30.3182, Calls: Cog Sci, Comp Ling, Pragmatics, Semantics, Text/Corpus Ling/USA

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Subject: 30.3182, Calls: Cog Sci, Comp Ling, Pragmatics, Semantics, Text/Corpus Ling/USA

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Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2019 04:10:09
From: Sophia Malamud [smalamud at brandeis.edu]
Subject: North American Summer School in Logic, Language and Information

Full Title: North American Summer School in Logic, Language and Information 
Short Title: NASSLLI 

Date: 12-Jul-2020 - 17-Jul-2020
Location: Waltham, MA, USA 
Contact Person: Sophia Malamud
Meeting Email: nasslli at brandeis.edu
Web Site: http://nasslli2020.brandeis.edu/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics; Pragmatics; Semantics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 30-Sep-2019 

Meeting Description:

The ninth North American Summer School for Logic, Language, and Information
(NASSLLI) will be hosted July 12-July 17, 2020, by Brandeis University in
Waltham, MA (in the Boston area). 

NASSLLI 2020 will consist of a series of courses and workshops, most running
daily from Monday July 13 - Friday July 17. In addition, there will be
intensive mini-courses the day prior to the start of courses (Sunday July 12).
The 2020 NASSLLI will also have a theme - Formal and Computational Pragmatics
and Models of Dialogue. 

The summer school has been providing outstanding interdisciplinary educational
opportunities to graduate students and advanced undergraduates in the fields
of Linguistics, Computer Science, Cognitive Science, Logic, Philosophy, and
other related areas. NASSLLI brings these disciplines together with the goal
of producing excellence in the study of how minds and machines represent,
communicate, manipulate and reason with information.

NASSLLI represents a community which recognizes that advances in modeling and
analyzing the performance of these tasks, as well as automating them, requires
the contributions of multiple interrelated disciplines. NASSLLI provides a
venue where students and researchers from one domain can learn approaches,
frameworks and tools from related disciplines to apply to their own work.
Courses offered at NASSLLI range from intensive, graduate level introductory
courses to interdisciplinary workshops featuring prominent researchers
presenting their work in progress.

2nd Call for Papers:

Proposal submission deadline: September 30, 2019 

Notification: December 1, 2019 

We invite proposals for courses and workshops that address topics of relevance
to NASSLLI's central goal. NASSLLI 2020 will also have a special theme, Formal
and Computational Pragmatics and Models of Dialogue.  We will continue this
theme by hosting the SemDial conference September 18-19, immediately after
NASSLLI.

Appropriate areas for courses include but are not limited to: semantics;
pragmatics; computational linguistics; cognitive science; formal methodologies
for the study of language and information; methods for data collection and
analysis; logic and its applications; game and decision theory and their
applications; philosophy of language; philosophy of mind. We particularly
encourage submissions which address the NASSLLI 2020 special theme, and those
representing cross-disciplinary approaches, especially courses showing the
applicability of computational methods to theoretical work, and the use of
theoretical work in practical applications. Courses involving a hands-on
component (e.g., actual experience with NLP tools, coding, or machine learning
algorithms) will be very welcome. NASSLLI welcomes a variety of approaches and
methodologies (logics, cognitive and computational modeling, formal
semantics/pragmatics, machine learning, experimental approaches) as long as
the material is relevant to language, information or communication.

Each course and workshop will consist of five 90 minute sessions, offered
daily (Monday-Friday) during the week of the summer school.  Sunday
mini-courses will run for 3 to 5 hours.

We encourage potential attendees and instructors to check out previous NASSLLI
programs at: http://www.folli.info/?page_id=49

Courses and workshops should aim to be accessible to an interdisciplinary,
graduate level audience. Courses may bridge multiple areas, or focus on a
single area, in which case instructors should include introductory background,
try to avoid specialized notation that cannot be applied more broadly, and
spend some time discussing how the topic is relevant to other fields. 

Workshop schedules are identical to course schedules, but usually consist of a
series of presentations by different researchers; they may also include panel
discussions. A workshop will be more accessible if its program is bracketed by
broader-audience talks that introduce and summarize the week's presentations.
Please note that NASSLLI cannot provide reimbursement for travel and
accommodation for workshop presenters. Workshop proposals must include
information about how the organizers expect these expenses to be covered.

Course and workshop proposals from women and underrepresented minorities are
particularly encouraged.

Proposals should be submitted in PDF format using EasyChair: 
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nasslli2020
and should indicate the following:
- person(s) in charge of the course/workshop and affiliation(s)
- type of event (Sunday mini-course, one week course, or workshop)
- For mini-courses, specify how many hours you’d like them to be
- course/workshop title
- motivation, description, and an outline of the course/workshop up to 500
words, plus appropriate references
- special equipment (if any) needed to teach the course
- a statement about the instructor's experience in teaching  (including in
interdisciplinary settings)
- anticipated travel costs: workshop proposals must include (a)
acknowledgement of the organizers’ understanding that NASSLLI will not 
provide reimbursement for invited participants and (b) an explanation of how
these costs will be covered.

Please see our website for financial and practical details
http://nasslli2020.brandeis.edu 

Please email us at nasslli at brandeis.edu with any questions

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