[logic-ml] Call for Participation: LENLS9 (Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics 9)
BEKKI Daisuke
bekki.daisuke at 00.alumni.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Mon Nov 12 10:44:13 JST 2012
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今年の１１〜１２月に宮崎で開催される LENLS 9 国際ワークショップの
プログラムをお送り致します。皆様のご参加をお待ちしております。
戸次大介（お茶の水女子大学／国立情報学研究所）
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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
Logic and Engineering of
Natural Language Semantics 9 (LENLS 9)
Workshop Site : "Amusement Zone Miyazaki (The JA-AZM Hall)"
Kirishima 1-1-1, Miyazaki, Japan.
http://www.jaazm.jp/access/english.html
Dates : November 30 - December 2, 2012
Contact Person: Alastair Butler (PRESTO JST/Tohoku University)
Contact Email : lenls9[[at]]easychair.org
Website : http://www.is.ocha.ac.jp/‾bekki/lenls/
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Chair: Alastair Butler (PRESTO JST/Tohoku University)
Co-chair: Daisuke Bekki (Ochanomizu University
/National Institute of Informatics)
Eric McCready (Aoyama Gakuin University)
Invited Speaker(s):
- Hans Kamp (University of Stuttgart)
- Kazuhiko Fukushima (Kansai Gaidai University)
LENLS is an annual international workshop on formal syntax,
semantics and pragmatics, focusing on the following topics.
It will be held as one of the workshops of
the forth 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).
- 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
Selected Papers:
================
We also plan to publish a selection of the accepted/invited papers
as a portion of a volume "JSAI-isAI selected papers", which will
be published from `Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence' series
(Springer Verlag).
Important dates:
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Deadline for onsite registration: November 24, 2012
LENLS 9: November 30-December 01, 2012
Tutorial Lecture (by Hans Kamp): December 02, 2012
Registration:
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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 2012.
http://www.ai-gakkai.or.jp/jsai-isai/2012/index.html#registration
Program:
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November 30th (Fri), 2012
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09:00-10:00:Reception and Coffee Break
10:00-10:10:Opening Remarks
10:10-11:40:Session 1
* Aleksandra Kislak-Malinowska and Claudia Casadio
"Tupled Pregroups: A Study of Italian Clitic Patterns"
* Kata Balogh
"Hungarian pre-verbal focus and exhaustivity"
* Chungmin Lee
"Psych Predicates, the First Person, and Evidentiality "
11:40-13:30:Lunch
13:30-15:00:Session 2
* Liesbeth Martens and Giuseppe Primiero
"A Formal Approach to Vague Indexicals"
* Sai Qian and Maxime Amblard
"Accessibility for Plurals in Continuation Semantics"
* Takuya Matsuzaki
"Toward Wide-Coverage Natural Language Mathematical Problem
Solving"
15:00-15:30:Coffee break
15:30-17:00:Session 3
* Pascal Amsili, Emilia Ellsiepen and Gr'egoire Winterstein
"Parameters on the obligatoriness of `too'"
* Eric Mccready and Nicholas Asher
"Winning Strategies in Politeness"
* Daisuke Bekki and Nicholas Asher
"Subtyping for Logical Polysemy and Copredication"
17:00-17:30:Coffee break
17:30-18:30:Invited Talk 1
* Hans Kamp
"Speaking about the Present and Temporal Perspective Shift"
Alternates
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* Satoru Suzuki
"Measurement-Theoretic Foundations of Multidimensional-
Predicate-Comparison Logic"
December 01st (Sat), 2012
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09:30-10:30:Reception and Coffee break
10:30-11:30:Session 4
* Richard Zuber
"Reciprocals as higher order functions"
* Decock Lieven, Richard Dietz and Douven Igor
"Modelling Comparative Concepts in Conceptual Spaces"
11:30-13:30:Lunch
13:30-15:00:Session 5
* Hanti Lin
"When `Or' Meets `Might': A Compositional Assertability
Semantics for Classical Logic and Epistemic Modals"
* Kohei Kishida
"Public Announcements under Sheaves"
* Shunsuke Yatabe
"Yablo's paradox, a coinductive language and its semantics"
15:00-15:30:Coffee break
15:30-17:00:Session 6
* David Yoshikazu Oshima
"On the functions of the Japanese discourse particle `ne': A
study with special reference to intonation"
* J.-R. Hayashishita and Daisuke Bekki
"On the semantic relation between noun phrases and quantity
expressions in Japanese"
* Alastair Butler, Ruriko Otomo, Zhen Zhou and Kei Yoshimoto
"Treebank annotation for formal semantics research"
17:00-17:30:Coffee break
17:30-18:30:Invited Talk 2
* Kazuhiko Fukushima
"Negation with a Bound Morpheme and Direct Compositionality"
Tutorial Lecture:
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On December 2nd (Sun), there will also be a tutorial lecture at
the workshop venue.
Lecturer: Hans Kamp (University of Stuttgart)
Venue: Amusement Zone Miyazaki (The JA-AZM Hall)
(Kirishima 1-1-1, Miyazaki, Japan)
Time Table:
10:00-12:00 Session 1
12:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-16:00 Session 2
Title: Referring in Verbal Communication: The role and function of
names and other noun phrases as referential devices
Abstract
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The point of saying something is (normally) to communicate a
message to someone else. So we try to choose our words in such a
way that those we address will be able to decode the message we
want them to get. Part of this is that the words we choose must
enable our addressees to determine who or what we are talking
about. Languages have a repertoire of expressions that serve this
`referring' function, most prominently nominal phrases. For
instance, English has names, definite descriptions, pronouns and
demonstratives. This means that when an English speaker wants to
refer to someone or something, she has a choice between phrases of
these different kinds. And her choice will be guided by which
phrase will enable her addressees to identify the referent she
intends.
But the different types of referring phrases come with different `
decoding rules', which the recipient must apply in order to
identify the referent. But whether an addressee will succeed in
identifying the referent when he applies these rules, will usually
depend on what information he already has and that he can apply
the rules to. Therefore, when choosing a phrase to refer to a
given person or thing, a speaker will be guided by what she
assumes is already known to her audience.
A proper understanding of how different referring phrases function
can only be gained by paying close attention to the communication-
theoretic aspects of referring: We must study the interpretation
and production of referring phrases in tandem, as part of a
formally precise general theory of verbal communication which
describes how thoughts are verbally encoded by the speaker and
then decoded by the recipients of her utterance. I will outline
such a general framework for the study of verbal communication,
and we will use that framework to look into the conditions for
successful use of different types of referring phrases, focussing
in particular on proper names.
A crucial component of the general framework is the representation
of complex mental states, composed out of propositional attitudes
and entity representations. It is parts of such states that
speakers convert into words when they produce an utterance and it
is also parts of such states that help interpreters to turn those
utterances back into mental representations (which they then
incorporate into their mental states). The basis for this
component is Discourse Representation Theory (DRT), and, more
specifically, the DRT-based theory of propositional attitudes
sketched in the last part of (Kamp, Van Genabith and Reyle, 2011).
H. Kamp, J. Van Genabith and U. Reyle, `An Updated Survey of DRT'.
In: D. Gabbay (ed.) Handbook of Philosophical Logic, Volume 15,
125-394, Elsevier, 2011
Workshop Organizers/Program Committee:
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- Alastair Butler (PRESTO JST/Tohoku University)
- Daisuke Bekki (Ochanomizu University
/National Institute of Informatics)
- 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)
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