“PERSPECTIVES ON MODALITY” WORKSHOP AT STANFORD THIS FRIDAY

The Language and Natural Reasoning Group at CSLI and the 2012-2013 Cognition & Language Workshop are pleased to announce the workshop “Perspectives on Modality”.

The study of modality lies at the intersection of reasoning and natural language. In linguistic theory and in logic modality has received intensive study. In NLP it has recently become relevant, as the field is moving beyond the identification of events and their participants towards making inferences about the (likelihood of) occurrence or non-occurrence of events. This workshop assembles linguists, logicians and computer scientists to assess standard and non-standard models of the meaning and inferential properties of modal expressions and to discuss the potential compatibility of seemingly disparate formal frameworks and the way their results can be integrated in NLP.

The workshop will take place this Friday, April 12th, 9:30am-5:50pm, at Stanford’s Cordura Hall 100. For more information, please visit their website.