Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics 19 (LENLS19)

LENLS is an annual international conference on formal linguistics (i.e., syntax, semantics and pragmatics), computational linguistics, the philosophy of language, and related fields, including but not limited to the following:

• Formal syntax, semantics and pragmatics of natural language
• Model-theoretic and/or proof-theoretic semantics of natural language
• Computational approaches to semantics and pragmatics
• Nonclassical logic and its relation to natural language (especially substructural, fuzzy, categorical, and topological logic)
• Formal philosophy of language
• Scientific methodology and/or experimental design in linguistics

Selected Papers

The collection of full papers will be published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series, in accordance with the contract between Springer Nature Switzerland AG and The Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI).

Important dates:

Registration:

The registration for on-site participation is closed due to the limited number of participants at the venue. Only the registration for virtual participation is available via the link below. The zoom link will be shared only among the registered participants.

Online Proceedings

Program

1st Day: November 19 (Sat)

• David Yoshikazu Oshima
"The semantic markedness of the Japanese negative preterite: Non-existence of (positive) eventualities vs. existence of negative eventualities"
• Misato Ido
"Semantic Properties of the Japanese Emphatic Minimizer 'NP-no-kakera' Based on the Modal Base"
• Victor Carranza Pinedo
"Slurs' variability, emotional dimensions and game-theoretic pragmatics"

• Eri Tanaka and Kenta Mizutani
"Granularity in number and polarity effects"
• Shinnosuke Isono, Takuya Hasegawa, Kohei Kajikawa, Koichi Kono, Shiho Nakamura and Yohei Oseki
"Formalizing argument structures with Combinatory Categorial Grammar"
• Shinya Okano
"Detecting modality and evidentiality: Against purely temporal-aspectual analyses of the German semi-modal drohen"

• Linmin Zhang
"Cumulative reading, QUD, and maximal informativeness"
• Liping Tang
"Language politeness in social network"
• Hajime Mori
"The Absence of NOR in Japanese"

• Michael Moortgat
"End-to-End Compositional Modelling of Vector-Based Semantics"

2nd Day: November 20 (Sun)

• Satoru Suzuki
"Measurement Theory Meets Mereology in Multidimensionality in Resemblance Nominalism"
• Yusuke Kubota and Robert Levine
"Extraction pathway marking as proof structure marking"
• Alastair Butler
"Constraining parse ambiguity with grammatical codes"

• Youyou Cong
"In Search of a Type Theory for Fuzzy Properties"
• Akiyoshi Tomihari and Hitomi Yanaka
"Logical Inference System with Text-to-Image Generation for Phrase Abduction"
• Hayate Funakura
"Answers, Exhaustivity, and Presupposition of wh-questions in Dependent Type Semantics"

• Masanobu Toyooka
"A Proof-Theoretic Analysis of Meaning of a Formula in a Combination of Intuitionistic and Classical Propositional Logic"
• Roussanka Loukanova
"Logic Operators and Quantifiers in Type-Theory of Algorithms"
• Philippe de Groote
"Deriving formal semantic representations from dependency structures"

• Kohei Kishida
"Modal Reasoning and Theorizing in Quantified Modal Logic"

3rd Day: November 21 (Mon)

• Chungmin Lee
"Factivity Alternation Types and Compensatory Prosodic Focus Marking"
• Kei Yoshimoto, Joseph Tabolt, Zhen Zhou, Hiromi Kaji and Tamami Shimada
"The Discourse Function of Aspect in Japanese"
• Masaya Taniguch and Satoshi Tojo
"Left-branching tree in CCG with D combinator"

• Junya Fukuta and Koji Shimamura
"To be Canceled, or Not to be Canceled: Reconsidering the Caused Possession in the Dative Alternation Experimentally"
• Oleg Kiselyov and Haruki Watanabe
"Events and Relative Clauses"
• Shimpei Endo
"Truthmaker Semantics for Degreeism of Vagueness"

• Simon Goldstein and John Hawthorne
"KK is Wrong Because We Say So"
• Dan Zeman
"Three Rich-Lexicon Theories of Slurs: A Comparison"
• David Strohmaier and Simon Wimmer
"Contrafactives and learnability"

• Nayuta Miki
"Gricean Pragmatics According to Himself"

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Program Committee:

• Daisuke Bekki (Ochanomizu University)
• Alastair Butler (Hirosaki University)
• Patrick D. Elliott (Heinrich-Heine University of Dusseldorf)
• Naoya Fujikawa (University of Tokyo)
• Yurie Hara (Hokkaido University)
• Robert Henderson (University of Arizona)
• Hitomi Hirayama (Keio University)
• Magdalena Kaufmann (University of Connecticut)
• 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 (Ochanomizu University)
• Kei Yoshimoto (Tohoku University)

Local Organizers:

• Yoshiki Mori (University of Tokyo)
• Ribeka Tanaka (Ochanomizu University)
• Yuta Takahashi (Ochanomizu University)

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