Workshop on SLU and DS 

Date: 18-Jun-2008 - 18-Jun-2008
Location: Zakopane, Poland 
Contact Person: Malgorzata Marciniak
Meeting Email: mm at ipipan.waw.pl
Web Site: http://nlp.ipipan.waw.pl/IIS2008/luna.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 13-Feb-2008 

Meeting Description:

The workshop is organized by the IST LUNA (http://www.ist-luna.eu) projects members and it is aimed to give an opportunity to share ideas on problems related to communication with computer systems in natural language and dialogue systems. 

Call for Papers

Deadline Extended

IIS 2008 Workshop on

Spoken Language Understanding and Dialogue Systems 

Zakopane, Poland
18 June 2008

http://nlp.ipipan.waw.pl/IIS2008/luna.html

Submission Deadline: 13 February 2008

The SLUDS workshop is organized by the IST LUNA (http://www.ist-luna.eu) projects members and it is aimed to give an opportunity to share ideas on problems related to communication with computer systems in natural language and dialogue systems.  

Scope:
The main area of interest of the workshop is human-computer interaction in natural language and include among others:
- spontaneous speech recognition, 
- preparation of speech corpora,
- transcription problems in spoken corpora 
- parsing problems in spoken texts  
- semantic interpretation of text,
- knowledge representation in relation to dialogue systems,
- dialogue models,
- spoken language understanding.

Submissions: 
The workshop organizers invite long (10 pages) and short (5 pages) papers. The papers should be organized in accordance with common scientific structure (abstract, state of the art in the field, intention, used methodology, obtained results and references). Authors should upload an electronic version of the paper (pdf and/or possibly ps) by using the conference paper registration site till February 13, 2008.

The papers (written in English) will be refereed on the basis of long abstracts (4 pages, but full version will be also accepted) by an international committee. After notification of acceptance, authors will be allowed to make extensions/corrections in accordance with the suggestions of the reviewers and submit final camera-ready papers. The final papers are to be prepared using LaTeX (zipped archive with files needed to process documents can be uploaded form the conference page).

The conference proceedings in paper and electronic form will be distributed at the conference. They will be available on-line after the conference. 

Important Dates:
Submission deadline: 13 February 2008 (abstracts of 4 pages or full paper)
Notification of acceptance: 15 March 2008
Camera-ready version due: 6 April 2008 (full paper 5 or 10 pages)
Workshop: 18 June 2008

Organisers:
- Ma?gorzata Marciniak mm at ipipan.waw.pl
- Agnieszka Mykowiecka  agn.ipian.waw.pl
- Krzysztof Marasek kmarasek at pjwstk.edu.pl

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Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 13:18:46
From: Eric McCready [mccready at cl.aoyama.ac.jp]
Subject: Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics 5
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Full Title: Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics 5 
Short Title: LENLS 5 

Date: 09-Jun-2008 - 10-Jun-2008
Location: Asahikawa, Hokkaido, Japan 
Contact Person: Eric McCready
Meeting Email: mccready at cl.aoyama.ac.jp
Web Site: http://www.lang.osaka-u.ac.jp/~ogata/LENLS2008.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Pragmatics; Semantics 

Call Deadline: 15-Feb-2008 

Meeting Description:

LENLS is an annual international workshop focusing on dynamic semantics
organized as a satellite of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence conference. This year's workshop, the fifth LENLS, will include a special session devoted to the 'interactive turn' in formal pragmatics, which takes a formal 
approach to the interactive quality of pragmatic meanings by making use of
game-theoretic, decision-theoretic and utility-theoretic approaches. 

Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics 2008 (LENLS2008)

An International workshop Co-located With the JSAI 2008 annual conference
http://www.lang.osaka-u.ac.jp/~ogata/LENLS2008.html    

Workshop Site: Asahikawa Convention Bureau, Hokkaido, Japan

Dates: June 9-10, 2008

Chair: Yasuo Nakayama (Osaka University)

Invited Speakers:  
- Robert van Rooij (University of Amsterdam/ILLC) 
- Satoshi Tojo (JAIST, NII) 

Registration (on site): 5000 yen 

We invite submissions related to this topic in any empirical or theoretical area of pragmatics. Papers are also welcome on more general topics including but in no way limited to the following: 
- Formal Semantics of Natural Language (especially dynamic approaches) 
- Dynamic Syntax and Labelled Deductive Systems of Natural Language 
- Dynamic (Epistemic) Logics and Natural Language Semantics/Pragmatics 
- Coalgebraic Logics and Natural Language Semantics/Pragmatics 
- Category-Theoretic Semantics of Natural Language 
- Type-Theoretic Semantics of Natural Language 
- Substructural Logics of Natural Language 
- Extensions of Lambek Calculi including Combinatory Category Grammars and Type-Logical Grammars 
- Other Mathematical Theories of Information Structures of Natural Language Discourse 
- Natural Language Processing based on Dynamic Semantics, Dynamic 
Syntax, or Formal Pragmatics 

Submissions: 
Abstracts should be between 2 and 4 pages in length and be in pdf format. It should be clearly indicated in the accompanying email whether the submission is intended for the general or the special session. Submissions should be sent to: ogata?lang.osaka-u.ac.jp

Speakers participating from out of Japan may be provided with financial 
support for their travel expenses on a competitive basis.    

The proceedings of the workshop will be available at the conference site for registered persons. We also aim at publishing a selection of the accepted papers in book form, in a volume in the ''Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence'' series published by Springer Verlag.    

Important Dates:    
- Deadline for Abstract (length between 2 and 4 pages): February 15, 2008 
- Notification of acceptance: March 15, 2008 
- Deadline for camera-ready copies (pdf) of full papers for the proceedings, in the LNCS style: April 25, 2008 

Organizing Committee: 
- Yasuo Nakayama (chair) 
- Kei Yoshimoto 
- Tomoyuki Yamada 
- Yoshiki Mori 
- Katsuhiko Yabushita 
- Norry Ogata 
- Eric McCready 
- Daisuke Bekki 

Contact: Eric McCready (mccready at cl.aoyama.ac.jp) or Norry Ogata (ogata?lang.osaka-u.ac.jp)

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