ESSLLI 2010: first call for course and workshop proposals

Valentin Goranko vfgo at imm.dtu.dk
Do Jun 25 15:31:04 CEST 2009


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22nd European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information
ESSLLI 2010, 9-20 August, 2010, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

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                 CALL FOR COURSE and WORKSHOP PROPOSALS
                 
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The European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI) is
organized every year by the Association for Logic, Language and Information
(FoLLI, http://www.folli.org) in different sites around Europe. The main
focus of ESSLLI is on the interface between linguistics, logic and
computation.  ESSLLI offers foundational, introductory and advanced courses,
as well as workshops, covering a wide variety of topics within the three
areas of interest: Language and Computation, Language and Logic, and Logic
and Computation. Previous summer schools have been highly successful,
attracting up to 500 students from Europe and elsewhere. The school has
developed into an important meeting place and forum for discussion for
students and researchers interested in the interdisciplinary study of Logic,
Language and Information. For more information, visit the FoLLI website, as
well as ESSLLI¹2009 website: http://esslli2009.labri.fr/.

The ESSLLI 2010 Program Committee invites proposals for foundational,
introductory, and advanced courses, and for workshops for the 22nd annual
Summer School on important topics of active research in the broad
interdisciplinary area connecting logic, linguistics, computer science, and
the cognitive sciences, structured within the 3 traditional ESSLLI streams:

   - Language and Computation
   - Language and Logic
   - Logic and Computation

We  also welcome proposals that do not exactly fit one of these categories.

PROPOSAL SUBMISSION: All proposals should be submitted, using a prescribed
form that will be available soon on the ESSLLI 2010 website
www.hum.ku.dk/esslli2010, through EasyChair on
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esslli2010, not later than

                ******* Monday, September 7, 2009 *******

Proposers must hold PhD or equivalent degrees and should follow the
guidelines below while preparing their submissions; proposals that do not
conform with these guidelines may not be considered.


GUIDELINES FOR COURSE AND WORKSHOP PROPOSALS:

ALL COURSES: Courses are given over one week (Monday-Friday) and consist of
five 90 minutes sessions, one per day. Course proposals should give a brief
overview of the topic and a tentative content and structure of the course,
as well as state the course¹s objectives and clearly specify prerequisites,
if any. Lecturers who want to offer a long, two-week course, should submit
two independent one-week courses (for example an introductory course in the
first week of ESSLLI, and a more advanced course during the second).  The
ESSLLI program committee has the right to select only one of the two
proposed courses.

TIMETABLE FOR COURSE PROPOSAL SUBMISSION:

   Sep 7, 2009: Proposal Submission Deadline
   Oct 19, 2009: Notification Deadline
   Jun 30, 2010: Deadline for receipt of camera-ready course material by the
ESSLLI¹2010 local organizers

FOUNDATIONAL COURSES: These are strictly elementary courses not assuming any
background knowledge.  They are intended for people who wish to get
acquainted with the problems and techniques of areas new to them. Ideally,
they should allow researchers from other fields to acquire the key
competencies of neighboring disciplines, thus encouraging the development of
a truly interdisciplinary research community. Foundational courses should
require no special prerequisites, but may presuppose some experience with
scientific methods and general appreciation of the field of the course.

INTRODUCTORY COURSES: Introductory courses are central to the activities of
the Summer School. They are intended to provide an introduction to the
(interdisciplinary) field for students, young researchers, and other
non-specialists, and to equip them with a good understanding of the course
field's basic methods and techniques. Such courses should enable experienced
researchers from other fields to acquire the key competencies of neighboring
disciplines, thus encouraging the development of a truly interdisciplinary
research community. Introductory courses in, for instance, Language and
Computation, can build on some knowledge of the component fields; e.g., an
introductory course in computational linguistics should address an audience
which is familiar with the basics of linguistics and computation.  Proposals
for introductory courses should indicate the level of the course as compared
to standard texts in the area (if available).

ADVANCED COURSES: Advanced courses should be pitched at an audience of
advanced Masters or PhD students.  Proposals for advanced courses should
specify the prerequisites in detail.

WORKSHOPS: Workshops run over one week and consist of five 90-minutes
sessions, one per day. The aim of the workshops is to provide a forum for
advanced Ph.D. students and other researchers to present and discuss their
work. Workshops should have a well defined theme, and workshop organizers
should be specialists in the theme of the workshop. The proposals for
workshops should justify the choice of topic, give an estimate of the number
of attendants and expected submissions, and provide a list of at least 15
potential submitters working in the field of the workshop. The organizers
are required to give a general introduction to the theme during the first
session of the workshop.  They are also responsible for the organization and
program of the workshop including inviting the submission of papers,
reviewing, expenses of invited speakers, etc. In particular, each workshop
organizer will be responsible for sending out a Call for Papers for the
workshop and to organize the selection of the submissions by the deadlines
specified below.  The call for workshop submissions must make it clear that
the workshop is open to all members of the ESSLLI community and should
indicate that all workshop contributors must register for the Summer School.

TIMETABLE FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSAL SUBMISSIONS:

   Sep 7, 2009: Proposal Submission Deadline
   Oct 19, 2009: Notification Deadline
   Nov 02, 2009: Deadline for submission of the Calls for Papers to
ESSLLI¹2010 PC chair
   Nov 09, 2009: Workshop organizers send out First Call for Papers
   Jan 25, 2010: Workshop organizers send out Second Call for Papers
   Mar 08, 2010: Workshop organizers send out Third Call for Papers
   Apr 12, 2010: Suggested deadline for submissions to the workshops
   May 24, 2010: Suggested deadline for notification of workshop
contributors
   Jun 30, 2010: Deadline for submission of camera-ready copy of workshop
proceedings to the ESSLLI¹2010 Local Organizers for reproduction.

Notice that workshop speakers will be required to register for the Summer
School; however, they will be able to register at a reduced rate to be
determined by the Local Organizers.

FORMAT FOR PROPOSALS: A form for submitting course and workshop proposals
will be available soon on the ESSLLI 2010 website www.hum.ku.dk/esslli2010.

The proposers are required to submit the following information:
    * Name(s) of proposing lecturer(s)/ workshop organizer(s), at most two
per course or workshop
    * Contact addresses, homepages, phones, and fax numbers (if available),
of proposing lecturer(s)/ workshop organizer(s);
    * Title of proposed course/workshop;
    * Type (workshop, foundational, introductory, or advanced course)
    * Stream (one of: Language & Computation, Language & Logic, Logic &
Computation)
    * Description (in at most 300 words, provide justification, relevance to
ESSLLI, proposed contents and structure of the courses, resp. expected
participation in the workshops)
    * External funding (whether the proposers will be able to obtain
external funding for travel and accommodation expenses)
    * Further particulars (any further information that is required by the
above guidelines should be included here; in particular, course objectives
and prerequisites, as well as the lecturers teaching experience relevant to
the proposed course, and generally in the interdisciplinary field scope of
ESSLLI.)

FINANCIAL ASPECTS: Prospective lecturers and workshop organizers should be
aware that all teaching and organizing at the summer schools is done on a
voluntary basis in order to keep the participants fees as low as possible.
Lecturers and organizers are not paid for their contribution, but are
reimbursed for travel and accommodation (up to fixed maximum amounts, that
will be communicated to the lecturers upon notification). It should be
stressed that while proposals from all over the world are welcomed, the
School cannot guarantee full reimbursement of travel costs, especially from
destinations outside Europe. Please note that in case a course or workshop
is to be taught/organized by two lecturers, a lump sum will be reimbursed to
cover travel and accommodation expenses for one lecturer; the splitting of
that sum is up to the lecturers.

The local organizers would highly appreciate it if, whenever possible,
lecturers and workshop organizers find alternative funding to cover travel
and accommodation expenses, as that would help us keep the cost of attending
ESSLLI¹2010 lower.


ESSLLI 2010 PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

Chair: Valentin Goranko (Technical Univ. of Denmark)

Area Specialists:

Language and Computation:
Walter Daelemans (Univ. of Antwerp)
Sabine Schulte im Walde (Univ. of Stuttgart)

Language and Logic:
Yoad Winter (Utrecht Univ.)
Raffaella Bernardi (Free Univ. of Bozen-Bolzano)

Logic and Computation:
Anuj Dawar (Univ. of Cambridge)
Ken Shan (State Univ. of New Jersey, Rutgers)

ESSLLI 2010 Program Committee dedicated email account: esslli2010 at gmail.com


ESSLLI 2010 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

Chair: Vincent Hendricks (University of Copenhagen)
Organizing Manager: Rasmus Rendsvig

ESSLLI 2010 website: www.hum.ku.dk/esslli2010
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