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The '''Association for Logic, Language and Information''' ('''FoLLI''') is an international, especially European, [[scholarly society]] based in France. It publishes the [[academic journal]] ''[[Logic, Language and Information]]'' and holds an annual [[academic conference]] called the [[European Summer School for Logic, Language and Information]]. The focus of study is the "interface between linguistics, logic and computation, with special emphasis on human linguistic and cognitive ability"..<ref name=FoLLI>[http://folli.loria.fr/content/esslli-aims.php "ESSLLI - Aims"], ([[Association for Logic, Language and Information]], accessed 23 May 2009).</ref> The conference is held over two weeks of the European Summer, and offers about 50 courses at introductory and advanced levels. It attracts about 400 participants from all over the world.<ref name=FoLLI />

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The '''Association for Logic, Language and Information''' ('''FoLLI''') is an international, especially European, [[learned society]]. 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]] [[Journal of Logic, Language and Information]] (JoLLI) is published under its auspices; it co-ordinates summer schools such as the [[European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information]] (ESSLLI), the ''[https://folli.info/?page_id=49 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.<ref>

== See also ==

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==Governance==

The current president of FoLLI is Larry Moss (since 2020). The current management board consists of [[Larry Moss (logician and mathematician)|Larry Moss]] (president), [[Sonja Smets]] (vice president), [[Natasha Alechina]] (secretary), [[Nina Gierasimczuk]] (treasurer), [[Valentin Goranko]] (senior member), [[Darja Fiser]], [[Benedikt Löwe]], [[Louise McNally]], and [[Pritty Patel-Grosz]].<ref>

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Past Presidents include

[[Johan van Benthem (logician)|Johan van Benthem]] (1991–1995),

[[Wilfrid Hodges]] (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 ==

* [[Dynamic semantics]]

* [[Generalized quantifier]]

* [[Information theory]]

* [[Type theory]]

== References ==

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== Bibliography ==

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120810082949/http://www.esslli2012.pl/ Program] for ESSLLI 2012: [[Opole]]

* [http://esslli2009.labri.fr/ Program] for ESSLLI 2009: [[Bordeaux]]

* [http://www.illc.uva.nl/ESSLLI2008/ Program] for ESSLLI 2008: [[Hamburg]]

* [https://www.cs.tcd.ie/esslli2007/ Program] for ESSLLI 2007: [[Dublin]]

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090720072444/http://esslli2006.lcc.uma.es/give-page.php?id=1 Program] for ESSLLI 2006: [[MalagaMálaga]]

* [http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/esslli05/ Program] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101205131544/http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/esslli05/ |date=5 December 2010 }} for ESSLLI 2005: [[Edinburgh]]

== External links ==

* [http://www.folli.info Association for Logic, Language and Information] – FoLLI official home page

* [http://folli.loria.fr/ Association for Logic, Language and Information] — official home page

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