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The Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI) is an international, especially European,
learned society A learned society (; also learned academy, scholarly society, or academic association) is an organization that exists to promote an academic discipline, profession, or a group of related disciplines such as the arts and science. Membership m ...
. It was founded in 1991 "to advance the practicing of research and education on the interfaces between Logic, Linguistics, Computer Science and Cognitive Science and related disciplines." The
academic journal An academic journal or scholarly journal is a periodical publication in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as permanent and transparent forums for the presentation, scrutiny, and ...
Journal of Logic, Language and Information The ''Journal of Logic, Language and Information'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering research on "natural, formal, and programming languages". It is the official journal of the European Association for Logic, Language and Infor ...
(JoLLI) is published under its auspices; it co-ordinates summer schools such as the
European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information The European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI) is an annual academic conference organized by the European Association for Logic, Language and Information. The focus of study is the "interface between linguistics, logic and ...
(ESSLLI), the ''North American Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information'' (NASSLLI), and the ''International Conference and Second East-Asian School on Logic, Language and Computation'' (EASLLC); and it awards the E. W. Beth Dissertation Prize to outstanding dissertations in the fields of Logic, Language, and Information.


Governance

The current president of FoLLI is Larry Moss (since 2020). The current management board consists of Larry Moss (president),
Sonja Smets Sonja Smets is a Belgian and Dutch logician and epistemology, epistemologist known for her work in belief revision and quantum logic. She is Professor of Logic and Epistemology at the University of Amsterdam, where she was the Director of the Ins ...
(vice president), Natasha Alechina (secretary), Nina Gierasimczuk (treasurer), Valentin Goranko (senior member), Darja Fiser, Benedikt Löwe, Louise McNally, and Pritty Patel-Grosz. Past Presidents include Johan van Benthem (1991-1995),
Wilfrid Hodges Wilfrid Augustine Hodges, FBA (born 27 May 1941) is a British mathematician and logician known for his work in model theory. Life Hodges attended New College, Oxford (1959–65), where he received degrees in both '' Literae Humaniores'' and (C ...
(1995-1996), Erhard Hinrichs (1997-1998), Paul Gochet (1999-2001), Hans Uzskoreit (2002-2003), Luigia Carlucci Aiello (2004-2007), Michael Moortgat (2007-2012), Ann Copestake (2012-2016), and Valentin Goranko (2016-2020).


See also

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Dynamic semantics Dynamic semantics is a framework in logic and natural language semantics that treats the meaning of a sentence as its potential to update a context. In static semantics, knowing the meaning of a sentence amounts to knowing when it is true; in dynam ...
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Generalized quantifier In formal semantics, a generalized quantifier (GQ) is an expression that denotes a set of sets. This is the standard semantics assigned to quantified noun phrases. For example, the generalized quantifier ''every boy'' denotes the set of sets of ...
* Information theory *
Type theory In mathematics, logic, and computer science, a type theory is the formal presentation of a specific type system, and in general type theory is the academic study of type systems. Some type theories serve as alternatives to set theory as a fou ...


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Association for Logic, Language and Information
— FoLLI official home page
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