ESSLI - 98 Workshop on

LOGIC AND PRAGMATICS
AUGUST 24 - 28

The workshop is held as part of the 10th European Summer School in Logic,Language and Information (ESSLI - 98). August 17-28, 1998. Saarbrueken, Germany

PAPERS

FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

Organizer: Jens Allwood (Dept of Linguistics, Göteborg University, Sweden)

Web page: http://www.ling.gu.se/~jens/logprag.html

Background

Logic and Pragmatics

Logic has been applied to pragmatics at least since the 1950:s. Among the first attempts were Richard Martin's formalization of epistemic notions and Yehoshua Bar Hillel's discussion of the logical nature of deixis. Other well known efforts are Searle's and Vanderveken's formalization of the semantics of speech act terms.

Contributions of logic to pragmatics have also been made under rubric of semantics. For example,what Richard Montague called pragmatics (formalization of tense and modality) has by many others been called semantics.

Without worrying too much about such at least partly terminological issues, the workshop will concentrate on the use of logic to formalize and understand such areas as

Dialog analysis, for example, in the context of NLP systems
Contextual determination of meaning
The use of logic in corpus based analysis of language.

However, a discussion of other uses of logic in pragmatics is also warmly welcome.

WORKSHOP AIMS

The workshop aims to

provide a setting for PhD students and other researchers to present and discuss their work
facilitate the exchange of ideas between researchers working in different areas of logic and pragmatics

CALL FOR PAPERS:

All researchers in the area, but especially PhD students are invited to submit short papers (between 4 and 8 pages long) describing their thesis/research topic, approach and results. Talks will be 20 or 45 minutes long, with 10 - 15 minutes for discussion/questions. Authors are also encouraged to submit a list of topics they would like to see discussed at the workshop. This will help to identify issues for discussion and debate.

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: February 15, 1998

Paper submissions should be sent to:

Prof. Jens Allwood
Dept of Linguistics
University of G teborg
412 98 Goeteborg
Sweden

Electronic submission is also welcomed. In this case submissions should be in the form of either PostScript or self-contained LaTex and sent to:jens.allwood@ling.gu.se

Authors of accepted papers will be notified by April 15th 1998. The deadline for receipt of revised papers to appear in the workshop proceedings is May 15th 1998.

WORKSHOP FORMAT:

The workshop will consist of five sessions of 90 minutes each held over five days. There will be either two or three presentations at each session with time for questions and discussion.

REGISTRATION:

Workshop contributors will be required to register for ESSLLI-98, but they will be eligible for a reduced registration fee.

IMPORTANT DATES:

Feb 15, 98: Deadline for submissions Apr 15, 98: Notification of acceptance May 15, 98: Deadline for final copy Aug 24, 98: Start of workshop

FURTHER INFORMATION:

To obtain further information about ESSLLI-98 please visit the ESSLLI-98 home page at http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/esslli