Program committee chairs
- MOL Frank Drewes (U. Uppsala)
- LACL Richard Moot (LIRMM, Univ Montpellier CNRS) and Annie Foret (IRISA, U. Rennes 1)
- LACompLing Roussanka Loukanova (Bulgaria Academy of Sciences)
- MaLin short papers Christian Retoré (LIRMM, Univ Montpellier CNRS
MONDAY DECEMBER 13
MOL 2021 Preliminary Program
08:45-09:00 Opening
09:00-10:00 Invited talk
Miloš Stanojević (DeepMind, London, UK) - CCG Combinators in Incremental Processing, Brain Activity and Linguistic Universals
10:00-10:15 Break
10:15-10:50 Jinman Zhao and Gerald Penn. A Generative Process for Lambek Categorial Proof Nets
10:50-11:25 Pablo Lopez Alonso. German Verb Particle Constructions in CCG
11:25-12:00 Philippe de Groote and Valentin D. Richard. Embedding Intentional Semantic into Inquisitive Semantics
12:00-13:00 Lunch break
13:00-14:00 Invited talk
Jane Chandlee (Haverford College, PA, USA) - Subregular Phonology and Recursive Program Schemes
14:00-14:15 Break
14:15-14:50 Phillip Burness and Kevin McMullin. More Efficiently Identifying the Tiers of Strictly 2-local Tier-based Functions
14:50-15:25 Kevin Mcmullin and Phillip Burness. Tier-based Modeling of Gradience and Distance-based Decay in Phonological Processes
15:25-16:00 Alexander Clark. Strong Learning of some Probabilistic Multiple Context-Free Grammars
16:00-16:30 Break
16:30-17:30 SIGMOL Business Meeting
TUESDAY DECEMBER 14
LACL 2021 Preliminary Program
09:00-09:40 Yukiko Yana (Ochanomizu University), Koji Mineshima (Keio University) and Daisuke Bekki (Ochanomizu University), The proviso problem from a proof-theoretic perspective
09:40-10:20 Maxime Amblard, Maria Boritchev and Philippe de Groote (Université de Lorraine, CNRS, Inria, LORIA), An inquisitive account of wh-questions through event semantics
10:20-10:40 Break
10:40-11:20 Alexey Stukachev (Novosibirsk State University, Sobolev Institute of Mathematics) and Artem Burnistov (Novosibirsk State University), Computable Functionals of Finite Types in Montague Semantics
11:20-12:00 Lachlan McPheat, Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh and Hadi Wazni (University College London), Vector Space Semantics for Lambek Calculus with Soft Subexponentials
12:00-13:30 Lunch break
13:30-14:10 William Babonnaud (Loria, Université de Lorraine, CNRS, Inria Nancy Grand-Est), Covariant Subtyping Applied to Semantic Predicate Calculi
14:10-14:50 Yusuke Kubota (National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics) and Robert Levine (Ohio State University), The logic of the English auxiliary system
14:50-15:30 Zhaohui Luo (Royal Holloway, University of London), On Type-Theoretical Semantics of Donkey Anaphora
15:30-15:50 Break
15:50-16:30 Arno Bastenhof, Replacing implications with negation in non-associative Lambek calculus
16:30-17:10 Oriol Valentín (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya), Algebraic Semantics for Full Displacement Calculus with Linguistic Subexponentials and Bracket Modalities
17:10-17:30 Break
MALIN short paper session
17:30-17:45 Meaghan Fowlie. Generalised Minimalist Grammars
17:45-18:00 Zalan Gyenis, Andras Kornai. Naive probability
WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 15
LACompLing 2021 Preliminary Program
09:00-9:40 Stefan Müller (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany)
The CoreGram Project: Deriving Crosslinguisitc Generalizations with HPSG Grammars of Multiple Languages (Invited Talk)
9:40-10:20 Lars Hellan (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)
A Unified Valence Resource (Invited Talk)
10:20-10:40 Break
10:40-11:00 Luuk Suurmeijer (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf), Noortje Venhuizen (Saarland University) and Harm Brouwer (Saarland University, Germany)
Compositionality in Distributional Formal Semantics
11:00-12:00 Michael Moortgat (Utrecht University, Netherlands)
Dependency Relations, Modalities and the Syntax-Semantics Interface (Keynote Talk)
12:00-13:30 Lunch break
13:30-14:10 Stepan Kuznetsov (Steklov Mathematical Institute, RAS, Russia)
Complexity of the Lambek Calculus and Its Extensions (Invited Talk)
14:10-14:30 Renhao Pei (Utrecht University, Netherlands)
Generating Pragmatically Appropriate Sentences from Propositional Logic: the Case of Conditional and Biconditional
14:30-15:30 Christian Retoré (Université de Montpellier and LIRMM-CNRS, France)
Inferentialism and Natural Language Semantics, with a Focus on Quantifiers (Keynote Talk)
15:30-15:50 Break
15:50-16:30 Denis Bechet (LS2N - University of Nantes, France) and Annie Foret (IRISA, University of Rennes 1, France)
Categorial Dependency Grammars: Analysis and Learning (Invited Talk)
16:30-17:30 Tracy King (Adobe, United States)
White Roses, Red Backgrounds: Bringing Structured Representations to Search (Keynote Talk)
THURSDAY DECEMBER 16
09:00-09:20 Hitomi Yanaka (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
Towards Compositional Semantics and Inference System for Telicity
09:20-09:40 Daisuke Bekki, Ribeka Tanaka and Yuta Takahashi
(Ochanomizu University, Japan)
Integrating Deep Neural Network with Dependent Type Semantics
09:40-10:20 Zhaohui Luo (Dept of Computer Science, Royal Holloway, Univ of London, United Kingdom)
Universes in Type-Theoretical Semantics (Invited Talk)
10:20-10:40 Break
10:40-11:20 Kristina Liefke (Ruhr University Bochum, Germany)
Meaning-Driven Combinatorial Restrictions and 'imagine *whether' (Invited Talk)
11:20-12:00 Alexey Stukachev (Sobolev Institute of Mathematics, Novosibirsk State University, Russia)
Generalized Computability and Effective Model Theory in Mathematical Linguistics (Invited Talk)
12:00-13:30 Lunch break
13:30-14:30 Richard Moot, (Université de Montpellier and LIRMM-CNRS, Montpellier, France
Graph Rewriting as a Universal Proof Theory for Modern Type-Logical Grammars (Keynote Talk)
14:30-15:30 Randy Harris (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Rhetorical Figures as Algorithms (Keynote Address)
FRIDAY DECEMBER 17
09:00-10:00 Aarne Ranta (University of Gothenburg, Sweden)
Abstract Wikipedia and Vastly Multilingual Natural Language Generation (Keynote Talk)
10:00-10:20 Inari Listenmaa (Singapore Management University, Singapore),
Martin Strecker (Singapore Management University, Singapore) and
Warrick Macmillan (University of Gothenburg, Sweden)
Natural Language Generation and Processing for the Legal Domain
10:20-10:40 Break
10:40-11:20 Bjoern Jespersen (Utrecht University, Netherlands)
Impossibilities without Impossibilia (Invited Talk)
11:20-12:00 Marie Duzi (VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czechia)
Questions and Answers on Dynamic Activities of Agents (Invited Talk)
12:00-13:30 Lunch break
13:30-13:50 Symon Jory Stevensguille (The Ohio State University, United States)
Decomposing Events into GOLOG
13:50-14:30 Lasha Abzianidze (Utrecht University, Netherlands)
How to Train a Theorem Prover for Natural Language Inference (Invited Talk)
14:30-15:30 Larry Moss (Indiana University Mathematics Department, United States)
Monotonicity in Natural Language Inference: Theory and Practice (Keynote Talk LACL / LACompLing2021)
