Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics 20 (LENLS20)

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 (e.g. substructural, fuzzy, categorical, and topological logic)
• Formal philosophy of language
• Scientific methodology and/or experimental design in linguistics

LENLS20 is scheduled to take place in a in-person format (with a physical presence in Osaka), but with a limited option for a virtual presence via zoom.

Selected Papers

LENLS20 is held under the umbrella of The Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI). 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 FoLLI.

Important dates:

Registration:

The registration is available via the link below.

Lunch Map:

Program

1st Day: November 18 (Sat)

• Lukas Rieser
"Intonational meaning at the limits of grammar"
• Christopher Davis
"Towards a semantics of the Javanese speech level system"
• Ivan Rygaev
"Semantic-pragmatic account of syntactic structures"

• [online] Roussanka Loukanova
"Semantics of Propositional Attitudes in Type-Theory of Algorithms"
• [online] Camilo Rodriguez Ronderos, Emma Mathisen, Ira Noveck and Ingrid Lossius Falkum
"When children are more pragmatic than adults: Norwegian children's comprehension of contextualized absolute adjectives"
• Linmin Zhang
"An Inquisitive-Semantics perspective on NPI licensing: the cases of only and any more"

• Shao-Yu Huang and I-Ta Hsieh
"On the Ye/Haishi alternation in Mandarin Concessive Conditionals"
• Yusuke Yagi
"Two Places Where We Need Plug-negation in Update Semantics"
• Osamu Sawada
"The Japanese negative polarity item hitotsu `even': An event semantics approach"

• Gregoire Winterstein
"Argumentative meaning - Semantics with a purpose"

2nd Day: November 19 (Sun)

• Satoru Suzuki
"Additively-Semiordered-Qualitative-Conditional-Probability-Theoretic Foundations of Logic of Probabilistic Indiscriminability"
• Noritsugu Hayashi
"Additivity in Attention Semantics"
• Ka-Fat Chow
"Internal Reading and Reciprocity"

• [online] Kohei Kishida
"Topology and Justified True Belief: A Baseless, Evidence-Free (and Pointless) Approach"
• Timothee Mickus and Timothee Bernard
"Distributional, yes? but semantics? Comparing distributional representations, semantics and syntax"
• Oleg Kiselyov
"Towards a Theory of Anaphoric Binding in Event Semantics"

• [online] Daiki Matsuoka, Daisuke Bekki and Hitomi Yanaka
"Appositive Projection as Implicit Context Extension in Dependent Type Semantics"
• Hayate Funakura
"Focus Representation and Backward Underspecication in Dependent Type Semantics"
• Haruka Fukushima, Daniel Plesniak and Daisuke Bekki
"Matrix and Relative Weak Crossover on the Level of the Individual: A Proposed Experimental Investigation"

• Kohei Kajikawa
"Analyzing Japanese Cleft Construction in Combinatory Categorial Grammar"
• Philippe de Groote
"On the semantics of dependencies: relative clauses and open clausal complements"

3rd Day: November 20 (Mon)

• Alastair Butler
"Dot-to-dot semantic representation"
• Zhuang Chen and Yael Greenberg
"Associating with covert focus: A unified, even-like semantics for Mandarin geng"
• Pola Osher and Yael Greenberg
"Comparing Degree-Based and Argumentative Analyses of Even"

• Kata Balogh
"Negation and information structure in Tree-Wrapping Grammar"
• [online] Julie Goncharov
"Actions and beliefs"
• [online] Stergios Chatzikyriakidis and Giorgos Spathas
"A unified analysis of the semantics and pragmatics of Greek polydefinites"

• [online] Simon Vonlanthen
"Use, Compositionality and Prior's Puzzle"
• [online] Seyed Habib Hosseini Saravani, Sara Besharati and Gregoire Winterstein
"Are Language Models Capable of Detecting the Topoi in Argumentative Statements?"
• [online] Kristina Liefke
"Perspective and the Self in Experiential Attitude Reports"

• Takanobu Nakamura
"Cumulative questions and structured witnesses"
• Philippe de Groote, Maxime Guillaume, Agathe Helman, Sylvain Pogodalla and Raphael Salmon
"Extending Abstract Categorial Grammars with Feature Structures: Theory and Practice"

Alternates

• Hitomi Yanaka
"Compositional Account of Event Quantification in Dependent Type Semantics"
• Daiki Matsumoto
"Making Commitment Explicit: Case Study from the Japanese Discourse Particle Ne in Interrogatives"

Sponsor

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Program Committee:

• Elin McCready (Aoyama Gakuin University)
• Daisuke Bekki (Ochanomizu University)
• Koji Mineshima (Keio 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)
• Yoshiki Mori (University of Tokyo)
• David Y. Oshima (Nagoya University)
• Katsuhiko Sano (Hokkaido University)
• Osamu Sawada (Kobe University)
• Eri Tanaka (Osaka University)
• Wataru Uegaki (University of Edinburgh)
• Katsuhiko Yabushita (Naruto University of Education)
• Kei Yoshimoto (Tohoku University)
• Shunsuke Yatabe (Ochanomizu University)

Local Organizers:

• Eri Tanaka (Osaka University)
• Akitaka Yamada (Osaka University)

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