6th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MEANING AND KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION (5, 6 and 7 July, 2017)

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.
  • Linked data and semantic web technologies.

Lexical Constructional Model (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 All paper proposals are assumed to represent original and unpublished work.

Abstracts must conform to the following guidelines.

Email for abstract submission: 6mkrconf@gmail.com



PUBLICATION

The Organizing Committee intends to publish a collection of abstracts. After a blind double peer-review process, the best conference papers will be published in the journal "Voprosy Kognitivnoy Lingvistiki" [Issues of Cognitive Linguistics]; according to the impact factor RSCI, this is one of the most cited scientific periodicals in the field of linguistics, as well as being indexed by ERIH+ and Scopus.

Only the papers presented at the Conference will be considered for publication (the number will be limited). They will be placed in different sections of the journal in accordance with the theme of the articles or 4-5 articles will be put in one of the Issues of 2018.