Workshop on
Logic and Algorithms in Computational Linguistics 2017 (LACompLing2017)

Stockholm, August 16–19, 2017
Department of Mathematics, Stockholm University


PROGRAM

Day 1: Wednesday, 16 Aug, 2017

09:00-09:20 Registration
09:20-09:30 Opening
Chair: Roussanka Loukanova
09:30-10:30
 
Lars Hellan (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) Keynote Speaker
Large Scale ‘Deep’ Grammars - a success, and a long way to go
10:30-10:50 Coffee Break
Chair: Joakim Nivre
10:50-11:50
 
Peter Pagin (Stockholm University) Invited Speaker
Switcher Semantics and Belief Sentences
11:50-12:10
 
 
Maria Skeppstedt, Kostiantyn Kucher, Carita Paradis and Andreas Kerren
(Linnaeus University, Lund University)
Language Processing Components of the StaViCTA Project
12:10-13:40 Lunch
Chair: Robin Cooper
13:40-14:40
 
Henriëtte de Swart (Utrecht University) Keynote Speaker
Time in Translation
14:40-15:40
 
Joakim Nivre (Uppsala University) Invited Speaker
The Logic of Universal Dependencies
15:40-16:00 Coffee Break
Chair: Lucas Champollion
16:00-17:00
 
Fredrik Engström (University of Gothenburg) Invited Speaker
Generalized Quantifiers and Team Semantics
17:00-17:20
 
Justyna Grudzinska and Marek Zawadowski (University of Warsaw)
Relational Nouns, Inverse Linking and Haddock Descriptions: a unified dependent type account
17:20-17:50
 
Stefan Evert, Philipp Heinrich, Klaus Henselmann, Ulrich Rabenstein, Elisabeth Scherr and Lutz Schröder (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg)
Combining Machine Learning and Semantic Features in the Classification of Corporate Disclosures

Day2: Thursday, 17 Aug, 2017

Chair: Lars Hellan
09:00-10:00
 
Ann Copestake (University of Cambridge) Keynote Speaker
Logical Forms in Broad-coverage Grammar Development
10:00-10:20 Coffee Break
10:20-11:10
 
Gleb Lobanov and Krasimir Angelov (Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg)
Planning for Natural Language Generation in GF
11:10-12:10
 
Sam Sanders (Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich) Invited Speaker
A Computable Solution to Partee's Temperature Puzzle (jww Kristina Liefke)
12:10-13:40 Lunch
Chair: Henriëtte de Swart
13:40-14:40
 
Valia Kordoni (Humboldt University Berlin) Keynote Speaker
Deep Learning for Multiword Expressions
14:40-15:40
 
Richard Moot (CNRS, France) Invited Speaker
First-order Linear Logic for Natural Language Analysis
15:40-16:00 Coffee Break
Chair: Wojciech Buszkowski
16:00-17:00
 
Rainer Osswald (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf) Invited Speaker
Frame-semantic Composition at the Syntax-semantics Interface
17:00-18:00
 
Nikola Kompa (University of Osnabrück) Invited Speaker
Language Evolution: Gricean Intentions meet Lewisian Conventions

Day3: Friday, 18 Aug, 2017

Chair: Peter Pagin
09:00-10:00
 
Chris Barker (New York University) Keynote Speaker
Parsing Sluicing
10:00-10:20 Coffee Break
10:20-11:20
 
Glyn Morrill (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya) Invited Speaker
Parsing Logical Grammar: CatLog3
11:20-11:40
 
Gijs Wijnholds and Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh (Queen Mary University of London)
Vector Semantics for Lambek Calculus with Contraction
11:40-12:10
 
Yukiko Yana, Daisuke Bekki and Koji Mineshima (Ochanomizu University and CREST, Japan Science and Technology Agency)
Variable Handling in DRT and DTS
12:10-13:30 Lunch
Chair: Richard Moot
13:30-14:30
 
Wojciech Buszkowski (Adam Mickiewicz University) Keynote Speaker
On Involutive Nonassociative Lambek Calculus
14:30-15:30
 
Markus Werning (Ruhr University Bochum) Invited Speaker
Compositionality in a World Without Synonyms --- Existence and Uniqueness of a Similarity-based Semantics
15:30-15:50 Coffee Break
Chair: Nikola Kompa
15:50-16:50
 
Louise McNally (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) Invited Speaker
On the Relation between Descriptive Content and Reference and its Implications for Computational Modeling
16:50-17:50
 
Mila Vulchanova (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) Invited Speaker
Figurative Language Processing: a bottleneck in developmental deficits and NLP

Day4: Saturday, 19 Aug, 2017

Chair: Chris Barker
9:30-10:30
 
Robin Cooper (University of Gothenburg) Keynote Speaker
Neural TTR (Type Theory with Records)
10:30-10:50 Coffee Break
10:50-11:50
 
Staffan Larsson (University of Gothenburg) Invited Speaker
Modeling Intensions as Classifiers
12:00-13:30 Lunch
Chair: Ann Copestake
13:30-14:30
 
Gerald Penn (University of Toronto) Invited Speaker
What Does it Mean to Parse with Categorial Grammar?
14:30-15:30
 
Gintare Grigonyte (Stockholm University) Invited Speaker
Hybrid Way. Experience from organising domain language into knowledge bases, language acquisition and language evolution
15:30-15:50 Coffee Break
Chair: Glyn Morrill
15:50-16:50
 
Lucas Champollion (New York University) Invited Speaker
Two Switches in the Theory of Counterfactuals: a study of truth conditionality and minimal change (jww Ivano Ciardelli and Linmin Zhang)
16:50-17:50
 
Roussanka Loukanova (Stockholm University) Invited Speaker
Type Theory of Situated Algorithms and Information

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