Call for papers ***************************************************** Student Session - LACL'2005 Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics ***************************************************** Deadline : March 15, 2005 LACL'2005 is the 5th edition of a series of international conferences on logical and formal methods in computational linguistics. It addresses in particular the use of proof theoretic and model theoretic methods for describing natural language syntax and semantics, as well as the implementation of natural language processing software relying on such models. *** STUDENT SESSION *** For the first time, LACL'2005 will feature a student session. Students (not having defended yet their PhD thesis or defending it in 2005) are invited to submit short papers (2 or 3 pages) on the same topics as LACL. Submitted papers may present only partial but promising work. This student session offers a good opportunity for students to acquaint themselves with the world of research : digest writing exercise, feedback from the program committee, oral presentation exercise, feedback from LACL attendants. Students whose articles will be selected for the student session will benefit from reduced registration fees for the LACL conference. *** PAPER SELECTION *** Submitted articles will be reviewed by a program committee made of a a group of experienced researcher as well as a group of chosen PhD students. Each article will be reviewed by at least one experienced researcher and one of these PhD students. *** PAPER PRESENTATION *** Students whose papers will be selected will present their work in a poster session at the LACL conference. The papers will also be grouped and edited as an INRIA research report. *** 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 FOUNDATIONS 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 representation theory, - Montague semantics, - compositionality, - dynamic logic, - game semantics, - situation semantics, - generative lexicon, * 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, - question answering and human computer interaction in natural language, - evaluation and scalability *** SUBMISSION FORMAT *** Papers are be 2 to 3 pages long, including bibliography and possible figures and appendices. Articles, in PDF format, should be sent by email to lacl@labri.fr, with the keywords "student session" in the mail subject. *** IMPORTANT DATES *** - Paper submission deadline : March 15th, 2005 - Notification of acceptance : March 31st, 2005 - Camera-ready papers due : April 15th, 2005 - Student session : during LACL (April 28-30th, 2005) *** SCIENTIFIC INQUIRIES *** - Philippe Blache, blache@lpl.univ-aix.fr - Edward Stabler, stabler@ucla.edu *** PRACTICAL INQUIRIES *** - Renaud Marlet, marlet@labri.fr - Maxime Amblard, amblard@labri.fr *** PROGRAM COMMITTEE *** Ph. Blache, E. Stabler (chairs), members of the LACL 2005 program committee, group of chosen PhD students (in the course of being defined). *** ORGANIZING COMMITTEE *** R. Marlet, M. Amblard, J. Busquets, R. Moot *** MORE DETAILS *** http://lacl.labri.fr/student-session (at work) 25-Jan-2005 11:57:37 -0400,4662;000000000000-00000000