Presentation :
The LINA (Université de Nantes, CNRS and École des Mines de Nantes) organizes the seventh edition of the International Conference on Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics (LACL 2012).The Conference series LACL exists since 1995. Its previous editions were held in Nancy (twice), Grenoble, Le Croisic, Bordeaux and Montpellier. The LACL proceedings were published in FoLLI-LNAI series (volumes 1328, 1582, 2014, 2099, 3492, 6736) edited by Springer. The next conference LACL 2012 will be held in Nantes on July 2nd, 3rd and 4th, 2012.
In order to stimulate the interest in applications, the conference will for the first time propose a System demonstration session.
This event is supported by LINA, the Faculty of Science and Technology of the University of Nantes, the University of Nantes, CNRS, École des Mines de Nantes and Région Pays de la Loire.
More information on LACL 2012 can be found on SciencesConf.org
Invited speakers
Prof. Mark Steedman,School of Informatics University of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
The Statistical Problem of Child Language Acquisition.
Dr. Alexander Clark,
Department of Computer Science, Royal Holloway University of London,
United Kingdom
Logical Grammars, Logical Theories.
Prof. Christophe Fouqueré and Dr. Myriam Quatrini,
Université Paris 13, France and Université de la Méditerranée, France
Ludics and Natural Language: First Approaches
List of accepted papers :
- Nicholas Asher, The non cooperative basis of implicatures.
- Thomas Graf, Movement-Generalized Minimalist Grammars.
- Yuri Ishishita and Daisuke Bekki, Toward the formulation of presupposition by Illative Combinatory Logic.
- Boris Karlov, Abstract Automata and a Normal Form for Categorial Dependency Grammars.
- Gregory M. Kobele, Importing Montagovian Dynamics into Minimalism.
- Gregory M. Kobele and Jens Michaelis, CoTAGs and ACGs.
- Yusuke Kubota and Robert Levine, Gapping as like-category coordination.
- Stepan Kuznetsov, L-completeness of the Lambek Calculus with the Reversal Operation.
- Zhe Lin, Distributive Full Nonassociative Lambek Calculus with S4-modalities is Context-free.
- Zhaohui Luo, Common Nouns as Types.
- Hiroko Ozaki and Daisuke Bekki, Extractability as the Deduction Theorem in Subdirectional Combinatory Logic.
- Andrew Plummer and Carl Pollard, Agnostic Possible Worlds Semantics.
- Kurt Ranalter, Abstract machines for argumentation.
- Alexey Sorokin, On the Completeness of Lambek Calculus with Respect to Cofinite Language Models.
- Tao Xue and Zhaohui Luo, Dot-types and Their Implementation.
List of demonstrations :
- Denys Duchier, Yannick Parmentier and Simon Petitjean, Metagrammars As Logic Programs.
- Annie Foret and Sébastien Ferré, On Categorial Grammars and Logical Information Systems : using CAMELIS with linguistic data.
- Glyn Morrill, CatLog: A Categorial Parser/Theorem-Prover.
- Richard Moot, Categorial grammars and wide-coverage semantics with Grail.
- Noémie-Fleur Sandillon-Rezer, Ygg, parsing French text using AB grammars.
Scientific Committee :
- Michele Abrusci (Università di Roma Tre)
- Nicholas Asher (IRIT/CNRS)
- Denis Béchet (LINA/CNRS) (co-chair)
- Raffaella Bernardi (University of Trento)
- Philippe Blache (LPL/CNRS, Aix-en-Provence)
- Wojciech Buszkowski (Poznan University)
- Philippe de Groote (LORIA/INRIA, Nancy Grand Est)
- Michael Dekhtyar (University of Tver)
- Alexandre Dikovsky (LINA/CNRS) (co-chair)
- Markus Egg (Humboldt Universität Berlin)
- Annie Foret (University of Rennes 1)
- Nissim Francez (Tehchnion, Haifa)
- Makoto Kanazawa (NII)
- Greg Kobele (University of Chicago)
- Marcus Kracht (University of Bielefeld)
- Alain Lecomte (Université Paris 8)
- Hans Leiss (Universität München)
- Uwe Mönnich (Universität Tübingen)
- Michael Moortgat (Universiteit Utrecht, UiL OTS)
- Richard Moot (LaBRI/CNRS)
- Glyn Morrill (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona)
- Reinhard Muskens (Tilburg University)
- Gerald Penn (University of Toronto)
- Mati Pentus (Moscow State University)
- Sylvain Pogodalla (LORIA/INRIA, Nancy Grand Est)
- Carl Pollard (The Ohio State University)
- Anne Preller (LIRMM/CNRS)
- Christian Retoré (LaBRI/CNRS)
- Sylvain Salvati (INRIA, Bordeaux Sud-Ouest)
- Chung-chieh Shan (Cornell University)
- Edward Stabler (University of California, Los Angeles)
- Mark Steedman (University of Edinburgh)
- Isabelle Tellier (Université Paris 3)
Important dates :
- Paper submission deadline: Extended to February 12, 2012
- Notification of acceptance: March, 25 2012
- Camera ready copies due: April 8, 2012
- Demo submission deadline: April 30, 2012
- Demo notification of acceptance: May 11, 2012
- Demo camera ready copies due: May 21, 2012
- Conference dates: July 2-4, 2012
Proceedings :
The accepted papers together with some of the invited talks are published as volume 7351 of the FoLLI subline of Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) by Springer (http://www.springer.com/lncs).
This volume is available online. You can find information about it at http://www.springeronline.com/978-3-642-31261-8 or access the online version at http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-3-642-31261-8/
The system demonstration proceedings are available online here.
Call for papers : here
Call for demonstrations : here
Registration Fees
Registration Desk: The Conference Registration Desk will open on Monday, July 2, from 9:00 to 18:00. The registration desk will remain open during the entire conference. Extra banquet tickets may be purchased through the registration service. For information on dates and costs, as well as, making a reservation, please refer to the registration service.
The table below shows the registration fees (in euros).
Early registration deadline: 24 May 2012 (11:59pm GMT).
Late registration deadline: 30 June 2012 (11:59pm GMT).
Online registration will not be available after the late registration deadline.
Only on-site registration is possible after this date.
| Registration Fees | Student | Regular |
| Early | 120 | 210 |
| Late | 180 | 270 |
| On-Site | 200 | 310 |
>> Registration fee covers:
- Admission to the sessions of the conference
- Proceedings volume (Springer) and its USB-Key version
- Coffee breaks for 2, 3 and 4 of July, 2012
- Lunches for 2, 3 and 4 of July, 2012
- Welcome Reception on Monday evening (2 July)
- Excursion (3 July)
- Event Accessories (bag, programme, etc.)
>> The price of one participant Gala dinner ticket is 30 euros
Contact :
Alexandre.Dikovsky{at}univ-nantes.fr (replace {at} by @)Denis.Bechet{at}univ-nantes.fr (replace {at} by @)