[TYPES/announce] Type Theory and Natural Language Semantics Workshop

[Bengt Nordstrom]

Call for Papers - Submission Deadline 23 January 2014

TTNLS: EACL 2014 Type Theory and Natural Language Semantics Workshop

Co-located with EACL 2014, Gothenburg, Sweden

27th of April, 2014

http://clt.gu.se/event/2014-04-27/type-theory-workshop-eacl-2014
http://eacl2014.org/


WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION

Type theory has been a central area of research in logic, the semantics of
programming languages, and natural language semantics over the past fifty
years.  Recent developments in type theory have been used to reconstruct
the formal foundations of computational semantics (Ranta (1994), Fox and
Lappin (2005), Ginzburg (2012), Retoré (2012), Cooper (2012), Cooper et al.
(2013)). These theories are generally intensional and polymorphic in
character, and they allow for structured, fine-grained encoding of
information across a diverse set of linguistic domains.

The work in this area has opened up new approaches to modeling the
relations between, inter alia, syntax, semantic interpretation, dialogue,
inference, and cognition, from a largely proof theoretic perspective.

The workshop provides a forum for the presentation of leading edge research
in this fast developing subfield of computational linguistics. To the best
of our knowledge it will be the first major conference on this topic hosted
by the ACL.


TOPICS

We invite papers on topics including, but not limited to, the following:

* subtyping
* lexical semantics
* record types
* intensionality
* probabilistic type theory
* type theory and the interface among syntax, semantics, phonology
* type theory and functional programming
* type theory, logic, and inference


Programme Committee:

* Krasimir Angelov (Chalmers, Gothenburg)
* Patrick Blackburn (Roskilde)
* Stergios Chatzikyriakidis (Royal Holloway, London)
* Steve Clark (Cambridge)
* Jan van Eijck (Amsterdam)
* Raquel Fernández (Amsterdam)
* Tim Fernando (Trinity College, Dublin)
* Chris Fox (Essex)
* Jonathan Ginzburg (Paris 7)
* Zhaohui Luo (Royal Holloway, London)
* Bruno Mery (LaBRI, Bordeaux)
* Glyn Morrill (Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona)
* Larry Moss (Indiana)
* Reinhard Muskens (Tilburg)
* Bengt Nordström (Chalmers, Gothenburg)
* Valeria de Paiva (Nuance, Sunnyvale California)
* Carl Pollard (Ohio State University)
* Ian Pratt-Hartmann (Manchester)
* Steve Pulman (Oxford)
* Matt Purver (Queen Mary, London)
* Aarne Ranta (Chalmers, Gothenburg)
* Christian Retoré (LaBRI, Bordeaux)
* Ray Turner (Essex)


SUBMISSION

All papers should be submitted in English as PDF documents. Note that
submissions must be anonymous. We welcome full papers of up to 8 pages and
1 additional page for references formatted in accordance with the EACL'14
style files (seehttp://www.eacl2014.org/files/eacl-2014-styles.zip ).

Submissions can be made via the TTNLS START Conference Management's system
website: https://www.softconf.com/eacl2014/TT/


CONTACT

For any queries please contact us at: simon.dobnik <- at -> gu <-.-> se


IMPORTANT DATES

Submission Deadline     23 January 2014
Notification            20 February 2014
Camera Ready Deadline    3 March 2014
Workshop Day            27 April 2014


WORKSHOP ORGANISERS

Robin Cooper (University of Gothenburg), Simon Dobnik (University of
Gothenburg), Shalom Lappin (King's College, London), and Staffan Larsson
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