Carnegie Mellon University

NASSLLI 2018 @ CMU - June 23-29

North American Summer School on Logic, Language, and Information

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Bootcamp Courses

These weekend courses run in parallel and will be held Saturday, June 23 from 1-4pm and Sunday, June 24, 9:30-12:30 & 2:00-5:00.

Course Instructors
Machine learning - Porter Hall 100 Matthew R. Gormley
Introduction to linguistic data analysis using R - Baker Hall A51 Seth Weiner
Formal semantics and pragmatics, and their origins in philosophy - Baker Hall A53 Richmond Thomason, Zoltan Szabo
Topology, Logic, and Epistemology - Scaife Hall 125 Adam Bjorndahl

Regular Courses

Monday, June 25 - Friday, June 29, 2018

Session Logic &
Epistemology
Logic &
Computation
Computational
Linguistics
Semantics
& Pragmatics
Explorations
8:30a-
9:00a
Morning coffee/tea in Baker Hall lower level lounge
9:00a-
10:15a
Logic and probability
Thomas Icard,
Krzysztof Mierzewski
Baker Hall A51
Information theory
Mathias Winther Madsen
Baker Hall A53
*LIMITED AVAILABILITY*
Corpus linguistics with
python and NLTK
Na-Rae Han, David Birnbaum
Baker Hall 235B & Baker Hall 237B
FEATURED COURSE
Introduction to Pragmatics
Bart Geurts
Porter Hall 100
10:30a-
11:45a

FEATURED COURSE
From epistemic logic
to social cognition

Rineke Verbrugge
Baker Hall A53

Proof interpretations:
a modern perspective
Anupam Das,
Thomas Powell
Baker Hall 235B
Computational pragmatics
Judith Degen
Porter Hall 100
An opinionated
guide to predicates of
personal taste
Natasha Korotkova,
Pranav Anand
Baker Hall 255A
Graph formalisms
for meaning representations
Sorcha Gilroy,
Adam Lopez
Baker Hall 237B
11:45a-
1:30p
Monday:
Citi Ventures Presentation
Baker A53 - (includes lunch)
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday:
Lunch Break & Poster Session
(students)
Friday:
Lunch Break
1:30p-
2:45p
Logics for epistemic and
strategic reasoning in
multi-agent systems
Valentin Goranko
Baker Hall 235B
FEATURED COURSE
Hybrid Logic
Patrick Blackburn
Baker Hall A53
Computational morphology
Kemal Oflazer
Baker Hall A51

Integrating compositional
semantics and event semantics
Lucas Champollion,
Maria Esipova
Porter Hall 100

Topological epistemology
of science
Kevin Kelly,
Konstantin Genin
Baker Hall 237B
3:00p-
4:15p
Logics for formal
epistemology
Alexandru Baltag,
Sonja Smets

Baker Hall 235B
Logic for natural language,
logic in natural language
Larry Moss
Porter Hall 100

Language modeling with
tree-adjoining grammars
Kata Balogh,
Simon Petitjean

Baker Hall 237B
Semantics and pragmatics
of temporal sequencing
Pranav Anand,
Maziar Toosarvandani
Baker Hall A51
New type-theoretic
tools in natural
language semantics
Steve Awodey,
Justyna Grudzinska,
Marek Zawadowski
and Colin Zwanziger
Baker Hall A53
4:15p-
5:00p
Coffee/Tea Break in Baker Hall lower level lounge
5:00p-
6:15p
Beyond
"knowing that":
a new generation of
epistemic logics
Yanjing Wang
Baker Hall 235B
Proof theory: logical
and philosophical aspects
Shawn Standefer,
Greg Restall
Baker Hall A51
Low resource techniques
in NLP
David R. Mortensen,
Yulia Tsvetkov

Porter Hall 100
Probabilities of conditionals
in modal semantics
Paolo Santorio,
Baker Hall A53
Conlang playground:
from linguistic research
to creative fiction
Lori Levin
Baker Hall 237B
The closing reception will take place on Friday, 7:00pm, in the Rangos Ballroom in the Cohon University Center.

Presenting Sponsor:

Citi Ventures