LINGUIST List 19.259

Mon Jan 21 2008

Calls: Computational Ling/Germany; Pragmatics,Semantics/Russia

Editor for this issue: Ania Kubisz <anialinguistlist.org>

        1.    Joergen Villadsen, ESSLLI 2008 WS: Constraints and Language Processing
         2.    Igor Yanovich, Formal Semantics in Moscow 4
Message 1: ESSLLI 2008 WS: Constraints and Language Processing
Date: 20-Jan-2008
From: Joergen Villadsen <jvimm.dtu.dk>
Subject: ESSLLI 2008 WS: Constraints and Language Processing
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Full Title: ESSLLI 2008 WS: Constraints and Language Processing Short Title: CSLP2008

Date: 11-Aug-2008 - 15-Aug-2008 Location: Hamburg, Germany Contact Person: Joergen Villadsen Meeting Email: jvimm.dtu.dk Web Site: http://control.ruc.dk/CSLP2008/

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics

Call Deadline: 08-Mar-2008

Meeting Description

The CSLP 2008 Workshop addresses the question of constraints and language processing from an interdisciplinary perspective. Constraints are widely used in linguistics, computer science, and psychology. How they are used, however, varies widely according to the research domain: natural language processing, knowledge representation, cognitive modelling, problem solving mechanisms, etc. The purpose is to pursue a paradigm, unifying the different approaches into a common framework capable of explaining how constraints play a role in representing, processing and acquiring linguistic information, and this from a formal, technical, and cognitive perspective.

Call for Papers

The topics include, but are not limited to, constraint-based linguistic theories, constraints in human language comprehension and production, context modelling and discourse interpretation, acquisition of constraints, probabilistic constraint-based reasoning, constraint satisfaction technologies and constraint logic programming.

Submission

Authors are invited to submit a full paper of up to 12 pages in PDF format. The font size must be at least 10 pt when printed on A4 paper. It is recommended that the LaTeX ''article'' style is used. Previously published papers cannot be accepted. The submissions will be reviewed by the program committee.

The accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings published by ESSLLI. One author for each accepted paper must attend the workshop in order to present the paper.

Proceedings are printed as a technical report (with ISSN no.) and made available online. Selected and extended papers will be included in a volume of Studies in Computational Intelligence published by Springer.

Please use the CSLP 2008 submission page handled by the EasyChair conference system.

Important Dates

Submission Deadline: March 8, 2008 Notification: April 21, 2008 Preliminary Program: April 24, 2008 ESSLLI Early Registration: May 1, 2008 Final Papers for Proceedings: May 17, 2008 Final Program: June 21, 2008 Workshop Dates: August 11-15, 2008

Invited Speakers

Helen de Hoop

Additional invited speaker to be confirmed

Program Committee

Philippe Blache (Provence University, France) Henning Christiansen (Roskilde University, Denmark), Co-Chair Veronica Dahl (Simon Fraser University, Canada) Denys Duchier (University of Orléans, France) John Gallagher (Roskilde University, Denmark) Claire Gardent (CNRS/LORIA, Nancy, France) Barbara Hemforth (Provence University, France) M. Dolores Jiménez-López (Tarragona, Spain) Lars Konieczny (Freiburg University, Germany) Shalom Lappin (King's College, UK) Detmar Meurers (Ohio State University, USA) Véronique Moriceau (LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay, France) Gerald Penn (University of Toronto, Canada) Kiril Simov (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria) Jørgen Villadsen (Technical University of Denmark), Co-Chair Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie (INRIA, France)

Organizers

Philippe Blache (Provence University, France) Henning Christiansen (Roskilde University, Denmark), Co-Chair Veronica Dahl (Simon Fraser University, Canada) Jørgen Villadsen (Technical University of Denmark), Co-Chair
Message 2: Formal Semantics in Moscow 4
Date: 20-Jan-2008
From: Igor Yanovich <Igor_Yabbyy.com>
Subject: Formal Semantics in Moscow 4
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Full Title: Formal Semantics in Moscow 4 Short Title: FSIM 4

Date: 05-Apr-2008 - 06-Apr-2008 Location: Moscow, Russia Contact Person: Igor Yanovich Meeting Email: fsim4.submissionsgmail.com with your abstract attached as a .pdf (preferably) or Microsoft Word file. If you use Word, please save your file in the .rtf format. In the body of the message please specify your name, affiliation, and the title of the paper. Notifications of acceptance will be sent by late February.

The annual FSiM workshop was originally started as a place for young researchers from the field of formal semantics and pragmatics to present their work in a lively and friendly setting. So while the workshop today is not restricted to only young and/or student researchers, papers by young researchers are especially welcome. There is no registration fee for the workshop. Crash space will be available upon request.

There are two satellite workshops in Moscow this April: FSIM 4 (April 5-6) and Syntactic Structures 2, to be held on April 3-4, a conference devoted to syntax of natural language, but not limited to a single paradigm, allowing to meet both people studying syntax from a more theoretical perspective and those taking a more typology-based and hands-on-data direction. One may find more information on Syntactic Structures 2 at http://syntactic-structures.ru

FSIM 4 Organizing Committee:

Igor Yanovich (Moscow State University, ABBYY Production) Anna Pazelskaya (ABBYY Production) Peter Arkadyev (Institute of Slavic Studies of Russian Academy of Sciences)

Barbara H. Partee (UMass Amherst) - Honorary Mentor of the Organizing Committee.