CSLP 2011 - 6th International Workshop on Constraints and Language Processing

The CSLP-AT-Context'11 workshop considers the role of constraints in the representation of language and the implementation of language processing from an interdisciplinary perspective. This theme should be interpreted inclusively: contributions from linguistics, computer science, psycholinguistics and related areas are welcome, and an interdisciplinary perspective is of particular interest.
Constraints are widely used in linguistics, computer science, and psychology. How they are used, however, varies widely according to the research domain: knowledge representation, cognitive modelling, problem solving mechanisms, etc. These different perspectives are complementary, each one adding a piece to the puzzle. For example, linguistics proposes in-depth descriptions implementing constraints in order to filter out structures by means of description languages, constraint ranking, etc. The constraint programming paradigm, on the other hand, shows that constraints have to be taken as a systematic whole and can thus play a role in building the structures (or can even replace structures). Finally, psycholinguistics experiment have been made, investigating the role of constraint systems for cognitive processes in comprehension and production, as well as addressing how they can be acquired.

This workshop is the sixth of its kind and takes place 27 September 2011 affiliated with CONTEXT '11: The 7th International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context 2011.

The collocation with the Context'11 conference underlines the application of constraints for context comprehension and discourse modelling.

The CSLP-AT-Context'11 workshop considers the role of constraints in the representation of language and the implementation of language processing from an interdisciplinary perspective. This theme should be interpreted inclusively: contributions from linguistics, computer science, psycholinguistics and related areas are welcome, and an interdisciplinary perspective is of particular interest.
Constraints are widely used in linguistics, computer science, and psychology. How they are used, however, varies widely according to the research domain: knowledge representation, cognitive modelling, problem solving mechanisms, etc. These different perspectives are complementary, each one adding a piece to the puzzle. For example, linguistics proposes in-depth descriptions implementing constraints in order to filter out structures by means of description languages, constraint ranking, etc. The constraint programming paradigm, on the other hand, shows that constraints have to be taken as a systematic whole and can thus play a role in building the structures (or can even replace structures). Finally, psycholinguistics experiment have been made, investigating the role of constraint systems for cognitive processes in comprehension and production, as well as addressing how they can be acquired.

The topics include, but are not limited to

Constraints in human language comprehension and production
Context modelling and discourse interpretation
Acquisition of constraints
Constraints and learning
Cross-theoretical view of the notion of constraint
New advances in constraint-based linguistic theories
Constraint satisfaction (CS) technologies for NLP
Linguistic analysis and linguistic theories biased towards CS or constraint logic programming (CLP)
Application of CS or CLP for NLP
CS and CLP for other than textual or spoken languages, e.g., sign languages and biological, multimodal human-computer interaction, visual languages
Probabilistic constraint-based reasoning for NLP and context comprehension
Previously published papers cannot be accepted. The submissions will be reviewed by the international program committee. One author for each accepted paper must attend the workshop in order to present the paper.