Fifth Workshop on Natural Language and Computer Science
NLCS '18
July 7-8, 2018
Oxford, UK
http://www.indiana.edu/~iulg/nlcs.html
A workshop affiliated with Federated Logic Conference (FLoC) 2018
Endorsed by the Association for Computational Linguistics Special Interest Group on Computational Semantics.
We are grateful to Jesus College, Oxford, for their support of our workshop.
AIMS AND SCOPE
Formal tools coming from logic and category theory are important in both natural language semantics and in 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 has inspired developments on the formal side. The workshop invites papers on both topics. Specific topics includes, but are not limited to:
• 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 and declarative approaches to semantics
INVITED SPEAKERS
Ann Copestake, University of Cambridge
TBA
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Ash Asudeh, Oxford University/Carleton University
Simon Charlow, Rutgers University
Valeria de Paiva, Nuance.com
Thomas Graf, State University of New York, Stony Brook
Aurelie Herbelot, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
Larry Moss, Indiana University, Bloomington
Christian Retoré, Université de Montpellier
Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, Queen Mary University of London
Annie Zaenen, Stanford University
PAPER SUBMISSIONS
Extended abstracts of up to 10 pages may be submitted through Easychair:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nlcs18
ORGANIZERS
Valeria de Paiva
Nuance.com
Email: Valeria.dePaiva at nuance .com
Makoto Kanazawa
National Institute of Informatics
Email: kanazawa at nii.ac.jp
Larry Moss
Indiana University
Email: lsm at cs.indiana . edu
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission deadline: May 10, 2018
Author notification: May 20, 2018
Electronic versions of papers due: to be announced
Workshop: July 7-8, 2018