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Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2020 10:05:04
From: Jan Odijk [j.odijk at uu.nl]
Subject: 32nd European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information

 
32nd European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information 
Short Title: ESSLLI 2020 

Date: 03-Aug-2020 - 14-Aug-2020 
Location: Utrecht, Netherlands 
Contact: Raffaella Bernardi 
Contact Email: esslli20pc at gmail.com 
Meeting URL: http://esslli.eu 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics; Linguistic Theories; Psycholinguistics 

Meeting Description: 

The European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI) is a
yearly recurring event, which has been organized since 1989. An ESSLLI Summer
School provides an interdisciplinary setting in which courses and workshops
are offered in logic, linguistics and computer science. Courses (foundational,
introductory and advanced) and workshops cover a wide variety of topics within
three interdisciplinary areas of interest: language and computation, logic and
language, and logic and computation. In addition to the workshops and courses
there are usually four evening lectures, given by prominent researchers, on
topics that are at the forefront of research in logic, language and computer
science, also from wider scientific, historical, and philosophical
perspectives. Its relevance to students of artificial intelligence is evident.

The event lasts two full weeks, and is traditionally held in the beginning or
midst of August.  ESSLLI attracts  every year around 400 participants from all
parts of Europe, as well as from North and Latin America, and Asia. 
Participation by people from economically weaker countries is made possible by
ESSLLI funding. The ESSLLI has become the main meeting place for young
researchers and students in logic, linguistics and computer science to discuss
current research and to share knowledge. The event is unique in its
interdisciplinary set up, with no equivalents in Europe or elsewhere in the
world. It is organized under the auspices of the Association for Logic,
Language and Information (FoLLI).

In addition to regular courses and workshops, 4 evening lectures are
organized. Since 2018, one of the evening lectures is the Dick Oerle Memorial
Lecture. All evening lectures are open to the general public. Since 1996, PhD
and advanced students have their own daily meeting place at ESSLLI's student
session, organized by and for the students, and with its own yearly prizes.

Proposals for courses and workshops are invited in all areas of Logic,
Linguistics and Computation. Cross-disciplinary and innovative topics are
encouraged. Each course/workshop will consist of five 90-minute sessions,
offered daily in a single week. Proposals for 2-week courses should be
structured and submitted as two independent one-week courses. The ESSLLI
program committee reserves the right to accept just one of the two proposals.
 

ESSLLI 2020: COURSES AND WORKSHOPS
 
We are happy to announce the programme for ESSLLI2020 (3-14 August 2020,
Utrecht University).

In addition to the courses and workshops listed below and on the ESSLLI2020
website
(https://www.esslli.eu/programme/courses-and-workshops.html), the programme
features
a Student Session. The 25th Conference on Formal Grammar is held in
conjunction 
with ESSLLI on 8-9 August 2020.

Registration will open in the course of February. We will
communicate the details in a separate mailing.

Programme: 

F = Foundational course
I = Introductory course
A = Advanced course
W = Workshop

WEEK 1 (August 3-7, 2020)

Language and Computation

Mathias Winther Madsen. Information theory. (F) 
Gregory Scontras. Probabilistic Language Understanding. (I) 
Mark Steedman and Cem Bozşahin. CCG and Linguistic Diversity. (I) 
David Schlangen. Natural Language Semantics with Pictures: An Introduction to
Working with Language and Vision Corpora. (I) 
Simon Charlow and Dylan Bumford. Effectful composition in natural language
semantics. (A) 
Lisa Beinborn and Willem Zuidema. Analyzing the Cognitive Plausibility of Deep
Language Models. (A) 
Ielka van der Sluis and James Pustejovsky. Annotation, Recognition and
Evaluation of Actions II. (W) 
Kordula De Kuthy and Detmar Meurers. Integrating Perspectives on Discourse
Annotation. (W) 

Logic and Language

Philippe de Groote and Yoad Winter. Introduction to natural language formal
semantics. (F) 
Yael Greenberg and Carla Umbach. Additivity, scalarity and the interactions
between them: Beyond 'also' and 'even'. (I) 
Andras Kornai. Unifying formulaic, geometric, and algebraic theories of
semantics. (I) 
Natasha Korotkova and Pranav Anand. An opinionated guide to predicates of
personal taste. (I) 
Joost Zwarts. The semantics of metaphor. (I) 
Kristina Liefke and Ede Zimmermann. Intensionalism and Propositionalism in
Linguistic Semantics. (A) 
Davide Grossi and Carlo Proietti. Abstract Argumentation and Modal Logic. (A) 
Mora Maldonado, Alexander Martin and Jennifer Culbertson. Experimental
approaches to language universals in structure and meaning. (W) 

Logic and Computation

Thomas Graf. The Computational Nature of Language. (F) 
Camillo Fiorentini. Semantics based proof-search methods for non-classical
logics. (I) 
Réka Markovich and Leon van der Torre. Introduction to Deontic Logic and Its
Applications. (I) 
Pavel Naumov. Actions, Blames, and Regrets. (I) 
Willem Heijltjes and Lutz Straßburger. From Proof Nets to Combinatorial
Proofs: A new approach to Hilbert's 24th problem. (A) 
Anuj Dawar and Gregory Wilsenach. Symmetric Computation. (A) 
Tadeusz Litak and Albert Visser. Lewis meets Brouwer: Constructive strict
implication. (A) 
Natasha Alechina and Brian Logan. Workshop on automated synthesis. (W) 

WEEK 2 (August 10-14, 2020)

Language and Computation

Stefan Evert and Gabriella Lapesa. Hands-on Distributional Semantics: From
first steps to interdisciplinary applications. (F) 
Diego Frassinelli and Sabine Schulte Im Walde. Cognitive and Computational
Models of Abstractness. (F) 
Jose Camacho Collados and Mohammad Taher Pilehvar. Embeddings in Natural
Language Processing. (I) 
Jean-Philippe Bernardy and Aleksandre Maskharashvili. Probabilistic Semantics
and Inference Under Uncertainty in Natural Language. (I) 
Michael Henry Tessler. Probabilistic models of world knowledge for language
understanding. (A) 
Adina Williams and Ryan Cotterell. Information Theory in Linguistics: Methods
and Applications. (A) 
Shane Steinert-Threlkeld and Jakub Szymanik. Computational and Experimental
Explanations in Semantics and Pragmatics. (W) 
Stergios Chatzikyriakidis and Rainer Osswald. Workshop on Computing Semantics
with Types, Frames and Related Structures. (W) 

Logic and Language

Bart Geurts. Commitment-based pragmatics. (F) 
Judith Tonhauser and Judith Degen. Projective content: From theory to data and
back. (I) 
Elsi Kaiser and Deniz Rudin. The semantics and psycholinguistics of subjective
predicates. (I) 
Patrick Georg Grosz and Mélissa Berthet. Theoretical and Methodological
Approaches to Animal Semantics: a Super Linguistic Introduction. (I) 
Hans Kamp and Emar Maier. An update on Discourse Representation Theory:
Reference, attitudes, fiction, and pictures. (A) 
Lucas Champollion. Advanced mereology for linguists. (A) 
Jakub Dotlačil and Floris Roelofsen. Dynamic inquisitive semantics. (A) 
Judith Degen, Benjamin Spector and Daniel Lassiter. Approaches to implicature:
Rational choice and/or exhaustification. (W) 

Logic and Computation

Arne Meier and Jonni Virtema. Introduction to Propositional Dependence Logic.
(I) 
Christoph Berkholz and Thomas Zeume. Logic in Databases: Foundations of Query
Evaluation. (I) 
Valentin Goranko. Temporal Logics. (I) 
Pablo Barceló and Diego Figueira. Foundations of query languages for graph
databases. (I) 
Eric Pacuit. Probabilistic methods in social choice. (I) 
Fei Liang and Alessandra Palmigiano. Logical foundations of categorization
theory. (A) 
Phokion Kolaitis. Logic, Data, and Incomplete Information. (A) 
Jouko Väänänen and Fan Yang. Workshop on Logics of Dependence and
Independence. (W)





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