Logic and Algorithms in Computational Linguistics 2021 (LACompLing2021)
Wednesday 15, Thursday 16, Friday 17 December 2021
All times are Central European Times (CET)
(Dec 14 14:16 CET 2021)

LACompLing2021 (15-17 Dec 2021) is part of MALIN (13-17 Dec 2021), U. de Montpellier, LIRMM, CNRS, France

Online streaming by CNRS, Montpellier, France
https://malin2021.sciencesconf.org/

LACompLing 2021 Programme

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Time Slotes
Keynote Talks: up to 1 hour
Invited Talks: up to 40 min
Contributed talks: 20 min
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WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 15 / Wed 15 Dec

09:00-9::40  Wed 15 Dec
Stefan Müller (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany)
The CoreGram Project: Deriving Crosslinguisitc Generalizations with HPSG Grammars of Multiple Languages (Invited Talk)

9:40-10:20  Wed 15 Dec
Lars Hellan (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)
A Unified Valence Resource (Invited Talk)

10:20-10:40 Break

10:40-11:00  Wed 15 Dec
Luuk Suurmeijer (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf), Noortje Venhuizen (Saarland University) and Harm Brouwer (Saarland University, Germany)
Compositionality in Distributional Formal Semantics

11:00-12:00  Wed 15 Dec
Michael Moortgat (Utrecht University, Netherlands)
Dependency Relations, Modalities and the Syntax-Semantics Interface (Keynote Talk)

12:00-13:30 Lunch break

13:30-14:10  Wed 15 Dec
Stepan Kuznetsov (Steklov Mathematical Institute, RAS, Russia)
Complexity of the Lambek Calculus and Its Extensions (Invited Talk)

14:10-14:30 Wed 15 Dec 
Renhao Pei (Utrecht University, Netherlands)
Generating Pragmatically Appropriate Sentences from Propositional Logic: the Case of Conditional and Biconditional

14:30-15:30  Wed 15 Dec
Christian Retoré (Université de Montpellier and LIRMM-CNRS, France)
Inferentialism and Natural Language Semantics, with a Focus on Quantifiers (Keynote Talk)

15:30-15:50 Break

15:50-16:30  Wed 15 Dec
Denis Bechet (LS2N - University of Nantes, France) and Annie Foret (IRISA, University of Rennes 1, France)
Categorial Dependency Grammars: Analysis and Learning (Invited Talk)

16:30-17:30  Wed 15 Dec
Tracy King (Adobe, United States)
White Roses, Red Backgrounds: Bringing Structured Representations to Search (Keynote Talk)

THURSDAY DECEMBER 16 / Thu 16 Dec

09:00-09:20 Thu 16 Dec
Hitomi Yanaka (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
Towards Compositional Semantics and Inference System for Telicity

09:20-09:40 Thu 16 Dec
Daisuke Bekki, Ribeka Tanaka and Yuta Takahashi
(Ochanomizu University, Japan)
Integrating Deep Neural Network with Dependent Type Semantics

09:40-10:20 Thu 16 Dec
Zhaohui Luo (Dept of Computer Science, Royal Holloway, Univ of London, United Kingdom)
Universes in Type-Theoretical Semantics (Invited Talk)

10:20-10:40 Break

10:40-11:20 Thu 16 Dec
Kristina Liefke (Ruhr University Bochum, Germany)
Meaning-Driven Combinatorial Restrictions and 'imagine *whether' (Invited Talk)

11:20-12:00 Thu 16 Dec
Alexey Stukachev (Sobolev Institute of Mathematics, Novosibirsk State University, Russia)
Generalized Computability and Effective Model Theory in Mathematical Linguistics (Invited Talk)

12:00-13:30 Lunch break 

13:30-14:30 Thu 16 Dec
Richard Moot, (Université de Montpellier and LIRMM-CNRS, Montpellier, France
Graph Rewriting as a Universal Proof Theory for Modern Type-Logical Grammars (Keynote Talk)

14:30-15:30 Thu 16 Dec
Randy Harris (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Rhetorical Figures as Algorithms (Keynote Address)

FRIDAY DECEMBER 17 / Fri 17 Dec

09:00-10:00 Fri 17 Dec
Aarne Ranta (University of Gothenburg, Sweden)
Abstract Wikipedia and Vastly Multilingual Natural Language Generation (Keynote Talk)

10:00-10:20 Fri 17 Dec
Inari Listenmaa (Singapore Management University, Singapore),
Martin Strecker (Singapore Management University, Singapore) and
Warrick Macmillan (University of Gothenburg, Sweden)
Natural Language Generation and Processing for the Legal Domain

10:20-10:40 Break

10:40-11:20 Fri 17 Dec
Bjoern Jespersen (Utrecht University, Netherlands)
Impossibilities without Impossibilia (Invited Talk)

11:20-12:00 Fri 17 Dec
Marie Duzi (VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czechia)
Questions and Answers on Dynamic Activities of Agents (Invited Talk)

12:00-13:30 Lunch break

13:30-13:50 Fri 17 Dec
Symon Jory Stevensguille (The Ohio State University, United States)
Decomposing Events into GOLOG

13:50-14:30 Fri 17 Dec
Lasha Abzianidze (Utrecht University, Netherlands)
How to Train a Theorem Prover for Natural Language Inference (Invited Talk)

14:30-15:30 Fri 17 Dec
Larry Moss (Indiana University Mathematics Department, United States)
Monotonicity in Natural Language Inference: Theory and Practice (Keynote Talk LACL / LACompLing2021)

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