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This informal 2-day Symposium, organised by the University of Zhejiang (China) and the University of Aberdeen (Scotland) brings together researchers from different disciplines, especially (but not only) from China and the United Kingdom, to explore synergies between their work and to explore possible future joint research projects.
To make our discussions more concrete, we focus on language production and generation, a topic which is emerging as a focus for interdisciplinary work in which researchers from Computing Science, Linguistics, Psychology, Neuroscience and Philosophy collaborate to gain an understanding of a fundamental human capability. (See http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/InteractionLab/refnet/ for a recent event focussing on referring expressions.)
In this informal event, we welcome position papers, papers about work in progress, and papers about new project ideas relating to the (human) production and (computational) Natural Language Generation (NLG). We are particularly interested in papers that explore work in the following areas:
- Psycholinguistic, socio-linguistic, and neuro-cognitive models of language production and generation
- Game-theoretic and Bayesian models of language production and generation
- Models of argumentation that are relevant to language production and generation
- Computational models of language production, including NLG for Chinese and NLG from Computer Vision
Most contributions will be based on invitations, but there is room for a few additional contributions, so people who are interested in contributing are welcome to email the organisers with a proposal.
Abstract Submission:
Participants are asked to send a 500-word abstract by 1 September 2015, in PDF format, to baiseliao@zju.edu.cn. There are no further requirements on the format (e.g., documents may have been produced in MsWord, Latex, or other text editing software). We anticipate that submitted abstracts will be published online.
For any questions, please contact both Beishui Liao (baiseliao@zju.edu.cn) and Kees van Deemter (k.vdeemter@abdn.ac.uk).
Important dates:
Deadline for submission of abstracts: 1 September 2015
Workshop: 10-11 October 2015