21-25 Sep 2009
Bakuriani, Georgia
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1-st Call for Papers
THE EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL TBILISI SYMPOSIUM
ON LANGUAGE, LOGIC AND COMPUTATION
21 -- 25 September 2009
Bakuriani, Georgia
Submission deadline: 1 May 2009
Website: http://www.illc.uva.nl/Tbilisi2009/
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The Eighth International Tbilisi Symposium on Language, Logic and
Computation will be held on 21 -- 25 September 2009 in Bakuriani,
Georgia. The symposium is organised by the Centre for Language,
Logic and Speech at Tbilisi State University and the Georgian Academy
of Sciences, in conjunction with the Institute for Logic, Language
and Computation (ILLC) at the University of Amsterdam.
The symposium will feature three invited tutorials as well as several
invited talks (the names of the speakers may be found on the symposium
website). Furthermore, up to 32 contributed papers can be accepted for
presentation. The program committee invites submissions of (two page)
abstracts on all aspects of language, logic and computation. Work of
an interdisciplinary nature is particularly welcome. Areas of interest
include, but are not limited to:
* Natural language syntax, semantics, and pragmatics
* Constructive, modal and algebraic logic
* Linguistic typology and semantic universals
* Logics for artificial intelligence
* Information retrieval, query answer systems
* Logic, games, and formal pragmatics
* Language evolution and learnability
* Computational social choice
* Historical linguistics, history of logic
The submission deadline is the 1-st of May 2009; notification is due
June 15. Accepted submissions will appear in the conference proceedings.
The proceedings of the Six and Seventh International Tbilisi Symposium
have been published in the LNAI series with Springer.
Details of the submission procedure are available at the submission page
of the symposium website. We can only accept contributions submitted
electronically through the form posted there.
Important dates.
Submission deadline: May 1, 2009
Notification of acceptance: June 15, 2009
Registration deadline: August 15, 2009
Symposium: September 21 -- 25, 2009
Program Committee.
* Barbara Partee and Tamaz Gamkrelidze (Chairs)
* R. Ramanujam and Themur Kutzia (Co-chairs computation)
* Peter Bosch and George Chikoidze (Co-chairs language)
* Mattias Baaz and Guram Bezhanishvili (Co-chairs logic)
Organization Committee.
* Rusiko Asatiani
* Paul Dekker
* David Gabelaia
Local Organizing Committee.
* Anna Chutkerashvili
* Marina Ivanishvili
* Nino Javashvili
* Liana Lortkipanidze
* Khimur Rukhaia