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9 - 10 August 2021, ESSLLI 2021 Workshop "Computational and Experimental Explanations in Semantics and Pragmatics"

Date: 9 - 10 August 2021
Location: Online
Deadline: Monday 14 June 2021

The field of natural language semantics has undergone what some refer to as an 'experimental turn' and is arguably currently undergoing a 'computational turn'. By expanding the toolbox available to the semanticist, these two turns have the effect of expanding the phenomena that can be explained and the varieties of semantic explanations that can be offered.

Given this wider toolbox and purview, we aim to gather a workshop to showcase exciting new work that develops new semantic explanations using experimental and computational methods, as well as to invite broader reflection on the methodology of semantics now and in its future.

Topics of potential interest include but are not limited to:
  • Experimental semantics and pragmatics
  • Graded/non-categorical semantic theories and explanations
  • Information-theoretic measures and explanations in semantics and pragmatics
  • Semantic universals
  • Learnability and evolution of semantics and pragmatics
  • Bayesian approaches to semantics and pragmatics
  • Probing neural models for learned semantic representations
  • Semantics in emergent communication protocols
  • The methodology of semantics

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