The Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI) is an international, especially European, learned society

Learned society

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 administered from Nancy-Université

Nancy-Université

Nancy-Université federates the three principal institutes of higher education of Nancy, in Lorraine, France:* Henri Poincaré University : natural sciences, wrapping several faculties and engineering schools...

 in France. 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."
It publishes the academic journal

Academic journal

An academic journal is a peer-reviewed periodical in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as forums for the introduction and presentation for scrutiny of new research, and the critique of existing research...

 Journal of Logic, Language and Information

Journal of Logic, Language and Information

The Journal of Logic, Language and Information is the official journal of the European Association for Logic, Language and Information. It provides a forum for publication of research in "natural, formal, and programming languages"....

(JoLLI) and holds an annual academic conference

Academic conference

An academic conference or symposium is a conference for researchers to present and discuss their work. Together with academic or scientific journals, conferences provide an important channel for exchange of information between researchers.-Overview:Conferences are usually composed of various...

 called the European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information

European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information

The European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information 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 computation, with special emphasis on human linguistic and...

 (ESSLLI). "Very broadly, FoLLI's basic natural focus is on the phenomenon of information."

See also

• Dynamic semantics
• Generalized quantifier
  Generalized quantifier
  In linguistic semantics, a generalized quantifier is an expression that denotes a property of a property, also called a higher-order property. This is the standard semantics assigned to quantified noun phrases, also called determiner phrases, in short: DP...
  
  
• Information theory
  Information theory
  Information theory is a branch of applied mathematics and electrical engineering involving the quantification of information. Information theory was developed by Claude E. Shannon to find fundamental limits on signal processing operations such as compressing data and on reliably storing and...
  
  
• Type theory
  Type theory
  In mathematics, logic and computer science, type theory is any of several formal systems that can serve as alternatives to naive set theory, or the study of such formalisms in general...
  
  

External links

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