* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
LINGUIST List logo Eastern Michigan University Wayne State University *
* People & Organizations * Jobs * Calls & Conferences * Publications * Language Resources * Text & Computer Tools * Teaching & Learning * Mailing Lists * Search *
* *
LINGUIST List 23.2450

Wed May 23 2012

Calls: Semantics, Pragmatics, Philosophy of Language/Japan

Editor for this issue: Alison Zaharee <alisonlinguistlist.org>

LINGUIST is pleased to announce an exciting service: 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!
Date: 23-May-2012
From: Alastair Butler <ajb129hotmail.com>
Subject: Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics 9
E-mail this message to a friend

Full Title: Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics 9
Short Title: LENLS 9

Date: 01-Dec-2012 - 03-Dec-2012
Location: Miyazaki, Japan
Contact Person: Alastair Butler
Meeting Email: < click here to access email >
Web Site: http://www.is.ocha.ac.jp/~bekki/lenls/

Linguistic Field(s): Philosophy of Language; Pragmatics; Semantics

Call Deadline: 01-Sep-2012

Meeting Description:

Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics 9
Workshop Site: 'Amusement Zone Miyazaki (The JA-AZM Hall)'
Kirishima 1-1-1, Miyazaki, Japan
http://www.jaazm.jp/access/english.html
Dates: December 1-3, 2012
Contact Person: Alastair Butler (PRESTO JST/Tohoku University)
Contact Email: lenls9easychair.org
Website: http://www.is.ocha.ac.jp/~bekki/lenls/

Chair: Alastair Butler (PRESTO JST/Tohoku University)
Co-chair: Daisuke Bekki (Ochanomizu University), Eric McCready (Aoyama Gakuin University)

Invited speaker(s): Hans Kamp (University of Stuttgart)

LENLS is an annual international workshop focusing on formal semantics and pragmatics. It will be held as one of the workshops of the third JSAI International Symposia on AI (isAI2012) (http://www.ai-gakkai.or.jp/jsai-isai/2012/) sponsored by the Japan Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI) (http://www.ai-gakkai.or.jp/jsai/english.html).

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
- Formal Philosophy of language
- Formal pragmatics (especially game-theoretic and utility-theoretic approaches)
- Substructural expansion of Lambek Lambda Calculi
- Many-valued/Fuzzy and other non-classical logics and natural language

Submissions:

Abstracts (up to 4 pages, including figures, bibliography, appendices) must be submitted electronically in PDF format at:

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lenls9

When his/her 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.

Important Dates:

Abstract submission deadline: September 1, 2012
Notification of acceptance: October 10, 2012
Deadline for camera-ready copy: October 31, 2012
Deadline for onsite registration: November 24, 2012
LENLS 9: December 1-2, 2012
Tutorial Lecture (by Hans Kamp): December 3, 2012

Workshop Organizers/Program Committee:

Alastair Butler (PRESTO JST/Tohoku University)
Daisuke Bekki (Ochanomizu University)
Eric McCready (Aoyama Gakuin University)
Koji Mineshima (Keio 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 (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology)
Kei Yoshimoto (Tohoku University)


Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue



Page Updated: 23-May-2012
Supported in part by the National Science Foundation       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       ILIT Logo
While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.