Workshop on Lambda-Calculus, Type Theory and Natural Language

[Maribel Fernandez]

Workshop  on Lambda-Calculus, Type Theory, and Natural Language 2003

King's College, London
December 8 and 9, 2003

      Organizers:
      Maribel Fernandez (King's College London),
      Chris Fox (University of Essex),
      Shalom Lappin (King's College London).

      Sponsors:
      Department of Computer Science, King's College London
      Department of Computer Science, University of Essex

      Speakers:
      David Clark , King's College London, U.K.
      Robin Cooper , Göteborg University, Sweden
      Maribel Fernandez , King's College London, U.K.
      Chris Fox , University of Essex, U.K.
      Dov Gabbay , King's College London, U.K.
      Jamie Gabbay , INRIA Futurs, France
      Simon Gay , University of Glasgow, U.K.
      Jonathan Ginzburg , King's College London, U.K.
      Chris Hankin , Imperial College, U.K.
      Shalom Lappin , King's College London, U.K.
      Ian Mackie , King's College London, U.K.
      Francois-Regis Sinot , Ecole Polytechnique, France
      Ray Turner , University of Essex, U.K.
      Keynote Speaker:
      Jan van Eijck , CWI, Netherlands

Programme:

Monday, December 8th.

9:30 Coffee - Welcome
10:00 Opening
10:15 Chris Hankin. Lambda calculus and static analysis.
11:00 Coffee Break
11:30 Ian Mackie. Reduction in the lambda calculus.
12:15 Francois-Regis Sinot. N-ary director strings: Efficient
representations of
variables in terms.
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Jan van Eijck. Relations, Types and Scoping.
15:00 Chris Fox and Shalom Lappin. Underspecified Semantic
Representations for
Natural Language in a Lambda Calculus with Curry Typing.
15:45 Coffee Break
16:15 Jonathan Ginzburg. Abstraction and Ontology.
17:00 Robin Cooper. Records and record types in semantic theory.
19:00 Dinner

Tuesday, December 9th.

9:30 Coffee
10:00 Maribel Fernandez. Rewriting Frameworks and Types.
10:45 David Clark. Measuring interference in PCF.
11:30 Coffee Break
12:00 Jamie Gabbay and Dov Gabbay. The restart rule and evaluation.
12:45 Lunch
14:00 Ray Turner. Polymorphism in Specifications.
14:45 Simon Gay. Session Types: Specifying Structured Communication.
15:30 Closing

Participation:
Everyone is cordially invited to attend, and there is no registration
charge.

Proceedings:
 A collection of abstracts will be available at the
workshop.  After the workshop full papers will be considered for
publication in a special issue of Logic and Computation. Full papers
will be subject to a refereeing process according to the standards of
the journal.

Location:
All the talks will take place at King's College London:
Room GFES3 (Ground Floor, Strand Building),
Strand, London, WC2R 2LS, U.K.
Maps and information:
King's College London

For any further questions:
Please contact the organizers
Maribel Fernandez, maribel at dcs.kcl.ac.uk
Chris Fox, foxcj at essex.ac.uk
Shalom Lappin, lappin at dcs.kcl.ac.uk

Workshop web site: www.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/staff/maribel/Workshop-Kings.html