CALL FOR PAPERS

Partiality, Underspecification, and Natural Language Processing - PUaNLP 2016

Special Session at ICAART 2016 

http://www.icaart.org/SpecialSessions.aspx

Rome, Italy | 24 - 26 February, 2016

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Extended Deadline for Paper Submission: November 30, 2015
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SCOPE

Computational and technological developments that incorporate natural language are proliferating. Adequate coverage encounters difficult problems related to partiality, underspecification, and context-dependency, which are signature features of information in nature and natural languages. Furthermore, agents (humans or computational systems) can participate in informational content, or influence its flow as information conveyors and interpreters.

The session covers theoretical work, advanced applications, approaches, and techniques for computational models of information and its presentation by language (artificial, human, or natural in other ways). The goal is to promote intelligent natural language processing and related models of thought, mental states, reasoning, and other cognitive processes.

TOPICS

The session invites contributions relevant to the following topics, without limitations to them:

- Type theories for applications to language and information processing

- Computational grammar

- Computational semantics

- Computational syntax-semantics interface

- Parsing

- Multilingual processing

- Large-scale grammars of natural languages

- Models of computation and algorithms for natural language processing

- Integration of interdisciplinary methods, e.g., formal, computational, model theoretic, graphical, diagrammatic, statistical, and other related methods

- Computational models of partiality, underspecification, and context-dependency

- Models of situations, contexts, and agents, for applications to language processing

- Bio-information and natural language

- Language processing based on biological fundamentals of information and languages

- Computational neuroscience of language

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IMPORTANT DATES

Paper Submission: November 30, 2015
Authors Notification: December 9, 2015
Camera Ready and Registration: December 17, 2015

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PAPER SUBMISSION 

Prospective authors are invited to submit papers in any of the topics listed above.

Instructions for preparing the manuscripts (in Word and Latex formats) are available at ICAART 2016 website (http://www.icaart.org/). Please, check the page Guidelines and Templates:

http://www.icaart.org/GuidelinesTemplates.aspx

Papers should be submitted electronically via the web-based submission system at:http://www.insticc.org/Primoris

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PUBLICATIONS

The publication rules for PUaNLP are the same as for ICAART conference. Regular Papers classified as Full Papers will be assigned a 12-page limit in the Conference Proceedings, while Regular Papers classified as Short Papers have an 8-page limit. For more details, see the Guidelines and Templates of ICAART 2016:

http://www.icaart.org/GuidelinesTemplates.aspx

All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the SCITEPRESS Digital Library. It is planned to publish a short list of revised and extended versions of presented papers with Springer in a LNAI Series book.

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ORGANIZERS

Roussanka Loukanova, Stockholm University, Sweden 
M. Dolores Jiménez-López, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain
Henning Christiansen, Roskilde University, Denmark

CONTACT INFORMATION

If you have any question please feel free to contact us at the following addresses: 

M. Dolores Jiménez-López (mariadolores.jimenez@urv.cat)
Roussanka Loukanova (rloukanova@gmail.com)