[logic-ml] LENLS11: Call for Participation and Registration

Thu Nov 6 12:15:13 JST 2014

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お茶の水女子大学の峯島と申します。
11月22日から24日にかけて東京で開催される国際ワークショップ
LENLS 11のご案内をお送り致します。

Online Registrationの締め切りが 11月10日(月曜) に迫っております。
Registrationの方法につきましては、以下のページをご覧ください。

https://www.ai-gakkai.or.jp/isai/registration

ワークショップの詳細につきましては、以下のページもご参照ください。

http://www.is.ocha.ac.jp/~bekki/lenls/

皆さまのご参加をお待ちしております。

峯島 宏次（お茶の水女子大学・JST CREST）

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           CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

                  Logic and Engineering of
             Natural Language Semantics 11 (LENLS11)

Dates : November 22-24, 2014
Workshop Site : (22nd) Ochanomizu University
                       Room 207-209, Science Building 3, Tokyo, Japan
                       http://www.ocha.ac.jp/en/index.html
                (23rd,24th) Raiousha Building, Keio University,
                       Hiyoshi campus, Kanagawa, Japan
                       http://www.keio.ac.jp/en/maps/hiyoshi.html
Contact Person: Koji Mineshima (Ochanomizu University)
Contact Email : lenls11[[at]]easychair.org
Website       : http://www.is.ocha.ac.jp/‾bekki/lenls/
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Chair:  Koji Mineshima (Ochanomizu University)
Co-chair: Daisuke Bekki (Ochanomizu University
                        /National Institute of Informatics/JST CREST)
               Eric McCready (Aoyama Gakuin University)

Invited Speakers:
- Chris Barkar (New York University)
- Kimiko Nakanishi (Ochanomizu University)
- Matthew Stone (Rutgers University)
- Christopher Tancredi (Keio University)

LENLS is an annual international workshop on formal syntax, 
semantics and pragmatics. It will be held as one of the workshops of 
the Sixth JSAI International Symposia on AI (isAI2014)
(http://www.ai-gakkai.or.jp/isai/)
sponsored by the Japan Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI)
(http://www.ai-gakkai.or.jp/en).

Important dates:
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Deadline for onsite registration: November 10, 2014
LENLS11: November 22-24, 2014

We will also hold a one-day workshop at Kyoto University on November 28, 2014,
with two invited speakers, Chris Barkar and Matthew Stone.
The detailed information will be announced on the website.
http://www.is.ocha.ac.jp/~bekki/lenls/

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 **10th November 2014**.

  https://www.ai-gakkai.or.jp/isai/registration

Program:
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1st Day: November 22th (Sat), 2014 @Ochanomizu University
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12:30-12:50: Reception
12:50-13:00: Opening Remarks
13:00-14:30: Session 1
    * Kristina Liefke
      "Codability and Robustness in Formal Natural Language Semantics"
    * Alain Lecomte
      "An interaction framework for dialogue: combining Ludics and Type Theory with Records"
    * Yurie Hara
      "Radical Inquisitive Investigation into Cantonese Biased and Neutral Questions"

14:30-14:45: Coffee Break
14:45-16:15: Session 2
    * Stergios Chatzikyriakidis and Zhaohui Luo
      "Using Signatures in Type Theory to Represent Situations"
    * Ribeka Tanaka, Koji Mineshima and Daisuke Bekki
      "Resolving Modal Anaphora in Dependent Type Semantics"
    * Krystian Jobczyk
      "Temporal verbs and adverbs: 'often' and 'many times' and their fuzzy-integral-logic based modelling"

16:15-16:30: Coffee Break
16:30-17:30: Invited Talk 1
    * Kimiko Nakanishi
      "Scalarity of EVEN"

2nd Day: November 23th (Sun), 2014 @Keio University, Hiyoshi campus
-------------------------
9:00-9:30: Registration and Coffee Break
9:30-10:30: Invited Talk 2
    * Mizoguchi Riichiro
      "Ontology engineering - Theory and practice -"
       (from the JURISIN workshop)

10:30-10:45: Coffee Break  
10:45-12:00: Student Session
    * Daniel Tiskin
      "Specific Opaque Readings and Proportional Determiners"
    * Makiko Kato
      "Japanese plural marker 'tachi' and associativity"
    * Yu-Mi Jo
      "Temporal Pluractional Adverbs in Korean: Focusing on Tatali, Nanali, and Halwuhalwu"

12:00-13:00: Lunch
13:00-14:30: Session 3
    * Daisuke Bekki and Eric McCready
      "CI via DTS"
    * Bruno Mery, Richard Moot and Christian Retore
      "Computing the Semantics of Massive Entities using Many-Sorted Types"
    * Oleg Kiselyov
      "Canonical Constituents and Non-canonical Coordination: Simple Categorial Grammar account"

14:30-14:45: Coffee Break
14:45-15:45: Session 4
    * Eric McCready
      "Honorific Denotations"
    * Philippe de Groote and Yoad Winter
      "A type-logical account of quantification in event semantics"

15:45-16:00: Coffee Break
16:00-17:00: Invited Talk 3
    * Matthew Stone
      "Logic and Probability in Grounded Semantics"
      (shared with the JURISIN workshop)     

17:00-17:15: Coffee Break
17:15-18:15: Invited Talk 4
    * Chris Tancredi
      "Focus and Givenness"

19:00-:Banquet

3rd Day: November 24th (Mon), 2014 @Keio University, Hiyoshi campus
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9:30-10:00: Coffee Break
10:00-11:30: Session 5
    * Lisa Bylinina, Natalia Ivlieva, Alexander Podobryaev and Yasutada Sudo
      "A Non-Superlative Semantics for Ordinals and the Syntax of Comparison Classes"
    * Laurent Prevot and Jan Gorisch
      "Crossing Empirical and Formal approaches for studying French feedback items"
    * Alastair Butler and Kei Yoshimoto
      "Semantic Visualisation with Flame Graphs"

11:30-13:00: Lunch
13:00-14:30: Session 6
    * Lasha Abzianidze
      "Towards a Wide-coverage Tableau Method for Natural Logic"
    * Elena Castroviejo and Berit Gehrke
      "A good intensifier"
    * Shinya Okano and Yoshiki Mori
      "On CG management of Japanese weak necessity modal 'hazu'"

14:30-14:45: Coffee Break
14:45-16:15: Session 7
    * Satoru Suzuki
      "Measurement-Theoretic Foundations of Observational-Predicate Logic"
    * Yasuo Nakayama
      "Formal Analysis of Epistemic Modalities and Conditionals based on Logic of Belief Structures"
    * Zhiguo Xie
      "An epistemic modal for strict comparison in Mandarin Chinese"

16:15-16:30: Coffee Break
16:30-17:30: Invited Talk 5
    * Chris Barkar
      "The Logic of Scope"

Alternates
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    * Osamu Sawada
      "Polarity sensitivity and update refusal: the case of the Japanese negative 'totemo'"
    * Richard Zuber
      "On the logical reducibility of reflexives"

Post Proceedings
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Selected papers will be published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI).

Sponsor:
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LENLS is being organized by an alliance of "Establishment of Knowledge-Intensive Structural Natural Language Processing and Construction of Knowledge Infrastructure"
(http://nlp.ist.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/CREST/?en) project, funded by JST CREST Programs "Advanced Core Technologies for Big Data Integration"
(http://www.jst.go.jp/kisoken/crest/en/research_area/ongoing/areah25-6.html).

Workshop Organizers/Program Committee:
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  - Koji Mineshima (Ochanomizu University)
  - Daisuke Bekki (Ochanomizu University/National Institute of Informatics)
  - Alastair Butler (Tohoku University)
  - Richard Dietz (University of Tokyo)
  - Eric McCready (Aoyama Gakuin 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 (Kyoto University)
  - Kei Yoshimoto (Tohoku University)