1-3 Dec 2012
Miyazaki, Japan
SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS LOGIC AND ENGINEERING OF NATURAL LANGUAGE SEMANTICS 9 (LENLS 9) Workshop Site : "Amusement Zone Miyazaki (The JA-AZM Hall)" Kirishima 1-1-1, Miyazaki, Japan. http://www.jaazm.jp/access/english.html [http://www.jaazm.jp/access/english.html] Dates : December 1-3, 2012 Contact Person: Alastair Butler (PRESTO JST/Tohoku University) Contact Email : lenls9[[at]]easychair.org [mailto:lenls9@easychair.org] Website : http://www.is.ocha.ac.jp/~bekki/lenls/ [http://www.is.ocha.ac.jp/~bekki/lenls/] ================================================================= Chair: Alastair Butler (PRESTO JST/Tohoku University) Co-chair: Daisuke Bekki (Ochanomizu University/ National Institute of Informatics) Eric McCready (Aoyama Gakuin University) Invited Speaker(s): - Hans Kamp (University of Stuttgart) CALL FOR PAPERS: LENLS is an annual international workshop focusing on formal semantics and pragmatics. It will be held as one of the workshops of the third JSAI International Symposia on AI (isAI2012) ( http://www.ai-gakkai.or.jp/jsai-isai/2012/ [http://www.ai-gakkai.or.jp/jsai-isai/2012/] ) sponsored by the Japan Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI) ( http://www.ai-gakkai.or.jp/jsai/english.html [http://www.ai-gakkai.or.jp/jsai/english.html] ). We invite submissions to this year's workshop on topics in formal semantics and pragmatics, and related fields, including but in no way limited to the following: * Dynamic syntax/semantics/pragmatics of natural language * Categorical/topological/coalgebraic approaches for natural language syntax/semantics/pragmatics * Logic and its relation to natural language and linguistic reasoning (especially dynamic logics) * Type-theoretic approaches to natural language * Formal Philosophy of language * Formal pragmatics (especially game-theoretic and utility-theoretic approaches) * Substructural expansion of Lambek Lambda Calculi * Many-valued/Fuzzy and other non-classical logics and natural language SUBMISSIONS: Abstracts (up to 4 pages, including figures, bibliography, apendices) must be submitted electronically in PDF format at: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lenls9 [https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lenls9] When his/her abstract is accepted, the author is expected to submit a full paper (10-14 pages) before the workshop. The proceedings of the workshop will be available at the conference site for registered persons. IMPORTANT DATES: Abstract submission deadline: SEPTEMBER 1, 2012 Notification of acceptance: October 10, 2012 Deadline for camera-ready copy: October 31, 2012 Deadline for onsite registration: November 24, 2012 LENLS9: December 01-02, 2012 Tutorial Lecture (by Hans Kamp): December 03, 2012 WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS/PROGRAM COMMITTEE: - Alastair Butler (PRESTO JST/Tohoku University) - Daisuke Bekki (Ochanomizu University/National Institute of Informatics) - Eric McCready (Aoyama Gakuin University) - Koji Mineshima (Keio University) - Yoshiki Mori (University of Tokyo) - Yasuo Nakayama (Osaka University) - Katsuhiko Sano (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) - Katsuhiko Yabushita (Naruto University of Education) - Tomoyuki Yamada (Hokkaido University) - Shunsuke Yatabe (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology) - Kei Yoshimoto (Tohoku University)