Workshop on

The logic of the lexicon

January 2013: monday 28 -- wednesday 30

Toulouse 

Organisation: Christian Retoré and Laurent Perrussel

Joint meeting of ANR LOCI (Locativity and interactivity in logic, linguistics and theoretical computer science)
and ANR POLYMNIE (Parsing and synthesis with abstract categorial grammars. From lexicon to discourse)

Precise location: Toulouse, Université Toulouse Capitole, Salle Bâtiment Arsenal salle J002
Nearby hotels: hôtel du Taur, hôtel Albert 1er, hôtel Anatole France, hôtel Saint-Sernin, hôtel Mercure, voir par exemple sur Google maps.

Topics:

• Lexical semantics in compositional semantics
  
• Lexical pragmatics, word meaning in context 
  
• Connections bewteen distributive semantics and compositional semantics
  
• Existent lexical networks
  
• Acquisition of a lexicon
• Relation to ontologies
• Lexicon for syntaxic and semantic analysis
  
• ...

Abstracts and slides

Program:

• 9:30 Presentation of the workshop
  
• 10-10:50 Sylvain Salvati (INRIA & LABRI - Bordeaux)
  Simple account of basic lexical semantics (abstract)
  
• pause 20'
  
• 11:10-12 Tim van de Cruys (CNRS - IRIT - Toulouse)
  Word vectors, distributional similarity and applications (abstract)

Monday afternoon

• 14 14:50 Veronika Lux (CNRS - ATILF - Nancy)
  Introducing the French Lexical Network (abstract / slides)
  
• 14:50 15:40 Mathieu Lafourcade & Manel Zarrouk (U. Montpellier 2 - LIRMM)
  Deductive and inductive inferences from JeuxDeMots, a game-acquired lexicon (abstract / slides)
  
• pause 30'
  
• 16:10-17 Mickael Zock (CNRS - LIF - Marseille)
  How to help authors to overcome the Tip-Of-the-Tongue problem :
  lexical graphs (or associative networks) and some inherent problems (abstract / slides)
  
• 17 -17:50 Bruno Gaume (CNRS - CLLE - Toulouse)
  A robust metrology of lexical networks based on random walks in lexical relations (abstract / slides)
  
  
  

Tuesday morning

• Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles (CNRS - IRIT - Toulouse)
  Ontologies, texts and the lexicon (abstract / slides)
  
• pause 20'
  
• 10:40-11:30 Alain Lecomte (U. Paris 8 & SFL)
  Ludics and the lexicon (abstract)
  
• 11:30-12:20 Christophe Fouqueré (U. Paris 13 & LIPN)
  About Coherence Use in Natural Language (abstract / slides)
  

Tuesday afternoon

• 14-14:50 Robin Cooper (U. Göteborg)
  Types, judgements and lexical meaning (abstract / slides)
  
• 14:50-15:40 Nicholas Asher (CNRS - IRIT - Toulouse)
  Word meaning in context: semantic approaches based on type theory
  
• pause 30'
  
• 16:10- 17  Zhaohui Luo (Royal Holloway College, U. of London)
  Modern Type Theories and Montague Semantics: Comparisons and Beyond (abstract / slides)
  
• 17-17:40 Christian Retoré (U. Bordeaux 1 & IRIT - Toulouse)
  Compositional semantics and lexical pragmatics in type theory (abstract / slides)
• 17:40-18 Tim van de Cruys (CNRS - IRIT - Toulouse)
  On the convergence between compositional semantics and distributional semantics:
  A Tensor-based Factorization Model of Semantic Compositionality (abstract)

Wednesday morning

• 9:30-10:20 Laurence Danlos (U. Paris 7 & INRIA)
  Problems at the syntax-semantics interface with adverbial connectives (abstract / slides)
  
• pause 20'
  
• 10:40-11:30 Richard Moot  (CNRS - LaBRI - Bordeaux)
  Wide-coverage semantics applied to temporal ordering and presupposition (abstract / slides)
  
• 11-:30-12:20 Reinhard Muskens (U. Tilburg)
  Names (abstract / slides)

Wedesday afternoon: discussion of the projects Polymnie and Loci, prospect for national and international projects. 

Other participants:

• Philippe de Groote (Nancy)
  
• Pierre Livet (Aix-Marseille)
  
• Juliette Conrath (Toulouse)
  
• Philippe Muller (Toulouse)
  
• Myriam Quatrini (Aix-Marseille)
  
• Sylvain Pogodalla (Nancy)
  
• Stergos Afantenos (Toulouse)
  
• Farah Benamara (Toulouse)
  
• Eugenia Sironi (Marseille)
  
• Pierre Bourreau (Tübingen)
  
• Maxime Amblard (Nancy)
  
• ...