[TYPES/announce] CFP: LENLS2008

[Ogata]

CALL FOR PAPERS

Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics (LENLS) 5
An International Workshop Co-located With the JSAI 2008 Annual Conference

JSAI Annual Conference website:
http://www.ai-gakkai.or.jp/jsai/conf/2008/index.html
- Workshop Site: Asahikawa Convention Bureau, Hokkaido, Japan
(http://www.asahikawa-cb.gr.jp/)
- Dates: June 9-10, 2008
- Chair: Yasuo Nakayama
- Invited Speakers: Robert van Rooij (University of Amsterdam/ILLC),
Satoshi Tojo (JAIST, NII)
- Registration (on site): 5000 yen
Meeting URL:
http://www.lang.osaka-u.ac.jp/~ogata/LENLS2008.html

LENLS is an annual international workshop focusing on dynamic semantics
organized as a satellite of the Japanese Society for Artificial
Intelligence conference. This year's workshop, the fifth LENLS, will
include a special session devoted to the `interactive turn' in formal
pragmatics, which takes a formal approach to the interactive quality of
pragmatic meanings by making use of game-theoretic, decision-theoretic
and utility- theoretic approaches. We invite submissions related to this
topic in any empirical or theoretical area of pragmatics. Papers are
also welcome on more general topics including but in no way limited to
the following:
- Formal Semantics of Natural Language (especially dynamic approaches)
- Dynamic Syntax and Labelled Deductive Systems of Natural Language
- Dynamic (Epistemic) Logics and Natural Language Semantics/Pragmatics
- Coalgebraic Logics and Natural Language Semantics/Pragmatics
- Category-Theoretic Semantics of Natural Language
- Type-Theoretic Semantics of Natural Language
- Substructural Logics of Natural Language
- Extensions of Lambek Calculi including Combinatory Category Grammars
and Type-Logical Grammars
- Other Mathematical Theories of Information Structures of Natural
Language Discourse
- Natural Language Processing based on Dynamic Semantics, Dynamic
Syntax, or Formal Pragmatics.

Submissions:
Abstracts should be between 2 and 4 pages in length and be in pdf
format. It should be clearly indicated in the accompanying email whether
the submission is intended for the general or the special session.
Submissions should be sent to: ogata at lang.osaka-u.ac.jp .

Speakers participating out of Japan may be provided with financial
support for their travel expenses on a competitive basis.

The proceedings of the workshop will be available at the conference site
for registered persons. We also aim at publishing a selection of the
accepted papers in book form, in a volume in the ''Lecture Notes in
Artificial Intelligence'' series published by Springer Verlag.

Important dates:
- Deadline for Abstract (length between 2 and 4 pages): February 15, 2008
- Notification of acceptance: March 15, 2008
- Deadline for camera-ready copies (pdf) of full papers for the
proceedings, in the LNCS style: April 25, 2008

Organizing Committee: Yasuo Nakayama (chair), Kei Yoshimoto, Tomoyuki
Yamada, Yoshiki Mori, Katsuhiko Yabushita, Norry Ogata, Eric McCready,
Daisuke Bekki

Contact: Eric McCready (mccready at cl.aoyama.ac.jp) or Norry Ogata
(ogata at lang.osaka-u.ac.jp)