26.1413, Calls: Computational Linguistics, Semantics/USA

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Subject: 26.1413, Calls: Computational Linguistics, Semantics/USA

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Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2015 17:19:34
From: Reinhard Muskens [r.a.muskens at gmail.com]
Subject: Conference on Computing Natural Reasoning

 
Full Title: Conference on Computing Natural Reasoning 
Short Title: CoCoNat 2015 

Date: 19-Jul-2015 - 20-Jul-2015
Location: Bloomington, Indiana, USA 
Contact Person: Reinhard Muskens
Meeting Email: r.a.muskens at gmail.com
Web Site: http://www.indiana.edu/~iulg/wollic/coconat.htm 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Semantics 

Call Deadline: 15-Apr-2015 

Meeting Description:

Logic was originally meant to systematize and analyze arguments in natural language. But in the 20th century the main developments in logic focused on mathematics and its foundations. Recently, a number of researchers have focused on logical systems tuned to natural language semantics to reconnect with the older tradition. The logical and conceptual underpinnings of some of these systems remains unclear, although some recent work has begun to address formal foundations.

The aim of this conference is to contribute to this direction in semantics and to discuss logics, especially proof systems, well-suited for natural language semantics and to explore comparisons between these systems. We also welcome input from people invoved in computational semantics, psychology of reasoning, and computer implementations of natural reasoning systems.

Call for Papers:

Topics of interest include:

- fragments of first-order logic which are powerful enough to represent interesting linguistic phenomena and yet small enough to be computationally feasible
- extended syllogistic logics
- logics and algorithms for use in textual entailment
- natural logic and computational semantics
- proof theoretic semantics
- reasoning as model search
- natural reasoning and model checking
- natural logic and the psychology of reasoning
- formalizations of inference tasks centered on linguistic expressions
- applications of natural logic
- formal models of reasoning in specific domains ('team' reasoning, models of reasoning in games).

We solicit talks on relevant topics. There will also be poster sessions, preceded by plenary 'flash' presentations of posters.

Invited Speakers:

Valeria de Paiva (Nuance Communications))
Nate Kushman (MIT)
Matthias Scheutz (Tufts University)
Neil Tennant (Ohio State University)

Submissions:

We invite submissions of 5-10 pages abstracts. Papers must be submitted electronically at the CoCoNat 2015 EasyChair website: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=coconat15. The deadline for submissions of papers is April 15, 2015, and we expect to notify authors by May 6.




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