European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information

Event Notification Type: 
Other
Abbreviated Title: 
ESSLLI 2016
Location: 
Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Monday, 15 August 2016 to Friday, 26 August 2016
Country: 
Italy
Contact Email: 
City: 
Bolzano
Contact: 
Diego Calvanese
Raffaella Bernardi

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28th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information
ESSLLI 2016

Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Bolzano, ITALY
August 15-26, 2016

http://esslli2016.unibz.it/

The 28th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information
(ESSLLI 2016) takes place at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano,
Bolzano, Italy, from August 15 to 26, 2016. It is organized with the
support of the University of Trento under the auspices of FoLLI
(http://www.folli.uva.nl/), the European Association for Logic,
Language and Information.

The scientific program of ESSLLI 2016 consists of 45 courses, the
Student Session, 3 workshops, 4 evening lecturers and a talk by the
Beth Dissertation Prize winner.
Moreover, the school features 3 satellite events.

EVENING LECTURERS
Marco Baroni, University of Trento (Italy)
Veronica Becher, University of Buenos Aires (Argentina)
Louise McNally, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Spain)
Larry Moss, Indiana University (USA)

WORKSHOPS AND STUDENT SESSION: Call for papers/abstracts.

DSALT: Distributional Semantics and Linguistic Theory (Week 1)
Organizers: G. Boleda and D. Paperno
January 31, 2016 (Non-binding) expression of interest deadline

Referential Semantics One Step Further: Incorporating Insights from
Conceptual and Distributional Approaches to Meaning (Week 2)
Organizers: C. Umbach and L. McNally
February 15, 2016 Deadline for abstract submission

Formal, Probabilistic and Typological Approaches to Discourse
Particles and Modal Adverbs (Week 2)
Organizers: H. Zeevat and L. Hogeweg
Deadlines TBA

Student Session (Week 1 and 2)
Chairs: Marisa Koellner and Ramon Ziai
March 10, 2016 Deadline for paper submission

BETH PRIZE: Call for Theses.

Beth Dissertation Prize
Chair: Ian Pratt-Hartmann
May 9, 2016 Deadline for submission

SATELLITE EVENTS
COMPOSES Workshop (Sunday, August 14, 2016)
Formal Grammar 16 (Saturday+Sunday, August 20-21, 2016)
Computational Creativity, Concept Invention, and General Intelligence
(C3GI) Workshop (Saturday+Sunday, August 20-21, 2016)

REGISTRATION
Early-bird: May 31, 2016
Regular: July, 31, 2016

FURTHER DETAILS
Courses: http://esslli2016.unibz.it/?page_id=137
Workshops and Satellite Events: http://esslli2016.unibz.it/?page_id=668
Student Session: http://www2.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de/esslli-stus-2016/
Beth Dissertation Prize: http://esslli2016.unibz.it/?page_id=786
Registration: http://esslli2016.unibz.it/?page_id=56

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Claire Gardent (chair) (LORIA, CNRS & Université de Lorraine, France)
Raffaella Bernardi (local co-chair) (University of Trento, Italy)
Chris Barker (New York University, USA)
Dietmar Berwanger (LSV, CNRS & ENS de Cachan, France)
Katrin Erk (University of Texas, Austin, USA)
Alexander Koller (University of Potsdam, Germany)
Luciano Serafini (FBK, Italy)
Stephanie Solt (ZAS Berlin, Germany)

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Diego Calvanese (chair)
Alessandro Artale
Raffaella Bernardi
Elena Botoeva
Rosella Gennari
Hannes Hell
Marco Montali
Simon Razniewski
Vladislav Ryzhikov
Sergio Tessaris
Alessandro Vietti