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Programme for the 1st Tbilisi Symposium on LLC
Programme for the 1st Tbilisi Symposium on LLC
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 1995 18:02:14 BST
From: tbilisi@cogsci.ed.ac.uk
Subject: Programme for the 1st Tbilisi Symposium on LLC
Programme for the 1st Tbilisi Symposium on Language, Logic and Computation
19-22 October,
Gudauri, Georgia.
Thursday, 19 October
Session I: Applied Logic.
9:30 Invited Talk: `Concepts, contexts, and non-monotonic reasoning'
Peter G\"ardenfors (Lund University, Sweden)
10:30 Oliver Lemon: (University of Edinburgh, Scotland) `First-order
Theory Change systems and their Dynamic Semantics.'
11:00 Camilla Schwind: (CNRS, Marseille, France)`A Logic-based framework
for Action Theories.'
Coffee break
12:00 Carl Vogel: (IMS, Stuttgart, Germany)`A Generalizable Semantics for
an Inheritance Reasoner.'
12:30 Michael Bejanishvili: (Georgian Academy of Sciences, Georgia)
Knowladge, Belief, Entailment.
Lunch
Session II: Formal Semantics.
2:30 Rodger Kibble: (University of Edinburgh, Scotland)`Modal
subordination, focus and complement anaphora.'
3:00 Pascal Amsili and Anne Le Draoulec: (Universite Paul
Sabatier, France)`An account of negated sentences in DRT .'
3:30 Sheila Glasbey: (University of Edinburgh, Scotland)`A Situation
Theoretic interpretation of bare plurals.'
Coffee break
4:30 Eter Soselia: (Institute for Oriental Studies, Tbilisi)`Some
Remarks about semantics and Evolution of Basic Color Terms Systems.'
5:00 Pat Healey: (University of Manchester, England)`Reconciling
Cognition and Content.'
5:30 Invited Talk: Robin Cooper (University of Edinburgh/Gothenburg
University) (TBA)
7:30 Dinner
Friday, 20 October:
Session III: Linguistics.
9:00 Invited Talk: Hans Uszkoreit (Universit\"at des Saarlandes,
Germany) (TBA)
10:00 Louise McNally: (Ohio State University, USA)`On recent formal
analyses of ``topic''.'
10:30 Maya Sachokiya: (Institute for Oriental Studies,
Tbilisi)`Diachrony and partial typology in morphosyntax (Indo-European
and Ka\-rtvelian).'
Coffee break
11:30 Dimitra Kolliakou: (University of Edinburgh, Scotland)`An
Inheritance-based Account of the Syntax and Semantics of Noun Phrases'.
12:00 Rusudan Asatiani: (Institute for Oriental Studies,
Tbilisi)`Dominant category in the grammatical system of the language.'
12:30 Graziella Saccon: (University of Texas, Austin)`Dissociating
ne-cliticization from syntactic and semantic unaccusativity.'
Lunch
Session IV: Computational Logic.
2:30 John Longley and Gordon Plotkin: (University of Edinburgh,
Scotland)`Logical full abstraction for functional programming languages.'
3:00 Konstantin Pkhakadze: (Tbilisi State University,
Georgia)`Indefinite-valued propositional logic and some of its
applications in mechanical theorem proving.'
Coffee break
4:00 Igor Zaslavsky: (Yerevan, Armenia)`On Logically But Not
Functionally Complete Calculus In Three - Valued Logic.'
4:30 Teimuraz Kutsia: (Tbilisi State University, Georgia)`Towards
fixpoint semantics of general logic programs.'
5:00 Invited Talk: L. Esakia (Georgian Academy of Sciences, Tbilisi)
`An outline for an Amended Intuitionistic Logic and Kindred Modal
Systems'
7:00
Banquet
Saturday, 21 October:
Session V: Computational Linguistics.
9:00 Invited Talk: Aravind Joshi (University of Pennsylvania, USA) \\
`Partial Proof Trees and Categorial Grammars'
10:00 Thorsten Brants: (Universit\"at des Saarlandes,
Germany)`Estimating HMM Topologies.'
10:30 Beatrice Daille, \'Eric Gaussier and Jean-Marc Lang\'e:
(Universite Paris 7, France)`An Evaluation of Statistical word association.'
Coffee break
11:30 \'Eric Laporte\,: (Universit\'e de Marne-la-Vall\'ee,
France.)`Lexical Disambiguation with Fine-Grained Tagsets.'
12:00 George Chikoidze: (Georgian Academy of Sciences,
Georgia)`Computer representation of linguistic knowledge.'
12:30 Elisabeth Godbert: (CNRS, Marseille, France)`Computing incoherence
of sentences from a logical representation of their semantics.'
Lunch
Session VI: Theoretical Computer Science.
2:30 Morten Heine Sorensen: (DIKU, Copenhagen, Denmark)`Characterisation
of Infinite Reduction paths in Untyped Lambda Calculus.'
3:00 Stefano Guerrini: (Universit\`a di Pisa, Italy)`Sharing-graphs,
sharing-morphisms and (optimal) $\lambda$-graph reductions.'
Coffee break
4:00 Dieter Hofbauer (Technische Universit\"at Berlin, Germany),\\ Maria
Huber, Gregory Kucherov (LORIA, France)`How to get rid of projection
rules in context-free tree grammars'.
4:30 Martin Hansen, Hans H\"uttel and Josva Kleist: (Aalborg
University, Denmark)`Bisimulations for asynchronous mobile processes.'
5:00 Invited Talk: Anne Preller (Montpelier, France) \\
`Individuals in Modal Logic'
7:00
Dinner
8:00
Business meeting
Sunday, 22 october:
Session VII: Logic.
9:00 Invited Talk: H. Ono (Ishikawa, Japan) \\
`Decidability and the finite model property of
some substructural logics'
10:00 Rezo Grigolia: (Georgian Academy of Sciences, Tbilisi)`Strong
Monadic Heyting and Diagonalizable Algebras.'
10:30 Vladimir Smirnov: (Institute for Philosophy, Moscow, Russia)`Free
Logic and Quite Free Logic.'
Coffee break
11:30 David Basin, Sean Matthews and Luka Vigano`: (MPG, Saarbr\"ucken,
Germany)`A Modular Presentation of Modal Logics in a Logical Framework.'
12:00 Guram Bejanishvili: (Georgian Academy of Sciences, Tbilisi) `Some
Results in Monadic Heyting Algebras.'
Monday, 23 October
(Invited speakers: TBA)
9:00: Closing Session
12:00: Excursion
Publication: a selection of papers from the conference will appear in
the Lecture Notes series published by CSLI.
Travel: we recommend flying with Air Georgia from Frankfurt on flight AG
621/622 which will be leaving Oct 18, returning Oct 25.
Tbilisi - Frankfurt - Tbilisi AG 621/622 (Air Georgia)
Dep.Frank. 15:10 Arr. Tbilisi 22:40 (Georgia time is GMT +3)
Dep Tbilisi 12:50 Arr.Frank. 14:05
We have arranged a special group flight price (which will be ca. 500$
R/T, the actual price will be fixed by the number of people who take
this flight.)
Location: the conference will take place in Gudauri, a winter resort in
the Caucasus. On the way back from Gudauri on Oct 22, there will be a
short excursion to the ancient Georgian capital, Mtskheta. On the Monday
(Oct 23) there will be a short session in Tbilisi and, for those
interested, following that an excursion in the wine country (Kakhetia)
will take place on Monday. Tuesday will be a free day in
Tbilisi. Accommodation and board for all days (incl Oct 22, 23, 24: in
the vicinity of Tbilisi) will be available.
Visas: there is no need to get a visa ahead of time. Visas will be
arranged on arrival in Tbilisi. Cost: 30$, colour photo needed.
