Presentation

The LIRMM (Université de Montpellier 2 and CNRS) organizes the sixth edition of the Conference on Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics (LACL 2011). The conference will be held at the Centre Rabelais, 29 boulevard Sarrail, Montpellier (France), on June 29th, Jun 30th, and July 1st 2011.
It will be co-located with the TALN conference, the annual conference of the ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues, the French association for Natural Language Processing).

Topics

Computer scientists, linguists, mathematicians and philosophers are invited to present their work on the use of logical methods in computational linguistics and natural language processing, in natural language analysis, generation or acquisition.

• logical foundation of syntactic formalisms
  • categorial grammars
  • minimalist grammars
  • dependency grammars
  • tree adjoining grammars
  • model theoretic syntax
  • formal language theory for natural language processing
  • data-driven approaches
• logic for semantics of lexical items, sentences, discourse and dialog
  • discourse theories
  • Montague semantics
  • compositionality
  • dynamic logics
  • game semantics
  • situation semantics
  • generative lexicon
  • categorical semantics
• applications of these models to natural language processing
  • software for natural language analysis
  • software for acquiring linguistic resources
  • software for natural language generation
  • software for information extraction
  • inference tasks
  • evaluation
  • scalability

Submissions

Articles should be written in the LaTeX format of LNCS/LNAI by Springer (see Springer authors instructions) and should not exceed 16 pages (including figures, bibliography, possible apendices). It is expected that each accepted paper be presented at the meeting by one of its authors.
Papers must be submitted electronically in PDF format at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lacl2011

Proceedings

Accepted papers will be published in advance of the meeting as a volume of the FoLLI LNAI subline of Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) by Springer (http://www.springer.com/lncs).

Previous Editions

A selection of the 1995 articles appeared in a special issue of the Journal of Logic, Language and Information (7:4, 1998). The proceedings of the international conferences LACL'96 ,LACL'97, LACL'98, LACL'2001 and LACL'2005 appeared in the series Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (volumes 1328, 1582, 2014, 2099, 3492) published by Springer.

Important Dates

• Paper submission deadline: Extended to February 13th 2011
• Notification of acceptance: March 25th 2011
• Camera-ready papers due: April 10th 2011
• LACL conference: June 29th, 30th and July 1st 2011

Invited Speakers

• Claire Gardent (LORIA/CNRS)
• Tim Fernando (Trinity College)

Scientific Committee

• Pascal Amsili (Université Paris 7/LLF, UMR CNRS 7110)
• Nicholas Asher (CNRS, IRIT)
• Raffaella Bernardi (University of Trento)
• Philippe Blache (CNRS LPL Aix-en-Provence)
• Johan Bos (University of Rome La Sapienza)
• Joan Busquets (Université Bordeaux 3 & ERSS-CNRS & INRIA-Bordeaux)
• Benoît Crabbé (Université Paris 7/ALPAGE)
• Philippe de Groote (LORIA/INRIA NAncy Grand Est)
• Denys Duchier (Université Orléans)
• Markus Egg (Humboldt Universität Berlin)
• Nissim Francez (Tehchnion, Haifa)
• Makoto Kanazawa (NII)
• Greg Kobele (University of Chicago)
• Marcus Kracht (University of Bielefeld)
• Alain Lecomte (Université Paris 8)
• Uwe Mönnich (Universität Tübingen)
• Michael Moortgat (Universiteit Utrecht, UiL OTS)
• Richard Moot (CNRS LaBRI)
• Glyn Morrill (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona)
• Reinhard Muskens (Tilburg University)
• Gerald Penn (University of Toronto)
• Sylvain Pogodalla (LORIA/INRIA NAncy Grand Est ) (chair)
• Carl Pollard (The Ohio State University)
• Anne Preller (LIRMM/CNRS)
• Laurent Prévot (Université de Provence, LPL)
• Jean-Philippe Prost (LIRMM/Université de Montpellier 2/LIRMM ) (co-chair)
• Aarne Ranta (Chalmers, University of Gothenburg)
• Christian Retoré (Université de Bordeaux, LaBRI)
• James Rogers (Earlham College, Richmond)
• Chung-chieh Shan (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey)
• Mark Steedman (University of Edinburgh)
• Isabelle Tellier (Université d'Orléans/LIFO)

Contact

sylvain.pogodalla{at}inria.fr (replace {at} by @)
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