StuS 2015 Student Session at ESSLLI 2015

August, 3-14, 2015 Barcelona, Spain

• Location
• Program
• Dates
• Call for Papers
• Policies
• Proceedings
• Registration
• Organization
• Contact

The ESSLLI 2015 Student Session was held during ESSLLI 2015 at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain, between the dates of August 3-14, 2015.

The Student Session is a forum for PhD and Master students to present their research at the interfaces of logic, language, and computation. It features three tracks: Logic & Computation (LoCo), Logic & Language (LoLa), and Language & Computation (LaCo).

We received 77 submissions. The acceptance rates were 26% for posters and 35% for talks.

Location

The ESSLLI 2015 Student Session will take place at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (the venue of ESSLLI 2015), at the following locations.

• Talks: Auditori
• Posters: coffee break area

Program

Monday, August 3 (LoLa):

• 15:50-16:20 Xiaoqian Zhang – Durative phrases in constructions containing identical verbs in Mandarin Chinese
• 16:20-16:50 Michele Herbstritt – Experimental investigations of probability expressions: A first step in the (probably) right direction
• 16:50-16:55 (poster) Sara Sanchez-Alonso – Changes in the Distributional Patterns of the Spanish Copulas: the Influence of Contextual Modulation

Tuesday, August 4 (LaCo):

• 15:50-16:20 Johannes Wahle – Automatic alignment using Pair Hidden Markov Models
• 16:20-16:50 Yunita Sari – Gender Identification for Adversarial Writing
• 16:50-16:55 (poster) Fatma Işkın – Turkish Children’s Acquisition of Nouns and Verbs: A Developmental Study

Wednesday, August 5 (LoLa):

• 15:50-16:20 Julian Schlöder – A Formal Semantics of the Final Rise
• 16:20-16:50 Yuna Won – Chisholm’s Paradox and Dynamic Kratzer Semantics for Deontic ‘Ought’s
• 16:50-16:55 (poster) Antonin Delpeuch – How flexible are categorical models of meaning?

Thursday, August 6 (LaCo/LoCo):

• 15:50-16:20 Michael Tessler – Understanding belief bias by measuring prior beliefs for a Bayesian model of syllogistic reasoning
• 16:20-16:50 Julian Bitterlich – Fractional Isomorphisms of Kripke Structures
• 16:50-16:55 (poster) Adrian Rebola Pardo – Sufficient (In)completeness for Definitions in Hierarchic Superposition

Friday, August 7 (LoLa):

• 15:50-16:20 Aurore Gonzalez – Negative Coordination in French
• 16:20-16:50 Milica Denic – Minimizing Scope Ambiguity - Bagel Problem and NPI-PPI Distribution
• 16:50-16:55 (poster) Per Erik Solberg – Latin Long-Distance Reflexives in Messenger Reports

Monday, August 10 (LaCo):

• 15:50-16:20 Ayca Muge Sevinc – An event-based ontology for sign language phonology
• 16:20-16:50 Cristian Cardellino – A Study of Semi-Supervised Spanish Verb Sense Disambiguation
• 16:50-16:55 (poster) Jonathan Oberländer and Laura Ana Maria Bostan – Distributional Gastronomics

Tuesday, August 11 (LoLa):

• 15:50-16:20 Liping Tang – Ex Post “Cheap Talk” : Value of Information and Value of Signals
• 16:20-16:50 Dina Orenstein – A Family of EXclusives in Hebrew

Wednesday, August 12 (LoCo):

• 15:50-16:20 Hein Duijf – Performing conditional strategies in strategic STIT theory
• 16:20-16:50 Michał Tomasz Godziszewski and Dariusz Kalociński – Computational Complexity of Barwise’s Sentence and Similar Natural Language Constructions
• 16:50-16:55 (poster) Christof Spanring – Implicit Conflicts in Abstract Argumentation

Thursday, August 13:

• 15:50-16:50 Poster Session

Friday, August 14:

• 16:00-16:50 Closing session, announcement of the awards for the best talk and the best poster, presentation by the winner of the Beth Prize

Note from the chairs: Originally Yuki Ito was supposed to present a poster entitled On the Semantics and Pragmatic Underpinning of Essentially Plural Nouns. To our greatest shock the author passed away in untimely fashion shortly before presenting his work at the ESSLLI Student Session. In order to commemorate him we decided to include the last version of his paper that he had sent us into the proceedings.

Important Dates

Please take note of the following important dates.

• Submission deadline: March 25, 2015 March 31, 2015
• Notification of acceptance: May 7, 2015
• Submission of camera-ready extended papers: June 24, 2015
• Conference dates: August 3-14, 2015

Call for Papers

Deadline for submissions: March 31, 2015
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=essllistus2015

About: The Student Session of the 27th European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information (ESSLLI) will take place in Barcelona, Spain, August 3rd to 14th. We invite submissions of original, unpublished work from students in any area at the intersection of Logic & Language, Language & Computation, or Logic & Computation. Submissions will be reviewed by several experts in the field, and accepted papers will be presented orally or as posters and will appear in the student session proceedings by Springer. This is an excellent opportunity to receive valuable feedback from expert readers and to present your work to a diverse audience.

Oral/Poster Presentations: Note that there are two separate kinds of submissions, one for oral presentations and one for posters. This means that papers are directly submitted either as oral presentations or as poster presentations. Reviewing and ranking will be done separately. We particularly encourage submissions for posters, as they offer an excellent opportunity to present smaller research projects and research in progress.

Sponsorship and Prizes: Springer generously supports the ESSLLI Student Session by offering prizes for a total of 1000€ in Springer books. The best poster and the best talk will be awarded Springer book vouchers of 500€ each. The prizes are awarded based on the reviews of the submission as well as the oral/poster presentation.

ESSLLI 2015 will feature a wide range of foundational and advanced courses and workshops in all areas of Logic, Language, and Computation. For further information, including registration information and course listings, and for general inquiries about ESSLLI 2015, please consult the main ESSLLI 2015 page.

Policies

Below you can find the submission and publication policies for the Student Session.

Submission policies:

• All authors must be students, i.e., authors may not have received their PhD degree before August 2015.
• Submissions may be singly or jointly authored. No one may submit more than one singly and one jointly authored paper.
• If a student wants to submit both to the Student Session and to another workshop hosted by ESSLLI 2015 the presentations should be different from each other.
• Submissions should not be longer than 8 pages for an oral presentation and 4 pages for a poster presentation (including examples and references).
• Submissions must be in PDF format. We strongly recommend to use the LNCS Springer class files for LaTeX2e, since accepted papers will have to be written in this format for the proceedings. (See below for more information.) If you do not use this template, make sure that your submission meets the following criteria: DIN A4 (21 cm x 29.7 cm), 4.5 cm top margin, 4 cm right margin, 6.5 cm bottom margin, 5 cm left margin, Times New Roman, 10 pts.
• Submissions must be anonymous. That is, the submitted PDF file is not allowed to contain any information by which the author(s) can be identified, e.g., no author names.
• Submissions must be received by March 25, 2015 March 31, 2015 (by 23:59 in any time zone), and must be submitted through Easychair.

Publication policies:

• If a paper has been accepted for the program of the Student Session but the author(s) cannot attend the Student Session and present their work, the paper might not be accepted for publication.
• Accepted papers will have to be written in LaTeX in standard LNCS format (10 pts), by using the Springer class files for LaTeX2e. (You can find more information about this format here.)
• Authors are expected to improve their papers according to the the reviewers’ comments and suggestions.
• The extended versions of the papers cannot be longer than 12 pages (including examples and references) and are due on June 24, 2015.

Proceedings

Extended versions of all accepted papers are available as online proceedings.

Springer volumes in the LNCS series with the best papers of 2008-2009, the best papers of 2010-2011 and the best papers of 2012-2013 have been published. We aspire to publish a forthcoming volume for 2014-2015.

Registration

Attendance of the ESSLLI 2015 Student Session including presenting a poster or a talk requires registering for ESSLLI. However, the registration is free for one author of each accepted paper (posters and talks).

If authors would like to register before the notification of acceptance, they can do so (in the category Early Students). Their registration fees will be refunded (by the ESSLLI organization committee) once their papers have been accepted.

The local organization committee of ESSLLI kindly agreed to reserve beds in the Urbany Barcelona Hostel for authors of accepted papers until shortly after the notification of acceptance. More information is provided on the ESSLLI page.

Organization

The organization of this year’s Student Session is done by:

Chairs:
Miriam Kaeshammer (Universität Düsseldorf)
Philip Schulz (Universiteit van Amsterdam)

LoCo co-chairs:
Giovanni Cina (Universiteit van Amsterdam)
Zeynep Saribatur (Technische Universität Wien)
Area expert: Thomas Icard (Stanford University)

LoLa co-chairs:
Marisa Köllner (Universität Tübingen)
Veronika Richtacikova (Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona)
Area expert: Yusuke Kubota (University of Tsukuba/Ohio State University)

LaCo co-chairs:
Angeliki Lazaridou (University of Trento)
Maria Nadejde (University of Edinburgh)
Area expert: Shravan Vasishth (University of Potsdam)

Contact

For any questions, comments or remarks, please feel free to contact us at P.Schulz@uva.nl and kaeshammer@phil.uni-duesseldorf.de.