Ielka van der Sluis and James Pustejovsky

Week 1, August 3-7, 2020

Abstract:

AREA II is the follow up on the first AREA meeting at LREC 2018 (http://www.areaworkshop.org/).
There has recently been increased interest in modeling actions, as described by natural language expressions and gestures, and as depicted by images and videos. Additionally, action modeling has emerged as an important topic in robotics and HCI. The goal of the AREA II workshop is to gather and discuss advances in research areas where actions are paramount e.g., virtual embodied agents, robotics, HRI, human-computer communication, as well as modeling multimodal human-human interactions involving actions. Action modeling is an inherently multi-disciplinary area, involving contributions from computational linguistics, AI, semantics, robotics, psychology, and formal logic.

Kordula De Kuthy and Detmar Meurers

Week 1, August 3-7, 2020

Abstract:

The past years have seen a growing interest in analyzing languagebeyond the sentence level, in theoretical linguistics, computationallinguistics, as well as in psycholinguistics. The developments aredriven by a range of factors, from increased interest in authenticlanguage use in context to theoretical and practical motivations forthe integration of top-down and bottom-up analysis. In theoreticallinguistics, advances in formal pragmatics are extending the reach offormal linguistic analysis, and in computational linguistics interestin applications such as dialogue systems and argumentation mining canconnect to early research on dialogue structure and RhetoricalStructure Theory, and multi-layer corpus annotation efforts such asNXT Switchboard or the Penn Discourse Treebank.

Shane Steinert-Threlkeld and Jakub Szymanik

Week 2, August 10-14, 2020

Abstract:

The traditional methodology of natural language semantics has used tools largely drawn from mathematical logic to build models designed to predict native speaker judgments of entailment between sentences, truth values of sentences in context, and the like. Recent advances in applying computational and experimental methods in semantics have widened both the scope and type of explanations that can be offered for semantic phenomena. This workshop will bring together people working on these new methodologies, to present both new semantic research using computational and experimental methods as well as to address broader methodological questions.

Stergios Chatzikyriakidis and Rainer Osswald

Week 2, August 10-14, 2020

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The goal of this workshop is to bring together people interested in structured representations of semantic information, especially from a computational perspective. In recent years, there has been a growing body of research which aims to integrate structured entities into formal semantic accounts. Important developments in this direction are the introduction of rich type systems and the use of frame-based representations, among others. The workshop is open to both foundational issues of structured semantic representations and applications to specific linguistic phenomena.