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kub.nl>+----------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | IWCS-4: CALL FOR POSTERS/SHORT PAPERS | | | | The deadline for submitting full papers has passed, but it | | is still possible to submit 3-page abstracts for a poster | | presentation combined with a very short, lightning-speed | | presentation of the essence of the work in a plenary session | | (see below). | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------+ Fourth International Workshop on COMPUTATIONAL SEMANTICS (IWCS-4) January 10-12, 2001 Tilburg, The Netherlands ------------- Sponsored by SIGSEM, the ACL Special Interest Group in Computational Semantics ------------- The Computational Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence Unit at Tilburg University will host the Fourth International Workshop on Computational Semantics (IWCS-4), that will take place from 10-12 January 2001. The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers interested in any aspects of the computation of meaning in natural language or in language-based multimedia objects. +------------------------+ | INVITED SPEAKERS: | | | | James Allen | | Jan van Eijck | | Alex Lascarides | | | +------------------------+ TOPICS OF INTEREST Topics of interest for the workshop will be computational aspects of formal semantic theories as well as theoretical issues in building natural language understanding systems, including systens where language is used in a multimedia setting. Papers are invited in areas which include, but are not limited to, the following topics: * working with underspecified representations of meaning * modelling and using context for interpretation * the relations between semantics and pragmatics * dynamic interpretation in text and dialogue * interpretation and games * computational lexical semantics * interpretation and inference * meaning in multimedia objects * interpretation and optimality * speech acts and interpretation * incrementality and monotonicity in interpretation * knowledge representation and reasoning in meaning computation SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS The deadline for submitting papers for full plenary presentation has passed, but it is still possible to submit 3-page abstracts for a poster presentation combined with a very short, lightning-speed presentation of the essence of the work in a plenary session. The 3-page abstracts of the accepted submissions will be published in the workshop proceedings. Authors are invited to submit an abstract of maximally 3 A4 pages before Monday 6 November by email to Computational.SemanticsMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
uni-konstanz.de>CHOICE FUNCTIONS AND NATURAL LANGUAGE SEMANTICS The workshop is part of European Summerschool in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLI) 2001 in Helsinki 13. - 24. August 2001 ORGANIZORS Klaus von Heusinger, University Konstanz Ruth Kempson, King's College, London Wilfried Meier-Viol, King's College, London DESCRIPTION Interest in the use of choice functions is increasing in formal semantics. Their syntactic counterpart, the epsilon operator, was introduced into meta-mathematics in the epsilon calculus of Hilbert and Bernays 1939, which provides an explicit study of arbitrary names used as predicate logic proof terms, the epsilon operator being a generalised iota operator underpinning uses of both existential and universal quantification. Choice functions provide a highly flexible semantic tool; yet as term-creating operators, epsilon terms exhibit properties that are discrete from more familiar quantifiers. With epsilon terms as part of the presumed logical vocabulary for NL semantics, a number of phenomena can be analysed from a new perspective: eg scope phenomena of definite, indefinite NPs and wh-expressions, E-type anaphora, and maximalisation effects in relative clauses. The goal of the workshop is to bring together linguists/logicians who have addressed these issues to explore applications of the epsilon calculus in NL syntax/semantics. ABSTRACT SUBMISSION Abstracts are invited for fortyfive-minute talks (thirty minutes for presentation plus fifteen minutes for discussion) Please submit: - an one-page abstract, Electronic submissions are encouraged; abstracts should be attached in plain text format or as Word files. DEADLINE All submissions must be received by November 1st, 2000. Send submissions to: Klaus von Heusinger FB Sprachwissenschaft Universitaet Konstanz Fach D 185 D-78457 Konstanz Germany Send abstracts by FAX to: +49 7531-88 -2741 or (preferably) by e-mail to: klaus.heusingerMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue