News and Events: Conferences

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26 April 2024, LogIn Project Workshop: Amplifying underrepresented voices in formal philosophy, London, UK

Date: Friday 26 April 2024
Location: London, UK
Deadline: Thursday 1 February 2024

The workshop aims to bring together researchers who work on formal philosophy broadly construed who are either members of traditionally underrepresented groups or who work outside of what is perceived as ``traditional’’ topics in logic and formal philosophy. It will be an occasion for dialogue between researchers who identify as members of underrepresented groups in academia and researchers who work on topics generally regarded as non-standard in the academic tradition.

Confirmed speakers include: Gillian Russell (ANU), Sara Uckelman (Durham) and Frederique Jannsen-Lauret (Manchester). The workshop will be followed by a panel discussion on how to make formal academic philosophy a more inclusive environment.

We invite submissions from members of traditionally underrepresented groups of extended abstracts (up to 1000 words) for 3 contributed talks. Any abstract related to logic or formal philosophy written by researchers who are either part of traditionally underrepresented groups or working on 'non-traditional' logic and formal philosophy is welcome. We particularly encourage submissions on formal topics from a more diverse and interdisciplinary perspective. We particularly encourage interdisciplinary submissions.

31 January - 2 February 2024, Nihil workshop

Date & Time: 31 January - 2 February 2024, 10:00-18:00
Location: Room 0.01, Bushuis, Kloveniersburgwal 48, Amsterdam
Costs: Free

The goal of the workshop is to bring together linguists, philosophers, logicians, and cognitive scientists who share an interest in the interfaces between (non-classical) logic, language and cognition. 

For more information, see https://projects.illc.uva.nl/nihil/workshops or contact Maria Aloni at .

31 January - 2 February 2024, Nihil workshop

Date & Time: 31 January - 2 February 2024, 10:00-18:00
Location: Room 0.01, Bushuis, Kloveniersburgwal 48, Amsterdam
Costs: Free

The goal of the workshop is to bring together linguists, philosophers, logicians, and cognitive scientists who share an interest in the interfaces between (non-classical) logic, language and cognition. 

For more information, see https://projects.illc.uva.nl/nihil/workshops or contact Maria Aloni at .

25 April 2024, CfP: Abstract Concepts/ Perception/ and Language, 25th April 2024, Cambridge, UK

Date: Thursday 25 April 2024
Location: Cambridge, UK
Deadline: Monday 5 February 2024

This event, organised by members of the Semantics, Pragmatics, and Philosophy (SPP) research group of the University of Cambridge, aims to bring together those interested in abstract concepts across disciplinary boundaries. This workshop aims to encourage and explore innovative ways, both theoretical and experimental, of analysing and understanding the meaning of abstract concepts. This could include work on topics such as time, conceptual engineering, investigations into concepts such as freedom or justice, processing of abstract concepts, or diachronic investigations of scientific or social abstract concepts, to name just a few. 

The workshop aims to be an environment in which PhD and graduate students may present their work and get feedback from their peers, as well as those who may not traditionally fall within their discipline's boundaries.  The event will also include talks from three academics: Dr. Sean Enda Power (University of Cork), Dr. Derek Ball (St Andrews University), and Prof. Kasia Jaszczolt (University of Cambridge). 

We invite proposals for presentations consisting of 300 words plus bibliography. This will be a free, one-day event. PhD/Grad presentations will be 20-min long + 10 minutes for questions/discussion. Ongoing works will be considered and are explicitly encouraged.  Abstracts for poster presentations also accepted. 

15 - 26 July 2024, The 2nd European Summer School in Artificial Intelligence (ESSAI 2024), Athens, Greece

Date: 15 - 26 July 2024
Location: Athens, Greece
Deadline: Wednesday 7 February 2024

ESSAI 2024 is the second edition of the annual summer school on AI held under the auspices of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence (EurAI). ESSAI 2024 will provide an interdisciplinary setting in which courses are offered in all areas of Artificial Intelligence and also from wider scientific, historical, and philosophical perspectives. ESSAI is a central meeting place for students and young researchers in Artificial Intelligence to discuss current research and share knowledge. Courses will consist of five 90-minute sessions, offered daily (Monday-Friday) in a single week, to allow students to develop in-depth knowledge of a topic.

ESSAI aims to cover all subdisciplines of AI and the interactions between them. Proposals for courses at ESSAI 2024 are invited in all areas of Artificial Intelligence. Each course will consist of five 90-minute lectures, offered daily (Monday-Friday) in a single week. While introductory courses will typically focus on one subarea of AI, introductory and advanced courses are encouraged to present a broader perspective on AI and should be of interest beyond one specific area.

For more information, see https://essai2024.di.uoa.gr/.

8 - 9 February 2024, Workshop on Formal Models of Social Networks and Democracy, Groningen, The Netherlands

Date: 8 - 9 February 2024
Location: Groningen, The Netherlands

The goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers interested in the impact of (online) social networks on democratic decision making from different backgrounds and perspectives, among which logic, graph theory, social choice theory, philosophy, social network analysis, and economics. The event is funded by Zoé Christoff's NWO VENI (2020) research project "Democracy on Social Networks".

A preliminary program is available on the workshop webpage. Attendance of the workshop is free of costs but registration is necessary, as we have a limited number of seats.

8 - 10 February 2024, 7th Workshop on Generalised Baire Spaces, Bristol, UK

Date: 8 - 10 February 2024
Location: Bristol, UK

This is the seventh in a series of workshops that have taken place from 2014. These workshops aim to connect researchers working in the descriptive set theory of Baire and Cantor spaces of functions on uncountable cardinals and its connections with infinite combinatorics and model theory. The upcoming workshop features several well-known speakers and aims to connect this area with large cardinals. There will be ample time for discussion and collaboration.

If you wish to deliver a short contributed talk or be considered for funding support, please contact the organisers. Some funding is available for UK based Ph.D. students.

For more information, see https://www.bristol.ac.uk/maths/events/2024/philip-welch-event-.html or contact Philipp Schlicht at , or Philip Welch at .

26 - 28 June 2024, Fifteenth Conference on Logic and the Foundations of Game and Decision Theory (LOFT15), Bayreuth, Germany

Date: 26 - 28 June 2024
Location: Bayreuth, Germany
Deadline: Friday 9 February 2024

This is the 15th in a series of bi-annual conferences on the applications of logical methods to foundational issues in the theory of individual and interactive decision-making. Preference is given to papers that bring together the work and problems of several fields, such as game and decision theory, logic, computer science and artificial intelligence, philosophy, cognitive psychology, mathematics, and mind sciences.

Invited Speakers: Julia Staffel (University of Colorado Boulder), Thomas Bolander (Technical University of Denmark) and Willemien Kets (Utrecht University).

Potential contributors should submit an extended abstract of approximately 5-10 pages (excluding references and appendices) as a PDF. Submissions exceeding 10 pages will not be considered. Submissions should be prepared for blind review and submitted through EasyChair by February 9th, 2024.
Papers that have appeared in print, or are likely to appear in print before the conference, should not be submitted for presentation at LOFT.

8 - 9 February 2024, Workshop on Formal Models of Social Networks and Democracy, Groningen, The Netherlands

Date: 8 - 9 February 2024
Location: Groningen, The Netherlands

The goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers interested in the impact of (online) social networks on democratic decision making from different backgrounds and perspectives, among which logic, graph theory, social choice theory, philosophy, social network analysis, and economics. The event is funded by Zoé Christoff's NWO VENI (2020) research project "Democracy on Social Networks".

A preliminary program is available on the workshop webpage. Attendance of the workshop is free of costs but registration is necessary, as we have a limited number of seats.

8 - 10 February 2024, 7th Workshop on Generalised Baire Spaces, Bristol, UK

Date: 8 - 10 February 2024
Location: Bristol, UK

This is the seventh in a series of workshops that have taken place from 2014. These workshops aim to connect researchers working in the descriptive set theory of Baire and Cantor spaces of functions on uncountable cardinals and its connections with infinite combinatorics and model theory. The upcoming workshop features several well-known speakers and aims to connect this area with large cardinals. There will be ample time for discussion and collaboration.

If you wish to deliver a short contributed talk or be considered for funding support, please contact the organisers. Some funding is available for UK based Ph.D. students.

For more information, see https://www.bristol.ac.uk/maths/events/2024/philip-welch-event-.html or contact Philipp Schlicht at , or Philip Welch at .

8 - 12 July 2024, Computability in Europe 2024: Twenty years of theoretical and practical synergies, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Date: 8 - 12 July 2024
Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Deadline: Saturday 10 February 2024

CiE (Computability in Europe) is a European association of mathematicians, logicians, computer scientists, philosophers, physicists and others interested in new developments in computability and their underlying significance for the real world.

The CiE conferences serve as an interdisciplinary forum for research in all aspects of computability, foundations of computer science, logic, and theoretical computer science, as well as the interplay of these areas with practical issues in computer science and with other disciplines such as biology, mathematics, philosophy, or physics. CiE 2024 will be an anniversary event. It is the 20th conference organized by Ci , in the same place as the first edition, Amsterdam.

The Program Committee cordially invites all researchers, European and non-European, to submit their papers in all areas related to the above for presentation at the conference and inclusion in the proceedings of CiE 2024. Papers submitted to the conference proceedings should represent original work, not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference with formal proceedings. The Program Committee will rigorously review and select submitted papers. Accepted papers will be published as a proceedings volume in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series from Springer-Verlag.

Continuing the tradition of past CiE conferences, we also invite researchers to present informal presentations of their recent work. Informal presentations will not be published in the LNCS conference proceedings. Results presented as informal presentations at CiE 2024 may appear or may have appeared in other conferences with formal proceedings and/or in journals.

8 - 10 February 2024, 7th Workshop on Generalised Baire Spaces, Bristol, UK

Date: 8 - 10 February 2024
Location: Bristol, UK

This is the seventh in a series of workshops that have taken place from 2014. These workshops aim to connect researchers working in the descriptive set theory of Baire and Cantor spaces of functions on uncountable cardinals and its connections with infinite combinatorics and model theory. The upcoming workshop features several well-known speakers and aims to connect this area with large cardinals. There will be ample time for discussion and collaboration.

If you wish to deliver a short contributed talk or be considered for funding support, please contact the organisers. Some funding is available for UK based Ph.D. students.

For more information, see https://www.bristol.ac.uk/maths/events/2024/philip-welch-event-.html or contact Philipp Schlicht at , or Philip Welch at .

8 - 12 July 2024, 51st EATCS International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2024), Tallinn, Estonia

Date: 8 - 12 July 2024
Location: Tallinn, Estonia
Deadline: Wednesday 14 February 2024

ICALP is the main conference and annual meeting of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS). As usual, ICALP will be preceded by a series of workshops, which will take place on July 7.

ICALP 2024 is co-located with Logic in Computer Science (LICS) 2024 and Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD) 2024. The conference is planned as a physical, in-person event.  During the conference, the following awards will be delivered: the EATCS award,  the Gödel prize,  the Presburger award, the EATCS distinguished dissertation award, the best papers for each of the conference tracks, and the best student papers for each of the conference tracks.

Papers presenting original research on all aspects of theoretical computer science are sought. Papers must present original research on the theory of computer science. No prior publication and no simultaneous submission to other publication outlets (either a conference or a journal) is allowed. Submissions take the form of an extended abstract of no more than 15 pages, excluding references and a clearly labelled appendix. Submissions are anonymous and there is a rebuttal phase. The conference will employ a lightweight double-blind reviewing process.

The conference has two tracks:
- Track A: Algorithms, Complexity and Games
- Track B: Automata, Logic, Semantics, and Theory of Programming

For more information, see https://compose.ioc.ee/icalp2024/.

19 August 2024, Relational and Algebraic Methods in Computer Science (RAMiCS), Prague, Czechia

Date & Time: Monday 19 August 2024, 23:59
Location: Prague, Czechia
Deadline: Friday 16 February 2024

Since 1994, the RAMiCS conference series has been the main venue for theory surrounding relation algebra. Theoretical aspects include semigroups, residuated lattices, semirings, Kleene algebras, quantales and other algebras; their connections with program logics and other logics; their use in the theories of automata, concurrency, formal languages, games, networks and programming languages; the development of algebraic, algorithmic, category-theoretic, coalgebraic and proof-theoretic methods for these theories; their formalisation with theorem provers.

Applications include tools and techniques for program correctness, specification and verification; quantitative and qualitative models and semantics of computing systems and processes; algorithm design, automated reasoning, network protocol analysis, social choice, optimisation and control.

We are calling for submission of original work not published or under review for publication elsewhere. The proceedings will be published as part of Springer LNCS. As for earlier RAMiCS conferences, we intend to publish a journal special issue with revised and extended versions of a selection of the best papers.

For more information, see https://ramics-conf.github.io/2024/ or contact Uli Fahrenberg at .

19 - 23 February 2024, Computer Science Logic 2024 (CSL 2024), Naples, Italy

Date: 19 - 23 February 2024
Location: Naples, Italy
Deadline: Monday 24 July 2023

Computer Science Logic (CSL) is the annual conference of the European Association for Computer Science Logic (EACSL). It is an interdisciplinary conference, spanning across both basic and application oriented research in mathematical logic and computer science.

CSL'24 is planned as an on-site event, with support for remote presentations.

For more information, see https://csl2024.github.io/Home/.

19 - 23 February 2024, Computer Science Logic 2024 (CSL 2024), Naples, Italy

Date: 19 - 23 February 2024
Location: Naples, Italy
Deadline: Monday 24 July 2023

Computer Science Logic (CSL) is the annual conference of the European Association for Computer Science Logic (EACSL). It is an interdisciplinary conference, spanning across both basic and application oriented research in mathematical logic and computer science.

CSL'24 is planned as an on-site event, with support for remote presentations.

For more information, see https://csl2024.github.io/Home/.

19 - 23 February 2024, Computer Science Logic 2024 (CSL 2024), Naples, Italy

Date: 19 - 23 February 2024
Location: Naples, Italy
Deadline: Monday 24 July 2023

Computer Science Logic (CSL) is the annual conference of the European Association for Computer Science Logic (EACSL). It is an interdisciplinary conference, spanning across both basic and application oriented research in mathematical logic and computer science.

CSL'24 is planned as an on-site event, with support for remote presentations.

For more information, see https://csl2024.github.io/Home/.

19 - 23 February 2024, Computer Science Logic 2024 (CSL 2024), Naples, Italy

Date: 19 - 23 February 2024
Location: Naples, Italy
Deadline: Monday 24 July 2023

Computer Science Logic (CSL) is the annual conference of the European Association for Computer Science Logic (EACSL). It is an interdisciplinary conference, spanning across both basic and application oriented research in mathematical logic and computer science.

CSL'24 is planned as an on-site event, with support for remote presentations.

For more information, see https://csl2024.github.io/Home/.

19 - 23 February 2024, Computer Science Logic 2024 (CSL 2024), Naples, Italy

Date: 19 - 23 February 2024
Location: Naples, Italy
Deadline: Monday 24 July 2023

Computer Science Logic (CSL) is the annual conference of the European Association for Computer Science Logic (EACSL). It is an interdisciplinary conference, spanning across both basic and application oriented research in mathematical logic and computer science.

CSL'24 is planned as an on-site event, with support for remote presentations.

For more information, see https://csl2024.github.io/Home/.

24 - 26 February 2024, ICAART 2024 Special Session on Large Language Models & Natural Language Processing in Artificial Intelligence (LLMaNLPinAI 2024), Rome, Italy

Date & Time: 24 - 26 February 2024, 23:59
Location: Rome, Italy
Target audience: Computational Linguistics, Logic, Computer Science, AI
Deadline: Thursday 21 December 2023

Computational and technological developments that incorporate natural language are proliferating. Adequate coverage encounters difficult problems related to partiality, underspecification, and context-dependency, which are signature features of information in nature and natural languages. Increased power of hardware and software allows collection of large language sources, which require Natural Language Processing (NLP). Large language models (LLM) are important for information processing. LLM and NLP are interrelated and significant in AI.
This ICAART 2024 Special Session covers theoretical work, applications, approaches, and techniques for computational models of information and its presentation by language (artificial, human, or natural in other ways). The goal is to promote computational systems of intelligent language processing and related models of information, language, reasoning, etc.

For more information, see https://icaart.scitevents.org/LLMaNLPinAI.aspx or contact ICAART Secretariat at .

24 - 26 February 2024, ICAART 2024 Special Session on Large Language Models & Natural Language Processing in Artificial Intelligence (LLMaNLPinAI 2024), Rome, Italy

Date & Time: 24 - 26 February 2024, 23:59
Location: Rome, Italy
Target audience: Computational Linguistics, Logic, Computer Science, AI
Deadline: Thursday 21 December 2023

Computational and technological developments that incorporate natural language are proliferating. Adequate coverage encounters difficult problems related to partiality, underspecification, and context-dependency, which are signature features of information in nature and natural languages. Increased power of hardware and software allows collection of large language sources, which require Natural Language Processing (NLP). Large language models (LLM) are important for information processing. LLM and NLP are interrelated and significant in AI.
This ICAART 2024 Special Session covers theoretical work, applications, approaches, and techniques for computational models of information and its presentation by language (artificial, human, or natural in other ways). The goal is to promote computational systems of intelligent language processing and related models of information, language, reasoning, etc.

For more information, see https://icaart.scitevents.org/LLMaNLPinAI.aspx or contact ICAART Secretariat at .

24 - 26 February 2024, ICAART 2024 Special Session on Large Language Models & Natural Language Processing in Artificial Intelligence (LLMaNLPinAI 2024), Rome, Italy

Date & Time: 24 - 26 February 2024, 23:59
Location: Rome, Italy
Target audience: Computational Linguistics, Logic, Computer Science, AI
Deadline: Thursday 21 December 2023

Computational and technological developments that incorporate natural language are proliferating. Adequate coverage encounters difficult problems related to partiality, underspecification, and context-dependency, which are signature features of information in nature and natural languages. Increased power of hardware and software allows collection of large language sources, which require Natural Language Processing (NLP). Large language models (LLM) are important for information processing. LLM and NLP are interrelated and significant in AI.
This ICAART 2024 Special Session covers theoretical work, applications, approaches, and techniques for computational models of information and its presentation by language (artificial, human, or natural in other ways). The goal is to promote computational systems of intelligent language processing and related models of information, language, reasoning, etc.

For more information, see https://icaart.scitevents.org/LLMaNLPinAI.aspx or contact ICAART Secretariat at .

27 February 2024, CLS Mini-workshop: Evaluation of Dutch Language Models

Date & Time: Tuesday 27 February 2024, 16:00-17:15
Location: Room L3.36 at LAB42, Amsterdam Science Park 900

16h00-16h45: Wietse de Vries (GroningenNLP): DUMB: A Benchmark for Smart Evaluation of Dutch Models (joint work with Martijn Wieling, Malvina Nissim)

16h45-17h15: Zoë Prins (ILLC, UvA), Blimp-NL: Building a large Dutch corpus to measure knowledge of grammar and grammaticality judgments in language models and humans (joint work with Michelle Suijkerbuijk, Marianne de Heer Kloots, Jelle Zuidema & Stefan Frank -- CLS Radboud & ILLC UvA)

For more information, see https://projects.illc.uva.nl/LaCo/CLS/.

17 - 21 June 2024, 21st International Conference on Unconventional Computation and Natural Computation (UCNC 2024), Pohang, Republic of Korea

Date: 17 - 21 June 2024
Location: Pohang, Republic of Korea
Deadline: Wednesday 28 February 2024

The International Conference on Unconventional Computation and Natural Computation (UCNC) series is a forum bringing together scientists from many different backgrounds who are united in their interest in novel forms of computation, human-designed computation inspired by nature, and computational aspects of natural processes. UCNC provides a forum for such scientists to meet and discuss their work. The 21st International Conference on Unconventional Computation and Natural Computation (UCNC 2024) will be held at the Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, Republic of Korea on June 17-21, 2024 and will continue the tradition of focusing on current important theoretical and experimental results and their critical evaluation.

Authors are invited to submit original research papers (of, at most, 15 pages in LNCS format) through the conference EasyChair link. Papers must be submitted in Portable Document Format (PDF). Accepted papers will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series, and authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions for publication in a special issue of Natural Computing. Papers must not be under simultaneous consideration by any other conference with published proceedings. All accepted papers must be presented at the conference.

For more information, see https://sites.google.com/view/ucnc-2024/ or contact .

28 February - 1 March 2024, Computational approaches to metaphor & figurative language (DGfS 2024), Bochum, Germany

Date: 28 February - 1 March 2024
Location: Bochum, Germany
Deadline: Friday 1 September 2023

Workshop at the Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS 2024).

Figurative and non-literal language, such as metaphor, metonymy, or personification, poses a special challenge for computational analysis, since these expressions are not used with their usual, ordinary meanings, as represented in corpus data or recorded in lexical resources, but with different, derived meanings.

We aim to bring together computational linguists working on the automatic analysis of non-literal language. A special focus will be on non-conventionalized usages, such as novel metaphors or innovative forms of metonymy. In addition, we are particularly interested in approaches applicable to languages other than English, for example low-resource languages or domains.

26 - 28 August 2024, Seventh Philosophy of Language and Mind Network Conference (PLM7), Prague

Date: 26 - 28 August 2024
Location: Prague
Target audience: Philosophers of language and mind
Deadline: Thursday 29 February 2024

PLM is a European network of centers devoted to the Philosophy of Language and Mind. PLM was founded in 2010 and organizes international conferences, workshop and master classes taught by leading experts in the field.

We invite abstract submissions for 30-minute talks (with 10 minutes for discussion in a 40-minute slot) in the area of philosophy of language and mind (broadly construed).

For more information, see https://plm7.auletris.com/ or contact .

28 February - 1 March 2024, Computational approaches to metaphor & figurative language (DGfS 2024), Bochum, Germany

Date: 28 February - 1 March 2024
Location: Bochum, Germany
Deadline: Friday 1 September 2023

Workshop at the Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS 2024).

Figurative and non-literal language, such as metaphor, metonymy, or personification, poses a special challenge for computational analysis, since these expressions are not used with their usual, ordinary meanings, as represented in corpus data or recorded in lexical resources, but with different, derived meanings.

We aim to bring together computational linguists working on the automatic analysis of non-literal language. A special focus will be on non-conventionalized usages, such as novel metaphors or innovative forms of metonymy. In addition, we are particularly interested in approaches applicable to languages other than English, for example low-resource languages or domains.