[logic-ml] CFP: LENLS12 (Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics 12)

[Koji Mineshima]

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今年の１１月に東京で開催される LENLS 12 国際ワークショップの
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峯島 宏次（お茶の水女子大学）


[Apologies for multiple copies]
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          SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS

                 Logic and Engineering of
            Natural Language Semantics 12 (LENLS 12)

Workshop Site : (15th) Ochanomizu University
               Room 207-209, Science Building 3, Tokyo, Japan
               (The bldg. #20 in the "campus map" in the following webpage)
               http://www.ocha.ac.jp/en/access/index.html

               (16th,17th) Raiousha Building, Keio University
               Kanagawa, Japan
               http://www.keio.ac.jp/en/maps/hiyoshi.html
Dates         : November 15-17, 2015
Contact Person: Eric McCready (Aoyama Gakuin University)
Contact Email : lenls12[[at]]easychair.org
Website       : http://www.is.ocha.ac.jp/~bekki/lenls/
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Chair:  Eric McCready (Aoyama Gakuin University)
Co-chair: Daisuke Bekki (Ochanomizu University/National Institute of Informatics/JST CREST)
         Koji Mineshima (Ochanomizu University/JST CREST)

Invited Speakers:
- Nicholas Asher (CNRS, Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse/Universit'e Paul Sabatier)
- Stefan Kaufmann (University of Connecticut)
- Magdalena Kaufmann (University of Connecticut)
- Robert Henderson (University of Arizona)
- Tomohiro Sakai (Waseda University)

LENLS is an annual international workshop on formal syntax,
semantics and pragmatics. It will be held as one of the workshops of
the 7th JSAI International Symposia on AI (isAI2015)
(https://www.ai-gakkai.or.jp/isai/)
sponsored by the Japan Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI)
(http://www.ai-gakkai.or.jp/en).

The first day of LENLS will include a half-day workshop on
politeness and honorification with talks by Nicholas Asher,
Daisuke Bekki and Eric McCready. These talks will consider the
lexical semantics of honorifics, syntactic and semantic aspects of
composition with honorifics, and strategic aspects of politeness
and formality. The workshop is open to the public and is funded by
JSPS Kiban C Grant #25370441.


Aims and Topics:
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We invite submissions to this year's workshop on topics in formal
syntax, semantics and pragmatics, and related fields, including but in no way
limited to the following:

- Formal syntax, semantics and pragmatics of natural language
- Model-theoretic and/or proof-theoretic semantics of natural language
- Computational Semantics
- Continuations in natural language
- Game-theoretic/Bayesian approaches to pragmatics
- Nonclassical Logic and its relation to natural language (especially
Substructural/Fuzzy/Categorical/Topological logics)
- (Formal) Philosophy of language
- Scientific methodology and/or experimental design for linguistics


Submissions:
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Abstracts (anonymous, up to 4 pages, including figures and references,
A4 size, with 12 point font) must be submitted electronically
in PDF format at:

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lenls12

When the 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:
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Abstract submission deadline: August 23, 2015
Notification of acceptance: September 30, 2015
Deadline for camera-ready copy: October, 2015
Half-day workshop on politeness: November 15, 2015
LENLS12: November 15-17, 2015


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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 - Eric McCready (Aoyama Gakuin University)
 - Daisuke Bekki (Ochanomizu University/National Institute of Informatics/JST CREST)
 - Koji Mineshima (Ochanomizu University/JST CREST)
 - Alastair Butler (Tohoku University)
 - Richard Dietz (University of Tokyo)
 - 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 (West Japan Railway Company)
 - Kei Yoshimoto (Tohoku University)