LINGUIST List 13.3122

Fri Nov 29 2002

Calls: Semantics&Modeling/EACL 2003

Editor for this issue: Karolina Owczarzak <karolinalinguistlist.org>

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1. mari, Semantics and Modeling, Paris France
2. Priscilla Rasmussen, EACL 2003, Budapest Hungary

Semantics and Modeling

Short Title: JSM
Location: Paris France
Date: 20-MAR-03 - 21-MAR-03

Call Deadline: 15-Dec-2002

Web Site: http://www.infres.enst.fr/jsmmeeting
Contact Person: Alda Mari
Meeting Email: jsm-meetingenst.fr
Linguistic Subfield(s): Semantics

	
Meeting Description: 
Journ�es Scientifiques 'S�mantique et Mod�lisation'
				
JOURNEES SCIENTIFIQUES SEMANTIQUE ET MODELISATION
DAYS OF SEMANTICS AND MODELING
Paris, March 20-21, 2003

Organized by the research group 2521 ''Semantics and modeling''
2001-2005 with ENST (Ecole Nationale Sup�rieure des
T�l�communications)

Since the eighties, the semantic research has been elaborating
theories and formalisms aimed to ensure the flexibility and empirical
coverage required for refined treatment of linguistic data, without,
however, sacrificing the methodological rigor which has placed
semantics among other scientific disciplines since its creation by
Frege and Montague. Innovative elements indicating this development
are the generalization of quantification models, the emergence of
dynamic theories and redefining the domains of semantics and
pragmatics.

As is shown by the recent creation of the research group 2521
''Semantics and modeling'', we're witnessing the emergence in France
of a new community centered around the so-called formal
semantics. From the point of view of this community, the descriptive
and analytical stage must be followed by a modeling stage, whose aim
is to check the predictions founded on observations and, more
formally, to penetrate the abstract mechanisms of meaning composition.
The Days of Semantics and Modeling are intended for researchers whose
work integrates formalizing and modeling stages. The main question to
be considered is the relation between modeling and theorizing in
semantics. Also examined will be studies that show the added value of
modeling for explanation and thus predictive power.

Empirical problems 

This conference is intended for work in progress in any domain of
formal semantics, including but not limited to: indexicality,
connectors, prepositions, polarity and free-choice items, definiteness
and indefiniteness, polysemy, wh-words, semantic typing, temporal and
aspectual marking mass and count nouns, semantics of information
formatting, and treatment of plurals.

Modeling

This conference is open to all existing approaches in the domain of
modeling, computational semantics, and work on large corpora. We also
invite work in models born of formal linguistic research (dynamic
semantics, discourse representation theories...), as well as those
developed in the framework of formal language theories (p-calculus,
processing theories (?),�-calculus...). Although based on formal
justification, these works must emphasize their interest for formal
semantics.

Invited speakers
Nicholas Asher (University of Texas at Austin) 
James Pustejovsky (Brandeis Unversity) 
Barry Schein (University of Southern California) 
Henk Verkuyl (Utrecht Unversity)

Organising committee
Alda Mari (CNRS - ENST) 
Francis Corblin (CNRS Univ. Paris IV) 

Scientific committee
Pascal Amsili (Univ. Paris VII) 
Nicholas Asher (Austin) 
Patrick Blackburn (INRIA) 
Olivier Bonami (Univ. de Rennes) 
Didier Bourigault (CNRS) 
Patrick Caudal (CNRS) 
Francis Corblin (CNRS, Paris IV) 
Dani�le Godard (CNRS) 
Jacques Jayez (ENS) 
Alda Mari (CNRS) 
Yannick Mathieu (CNRS) 
Ora Matushansky (CNRS) 
David Nicolas (CNRS) 
James Pustejovsky (Brandeis Unversity) 
Barry Schein (USC) 
Henk Verkuyl (Utrecht Unversity)
Lucia Tovena (CNRS) 


We invite proposals for 30-minute presentations consisting of a
1000-word abstract, in French or in English, following the guidelines
located on the website http://semantique.free.fr then Journ�es
Scientifiques, or on http://www.infres.enst.fr/jsmmeeting. In their
proposals, the authors must specify the linguistic problem under
consideration, empirical data and the model that they are developing
or using.

Languages of the Journ�es are French and English. 

Important dates
December 15, 2002 : abstract submission deadline 
January 31, 2003 : notification of acceptance 
February 28, 2003 : registration deadline			

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 EACL 2003

 10th Conference of the European Chapter
 of the Association for Computational Linguistics

 April 12-17, 2003

 Budapest, Hungary

 http://www.conferences.hu/EACL03/

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Last Call for Research Notes and Demos 


Important dates:
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 . Paper Registration deadline: 01 December 
 . Paper Submission deadline: 06 December


Important URLs:
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Main conference: http://www.conferences.hu/EACL03/
Research notes and Demos: http://tcc.itc.it/people/lavelli/eacl2003/