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Directory         1.     Alastair Butler , Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics 8 Message 1: Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics 8 Date: 18-Nov-2011 From: Alastair Butler <ajb129hotmail.com> Subject: Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics 8 E-mail this message to a friend Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics 8 Short Title: LENLS8 Date: 01-Dec-2011 - 02-Dec-2011 Location: Takamatsu, Japan Contact: Alastair Butler Contact Email: < click here to access email > Meeting URL: http://www.is.ocha.ac.jp/~bekki/lenls Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics; Semantics Meeting Description: Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics 8 (LENLS8) Workshop Site: Sunport Hall Takamatsu, Takamatsu Dates: December 1-2, 2011 Contact Person: Alastair Butler Contact Email: lenls8easychair.org Workshop URL: http://www.is.ocha.ac.jp/~bekki/lenls/ LENLS is an annual international workshop focusing on formal semantics and pragmatics. It will be held as one of the workshops of JSAI isAI 2011, sponsored by The Japan Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI). On 3 December there will also be special tutorial lectures at the workshop venue by Frank Veltman (University of Amsterdam) and Eric McCready (Aoyama Gakuin University). Tutorial Lectures: Lecturer: - Frank Veltman (University of Amsterdam) - Eric McCready (Aoyama Gakuin University) Location: ‘Sunport Hall Takamatsu’ Takamatsu 2-1, Sunport, Takamatsu-shi, Kagawa-ken, Japan Time Table (Tentative): 10:00-12:00 Session 1 12:00-13:30 Lunch 13:30-17:30 Session 2 Chair: Alastair Butler (JST/Tohoku University) Invited Speakers: Frank Veltman (University of Amsterdam) Kentaro Inui (Tohoku University) Organizing Committee: Alastair Butler (Chair) Daisuke Bekki Eric McCready Yoshiki Mori Yasuo Nakayama Katsuhiko Yabushita Tomoyuki Yamada Shunsuke Yatabe Kei Yoshimoto Information on Takamatsu: http://www.takamatsu.or.jp/eng/ http://www.city.takamatsu.kagawa.jp/english/access/ http://www.my-kagawa.jp/eg/ Call for Participation: Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics 8 (LENLS8) Workshop Site: ''Sunport Hall Takamatsu'', Takamatsu 2-1, Sunport, Takamatsu-shi, Kagawa-ken, Japan Information/Registration： 5th Floor Conference Rooms:5th and 6th Floor Dates: December 1-3, 2011 Contact Person: Alastair Butler Contact Email: lenls8easychair.org Website: http://www.is.ocha.ac.jp/~bekki/lenls/ Chair: Alastair Butler (JST/Tohoku University) Invited Speaker(s): Frank Veltman (University of Amsterdam) Kentaro Inui (Tohoku University) Information on Takamatsu: http://www.takamatsu.or.jp/eng/ http://www.city.takamatsu.kagawa.jp/english/access/ http://www.my-kagawa.jp/eg/ LENLS is an annual international workshop focusing on formal semantics and pragmatics. It will be held as one of the workshops of JSAI isAI 2011, sponsored by The Japan Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI). Registration: The proceedings of the workshop will be available at the conference site for registered persons. Please follow the link below and register yourself until 24th November 2011. http://www.ai-gakkai.or.jp/jsai-isai/2011/index.html#registration Program: December 1st (Thu), 2011 09:00-10:00: Reception 10:00-10:10: Opening Remarks 10:10-11:40: Session 1 Yoshiki Mori 'Back To the Future, Back From the Future - To and Fro For the Counterfactual Future In the Past -' Yurie Hara, Yuli Feng and Shigeto Kawahara 'Emphatic Stress as Epistemic Conflict: A case study of Mandarin Chinese' Chungmin Lee 'Dynamic Perspective Shifts in Evidentials: Evidence from Korean' 11:40-13:00: Lunch 13:00-15:00: Session 2 Mauricio Hernandes 'Players who don't know how to play. An Haskell implementation of unawareness.' Oleg Prosorov 'A Sheaf-Theoretic Framework for Dynamic Semantics' Margot Colinet and Gre'goire Winterstein 'Linking probabilistic accounts: polarity items and discourse markers' Hiroko Ozaki and Daisuke Bekki 'Extractability as Deduction Theorem in Subdirectional Combinatory Logic' 15:00-15:30: Coffee break 15:30-16:30: Session 3 Gre'goire Winterstein 'Ludics and Presupposition Projection' Nicholas Asher and Jason Quinley 'Begging Questions, Getting Answers and Basic Cooperativity' 16:30-17:30: Invited Talk 1 Frank Veltman (University of Amsterdam) '(TBA)' December 2nd (Fri), 2011 08:30-09:00: Reception 09:00-10:30: Session 4 Yo Sato and Wai Lok Tam 'Underspecified types and the semantic bootstrapping of common nouns and adjectives: a simulation with a robot's sensory data '' David Yoshikazu Oshima 'The Japanese particle yo in declaratives: Relevance, priority, and blaming'' Katsuhiko Yabushita 'Japanese NPI Dare-mo as Unrestricted Universal Quantifier' 10:30-11:00: Coffee break 11:00-12:00: Session 5 J.-R. Hayashishita and Daisuke Bekki 'Conjoined nominal expressions in Japanese: Interpretation through monad' Christina Unger 'Dynamic semantics as monadic computation' 12:00-13:30: Lunch 13:30-15:00: Session 6 Satoru Suzuki 'Measurement-Theoretic Foundations of Gradable-Predicate Logic' Tzu-Keng Fu 'Universal Logic and the Logical Many-valuedness' Alastar Butler and Kei Yoshimoto 'Towards a self-selective and self-healing evaluation' 15:00-15:30: Coffee break 15:30-16:30: Invited Talk 2 Kentaro Inui (Tohoku University) 'Toward Deep Processing of Language in the Era of Large-scale Knowledge Resources: Time for Formal Semantics to Meet NLP Again'' Alternates: Eric Mccready 'Trust in Evidential Testimony' December 3rd (Sat), 2011 On the 3rd December, there will also be special tutorial lectures at the workshop venue by Frank Veltman (University of Amsterdam) and Eric McCready (Aoyama Gakuin University). Lecturer: - Frank Veltman (University of Amsterdam) - Eric McCready (Aoyama Gakuin University) Location: 'Sunport Hall Takamatsu', Takamatsu 2-1, Sunport, Takamatsu-shi, Kagawa-ken, Japan Time Table: 10:00-12:00 Session 1: Tutorial Lecture by Eric McCready Title: Theories of Evidentiality Abstract: Evidentiality has been an increasingly popular research area in formal semantics and pragmatics. In this talk, I introduce several influential recent theories of evidentials and (some of) the phenomena that they have been used to analyze. I also discuss the suitability of theories of evidence found in the epistemological and philosophy of science literature for the foundations of the theory of evidentiality and indicate what I take to be the characteristics required for such a theory. 12:00-13:30 Lunch 13:30-17:30 Session 2: Tutorial Lecture by Frank Veltman Title: ''Or else, what?'' Abstract: In this talk I will present the theory of imperatives that I have developed in the past five years and apply it to a number of problems involving disjunction. In particular I will use it to analyse pseudo- imperatives and a variant of the Miners Paradox. Organizing Committee: Alastair Butler (Chair) Daisuke Bekki Eric McCready Yoshiki Mori Yasuo Nakayama Katsuhiko Yabushita Tomoyuki Yamada Shunsuke Yatabe Kei Yoshimoto Contact: lenls8 [[at]] easychair.org Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 19-Nov-2011       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.