Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics 15 (LENLS15)

Submissions:

Abstracts (anonymous, up to 4 pages, including figures and references, A4 size, with 12 point font) must be submitted electronically in PDF format at:

Selected Papers

We also plan to publish a selection of the accepted/invited papers as a portion of a volume "JSAI-isAI selected papers", which will be published from `Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence' series (Springer Verlag).

Important dates:

Registration:

The proceedings of the workshop (USB version) will be available at the conference site for registered persons. Please follow the link below and register yourself until October 31, 2017.

Program

1st Day: November 12 (Mon)

• Gregoire Winterstein
"A probabilistic view on erotetic argumentation within language"
• Ka-Fat Chow
"Reconciling Inquisitive Semantics and Generalized Quantifier Theory"

• Paolo Bonardi
"Salmon, Schiffer and Frege's Constraint"
• Yu Tomita
"Event Quantification in Infinitival Complements: A Free-Logic Approach"
• Simon Goldstein
"Free Choice in Homogeneous Alternative Semantics"

• Guillaume Thomas
"Switch-reference, anaphora to quantifiers and expletive subjects"
• Patrick Elliott and Yasutada Sudo
"Binding ex post facto"
• Bartosz Wieckowski
"Intuitionistic intentional identity"

• Daniel Gutzmann
"The dog ate the damn cake. Expressive adjectives at the syntax/semantics interface"

2nd Day: November 13 (Tue)

• Eri Tanaka
"Scalar particles in comparatives: A QUD approach"
• David Yoshikazu Oshima
"The logical principles of honorification and dishonorification in Japanese"

• Osamu Sawada
"The Japanese Negative Totemo: From an Unconditional Expression to an Expressive Intensifier"
• Yulia Zinova
"Prefixation in context: Extracting scales from verbal arguments"
• Mika Hamalainen
"Extracting a Semantic Database with Syntactic Relations for Finnish to Boost Resources for Endangered Uralic Languages"

• Bruno Mery, Richard Moot and Christian Retore
"Polysemy, Individuation and Co-Predication: a simple solution to the counting puzzle implemented using lambda-DRT and MGL"
• Oleg Kiselyov
"Polynomial Event Semantics: Non-Montagovian Proper Treatment of Quantifiers"
• Patrick Elliott
"Applicatives for anaphora and presupposition"

• Pauline Jacobson
"Against grammatical competition: The case of MaxElide"

3rd Day: November 14 (Wed)

• Satoru Suzuki
"A Probabilistic-Semantic Analysis of Causal Statements by Subjunctive Conditionals, General Partial Imaging, and General Imaging"
• Yuto Hirayama
"Evidentials referring to different temporalities"
• Kristina Liefke
"A Case for Property-ism"

• Shimpei Endo
"A Dimensional View towards Vagueness"
• David Boylan
"Putting `Ought's Together"
• Frank Sode and Ayaka Sugawara
"On the deliberative use of the german modal 'sollte'"

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Organizing/Program Committee:

• Osamu Sawada (Mie University)
• Elin McCready (Aoyama Gakuin University)
• Daisuke Bekki (Ochanomizu University/JST CREST)
• Koji Mineshima (Ochanomizu University/JST CREST)
• Alastair Butler (Hirosaki University)
• Richard Dietz (Yamanashi Gakuin University)
• Naoya Fujikawa (Tokyo Metropolitan University)
• Yurie Hara (Waseda University)
• Magdalena Kaufmann (University of Connecticut)
• Yoshiki Mori (University of Tokyo)
• David Y. Oshima (Nagoya University)
• Katsuhiko Sano (Hokkaido University)
• Wataru Uegaki (Leiden University)
• Katsuhiko Yabushita (Naruto University of Education)
• Tomoyuki Yamada (Hokkaido University)
• Shunsuke Yatabe (Kyoto University)
• Kei Yoshimoto (Tohoku University)

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