[DL] ESSLLI 2016: Program announcement and important dates

[Diego Calvanese]

    28th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information
                             ESSLLI 2016

                  Free  University of Bozen-Bolzano
                            Bolzano, ITALY
                          August 15-26, 2016

                     http://esslli2016.unibz.it/


The 28th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information
(ESSLLI 2016) takes place at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano,
Bolzano, Italy, from August 15 to 26, 2016.  It is organized with the
support of the University of Trento under the auspices of FoLLI
(http://www.folli.uva.nl/), the European Association for Logic,
Language and Information.

The scientific program of ESSLLI 2016 consists of 45 courses, the
Student Session, 3 workshops, 4 evening lecturers and a talk by the
Beth Dissertation Prize winner.
Moreover, the school features 3 satellite events.


EVENING LECTURERS
  Marco Baroni, University of Trento (Italy)
  Veronica Becher, University of Buenos Aires (Argentina)
  Louise McNally, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Spain)
  Larry Moss, Indiana University (USA)


WORKSHOPS AND STUDENT SESSION: Call for papers/abstracts.

DSALT: Distributional Semantics and Linguistic Theory (Week 1)
Organizers: G. Boleda and D. Paperno
January 31, 2016 (Non-binding) expression of interest deadline

Referential Semantics One Step Further: Incorporating Insights from
Conceptual and Distributional Approaches to Meaning (Week 2)
Organizers: C. Umbach and L. McNally
February 15, 2016 Deadline for abstract submission

Formal, Probabilistic and Typological Approaches to Discourse
Particles and Modal Adverbs (Week 2)
Organizers: H. Zeevat and L. Hogeweg
Deadlines TBA

Student Session (Week 1 and 2)
Chairs: Marisa Koellner and Ramon Ziai
March 10, 2016 Deadline for paper submission


BETH PRIZE: Call for Theses.

Beth Dissertation Prize
Chair: Ian Pratt-Hartmann
May 9, 2016 Deadline for submission


SATELLITE EVENTS
  COMPOSES Workshop (Sunday, August 14, 2016)
  Formal Grammar 16 (Saturday+Sunday, August 20-21, 2016)
  Computational Creativity, Concept Invention, and General Intelligence
    (C3GI) Workshop (Saturday+Sunday, August 20-21, 2016)


REGISTRATION
  Early-bird: May 31, 2016
  Regular: July, 31, 2016


FURTHER DETAILS
  Courses: http://esslli2016.unibz.it/?page_id=137
  Workshops and Satellite Events: http://esslli2016.unibz.it/?page_id=668
  Student Session: http://www2.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de/esslli-stus-2016/
  Beth Dissertation Prize: http://esslli2016.unibz.it/?page_id=786
  Registration: http://esslli2016.unibz.it/?page_id=56


PROGRAM COMMITTEE
  Claire Gardent (chair) (LORIA, CNRS & Université de Lorraine, France)
  Raffaella Bernardi (local co-chair) (University of Trento, Italy)
  Chris Barker (New York University, USA)
  Dietmar Berwanger (LSV, CNRS & ENS de Cachan, France)
  Katrin Erk (University of Texas, Austin, USA)
  Alexander Koller (University of Potsdam, Germany)
  Luciano Serafini (FBK, Italy)
  Stephanie Solt (ZAS Berlin, Germany)

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
  Diego Calvanese (chair)
  Alessandro Artale
  Raffaella Bernardi
  Elena Botoeva
  Rosella Gennari
  Hannes Hell
  Marco Montali
  Simon Razniewski
  Vladislav Ryzhikov
  Sergio Tessaris
  Alessandro Vietti