Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics 7 (LENLS VII)

Workshop Site: Campus Innovation Center, Tokyo

　　　　　　　　　　3-3-6 Shibaura, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan [google map]

Dates: November 18-19, 2010

Chair:

Eric McCready (Aoyama Gakuin University)

Invited Speakers:

Alexandru Baltag (Oxford University)
Shunsuke Yatabe (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST))

Aim and Topics

LENLS is an annual international workshop focusing on formal semantics and pragmatics. It will be held as one of workshops of JSAI isAI 2010, sponsored by The Japan Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI).

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- and utility-theoretic approaches)
Substructural expansion of Lambek Lambda Calculi
Many-valued/Fuzzy and other non-classical logics and natural language

This year we especially welcome submissions related to the "Formal Structures of Salience". Salience is a concept with broad application in linguistics and philosophy; in recent years, it has played a role in the analysis of phenomena including focus, particles, and anaphora resolution within linguistics, and in philosophy it has been used in analyses of various kinds of context dependency (e.g. domain restriction and vagueness), as well as in the analysis of convention. However, in many cases, the concept of salience is left as a primitive. Submissions discussing foundational issues in the understanding of salience would be welcomed. We especially hope for contributions with a formal orientation.

On the 20th, there will also be a special tutorial lecture at Ochanomizu University by A. Baltag (Oxford Univ, UK) and S. Smets (University of Groningen, The Netherlands).

Submissions:

Abstracts should be between 2 and 4 pages in length and in pdf format. Submissions should be sent to lenls7submission@gmail.com

The proceedings of the workshop will be available at the conference site for registered persons. We also plan to publish a selection of the accepted papers as a portion of a volume in the `Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence' series (Springer Verlag).

Important dates:

Abstract submission deadline	:	August 31, 2010
Notification of acceptance	:	September 15, 2010
Deadline for camera-ready copy	:	October 15, 2010
LENLS 7	:	November 18-19, 2010
Tutorial Lecture by A. Baltag and S. Smets	:	November 20, 2010

Registration:

Online registration will be available.

Tutorial Session

November 20th (Sat), 2010

Lecturer

Alexandru Baltag (Oxford Univ, UK)
Sonja Smets (University of Groningen, The Netherlands).

Location

Ochanomizu University [map]
Faculty of Science, Building 3, room 209

IMPORTANT: You'll have to show your ID card and a hard copy of this webpage to get into the campus on Saturday.

Time Table

10:00-12:00 Session 1

12:00-14:00 Lunch

14:00-17:00 Session 2

Organizing Committee:

Eric McCready (Chair)
Daisuke Bekki
Yoshiki Mori
Yasuo Nakayama
Katsuhiko Yabushita
Tomoyuki Yamada
Kei Yoshimoto