6-17 August 2012
Opole, Poland
24th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information
ESSLLI 2012
August 6-17, 2012
Opole, Poland
<http://www.esslli2012.pl/>http://www.esslli2012.pl
Call for Course and Workshop Proposals
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The European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI) is
organized every year by the Association for Logic, Language and Information
(FoLLI, <http://www.folli.org/>http://www.folli.org/) in different sites around
Europe. The main focus of
ESSLLI is on the interface between linguistics, logic and computer science.
ESSLLI offers foundational, introductory and advanced courses, as well as
workshops, covering a wide variety of topics within or around the three main
areas
of interest: Language and Computation, Language and Logic, and Logic and
Computation. Previous summer schools have been highly successful, attracting up
to 500 students from Europe and elsewhere. The school has developed into an
important meeting place and forum for discussion for students and researchers
interested in the interdisciplinary study of Logic, Language and Information.
For
more information, visit the FoLLI website, as well as the ESSLLI 2011 website:
<http://esslli2011.ijs.si/>http://esslli2011.ijs.si/.
CALL FOR COURSE AND WORKSHOP PROPOSALS
The ESSLLI 2012 Program Committee invites proposals for foundational,
introductory, and advanced courses, and for workshops for the 24th annual
Summer School on important topics of active research in the broad
interdisciplinary
area connecting logic, linguistics, computer science and the cognitive
sciences.
All proposals should be submitted via the EasyChair system, using a prescribed
form that is available on the ESSLLI 2012 website, no later than:
June 19, 2011 (extended)
Authors of proposals will be notified of the committee's decision by September
15,
2011.
GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION
Proposers of courses and workshops should follow the guidelines below
while preparing their submissions; proposals that do not conform with
these guidelines may not be considered.
Courses are taught by 1 or max. 2 lecturers, and workshops are organized
by 1 or max. 2 organizers. Lecturers and organizers must have obtained a
Ph.D. or an equivalent degree at the time of the submission deadline.
Courses and workshops run over one week (Monday-Friday) and consist of
five 90-minute sessions. Lecturers who want to offer a long, two-week
course should submit two independent one-week courses (for example, an
introductory course in the first week and an advance course in the
second). The ESSLLI program committee has the right to select only one of
the two proposed courses.
FOUNDATIONAL COURSES
These are strictly elementary courses not assuming any background
knowledge. They are intended for people who wish to get acquainted with
the problems and techniques of areas new to them. Ideally, they should
allow researchers from other fields to acquire the key competencies of
neighboring disciplines, thus encouraging the development of a truly
interdisciplinary research community. Foundational courses should have no
special prerequisites, but may presuppose some experience with scientific
methods and general appreciation of the field of the course.
INTRODUCTORY COURSES
Introductory courses are central to the activities of the Summer School.
They are intended to provide an introduction to the (interdisciplinary)
field for students, young researchers, and other non-specialists, and to
equip them with a good understanding of the field's basic methods and
techniques. Such courses should enable experienced researchers from other
fields to acquire the key competencies of neighboring disciplines, thus
encouraging the development of a truly interdisciplinary research
community. Introductory courses in a topic at the interface of two fields
can build on some knowledge of the component fields; e.g., an introductory
course in computational linguistics should address an audience which is
familiar with the basics of linguistics and computation. Proposals for
introductory courses should indicate the level of the course as compared
to standard texts in the area (if available).
ADVANCED COURSES
Advanced courses should be pitched at an audience of advanced Masters or
Ph.D. students. Proposals for advanced courses should specify the
prerequisites in detail.
TIMETABLE FOR COURSE PROPOSAL SUBMISSION:
Jun 15, 2011: Proposal Submission Deadline
Sep 15, 2011: Notification Deadline
Jun 1, 2012: Deadline for receipt of camera-ready course material by the ESSLLI
2012 local organizers
WORKSHOPS
The aim of the workshops is to provide a forum for advanced Ph.D. students
and other researchers to present and discuss their work. Workshops should
have a well-defined theme, and workshop organizers should be specialists
in the theme of the workshop. The proposals for workshops should justify
the choice of topic, give an estimate of the number of attendants and
expected submissions, and provide a list of at least 15 potential
submitters working in the field of the workshop. The organizers are
required to give a general introduction to the theme during the first
session of the workshop. They are also responsible for various
organizational matters, including soliciting submissions, reviewing,
drawing up the program, taking care of expenses of invited speakers, etc.
In particular, each workshop organizer will be responsible for sending out
a Call for Papers for the workshop and to organize the selection of the
submissions by the deadlines specified below. The call for workshop
submissions must make it clear that the workshop is open to all members of
the ESSLLI community and should indicate that all workshop contributors
must register for the Summer School.
TIMETABLE FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSAL SUBMISSIONS:
Jun 14, 2011: Proposal Submission Deadline
Sep 15, 2011: Notification Deadline
Oct 15, 2011: Deadline for submission of the Calls for Papers to ESSLLI 2012 PC
chair
Nov 1, 2011: Workshop organizers send out First Call for Papers
Dec 15, 2011: Workshop organizers send out Second Call for Papers
Jan 15, 2012: Workshop organizers send out Third Call for Papers
Feb 15, 2012: Deadline for submissions to the workshops
Apr 15, 2012: Suggested deadline for notification of workshop contributors
Jun 1, 2012: Deadline for submission of camera-ready copy of workshop
proceedings to the ESSLLI 2012 Local Organizers.
Workshop speakers will be required to register for the Summer School;
however, they will be able to register at a reduced rate to be determined
by the Local Organizers.
FORMAT FOR PROPOSALS
Forms for submitting course and workshop proposals are available on the
ESSLLI 2012 website.
The proposers are required to submit the following information:
* Contact address and fax number
* Name, email, affiliation, homepage of each lecturer / workshop organizer (at
most
two per course or workshop)
* Title of proposed course/workshop
* Abstract (abstract of the proposal, max 150 words)
* Type (workshop, foundational, introductory, or advanced course)
* Areas (one or more of: Computation, Language, Logic, or Other)
* Description (describe the proposed contents of the course and substantiate
timeliness and relevance to ESSLLI in at most one A4 page)
* Tentative outline of the course / expected participation in the workshop
* External funding (whether the proposers will be able to obtain external
funding for
travel and accommodation expenses)
* Further particulars (e.g., course prerequisites, previous teaching
experiences, etc.)
FINANCIAL ASPECTS
Prospective lecturers and workshop organizers should be aware that all
teaching and organizing at the summer schools is done on a voluntary basis
in order to keep the participants' fees as low as possible. Lecturers and
organizers are not paid for their contribution, but are reimbursed for
travel and accommodation expenses (up to fixed maximum amounts, which will
be communicated to the lecturers upon notification). Lecturers and
workshop organizers will have their registration fee waived. In case a
course or workshop is to be taught/organized by two people, a lump sum
will be reimbursed to cover travel and accommodation expenses for one of
them; the splitting of the sum is up to the lecturers/organizers. It
should be stressed that while proposals from all over the world are
welcome, the School cannot guarantee full reimbursement of travel costs,
especially if lecturers or organizers have to come from outside of Europe.
The local organizers would highly appreciate it if, whenever possible,
lecturers and workshop organizers find alternative funding to cover travel
and accommodation expenses, as that would help us keep the cost of
attending ESSLLI 2012 lower.
ESSLLI 2012 PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Chair: Andreas Herzig (Institut de recherche en informatique de Toulouse and
CNRS)
Local Co-chair: Anna Pietryga (Opole)
Area specialists:
Language and Computation:
Miriam Butt (Sprachwissenschaft, University of Konstanz)
Gosse Bouma (Groningen University)
Language and Logic:
Regine Eckardt (Language and Literature, University of Gttingen)
Rick Nouwen (UiL-OTS, Utrecht University)
Logic and Computation:
Natasha Alechina (CS, University of Nottingham)
Andreas Weiermann (Mathematics and Computation, Ghent University)
ESSLLI 2012 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Chair: Urszula Wybraniec-Skardowska and
Janusz Czelakowski (University of Opole)
ESSLLI 2012 website: <http://www.esslli2012.pl/>
EasyChair submission page:
<https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esslli2012>https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esslli2012