Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics 8

LENLS is an annual international workshop focusing on formal semantics and pragmatics. It will be held as one of the workshops of JSAI isAI 2011, sponsored by The Japan Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI).

Registration

The proceedings of the workshop will be available at the conference site for registered persons. Please follow the link below and register yourself until 24th November 2011.

http://www.ai-gakkai.or.jp/jsai-isai/2011/index.html#registration

Program

December 1st (Thu), 2011
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09:00-10:00: Reception

10:00-10:10: Opening Remarks

10:10-11:40: Session 1
* Yoshiki Mori
     "Back To the Future, Back From the Future
      - To and Fro For the Counterfactual Future In the Past -"
* Yurie Hara, Yuli Feng and Shigeto Kawahara
     "Emphatic Stress as Epistemic Conflict: A case study of Mandarin Chinese"
* Chungmin Lee
     "Dynamic Perspective Shifts in Evidentials: Evidence from Korean"

11:40-13:00: Lunch

13:00-15:00: Session 2
* Mauricio Hernandes
     "Players who don't know how to play.
      An Haskell implementation of unawareness."
* Oleg Prosorov
     "A Sheaf-Theoretic Framework for Dynamic Semantics"
* Margot Colinet and Gre'goire Winterstein
     "Linking probabilistic accounts: polarity items and discourse markers"
* Hiroko Ozaki and Daisuke Bekki
     "Extractability as Deduction Theorem in Subdirectional Combinatory Logic"

15:00-15:30: Coffee break

15:30-16:30: Session 3
* Gre'goire Winterstein
     "Ludics and Presupposition Projection"
* Nicholas Asher and Jason Quinley
     "Begging Questions, Getting Answers and Basic Cooperativity"

16:30-17:30: Invited Talk 1
* Frank Veltman (University of Amsterdam)
     "(TBA)"

December 2nd (Fri), 2011
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08:30-09:00: Reception

09:00-10:30: Session 4
* Yo Sato and Wai Lok Tam
     "Underspecified types and the semantic bootstrapping of common nouns
      and adjectives: a simulation with a robot's sensory data "
* David Yoshikazu Oshima
     "The Japanese particle yo in declaratives:
      Relevance, priority, and blaming"
* Katsuhiko Yabushita
     "Japanese NPI Dare-mo as Unrestricted Universal Quantifier"

10:30-11:00: Coffee break

11:00-12:00: Session 5
* J.-R. Hayashishita and Daisuke Bekki
     "Conjoined nominal expressions in Japanese: Interpretation through monad"
* Christina Unger
     "Dynamic semantics as monadic computation"

12:00-13:30: Lunch

13:30-15:00: Session 6
* Satoru Suzuki
     "Measurement-Theoretic Foundations of Gradable-Predicate Logic"
* Tzu-Keng Fu
     "Universal Logic and the Logical Many-valuedness"
* Alastar Butler and Kei Yoshimoto
     "Towards a self-selective and self-healing evaluation"

15:00-15:30: Coffee break

15:30-16:30: Invited Talk 2
* Kentaro Inui (Tohoku University)
     "Toward Deep Processing of Language in the Era of Large-scale
      Knowledge Resources:  Time for Formal Semantics to Meet NLP Again"

Alternates
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* Eric Mccready
     "Trust in Evidential Testimony"

December 3rd (Sat), 2011
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10:00-12:00 Session 1: Tutorial Lecture by Eric McCready
Title:  Theories of Evidentiality

12:00-13:30 Lunch

13:30-17:30 Session 2: Tutorial Lecture by Frank Veltman
Title: "Or else, what?"


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