The fourth Tbilisi Symposium on Language, Logic and Computation was held in the mountain resort Likani, situated in the Borjomi Canyon, from 23 to 28 September. The Symposium is organized by the Centre for Language, Logic and Speech at the Tbilisi State University in conjunction with the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) of the University of Amsterdam. The 2001 forum is the fourth instalment of a series of biannual Symposia. The preceding ones took place in the Georgian mountain resort Gudauri (1995), at the capital of Georgia Tbilisi (1997) and in the Black see cost resort Chakvi (1999). The success of this triad encourages us to continue this series.
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Monday September 24, 2001 |
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| 9.30 - 10.30 | Barbara Partee & Vladimir Borschev (invited lecture) | |
| 10.30 - 11.00 | Coffee Break | |
| 11.00 - 12.30 |
Session 1 Giorgi Japarize Dorit Ben Shalom Fairouz Kamareddine & Rob Nederpelt |
Session 2 Ahmed Brahim Kikvidze Lee Yat Mei (Sophia) |
| 12.30 - 14.00 | lunch | |
| 14.00 - 15.00 | Robin Cooper (invited lecture) | |
| 15.15 - 16.15 | Tutorial Patrick Blackburn | |
| 16.15 - 17.15 | Tutorial Igor Boguslavsky | |
| 17.15 - 17.45 | break | |
| 17.45 - 18.45 | Yde Venema (invited lecture) | |
Tuesday September 25, 2001 |
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| 9.30 - 10.30 | Manfred Krifka (invited lecture) | |
| 10.30 - 11.00 | Coffee Break | |
| 11.00 - 12.30 |
Session 3 Maria Aloni and Robert van Rooy Marie Nilsenova Rusudan Asatiani |
Session 4 Carlos Areces, Patrick Blackburn and Maarten Marx David Gabelaia Tadeusz Litak |
| 12.30 - 14.00 | lunch | |
| 14.00 - 15.00 | Tutorial Johan van Benthem | |
| 15.15 -16.15 | Tutorial Patrick Blackburn | |
| 16.15 -17.15 | Tutorial Igor Boguslavsky | |
| 17.15 - 17.45 | break | |
| 17.45 - 18.45 | M. Zakharyaschev (invited lecture) | |
| 18.55 - 19.35 | Pieter Seuren (extra lecture) | |
Wednesday September 26, 2001 |
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| 9.30 - 10.30 | Tutorial Johan van Benthem | |
| 10.30 - 11.00 | Session 5 Nadia Nedjah and Luiza de Macedo Mourelle |
Session 6 Lamara Margvelani |
| 11.00 - 11.30 | coffee break | |
| 11.30 - 13.00 |
Session 7 Howard Gregory Balder ten Cate Paul Dekker |
Session 8 Gabor Alberti,Kata Balogh and Judit Kleiber Siamak Rezaei Konstantine Pkhakadze and Marine Ivanishvili |
Thursday September 27, 2001 |
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| 9.30 - 10.30 | A. Voronkov (invited lecture) | |
| 10.30 - 11.00 | Coffee Break | |
| 11.00 - 12.30 |
session 9 Richard Zuber Troy Lee Gerhard Jaeger |
session 10 Jost Gippert, Thedo Uturgaidze and Levan Chkhaidze Tandashvili Ketevan Datukishvili, Nana Loladze, Merab Zakalashvili |
| 12.30 - 14.00 | lunch | |
| 14.00 - 15.00 | Tutorial Johan van Benthem | |
| 15.15 -16.15 | Tutorial Patrick Blackburn | |
| 16.15 -17.15 | Tutorial Igor Boguslavsky | |
| 17.15 - 17.45 | break | |
| 17.45 - 18.45 | David Pearce (invited lecture) | |
Friday September 28, 2001 |
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| 09.30 - 11.00 |
Session 11 Marine Ivanishvili and Ether Soselia Anna Mlynarczyk Henk Zeevat |
session 12 Nick Bezhanishvili Revaz Grigolia and Antonio Di Nola Vladimir Sotirov |
| 11.00 - 11.30 | coffee break | |
| 11.30 - 12.00 |
session 13 Gregers Koch |
session 14 Jemali Antidze, Nana Gulua and David Mishelashvili |
| 12.00- 13.00 | Ju. Apresjan (invited lecture) | |
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In parallel with the Symposium tutorials will be given by outstanding scholars for students and post-graduates. They are explicitly meant to address interdisciplinary issues in the fields of language, logic and computation.
Johan van Benthem (ILLC, University of Amsterdam) will give a tutorial on logic, Patrick Blackburn (INRIA, Lorraine) on computation Igor Boguslavsky (IITP, Russian Academy of Sciences ) on linguisticsBack to
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To register, please fill out the online Registration Form at or before August 22. The registration fee is 200 EURO. This fee is not obligatory for participants from Central and Eastern Europe and the Newly Independent States. More information about payment and accomodation can be found on the Registration Form.
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By plane to Tbilisi and then by bus (3-4 hours) to Likani; a special bus trip is planned which will start inTbilisi at Sunday September 23.
A visa can be obtained at the airport. All participants will get a letter of invitation to facilitate the procedure of getting a visa.
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Georgia is an ancient country situated between Black and Kaspian Seas, Caucasus Mountains and Turkey. This is the country of the Golden Fleece, myth of Argonauts, Jason and Medea, Promethee, chained to the Caucasus Mountains. Georgia is famous for its high quality wines, exquisite cuisine and cordial hospitality.
The Symposium will be hosted by the Tbilisi State University, the chief centre of education in the country which has several outstanding scholars in science, art and politics among its graduates.
The Fourth Tbilisi Symposium will be held in Likani, a group of sanatoriums and hotels situated in the famous mountain resort Borjomi. Borjomi (175 km west from Tbilisi) is the largest mountain spa in Georgia, whose name is a synonym for mineral water throughout Georgia. The surrounding countryside with many good walks in the hills and several attractive parks is a nature reserve. Borjomi Canyon slopes are covered by mixed forest, variegated in the autumn; somewhat higher in the Canyon is the ski resort Bakuriani and at a distance of 150 km the medieval cave-city Vardzia. From the monuments in Borjomi the most important is one of the residencies of Russian Kings.
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Short excursions are planned to the ski resort Bakuriani and cave-city Vardzia. As one of the options of return to Tbilisi a two-day trip is planned to the second town of Georgia, Kutaisi, and the mountain resort Shovi situated on the south slopes of the main Caucasus ridge.
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For more information one may also contact:
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George Chikoidze |
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Dept. of Language Modelling |
Institute for Logic, |
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phone: +995 32 382136 |
phone: +31 20 525 6519 |
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Web sites:
Travel guide:
"Georgia; The Bradt Travel Guide" by Tim Burford (published by Bradt in 1999); ISBN I 898323 98 4
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