CFP: Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics 9 (LENLS 9)

LENLS is an annual international workshop focusing on formal semantics and pragmatics. It will be held as one of the workshops of the third JSAI International Symposia on AI (isAI2012).

Contact Person: Alastair Butler (PRESTO JST/Tohoku University)
Contact Email: lenls9[[at]]easychair.org
Chair:  Alastair Butler (PRESTO JST/Tohoku University)
Co-chair: Daisuke Bekki (Ochanomizu University/ National Institute of Informatics), Eric McCready (Aoyama Gakuin University)

Call For Papers:

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

Submissions:

Abstracts (up to 4 pages, including figures, bibliography, apendices) must be submitted electronically in PDF format at:

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lenls9

When his/her 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:

Abstract submission deadline: September 1, 2012
Notification of acceptance: October 10, 2012
Deadline for camera-ready copy: October 31, 2012
Deadline for onsite registration: November 24, 2012
LENLS9: December 01-02, 2012
Tutorial Lecture (by Hans Kamp): December 03, 2012

Workshop Organizers/Program Committee:

• 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)