The CFP for the workshop, copied below, describes issues that are
central to language and reasoning. Some of the organizers, such
as Shalom Lappin, had been publishing research on formal semantics
for NLs for over 25 years. His book is one of the last of the
major publications in that field: (01)
Fox, Chris, & Shalom Lappin (2005) _Foundations of Intensional
Semantics_, Oxford: Blackwell. (02)
But even Shalom recognized that continuing to produce ever more
sophisticated logics for NL is a dead end. I strongly recommend
the workshop description below as a more fruitful strategy. (03)
John (04)
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Subject: CFP APL'2, The Second Workshop on Action, Perception and Language
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2014 13:52:55 +0200
From: Simon Dobnik <simon@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: corpora@xxxxxx (05)
CALL FOR PAPERS (06)
APL'2: The Second Workshop on Action, Perception and Language (07)
Co-located with SLTC 2014, Uppsala, Sweden (08)
13th of November, 2014 (09)
http://clt.gu.se/dialogue-technology-lab/sltc2014-apl2
http://www2.lingfil.uu.se/SLTC2014/index.html (010)
Submission deadline: 25 September 2014 (011)
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION (012)
Situated agents must be able to interact with the physical environment
that are located in with their conversational partner. Such an agent
receives information both from its conversational partner and the
physical world which it must integrate appropriately. Furthermore, since
both the world and the language are changeable from one context to
another it must be able to adapt to such changes or to learn from new
information. Embodied and situated language processing is trying to
solve challenges in natural language processing such as word sense
disambiguation and interpretation of words in discourse as well as it
gives us new insights about human cognition, knowledge, meaning and its
representation. Research in vision relies on information represented in
natural language, for example in the form ontologies, as this captures
how humans partition and reason about the world. On the other hand,
gestures and sign language are languages that are expressed and
interpreted as visual information. (013)
The Second Workshop on Action, Perception and Language (APL’2) is a
continuation of a successful APL workshop held at SLTC 2012 in Lund and
is intended to a be a networking and community building event for
researchers that are interested in any form of interaction of natural
language with the physical world in a computational framework. Example
areas include semantic theories of human language, action and
perception, situated dialogue, situated language acquisition, grounding
of language in action and perception, spatial cognition, generation and
interpretation of gestures, generation and interpretation of scene
descriptions from images and videos, integrated robotic systems and
others. We welcome papers that describe either theoretical and practical
solutions as well as work in progress. (014)
Research connecting language and the world is a burgeoning research area
to which several international conferences and workshops are devoted. It
intends to connect several scientific communities (natural language
technology, computer vision, robotics, localisation and navigation).
Traditionally, natural language technology has worked separate from the
other fields but research in the last 15 years has shown that there
exist many synergies between them and that hybrid approaches may provide
better solutions to many challenging problems, for example
interpretation and generation of spatial language and object
recognition. We hope that the APL workshop collocated with the SLTC
conference would become a local forum that would lead to new
collaborations between computer vision and natural language communities
in Sweden. (015)
WORKSHOP ORGANISERS (016)
* Simon Dobnik (University of Gothenburg)
* Staffan Larsson (University of Gothenburg)
* Robin Cooper (University of Gothenburg) (017)
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE (018)
Anja Belz (University of Brighton), Johan Boye (KTH), Robin Cooper
(University of Gothenburg), Nigel Crook (Oxford Brookes University),
Simon Dobnik (University of Gothenburg), Jens Edlund (KTH), Raquel
Fernández (University of Amsterdam), Anna Hjalmarsson (KTH), Christine
Howes (University of Gothenburg), John Kelleher (Dublin Institute of
Technology), Emiel Krahmer (Tilburg University), Shalom Lappin (King's
College, London), Staffan Larsson (University of Gothenburg), Pierre
Lison (University of Oslo), Joanna Olszewska (University of
Gloucestershire), Matthew Purver (Queen Mary, University of London),
Robert Ross (Dublin Institute of Technology), David Schlangen (Bielefeld
University), and Holger Schultheis (University of Bremen) and others (019)
SUBMISSION DETAILS (020)
We welcome 2 page extended abstracts formatted according to the SLTC
templates for LaTeX http://www2.lingfil.uu.se/SLTC2014/sltc2014.zip and
Word http://www2.lingfil.uu.se/SLTC2014/sltc2014.docx (021)
Please submit your abstract as a pdf document with your author details
removed through EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=apl2 (022)
The submitted abstracts will be published on the workshop web-page and
the authors will be given an opportunity to present their work at the
workshop as oral presentations and/or posters (depending on the type and
number of submissions). (023)
Following the workshop the contributing authors will be invited to
submit full-length (8 page) papers to be published in the CEUR Workshop
Proceedings (ISSN 1613-0073) online. (024)
IMPORTANT DATES (025)
* September, 25: extended abstract submission deadline
* October, 9: notification of acceptance
* October 13: SLTC early registration deadline
* October, 30: camera-ready extended abstracts for publication
* November, 13 09.00 - 12.00: workshop (026)
CONTACT DETAILS (027)
apl@xxxxxxxxxx
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