LACL 2011

LACL 2011

June 29, 30, July 1 2011

June 29, 30, July 1 2011

Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics

Program

Wednesday June 29

Note that registration and the talks will take place at the CRDP, that is where the joint conference TALN usually takes place (but the afternoon is off for TALN)

See the map (CRDP = Centre Régional de Documentation Pédagogique, 1 allée Citadelle). We go there walking from the "Place de la Comédie", following the "allée de Lattre de Tassigny" and "allée Missak Manouchian". The CRDP is on the right of the "lycée Joffre"

12:00-14:00
Registration

Session chair: Christian Retoré
14:00-15:00
Invited talk: Tim Fernando
Finite State Temporal Semantics
15:00-15:20
Break

Session chair: Nicholas Asher
15:20-15:55
Zhaohui Luo
Contextual Analysis of Word Meanings in Type-Theoretical Semantics
15:55-16:30
Carl Pollard
Are (Linguist's) Propositions Topos Propositions?
Cancelled:
Robin Cooper
Copredication, quantification and frames
16:30-16:50
Break

Session chair: Philippe de Groote
16:50-17:25
Arno Bastenhof
Polarized Classical Non-associative Lambek Calculus and Formal Semantics
17:25-18:00
Jeroen Bransen
The product-free Lambek-Grishin calculus is NP-complete

Thursday June 30

Note that since it is a joint talk for TALN and LACL, Claire Gardent's talk will take place at the CRDP. All the other talks will take place at the Centre Rabelais

See the map (CRDP = Centre Régional de Documentation Pédagogique, 1 allée Citadelle).

At CRDP Session chair: Mathieu Lafourcade
08:30--9:30
Invited Talk (at the CRDP): Claire Gardent
Sentence Generation: Input, Algorithms and Applications
09:30-09:50
Break

At Centre Rabelais Session chair: Richard Moot
09:50-10:25
Thomas Graf
Closure Properties of Minimalist Derivation Tree Languages
10:25-11:00
Makoto Kanazawa, Jens Michaelis, Sylvain Salvati and Ryo Yoshinaka
Well-Nestedness Properly Subsumes Strict Derivational Minimalism
11:00-11:20
Break

Session chair: Sylvain Salvati
11:20-11:55
Maxime Amblard
Encoding Phases using Commutativity and Non-commutativity in a Logical Framework
11:55-12:30
Gregory Kobele
Minimalist Tree Languages are closed under intersection with recognizable tree languages
12:30-14:30
Lunch

Session chair: Jean-Philippe Prost
14:30-15:05
Carlos Areces, Santiago Figueira and Daniel Gorin
Using Logic in the Generation of Referring Expressions
15:05-15:40
Sai Qian and Maxime Amblard
Event in Compositional Dynamic Semantics
15:40-16:15
Staffan Larsson
Do Dialogues Have Content?
16:15-16:35
Break

This session is cancelled. Carl Pollard's talk is moved to Wednesday afternoon
Cancelled
Carl Pollard
Are (Linguist's) Propositions Topos Propositions?
Cancelled
Richard Zuber
Some generalised comparative determiners

Friday July 1

All talks take place at the Centre Rabelais

Session chair: Sylvain Pogodalla
09:30-10:05
Glyn Morrill
Logic Programming of the Displacement Calculus
10:05-10:40
Yuri Ozaki and Daisuke Bekki
Conditional Logic Cb and its Tableau System
10:40-11:00
Break

Session chair: Isabelle Tellier
11:00-11:35
Ryo Yoshinaka and Makoto Kanazawa
Distributional Learning of Abstract Categorial Grammars
11:35-12:10
Denis Bechet, Alexandre Dikovsky and Annie Foret
On Dispersed and Choice Iteration in Incrementally Learnable Dependency Types
12:10-12:45
Noémie-Fleur Sandillon-Rezer and Richard Moot
Using tree transducers for grammatical inference
12:45
End of the conference