26.1571, Calls: Applied Linguistics, Cognitive Science, Computational Linguistics, Lexicography/Spain

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LINGUIST List: Vol-26-1571. Mon Mar 23 2015. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 26.1571, Calls: Applied Linguistics, Cognitive Science, Computational Linguistics, Lexicography/Spain

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Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2015 18:05:09
From: Ismael Teomiro [iteomiro at flog.uned.es]
Subject: 4th International Conference on Meaning and Knowledge Representation

Full Title: 4th International Conference on Meaning and Knowledge Representation 
Short Title: 4MKR 

Date: 01-Jul-2015 - 03-Jul-2015
Location: Madrid, Spain 
Contact Person: Ismael Teomiro
Meeting Email: iteomiro at flog.uned.es
Web Site: http://www.fungramkb.com/events/2015/index.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics; Lexicography 

Call Deadline: 30-Apr-2015 

Meeting Description:

Natural language understanding systems require a knowledge base provided with formal representations reflecting the structure of human beings' cognitive system. Although surface semantics can be sufficient in some other systems, the construction of a robust knowledge base guarantees its use in most natural language processing applications, consolidating thus the concept of resource reuse. This conference deals with meaning and knowledge representation in the context of natural language understanding from the perspective of theoretical linguistics, computational linguistics, cognitive science, knowledge engineering or artificial intelligence.

Following the success of the 2012, 2013 and 2014 Conferences in Madrid, Granada and Valencia respectively, the Fourth International Conference on Meaning and Knowledge Representation will take place in Madrid (Spain), July 1, 2 and 3, 2015.

Call for Papers:

Proposals for contributions may be submitted until April 30, 2015.

We invite 20-minute (plus 10-minute discussion) presentation proposals on the following general and/or specific topics:

General Topics:

a. At the crossroads between functionalist, cognitivist and/or constructionist approaches.
b. Division of labour of lexical semantics and constructional semantics.
c. Role of metaphor and metonymy and other cognitive operations in meaning construction and grammar.
d. Relationship between semantics, pragmatics and discourse in meaning construction and/or meaning representation.
e. Cognitive modeling and construal.
f. Pragmatic inferencing.

Papers that pay special attention to the treatment of these topics within the Lexical Constructional Model (LCM) and FunGramKB are particularly welcome.

LCM and FunGramKB Specific Topics

a. Meaning construction and meaning representation in the LCM.
b. Methodological tools in the LCM (e.g. equipollence).
c. Syntactic representation in the LCM.
d. The form of lexical and constructional templates in the LCM.
e. Connections between the LCM and FunGramKB.
f. Lexico-grammatical knowledge in FunGramKB.
g. Terminology in FunGramKB.
h. Conceptual representation in FunGramKB.
i. Reasoning in FunGramKB.
j. NLP applications of FunGramKB.

Guidelines for Submissions:

Submissions Should Include the Following Information:

a. Author's name
b. Affiliation
c. E-mail address
d. Paper title
e. An abstract with a maximum of 500 words, excluding references
f. The official language of the conference is English. All paper proposals are assumed to represent original and unpublished work.

Email for abstract submission: 4mkr.conference at gmail.com

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