Pristine Perspectives on Logic, Language and Computation

The European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI) is organized every year by the Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI) in different sites around Europe. The main focus of ESSLLI is on the interface between linguistics, logic and computation. ESSLLI offers foundational, introductory and advanced courses, as well as workshops, covering a wide variety of topics within the three areas of interest: Language and Computation, Language and Logic, and Logic and Computation.
The 16 papers presented in this volume have been selected among 44 papers presented by talks or posters at the Student Sessions of the 24th and 25th editions of ESSLLI, held in 2012 in Opole, Poland, and 2013 in Düsseldorf, Germany. The papers are extended versions of the versions presented, and have all been subjected to a second round of blind peer review.

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Language and Computation.-Characterizing speech genres through the relation between prosody and macro syntax.- Evaluating Supervised Semantic Parsing Methods on Application-Independent Data.- Using Corpus Statistics to Evaluate Nonce Words.- XMG: A Modular MetaGrammar Compiler.- Locative Alternation in English and Russian: A Frame Semantic Analysis.- Logic and Computation.-On a Formal Connection between Truth, Argumentation and Belief.- The Impact of Including Model Update Operators in Modal Logics.- How Arbitrary Are Arbitrary Public Announcements.- A Quantitative Measure of Relevance Based on Kelly Gambling Theory.- A generalization of modal frame deniability.-Monoid Automata for Displacement Context-free Languages.- Logic and Language.- True precision required. Adjectives of veracity in Spanish as imprecision regulators.- Language Change and the Force of Innovation.- (The) most in Flemish Dutch: Definiteness and Specificity.- Toward a Discourse Structure Account of Speech and Attitude Reports.- ST5: a 5-valued Logic for Truth-Value Judgements Involving Vagueness and Presuppositions.