New Directions in Logic, Language and Computation: ESSLLI 2010 and ESSLLI 2011 Student Sessions. Selected Papers

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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. During two weeks, around 50 courses and 10 workshops are offered to the attendants, each of 1.5 hours per day during a five days week, with up to seven parallel sessions. ESSLLI also includes a student session (papers and posters by students only, 1.5 hour per day during the two weeks) and four evening lectures by senior scientists in the covered areas. The 15 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected. The papers are organized in topical sections on The papers are organized in topical sections on language and computation; logic and computation; and logic and language. Front Matter....Pages - Predicting the Position of Attributive Adjectives in the French NP....Pages 1-15 Abductive Reasoning for Continual Dialogue Understanding....Pages 16-31 SCA: Phonetic Alignment Based on Sound Classes....Pages 32-51 Embodied Quantifiers....Pages 52-66 Ranked Multidimensional Dialogue Act Annotation....Pages 67-77 The Good, the Bad, and the Odd: Cycles in Answer-Set Programs....Pages 78-90 Distributed Knowledge with Justifications....Pages 91-108 Epistemic Logic, Relevant Alternatives, and the Dynamics of Context....Pages 109-129 Towards a Generalization of Modal Definability....Pages 130-139 Modeling Semantic Competence: A Critical Review of Frege’s Puzzle about Identity....Pages 140-157 Comparing Inconsistency Resolutions in Multi-Context Systems....Pages 158-174 Vague Determiner Phrases and Distributive Predication....Pages 175-194 The Syntax and Semantics of Evaluative Degree Modification....Pages 195-211 A Kripkean Solution to Paradoxes of Denotation....Pages 212-220 Trust Games as a Model for Requests....Pages 221-233 Back Matter....Pages -