Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics (LENLS 14)

摘要

The international workshop Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics (LENLS) started in 2005. Its purpose is to provide a venue for researchers working on natural language semantics and pragmatics, (formal) philosophy, logic, artificial intelligence, and computational linguistics together for discussion and interdisciplinary communication. Over the lifespan of the workshop, whose 14th iteration was held at JSAI-isAI 2017 during November 13-15, 2017, many researchers have presented their work, and the workshop has become recognized internationally in the semantics pragmatics community. LENLS 14 had 3 one-hour invited lectures and 27 thirty-minute submitted talks selected by the Program Committee (the total number of the submission was 36, which is the largest since LENLS 8, according to the EasyChair record). The number of participants was about 50. The invited speakers were Craige Roberts (The Ohio State University, USA), Ivano Ciardelli (Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, LMU Miinchen, Germany), and Shoichi Takahashi (Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan). Topics discussed by the submitted papers raised issues from syntax-semantics-pragmatics interface, morpho-semantic interfaces, semantics of conditionals, semantics of emotions, type theory, semantics of expres-sives, categorical grammar, attitude verbs and evidentials, among many others. As the reader can see from this volume, a wide range of topics is characteristic of LENLS. The two selected papers appearing in this volume, 'Quality as a Speech-Act CI and Presuppositions' by Lukas Rieser and 'Explaining Prefix Contributions in Russian using Frame Semantics and RSA' by Yulia Zinova, were supposed to be included in the post proceedings of LENLS 14. We hope to keep the tradition of LENLS in future to promote international researches in the semantics-pragmatics community.