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15th Amsterdam Colloquium, December 2005 (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

Fifteenth Amsterdam Colloquium
December 19 - 21
University of Amsterdam

http://www.illc.uva.nl/AC05

The Fifteenth Amsterdam Colloquium will be held December 19 - 21 at the 
University of Amsterdam. The Amsterdam Colloquia aim at bringing together 
linguists, philosophers, logicians and computer scientists who share an 
interest in the formal study of the semantics and pragmatics of natural 
and formal languages. The spectrum of topics covered ranges from 
descriptive (syntactic and semantic analyses of all kinds of expressions) 
to theoretical (logical and computational properties of semantic theories, 
philosophical foundations, evolution and learning of language).

The program of the Fifteenth Amsterdam Colloquium consists of:

     * the General Program which includes invited lectures by:
           o Sigrid Beck (Linguistics, University of Conneticut)
           o Nissim Francez (The Technion, Haifa)
           o Manfred Krifka (Humboldt-Universitt, Berlin)
           o Lawrence S. Moss (Indiana University, Bloomington)
       and 30 contributed papers

     * Workshop on Language and Learning, organized by Pieter Adriaans,
       Robert van Rooij and Khalil Sima'an;
       invited speakers:
           o James Cussens (Department of Computer Science, University of
 	    York)
           o Jacqueline van Kampen (OTS, Utrecht)
           o Makoto Kanazawa (National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo)
           o Claire Nedellec (INRA, Jouy-en-Josas)

     * Workshop on "Semantics Universals", organized by Paul Dekker and
       Kees Hengeveld;
       invited speakers:
           o Johan van der Auwera (University of Antwerp)
           o David Gil (Max Planck Institute, Leipzig)
           o Helen de Hoop (Radboud University, Nijmegen)
           o Ed Keenan (UCLA, Los Angeles)

The Amsterdam Colloquia are oganized by the Institute for Logic, Language 
and Computation (ILLC) of the University of Amsterdam. The organizing 
committee of the Fifteenth Amsterdam Colloquium consists of Paul Dekker, 
Michael Franke, Jeroen Groenendijk, Robert van Rooij, Katrin Schulz, and 
Marjan Veldhuisen. email: P.J.E.Dekker@uva.nl