22-24 Nov 2014
Kanagawa, Japan
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FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
Logic and Engineering of
Natural Language Semantics 11 (LENLS 11)
Workshop Site : "Raiousha Building, Keio University"
Kanagawa, Japan.
http://www.keio.ac.jp/en/maps/hiyoshi.html
Dates : November 22-24, 2014
Contact Person: Koji Mineshima (Ochanomizu University)
Contact Email : lenls11[[at]]easychair.org
Website : http://www.is.ocha.ac.jp/~bekki/lenls/
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Chair: Koji Mineshima (Ochanomizu University)
Co-chair: Daisuke Bekki (Ochanomizu University/National Institute of Informatics)
Eric McCready (Aoyama Gakuin University)
Invited Speaker(s):
- Chris Barker (New York University)
- Kimiko Nakanishi (Ochanomizu University)
- Christopher Tancredi (Keio University)
- Matthew Stone (Rutgers University) (To be confirmed)
LENLS is an annual international workshop on formal syntax,
semantics and pragmatics. It will be held as one of the workshops of
the Sixth JSAI International Symposia on AI (isAI2014)
(http://www.ai-gakkai.or.jp/isai/)
sponsored by the Japan Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI)
(http://www.ai-gakkai.or.jp/en).
Aims and Topics:
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We invite submissions to this year's workshop on topics in formal
syntax, semantics and pragmatics, and related fields, including but in no way
limited to the following:
- Formal syntax of natural language
- Formal semantics and pragmatics of natural language
- Model-theoretic and/or proof-theoretic semantics of natural language
- Computational Semantics
- Continuations in natural language
- Game-theoretic/Bayesian approaches to pragmatics
- Nonclassical Logic and its relation to natural language (especially Substructural/Fuzzy/Categorical/Topological logics)
- (Formal) Philosophy of language
- Scientific methodology and/or experimental design for linguistics
Submissions:
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Abstracts (up to 4 pages, including figures and references, A4 or
letter size, with 12 point font) must be submitted electronically
in PDF format at:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lenls11
When the 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.
This year we are planning to hold a student session. The details will be
announced later.
Important dates:
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Abstract submission deadline: August 15, 2014
Notification of acceptance: September 30, 2014
LENLS11: November 22-24, 2014
Sponsor:
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LENLS is being organized by an alliance of "Establishment of
Knowledge-Intensive Structural Natural Language Processing and
Construction of Knowledge Infrastructure"
(http://www.extreme-bigdata.jp/workshop/jebdp-1/speakers.html#SadaoKurohashi)
project, funded by JST CREST Programs "Advanced Core Technologies for Big
Data Integration"
(http://www.jst.go.jp/kisoken/crest/en/research_area/ongoing/areah25-6.html).
Workshop Organizers/Program Committee:
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- Koji Mineshima (Ochanomizu University)
- Daisuke Bekki (Ochanomizu University/National Institute of Informatics)
- Alastair Butler (PRESTO JST/Tohoku University)
- Richard Dietz (University of Tokyo)
- Eric McCready (Aoyama Gakuin 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 (West Japan Railway Company)
- Kei Yoshimoto (Tohoku University)