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Fourth International Workshop on Inference in Computational Semantics (ICoS-4)
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ICoS-4

Inference in Computational Semantics
Inference in Computational Semantics

About ICoS

Traditional inference tools (such as theorem provers and model builders) are reaching new levels of sophistication and are now widely and easily available. A wide variety of new tools (statistical and probabilistic methods, ideas from the machine learning community) are likely to be increasingly applied in computational semantics. Most importantly of all, computational semantics seems to have reached the stage where the exploration and development of inference is one of its most pressing tasks - and there's a lot of interesting new work which takes inferential issues seriously.

The Workshop on Inference in Computational Semantics (ICoS) intends to bring together researchers from areas such as Computational Linguistics, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, and Logics, in order to discuss approaches and applications of Inference in natural language semantics.

ICoS-4 will take place in Nancy, France, on 25-26 September 2003. It will be part of a special Nancy Inference Week: on the day before ICoS-4 (24 September) there will be a one day school on Description Logic and its applications in linguistics, and on the two days preceding that (22-23 September 2003) the third Method for Modalities (M4M-3) will be held.

ICoS-4 is sponsored by the LED-LIT Research Alliance, a member of INRIA's international équipes associées program

Dates 

      Submission Deadline:       June 30,         2003. 
      Notification:              August 8,        2003. 
      Final Versions:            September 8,     2003. 
      ICoS-4 Workshop:           September 25-26, 2003.

Invited Speakers

Three invited speakers will be taking part of ICoS-4

  • Balder ten Cate (University of Amsterdam)
  • Claire Gardent (CNRS/LORIA)
  • Allan Ramsay (Umist)
In addition, there will be a special presentation by Harry Bunt (Tilburg University) and Laurent Romary (LORIA) on recent work by the SIGSEM working group on computationally adequate representation of multimodal semantic information.

Program

Follow this link for a preliminary program.

Program Committee

  • James Allen
  • Carlos Areces
  • Peter Baumgartner
  • Patrick Blackburn (co-chair)
  • Johan Bos (co-chair)
  • Harry Bunt
  • Anne Copestake
  • Dick Crouch
  • Kees van Deemter
  • Helen Gaylard
  • Nissim Francez
  • Shalom Lappin
  • Alexander Koller
  • Jeff Pelletier
  • Ian Pratt-Hartmann
  • Maarten de Rijke
  • Michael Schiehlen
  • Matthew Stone
Submissions

We invite two kinds of submissions:

  • Research papers on inference methods in computational semantics as well as their applications (10 pages),
  • system descriptions (6 pages) focusing on actual implementations, explaining system architecture issues and specific implementation techniques. The systems described will be demonstrated at ICoS-4.
Submission is by email. Either Postscript or PDF files can be sent to: icos4@aplog.org

Authors are advised to prepare their contributions in LaTeX. Camera ready versions of accepted papers should used the following style.


Registration and Further Information

This year, ICoS-4 will take place as one of the events of the first Nancy Inference Week (NIW). The NIW is made up of three events: You can register for any of the NIW events by filling in this form [PDF| PS].

The registration fee for ICoS-4 is 70 euros, which covers the cost of the proceedings, coffe breaks, and lunchs. Print the form and follown the instructions indicated there.

Deadline for registration is

September 15th.

No registration will be allowed after this date. In particular, you won't be able to register on the days of the workshop ("on-the-spot" registrations are not possible).

We suggest the following possibilities for accomodation

  • Akena Gare and Akena Prestige, 41 rue Raymond Poincare 54000 Nancy. Tel 03 83 28 87 41. Fax 03 83 90 00 45. Prizes from 29 to 40 euros. Cheap but ok hotel, no web page.
  • Hotel Albert 1er Astoria. Nice 2 star hotel. 83 rooms. Prizes from 48 to 65 euros.
  • You can also visit the hotel search pages of the Office de Tourisme de Nancy for further info.
Contact the hotels directly and make your booking. ICoS-4 cannot arrange accomodation for participants.

Location

ICoS-4 will take place at LORIA.

The easiest way to reach LORIA from the center of Nancy is by tram. Take Tram 1 tramway in the direction of Vandeuvre CHU. Get out at the stop Callot, from there you have to walk 500 metrers. (First follow the "Lycee Jacques Callot" direction). Here is a map of the campus.


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