Dear all,
We would like to draw your attention to the following LIRa-related event and first call for papers.
kind regards, The LIRa team
THE FIFTEENTH INTERNATIONAL TBILISI SYMPOSIUM ON LOGIC, LANGUAGE AND COMPUTATION
September 8-12, 2025
Kutaisi, Georgia (tbc)
https://events.illc.uva.nl/Tbilisi/Tbilisi2025/
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FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
The Fifteenth International Tbilisi Symposium on Logic, Language, and Computation will be held September 8-12, 2025 in the country of Georgia. The Programme Committee invites submissions for contributions on all aspects of logic, language, and computation. Work of an interdisciplinary nature is particularly welcome.
Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Natural language syntax, semantics, and pragmatics * Linguistic typology and semantic universals * Language evolution and learnability * Variability in language * Sociolinguistics * Historical linguistics, history of logic * Natural logic, inference and entailment in natural language * Natural language processing * Distributional and probabilistic models of information, meaning and computation * Logic, games, and formal pragmatics * Logic and cognition * Logics for artificial intelligence and computer science * Knowledge representation * Foundations of machine learning * Formal models of multiagent systems * Logics for social networks * Logics for knowledge, belief, and information dynamics * Computational social choice * Information retrieval, query answer systems * Constructive, intuitionistic, modal and other non-classical logics * Algebraic and coalgebraic logic and semantics * Categorical logic * Foundations of mathematics and mathematical logic * Models of computation * Formal languages and automata theory
PROGRAMME
The programme will include two plenary tutorials, four plenary invited lectures and two parallel tracks of contributed talks. In addition, there will be two topical workshops. More details will soon be made available via the TbiLLC website (see top).
*Tutorial speakers* Language: Milica Denić (Tel Aviv University) Logic & Computation: Thomas Icard (Stanford University)
*Invited speakers*
Language: * Maria Aloni (University of Amsterdam) * Sarah Zobel (Humboldt University Berlin)
Logic & Computation: * Mikolaj Bojanczyk (University of Warsaw) * Mai Gehrke (Universite Cote d’Azur)
SUBMISSION INFO
Authors can submit an abstract for presentation at the symposium of up to 3 pages excluding references, and max 4 pages including references. Abstracts should report on original, unpublished work.
All accepted abstracts will be compiled into an informal proceedings volume which will be made available electronically in advance of the symposium.
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission deadline: Fri 14 March 2025
Notification: Wed 23 May 2025
Symposium: September 8-12, 2025
PUBLICATION INFORMATION
After the symposium, authors of accepted abstracts will be invited to submit a full-length paper to the post-proceedings of the symposium, which will be published in the LNCS series of Springer. The full-length submissions will undergo a new single-blind peer review process.
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Balder ten Cate (University of Amsterdam, PC chair) Peter Sutton (University of Potsdam, PC chair) Rodrigo Almeida (University of Amsterdam) Giuliano Armenante (University of Potsdam) Patrick Blackburn (Roskilde University) Marcello Bonsangue (Leiden University) Olga Borik (UNED) Fabian Bross (University of Stuttgart) Stergios Chatzikyriakidis (University of Crete) Anupam Das (University of Birmingham) Stéphane Demri (CNRS, ENS Paris-Saclay) Simon Dobnik (University of Gothenburg) Jenny Doetjes (Leiden University Centre for Linguistics) Kurt Erbach (Uni-Frankfurt, Uni-Saarland) Hana Filip (Heinrich Heine University) Maurice Funk (Leipzig University) Berit Gehrke (Humboldt University Berlin) Marianna Girlando (University of Amsterdam) Eleni Gregoromichelaki (University of Gothenburg) Nina Haslinger (Leibniz-ZAS Berlin) Stefan Hinterwimmer (University of Hamburg) Lotte Hogeweg (Radboud Universiteit) Daniel Hole (University of Stuttgart) Raheleh Jalali (Czech Academy of Sciences) Tobias Kappé (Leiden University) Antti Kuusisto (Tampere University) Evgeny Kuznetsov (Tbilisi State University) Kristina Liefke (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) Carol Rose Little (University of Oklahoma) Mora Maldonado (CNRS, Université de Nantes) Robin Martinot (Utrecht University) Elin McCready (Aoyama Gakuin University) Brett McLean (Ghent University) Rainer Osswald (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf) Revantha Ramanayake (University of Groningen) Luca Reggio (University College London) Tom Roberts (Utrecht University) Viola Schmitt (MIT/Humboldt University Berlin) Igor Sedlár (Czech Academy of Sciences) Todd Snider (Uni Tuebingen) Stephanie Solt (Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics) Andrés Soria Ruiz (University of Barcelona) Yasutada Sudo (University College London) Jakub Szymanik (University of Trento) Eugenia Ternovska (Simon Fraser University) Swantje Tönnis Carla Umbach (University of Cologne) Sam van Gool (IRIF, Université Paris Cité) Marcin Wągiel (Masaryk University in Brno, University of Wrocław) Frank Wolter (University of Liverpool) Fan Yang (Utrecht University) Thomas Ede Zimmermann (Goethe University Frankfurt) Yulia Zinova (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf) Sarah Zobel (Humboldt University Berlin)