Inference in Computational Semantics 4
INRIA Lorraine, Nancy, France. September 22-23, 2003
Thursday, September 25
09:15-09:30 Opening

09:30-10:30 Invited Talk
Claire Gardent, Computational Semantics meets Computer Science

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00-13:00 Session 1
     Exploring Model Building for Natural Language Understanding
Johan Bos
Building Models for Bridges
Phillip Cimiano
Lexicalisation as a Description Logic Inference Task
Claire Gardent and Evelyne Jacquey
Exploring the Generation and Usage of Inference in a Biologically Inspired Neural Net
Eleni Koutsomitopoulou

13:00-14:30 Lunch

14:30-15:30 Invited Talk
Harry Bunt and Laurent Romary, Towards a Computationally Adequate Representation of Multimodal Semantic Information

15:30-16:00 Coffee Break

16:00-17:30 Session 2
      Dynamic Predicate Logic with Defeasible Non-Kind-Denoting Singular Generics
Norihiro Ogata
      In Situ Binding: A Hybrid Approach
Carlos Areces and Raffaella Bernardi
      Describing Lambda Terms in Context Unification
Joachim Niehren and Mateu Villaret
Friday, September 26
09:30-10:30 Invited Talk
Balder ten Cate, Logical Investigations into the Partition Semantics of Questions

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00-13:00 Session 1
Using Semantic Inference for Temporal Annotation Comparison
Andrea Setzer, Robert Gaizauskas and Mark Hepple
A Time Calculus for Natural Language
Benjamin Han and Michael Kohlhase
Temporal Prepositions and their Logic
Ian Pratt-Hartmann
A `Natural Logic' Inference System Using Normalisation
Anna Zamansky, Nissim Francez, Yoad Winter

13:00-14:30 Lunch

14:30-15:30 Invited Talk
Allan Ramsay, What can Inference do for us?

15:30-16:00 Coffee Break

16:00-17:30 Session 2
      Conditionals and Pseudo-Conditionals in Mathematical Texts
Claus Zinn
      Computing the Rhetoric of Text Proofs
Adil El Ghali and Laurent Roussarie
      Domain Inference in Incremental Interpretation
David deVault and Matthew Stone

17:30-17:45 Closing Remarks


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