CALL FOR PAPERS * Extended submission deadline * *** 31 May 2018 *** Symposium Logic and Algorithms in Computational Linguistics 2018 (LACompLing2018) Stockholm, 28-31 August 2018 Department of Mathematics, Stockholm University http://staff.math.su.se/rloukanova/LACompLing2018-web/ DESCRIPTION Computational linguistics studies natural language in its various manifestations from a computational point of view, both on the theoretical level (modeling grammar modules dealing with natural language form and meaning, and the relation between these two) and on the practical level (developing applications for language and speech technology). Right from the start in the 1950ties, there have been strong links with computer science, logic, and many areas of mathematics - one can think of Chomsky's contributions to the theory of formal languages and automata, or Lambek's logical modeling of natural language syntax. The workshop assesses the place of logic, mathematics, and computer science in present day computational linguistics. It intends to be a forum for presenting new results as well as work in progress. SCOPE The workshop focuses mainly on logical approaches to computational processing of natural language, and on the applicability of methods and techniques from the study of artificial languages (programming/logic) in computational linguistics. We invite participation and submissions from other relevant approaches too, especially if they can inspire new work and approaches. Topics - Computational theories of human language - Computational syntax - Computational semantics - Computational syntax-semantics interface - Interfaces between morphology, lexicon, syntax, semantics, speech, text, pragmatics - Computational grammar - Logic and reasoning systems for linguistics - Type theories for linguistics - Models of computation and algorithms for linguistics - Language processing - Parsing algorithms - Generation of language from semantic representations - Large-scale grammars of natural languages - Multilingual processing - Data science in language processing - Machine learning of language - Interdisciplinary methods - Integration of formal, computational, model theoretic, graphical, diagrammatic, statistical, and other related methods - Logic for information extraction or expression in written and spoken language - Language theories based on biological fundamentals of information and languages - Computational neuroscience of language IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline, papers and abstracts: 31 May 2018 SUBMISSIONS We invite original, regular papers that are not submitted concurrently to another conference or for publication elsewhere. Abstracts of presentations can be on work submitted or published elsewhere. - Regular papers: maximum 10 pages, including figures and references - Abstracts of contributed presentations: not more than 2 pages - The submissions of proposed papers and abstracts have to be in pdf - The camera-ready submissions require the pdf and their sources Authors are required to use Springer LNCS style files. https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines Submissions by EasyChair https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lacompling2018 PUBLICATIONS - The proceedings of LACompLing2018 will be published digitally by the DiVA system of Stockholm University: http://su.diva-portal.org - Improved and extended versions of selected papers, which have been presented at the workshop LACompLing2018, will be published in a special issue of a journal after the workshop. CONTACT Roussanka Loukanova (rloukanova@gmail.com) Kristina Liefke (Liefke@lingua.uni-frankfurt.de)