5th International Workshop on Constraints and Language Processing

[Jørgen Villadsen]

SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS
5th International Workshop on Constraints and Language Processing (CSLP2008)
http://control.ruc.dk/CSLP2008/
August 11-15, 2008

organized as part of the European Summer School on Logic, Language and Information ESSLLI 2008 (http://www.illc.uva.nl/ESSLLI2008/), 4-15 August, 2008 in Hamburg, Germany

Workshop Organizers:

Philippe Blache (Provence University, France)
Henning Christiansen (Roskilde University, Denmark), co-chair henning at ruc.dk
Veronica Dahl (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
Jørgen Villadsen (Technical University of Denmark), co-chair jv at imm.dtu.dk

Workshop Purpose:

The CSLP 2008 workshop addresses the question of constraints and language processing from an interdisciplinary perspective. Constraints are widely used in linguistics, computer science, and psychology. How they are used, however, varies widely according to the research domain: natural language processing, knowledge representation, cognitive modelling, problem solving mechanisms, etc. The purpose is to pursue a paradigm, unifying the different approaches into a common framework capable of explaining how constraints play a role in representing, processing and acquiring linguistic information, and this from a formal, technical, and cognitive perspective.

Workshop Topics:

The topics include, but are not limited to, constraint-based linguistic theories, constraints in human language comprehension and production, context modelling and discourse interpretation, acquisition of constraints, probabilistic constraint-based reasoning, constraint satisfaction technologies and constraint logic programming.

Submission Details:

Authors are invited to submit a full paper of up to 12 pages in PDF format.
The font size must be at least 10 pt when printed on A4 paper.
It is recommended that the LaTeX "article" style is used.
Previously published papers cannot be accepted.
The submissions will be reviewed by the program committee.
The accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings published by ESSLLI.
One author for each accepted paper must attend the workshop in order to present the paper.
Proceedings are printed as a technical report (with ISSN no.) and made available online.
Selected and extended papers will be included in a volume of Studies in Computational Intelligence published by Springer.
Please use the CSLP 2008 submission page handled by the EasyChair conference system: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=CSLP2008

Workshop Format:

The workshop is part of ESSLLI and is open to all ESSLLI participants. 
It will consist of five 90-minute sessions held over five consecutive days in the second week of ESSLLI.

Invited Speakers:

    * Helen de Hoop http://baserv.uci.kun.nl/~hdehoop/
    * Additional invited speaker to be confirmed

Workshop Programme Committee:

Philippe Blache (Provence University, France)
Henning Christiansen (Roskilde University, Denmark), co-chair
Veronica Dahl (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
Denys Duchier (University of Orléans, France)
John Gallagher (Roskilde University, Denmark)
Claire Gardent (CNRS/LORIA, Nancy, France)
Barbara Hemforth (Provence University, France)
M. Dolores Jiménez-López (Tarragona, Spain)
Lars Konieczny (Freiburg University, Germany)
Shalom Lappin (King's College, UK)
Detmar Meurers (Ohio State University, USA)
Véronique Moriceau (LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay, France)
Gerald Penn (University of Toronto, Canada)
Kiril Simov (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria)
Jørgen Villadsen (Technical University of Denmark), co-chair
Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie (INRIA, France)

Important Dates:

Submission Deadline: March 8, 2008
Notification: April 21, 2008
Preliminary Program: April 24, 2008
ESSLLI Early Registration: May 1, 2008
Final Papers for Proceedings: May 17, 2008
Final Program: June 21, 2008
Workshop Dates: August 11-15, 2008

Local Arrangements:

All workshop participants including the presenters will be required to register for ESSLLI. The registration fee for authors presenting a paper will correspond to the early student/workshop speaker registration fee. There will be no reimbursement for travel costs and accommodation.

Further Information:

About the workshop: http://control.ruc.dk/CSLP2008/
About ESSLLI: http://www.illc.uva.nl/ESSLLI2008/