4th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MEANING AND KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION (1, 2 and 3 July, 2015)


NEWS

Second Call of Papers:
Proposals for contributions may be submitted until April 30, 2015.


CALL FOR PAPERS

We invite 20-minute (plus 10-minute discussion) presentation proposals on the following general and/or specific topics:


General topics

  • At the crossroads between functionalist, cognitivist and/or constructionist approaches.
  • Division of labour of lexical semantics and constructional semantics.
  • Role of metaphor and metonymy and other cognitive operations in meaning construction and grammar.
  • Relationship between semantics, pragmatics and discourse in meaning construction and/or meaning representation.
  • Cognitive modeling and construal.
  • Pragmatic inferencing.

Papers that pay special attention to the treatment of these topics within the Lexical Constructional Model (LCM) and FunGramKB are particularly welcome.


LCM and FunGramKB specific topics

  • Meaning construction and meaning representation in the LCM.
  • Methodological tools in the LCM (e.g. equipollence).
  • Syntactic representation in the LCM.
  • The form of lexical and constructional templates in the LCM.
  • Connections between the LCM and FunGramKB.
  • Lexico-grammatical knowledge in FunGramKB.
  • Terminology in FunGramKB.
  • Conceptual representation in FunGramKB.
  • Reasoning in FunGramKB.
  • NLP applications of FunGramKB.

Guidelines for submissions

Submissions should include the following information:

  1. Author's name
  2. Affiliation
  3. E-mail address
  4. Paper title
  5. An abstract with a maximum of 500 words, excluding references

The official language of the conference is English. All paper proposals are assumed to represent original and unpublished work.

Email for abstract submission: 4mkr.conference@gmail.com