LiLT is inviting submissions for a special issue on Modality in Natural Language Understanding.
Our main interest is in contributions that show how modal expressions contribute to inferences about, among other things, what is actual, likely or unlikely, what an agent believes or prefers, or what the obligations in a given situation are.
We envision three major parts for the volume, corresponding to the broad categories below:
- modality annotation
- approaches to linguistic modality that use computational tools to explore data and/or verify hypotheses or that lay the basis for computational approaches
- computational approaches, e.g. computational treatments of modal logics, NLU systems that incorporate a substantial treatment of modality,
If you are interested in contributing, please, submit a one page abstract before March 15, 2015. The aim of the abstracts is mainly to judge whether your intended contribution falls within the scope of the volume.
The full papers, which will undergo a regular review process, will be expected by August 1, 2015. The volume is scheduled to appear in the first half of 2016.
Committee for the volume: Dick Crouch, Cleo Condoravdi, Anette Frank, Dan Lassiter, Roser Morante, Valeria de Paiva, Caroline Sporleder, Leon Van Der Torre, and Annie Zaenen