LINGUIST List 21.3215 Mon Aug 09 2010 Calls: Pragmatics, Semantics/Japan Editor for this issue: Di Wdzenczny <dilinguistlist.org> LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Directory         1.    Eric McCready, Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics 7 Message 1: Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics 7 Date: 09-Aug-2010 From: Eric McCready <mccreadycl.aoyama.ac.jp> Subject: Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics 7 E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics 7 Short Title: LENLS7 Date: 18-Nov-2010 - 19-Nov-2010 Location: Tokyo, Japan Contact Person: Eric McCready Meeting Email: mccreadycl.aoyama.ac.jp Web Site: http://www.is.ocha.ac.jp/~bekki/lenls/ Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics; Semantics Call Deadline: 15-Aug-2010 Meeting Description: Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics 7 (LENLS7) Workshop Site: Campus Innovation Center Tokyo, Minato-ku, Tokyo Dates: November 18-19, 2010 Workshop URL: http://www.is.ocha.ac.jp/~bekki/lenls/ Chair: Eric McCready (Aoyama Gakuin University) Invited Speakers: Alexandru Baltag (Oxford) Shunsuke Yatabe (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)) LENLS is an annual international workshop focusing on formal semantics and pragmatics. It will be held as one of workshops of JSAI isAI 2010, sponsored by JSAI. Final Call For Papers We invite submissions to this year's workshop on topics in formal semantics and pragmatics, and related fields, including but in no way limited to the following: - Dynamic syntax/semantics/pragmatics of natural language - Categorical/topological/coalgebraic approaches for natural language syntax/semantics/pragmatics - Logic and its relation to natural language and linguistic reasoning (especially dynamic logics) - Type-theoretic approaches to natural language - Philosophy of language - Formal pragmatics (especially game- and utility-theoretic approaches) - Substructural expansion of Lambek Lambda Calculi - Many-valued/Fuzzy and other non-classical logics and natural language This year we especially welcome submissions related to the 'Formal Structures of Salience'. Salience is a concept with broad application in linguistics and philosophy; in recent years, it has played a role in the analysis of phenomena including focus, particles, and anaphora resolution within linguistics, and in philosophy it has been used in analyses of various kinds of context dependency (e.g. domain restriction and vagueness), as well as in the analysis of convention. However, in many cases, the concept of salience is left as a primitive. Submissions discussing foundational issues in the understanding of salience would be welcomed. We especially hope for contributions with a formal orientation. On the 20th, there will also be a special tutorial lecture at Ochanomizu University by Professor Baltag. Submissions: Abstracts should be between 2 and 4 pages in length and in pdf format. Submissions should be sent to: lenls7submissiongmail.com The proceedings of the workshop will be available at the conference site for registered persons. We also plan to publish a selection of the accepted papers as a portion of a volume in the 'Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence' series (Springer Verlag). Important dates: Abstract submission deadline: August 15, 2010 Notification of acceptance: September 15, 2010 Deadline for camera-ready copy: October 15, 2010 LENLS7: November 18-19, 2010 Tutorial lecture: November 20, 2010 Organizing Committee: Eric McCready (Chair) Daisuke Bekki Yoshiki Mori Yasuo Nakayama Katsuhiko Yabushita Tomoyuki Yamada Kei Yoshimoto Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 09-Aug-2010       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.