Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics 18 (LENLS18)

Selected Papers

A selection of the accepted/invited full papers will be published as a portion of a volume "JSAI-isAI selected papers" from 'Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI)' series (Springer Verlag).

Important dates:

Registration:

Please follow the link below and register yourself until November 12, 2021 (in JST).

Program

1st Day: November 13 (Sat)

• Michael Wayne Goodman
"Old Dogs, New Tricks, and Semantics"

• Ahmad Jabbar
"Pluralism for Relativists: a new framework for context dependence"
• Shintaro Matsuura
"How to Explain the Mechanism of Metalinguistic Dispute"
• Shuhei Shimamura
"Relevance as Minimality: A Logical Expressivist Approach"

• Oleg Kiselyov and Haruki Watanabe
"QNP Textual Entailment with Polynomial Event Semantics"
• Chenchen Song
"On the semantics of root syntax: challenges and directions"
• Daisuke Bekki
"A Proof-theoretic Analysis of Weak Crossover"

• Kristina Liefke
"Remembering individuals and remembering scenes"
• Kristina Liefke and Markus Werning
"Factivity variation in experiential 'remember'-reports"

2nd Day: November 14 (Sun)

• Atsushi Shimojima
"Proxy Logics: an Approach to Semantic Functions of Diagrams"

• Muyi Yang
"Sensitive to future: the case of Japanese nara-conditionals"
• Masaya Taniguchi and Satoshi Tojo
"Incremental derivations with Q combinator in CCG"
• Satoru Suzuki
"Generics and Belief Contraction"

• Osamu Sawada
"Interpretations of sense-based minimizers in Japanese and English: Local and global sense-based measurements"
• David Yoshikazu Oshima
"The semantics and pragmatics of the Japanese honorific titles san, kun, and chan"
• Makoto Kaneko
"An analysis of a peculiar PPI licensing in French and Japanese negated purpose clauses in terms of an implicit externalization of the negation due to the non-responsibility"

• Julian Grove and Jean-Philippe Bernardy
"Probabilistic compositional semantics, purely"
• Fabio De Martin Polo
"A Cut-free Hypersequent Calculus for Intuitionistic Modal Logic IS5"

3rd Day: November 15 (Mon)

• Mana Ishida, Hitomi Yanaka and Daisuke Bekki
"Compositional Semantics for Compound Words in Medical Case Retrieval"
• Alastair Butler
"Parsed corpus development with a quick access interface"
• Chungmin Lee
"Factivity in Chinese: Viewed from the Altaic Alternation Type"

• Shun Ihara and Yuta Tatsumi
"The Duality of Negative Attitudes in Japanese Conditionals"
• Joseph Tabolt
"Japanese Type-4 Verbs are Individual-level Predicates"
• Eri Tanaka and Kenta Mizutani
"Presuppositions and Comparison Classes in Japanese hodo-equatives"

• Elin McCready
"Honorifics, Grounds and Ideologies"
• Liping Tang
"Cheap talk under partial conflicts: a dynamic analysis of pragmatic meaning"
• Ana Clara Polakof
"An experimental approach to slurs and swearwords in the Rio de la Plata"

• Maria Aloni
"Logic and Conversation: neglect-zero effects at the semantics-pragmatics interface"

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Organizing/Program Committee:

• Daisuke Bekki (Ochanomizu University)
• Alastair Butler (Hirosaki University)
• Richard Dietz (University of Tokyo)
• Patrick D. Elliott (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
• Naoya Fujikawa (University of Tokyo)
• Yurie Hara (Hokkaido University)
• Robert Henderson (University of Arizona)
• Hitomi Hirayama (Kyushu Institute of Technology)
• Magdalena Kaufmann (University of Connecticut)
• Kristina Liefke (Ruhr University Bochum)
• Koji Mineshima (Keio University)
• Elin McCready (Aoyama Gakuin University)
• Yoshiki Mori (University of Tokyo)
• David Y. Oshima (Nagoya University)
• Katsuhiko Sano (Hokkaido University)
• Osamu Sawada (Kobe University)
• Ribeka Tanaka (Ochanomizu University)
• Wataru Uegaki (University of Edinburgh)
• Katsuhiko Yabushita (Naruto University of Education)
• Tomoyuki Yamada (Hokkaido University)
• Shunsuke Yatabe (Kyoto University)
• Kei Yoshimoto (Tohoku University)

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