Call for Papers

ICAART 2015 Special Session on Partiality, Underspecification, and Natural Language Processing (PUaNLP 2015)

Lisbon (Portugal)
10-12 January, 2015

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


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) are information conveyors, interpreters, or participate as components of informational content. Generally, language expression depends on agents' knowledge, reasoning, perspectives, and interactions. The session covers theoretical work, approaches, and techniques for computational models of information and its presentation by language. The goal is to promote intelligent natural language processing and related models of thought, mental states, reasoning, and other cognitive processes. Computational neuroscience of information and language is of special interest, with existing or potential applications to Artificial Intelligence.

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 of natural language 
* Computational semantics of natural languages 
* 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, symbolic, model theoretic, and other computational 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

IMPORTANT DATES

* Paper Submission: November 17, 2014
* Authors Notification: November 24, 2014
* Camera Ready and Registration: December 3, 2014

PAPER SUBMISSION

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

Instructions for preparing the manuscript (in Word and Latex formats) are available at: Paper Templates

Please also check the Guidelines and Templates.

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

PUBLICATIONS

All accepted papers will be published in a special section of the conference proceedings book - under an ISBN reference and on CD-ROM support - and submitted for indexation by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (ISI), INSPEC, DBLP, EI (Elsevier Index) and Scopus.
SCITEPRESS is a member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/) and every paper is given a DOI (Digital Object Identifier).

All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the SCITEPRESS Digital Library. 

A short list of presented papers will be selected so that revised and extended versions of these papers will be published by Springer-Verlag in a LNAI Series book. 

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 address:
mariadolores.jimenez@urv.cat