27.2845, Calls: Semantics/Japan

Tue Jul 5 16:57:36 UTC 2016

LINGUIST List: Vol-27-2845. Tue Jul 05 2016. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 27.2845, Calls: Semantics/Japan

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Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2016 12:57:29
From: Alastair Butler [ajb129 at hotmail.com]
Subject: Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics 13

Full Title: Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics 13 
Short Title: LENLS 13 

Date: 13-Nov-2016 - 15-Nov-2016
Location: Tokyo, Japan 
Contact Person: Alastair Butler
Meeting Email: lenls13 at easychair.org
Web Site: http://www.is.ocha.ac.jp/~bekki/lenls 

Linguistic Field(s): Semantics 

Call Deadline: 30-Aug-2016 

Meeting Description:

LENLS is an annual international workshop on formal syntax, semantics and
pragmatics. It will be held as one of the workshops of the 8th JSAI
International Symposia on AI (isAI2016) (https://www.ai-gakkai.or.jp/isai/)
sponsored by the Japan Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI)
(https://www.ai-gakkai.or.jp/isai/).

The first day of LENLS will include an Unshared Task on Theory and System
analysis with FraCaS, MultiFraCaS and JSeM Test Suites, for which there are
more specific submission details at
http://www.compling.jp/fracas_task/index.html.

Dates: November 13-15, 2016
Contact Person: Alastair Butler (National Institute for Japanese Language and
Linguistics)
Contact Email: lenls13 at easychair.org
Website: http://www.is.ocha.ac.jp/~bekki/lenls/

Call for Papers: 

Chair: Alastair Butler (National Institute for Japanese Language and
Linguistics)
Co-chair: Eric McCready (Aoyama Gakuin University)
Daisuke Bekki (Ochanomizu University/JST CREST/AIST AIRC/NII)
Koji Mineshima (Ochanomizu University/JST CREST)

Invited Speakers:

- Robin Cooper (University of Gothenburg)
- Masaaki Nagata (NTT Communication Science Laboratories)
- Youichi Matsusaka (Tokyo Metropolitan University)

Workshop Site:

(Nov. 13) National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics
10-2 Midori-cho, Tachikawa City, Tokyo, 190-8561
http://www.ninjal.ac.jp/english/utility/access

(Nov. 14, 15) Raiousha Building, Keio University Kanagawa, Japan
http://www.keio.ac.jp/en/maps/hiyoshi.html

Sponsor:

LENLS is being organized by an alliance of ''Establishment of
Knowledge-Intensive Structural Natural Language Processing and Construction of
Knowledge
Infrastructure'' (http://nlp.ist.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/CREST/?en) project, funded by
JST CREST Programs ''Advanced Core Technologies for Big Data Integration''
(http://www.jst.go.jp/kisoken/crest/en/research_area/ongoing/areah25-6.html).

Workshop Organizers/Program Committee:

- Alastair Butler (National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics)
- Eric McCready (Aoyama Gakuin University)
- Daisuke Bekki (Ochanomizu University/JST CREST/AIST AIRC/NII)
- Koji Mineshima (Ochanomizu University/JST CREST)
- Richard Dietz (University of Tokyo)
- Yoshiki Mori (University of Tokyo)
- Yasuo Nakayama (Osaka University)
- David Y. Oshima (Nagoya University)
- Katsuhiko Sano (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
- Osamu Sawada (Mie University)
- Wataru Uegaki (Leiden University)
- Katsuhiko Yabushita (Naruto University of Education)
- Tomoyuki Yamada (Hokkaido University)
- Shunsuke Yatabe (West Japan Railway Company)
- Kei Yoshimoto (Tohoku University)

Call for Papers: 
Aims and Topics:

LENLS is an annual international workshop on formal syntax, semantics and
pragmatics. It will be held as one of the workshops of the 8th JSAI
International Symposia on AI (isAI2016) (https://www.ai-gakkai.or.jp/isai/)
sponsored by the Japan Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI)
(https://www.ai-gakkai.or.jp/isai/).

We invite submissions to this year's workshop on topics in formal syntax,
semantics and pragmatics, and related fields, including but in no way
limited to the following:

- Formal syntax, semantics and pragmatics of natural language
- Model-theoretic and/or proof-theoretic semantics of natural language
- Computational Semantics
- Game-theoretic/Bayesian approaches to pragmatics
- Nonclassical Logic and its relation to natural language (especially
  Substructural/Fuzzy/Categorical/Topological logics)
- Formal Philosophy of language
- Scientific methodology and/or experimental design for linguistics

The first day of LENLS will include an Unshared Task on Theory and System
analysis with FraCaS, MultiFraCaS and JSeM Test Suites, for which there are
more specific submission details at
http://www.compling.jp/fracas_task/index.html.

Submissions:

Abstracts (anonymous, up to 4 pages, including figures and references, A4
size, with 12 point font) must be submitted electronically in PDF
format at:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lenls13

When the abstract is accepted, the author is expected to submit a full paper
(10-14 pages) before the workshop. The online proceedings of the workshop will
be available at the conference site.

Selected Papers:
We also plan to publish a selection of the accepted/invited papers as a
portion of a volume ''JSAI-isAI selected papers'', which will be published
from 'Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence' series (Springer Verlag).

Important Dates:

Abstract submission deadline: August 30, 2016
Notification of acceptance: September 30, 2016
Deadline for camera-ready copy: mid-October, 2016
LENLS13: November 13-15, 2016

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