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

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).

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).

• Joo Yoon Chung
"Uncommon common grounds and the Korean reportative evidential -tay"
• Myoung Hyoun Song, Chungmin Lee
"CF-reduplication: Dynamic Prototype and Contrasting Alternatives"
• Arndt Riester
"Restriction triggers alternative presuppositions"

• J.-R. Hayashishita
"On the focus sensitivity of so-called focus-sensitive particles"
• Anton Benz
"Optimal Completion and Implicatures of Complex Sentences ---A Game Theoretic Approach"
• Nicholas Asher, Sylvain Pogodalla
"SDRT and continuation semantics"

• BEKKI Daisuke
"Combinatory Categorial Grammar as a Substructural Logic --- Preliminary Remarks ---"
• Nakamura Hiroaki
"Biding of Relational Nouns and the Variable-free Semantics"
• Alastair Butler, Kei Yoshimoto
"Interpreting Japanese Dependency Structure"

• Alexandru Baltag
"Doxastic Attitudes and Group Communication"

November 19th (Fri), 2010

• Osamu Sawada, Jun Sawada
"Saliency and scalarity in the meaning of the Japanese expressive ano `that'"
• Stephanie Solt
" Varieties of /Most/"
• Richard Zuber
"Factives and intensionality"

• Csipak, Eva
"how to be literally minimal"
• Yasutada Sudo
"The Small Reading of the Scalar Particle Mo in Japanese and Negative Polarity"
• Tomohide KINUHATA
"The Scope of Pronounced and Unpronounced Negation: A Case of Japanese Sika-nai and its Correlates"

• Satoru SUZUKI
"Prolegomena to Salient-Similarity-Based Vague Predicate Logic"
• David Etlin
"Vague Desire: The Sorites and the Money Pump"
• Michael Franke, Gerhard Jaeger, Robert van Rooij
"Signaling, stochastic choice, and vagueness"

• Shunsuke Yatabe
"Yablosque paradoxes and co-induction"

Alternates

• Tohru Seraku
"Towards a Dynamic-Syntax Account of Japanese Clefts: From the Viewpoint of Semantic Incrementality"

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