[TYPES/announce] Call for papers: NATURAL LANGUAGE AND COMPUTER SCIENCE (LICS/CSL wshop July 17-18 Vienna)

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Vienna Summer of Logic http://vsl2014.at/
Computer Science Logic - Logic In Computer Science 2014 
http://lii.rwth-aachen.de/lics/csl-lics14/

Workshop on 
NATURAL LANGUAGE AND COMPUTER SCIENCE  (NLCS '14)
17-18 July, 2014 Vienna, Austria
http://www.indiana.edu/~iulg/nlcs.html

Endorsed by the Association for Computational Linguistics 
Special Interest Group on Computational Semantics.

Paper submission deadline:	April 1, 2014

AIMS AND SCOPE

Formal tools coming from logic, category theory, 
are important for natural language processing
and especially for computational semantics. 
Moreover, work on these tools borrows heavily 
from all areas of theoretical computer science. 
In the other direction, applications 
having to do with natural language 
have inspired developments on the formal side. 
The workshop invites papers on both topics and their applications, 
as well as on the combination between logical and statistical methods. 

Specific topics include, but are not limited to:

* linguistic, computational and logical aspects of the interface between syntax and semantics
* logical aspects of linguistic theories 
* logic for semantics of lexical items, sentences, discourse and dialog
* continuations in natural language semantics
* formal tools in textual inference, such as logics for natural language inference
* applications of category theory in semantics
* linear logic in semantics
* formal approaches to unifying data-driven (quantitative, statistical) and declarative (logical) approaches to semantics
* natural language processing tools using some logic 


IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission deadline:	April 1, 2014
Author notification:	May 1, 2014
Electronic versions of papers due:	May 15, 2014
Workshop: July 17, 2014


INVITED SPEAKERS TO INCLUDE

Anne Abeillé (to be confirmed) 
Université Paris Diderot 
Aarne Ranta
Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg


SUBMISSIONS

Please submit extended abstracts of 4-10 pages using EasyChair:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nlcs14

ORGANIZERS

Valeria de Paiva, Nuance
Larry Moss, Indiana University
Christian Retoré, Université de Bordeaux 

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Robin Cooper, University of Gothenburg
Valeria de Paiva, Nuance
Christophe Fouqueré, Université Paris 13
Larry Moss, Indiana University
Ian Pratt-Hartmann, University of Manchester, UK
Christian Retoré, Université de Bordeaux 
Wlodek Zadrozny, UNC, Charlotte