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Konstantinos Kogkalidis wins E.W. Beth Dissertation Prize
The Association for Language, Logic and Information (FoLLI) has awarded Utrecht PhD graduate Konstantinos Kogkalidis the E. W. Beth Dissertation Prize for his thesis ‘Dependency as Modality, Parsing as Permutation. A Neurosymbolic Perspective on Categorial Grammars’. The thesis was developed in the Utrecht Institute of Language Sciences under the supervision of Michael Moortgat and Richard Moot.
“A remarkable synthesis”
The FoLLI jury committee praised the dissertation for its interdisciplinary approach, describing it as “a remarkable synthesis of formal linguistics, type theory, and machine learning.” They highlighted its rigor and innovative strength, noting that it develops methods where “logic and neural learning interact meaningfully”. The work was recognised as a “successful implementation of explainable AI” and “a milestone in the development of type-theoretic grammars”.
“I am obviously very happy,” says Kogkalidis. “Over the last few years, the summer schools organised by FoLLI have consistently been a breath of fresh air in a field contaminated by LLM hype and benchmarking frenzy. Being recognised by the association means a great deal to me – I couldn’t have hoped for a better conclusion to my PhD.”
Mathematical logic meets machine learning
Konstantinos’ thesis modernises type-logical grammars, a framework that connects language, logic, and computation. It introduces a new approach to thinking about sentence structure and meaning, combining mathematical logic with modern neural networks. By creating tools that can formally and reliably analyse and process language, the work demonstrates the practical potential of these grammars.
The research includes the development of a large dataset for the Dutch language and the creation of advanced systems that can learn to interpret sentences with higher precision and detail. The thesis shows how sophisticated theories of language can be applied to real-world language processing tasks.
About Kogkalidis and FoLLI
Before his PhD, Kogkalidis graduated from Utrecht University with a Master’s degree in AI. He is currently a post-doctoral researcher at Aalto University in Finland and a visiting researcher at the University of Bologna in Italy.
Τhe Association for Logic, Language, and Information (FoLLI) was founded in 1991 to advance the practicing of research and education on the interfaces between logic, linguistics, computer science and related disciplines. It has been awarding the annual E.W. Beth Dissertation Prize to outstanding PhD dissertations in logic, language, and information since 1998. The prize consists of a certificate, a monetary donation, and an invitation to submit the dissertation for publication as a volume in the FoLLI book series.
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Second Call for Nominations: Beth Outstanding Dissertation Prize 2020
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Second Call for Nominations: E. W. Beth Outstanding Dissertation Prize 2021
Nominations are now invited for dissertations in the areas of Logic, Language, Information, and Computation resulting in a Ph.D. degree awarded in 2020. The deadline for nominations is the 15th of April 2021.
All pdf documents must be submitted electronically, as one zip file, via EasyChair by following the link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bodp2021 . For detailed information on topics, eligibility, and how to apply, please see http://www.folli.info/?page_id=74 , or check the attached pdf.
The prize will be awarded by the chair of the FoLLI board at a ceremony during the 32nd ESSLLI summer school, which will be based in Utrecht, but held online August 2-13, 2021.
Beth dissertation prize committee 2021:
Samson Abramsky (University of Oxford) Maria Aloni (University of Amsterdam) Cleo Condoravdi(Stanford University) Robin Cooper (University of Gothenburg) Guy Emerson (University of Cambridge) Katrin Erk (University of Texas at Austin) Sujata Ghosh (ISI, Chennai) Davide Grossi (Universities of Groningen and Amsterdam) Christoph Haase (University of Oxford) Louise McNally (Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona) Reinhard Muskens (University of Amsterdam) Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh (University College London, chair) Mark Steedman (University of Edinburgh) Matthew Stone (Rutgers University) Jouko Vaananen (University of Helsinki and University of Amsterdam)
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Our Philosophy Department would like to congratulate Wesley H. Holliday (Stanford University) and Ekaterina Lebedeva (University of Lorraine) for winning the 2013 E.W Beth Dissertation Prize!
Since 2002, FoLLI (the Association for Logic, Language, and Information) awards the E.W. Beth Dissertation Prize to outstanding dissertations in the fields of Logic, Language, and Information. We invite submissions for the best dissertation in which resulted in a Ph.D. degree in the year 2012. The dissertations will be judged on technical depth and strength, originality, and impact made in at least two of three fields of Logic, Language, and Computation. Interdisciplinarity is an important feature of the theses competing for the E.W. Beth Dissertation Prize.
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Beth Dissertation Prize
Since 2002, the Association for Logic, Language, and Information (FoLLI) has been awarding the annual E.W. Beth Dissertation Prize to outstanding Ph.D. dissertations in Logic, Language, and Information, with financial support of the E.W. Beth Foundation.
In this session, Larry Moss, the FoLLI president, sketches the general background of the Beth Dissertation Prize. Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, the chair of the Beth Prize jury, then announces he winners of the 2020 and 2021 editions. The winners briefly present their work, and the laudatios are read by Sadrzadeh and Moss.
The E.W. Beth Dissertation Prize in Logic, Language and Information 2020 has been awarded jointly to
Marcin Wągiel , “Subatomic Quantification” (Masaryk University, Brno) Juan Aguilera , “Between the Finite and the Infinite” (TU Wien)
The E.W.Beth Dissertation Prize in Logic, Language and Information 2021 has been awarded jointly to
Ilaria Canavotto , “Where Responsibility Takes You” (ILLC, Amsterdam) Martin Lück , “Team Logic Axioms, Expressiveness, Complexity” (Universität Hannover)
The Association for Logic, Language and Information
Winner of 2022 E.W. Beth Dissertation Prize Announced
We are pleased to announce the winner of the 2022 E.W. Beth Dissertation Prize:
Alexander Bentkamp , Superposition for Higher-Order Logics , VU Amsterdam
The finalists for the prize are:
- Vrunda Dave , On Some Fundamental Problems and Applications of Word Transducers , IIT Bombay
- Markus Hecher , Advanced Tools and Methods for Treewidth-Based Problem Solving , Vienna University of Technology
- Jonathan Sterling , First Steps in Synthetic Tait Computability, The Objective Metatheory of Cubical Type Theory , Carnegie Melon University
- Elodie Winckel , French S ubject Islands: Empirical and Formal Approaches , Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
E. W. Beth Dissertation Prize, 2019: call for nominations Since 2002, the Association for Logic, Language, and Information (FoLLI) has been awarding the annual E.W. Beth Dissertation Prize to outstanding Ph.D. dissertations in Logic, Language, and Information (http://www.folli.info/?page_id=74), with financial support of the E.W. Beth Foundation . Nominations are now invited for the best dissertation in these areas resulting in a Ph.D. degree conferred in 2018. The deadline for nominations is the 15th of April 2019. Qualifications
The prize consists of:
Nomination Dossier Only digital submissions are accepted, without exception. The following documents are to be submitted in the nomination dossier:
All pdf documents must be submitted electronically, as one zip file, to EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=beth2019). Hard copy submissions are not allowed, without exception. In case of any problems with the submission one should contact the secretary of the committee Natasha Alechina . The prize will be awarded by the chair of the FoLLI board at a ceremony during the 31st ESSLLI summer school in Riga, University of Latvia, August 5-16, 2019. Beth dissertation prize committee
Logic List Mailing ArchiveCfnominations: beth dissertation prize 2024 for dissertations in logic / language and information, deadline: 30 april 2024. Institute for Logic, Language and Computation News and Events: Funding, Grants and CompetitionsPlease note that this newsitem has been archived, and may contain outdated information or links. E. W. Beth Dissertation Prize 2005Since 2002, FoLLI (the European Association for Logic, Language, and Information, www.folli.org) awards the E. W. Beth Dissertation Prize to outstanding dissertations in the fields of Logic, Language, and Information. Submissions are invited for 2004. The prize will be awarded to the best dissertation which resulted in a Ph.D. in the year 2004. The dissertations will be judged on the impact they made in their respective fields, breadth and originality of the work, and also on the interdisciplinarity of the work. Ideally the winning dissertation will be of interest to researchers in all three fields. Who qualifiesThose who were awarded a Ph.D. degree in the areas of Logic, Language, or Information between January 1st, 2004 and December 31st, 2004. There is no restriction on the nationality of the candidate or the university where the Ph.D. was granted. However, after a careful consideration, FoLLI has decided to accept only dissertations written in English. The prize consists of
How to submitWe only accept electronic submissions. The following documents are required:
All documents must be submitted electronically to beth_award at dimi.uniud.it . Hard copy submissions are not admitted. If you experience any problems with the email submission or do not receive a notification from us within three working days, please write to policriti at dimi.uniud.it or folli at inf.unibz.it Important dates:Deadline for Submissions: March 15, 2005. Notification of Decision: June 30, 2005. The prize will be officially assigned to the winner at ESSLLI'05 ( http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/esslli05/ ), the 17th European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information, to be held in Edinburgh, Scotland, August 9-19, 2005. Prize winner will be expected to attend the ceremony and to give a presentation of her/his Ph.D. dissertation at ESSLLI'05.
28th European Summer School in Logic, Language and InformationBolzano-bozen, 15-26 august, 2016, beth dissertation prize. Since 2002, FoLLI (the Association for Logic, Language, and Information) has awarded the E.W. Beth Dissertation Prize to outstanding dissertations in the fields of Logic, Language, and Information. Look at the Beth Dissertation call for further information. The award ceremony will take place during the Student Session of ESSLLI, on Tuesday, August 23, at 15:50 in Room D1.01 . |
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E. W. Beth Dissertation Prize. The Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI) each year awards the E. W. Beth Dissertation Prize, named in honor of the Dutch mathematician Evert Willem Beth, to outstanding PhD theses in the fields of Logic, Language, and Information. Dissertations are evaluated on the basis of their technical depth ...
Watch a short interview with some former members of the E. W. Beth Dissertation Prize committee and awardees here! The prize was awarded by the chair of the FoLLI board at a ceremony during the 35th ESSLLI summer school in Leuven, Belgium, 29 July - 9 August 2024. Beth dissertation prize committee 2024: Guy Emerson (University of Cambridge)
We are pleased to announce the winner of the 2024 E.W. Beth Dissertation Prize: Aliaume Lopez, First Order Preservation Theorems in Finite Model Theory: Locality, Topology, and Limit Constructions, École Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay Konstantinos Kogkalidis, Dependency as Modality, Parsing as Permutation. A Neurosymbolic Perspective on Categorial Grammars, Utrecht University
We are pleased to announce the winner of the 2023 E.W. Beth Dissertation Prize: Gabriele Vanoni, On Reasonable Space and Time Cost Models for the λ-Calculus, University of Bologna. The finalists for the prize are: Jim de Groot, Dualities in Modal Logic, Austrailian National University,; Dakotah Lambert, Unifying Classification Schemes for Languages and Processes with Attention to Locality and ...
In our next installment of talks about FoLLI's scientific activities, meet members of the Beth dissertation prize committee: Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh (chair), Lou...
The prize will be awarded to the best dissertation which resulted in a Ph.D. in the year 2005. The dissertations will be judged on technical depth and strength, originality, and impact made in at least two of the three fields of Logic, Language, and Computation.
The deadline for nominations is the 15th of April 2021. Qualifications: - A Ph.D. dissertation on a topic concerning Logic, Language, or Information is eligible for the Beth Dissertation Prize 2021, if the degree was awarded between January 1st and December 31st, 2020.
The Association for Language, Logic and Information (FoLLI) has awarded Utrecht PhD graduate Konstantinos Kogkalidis the E. W. Beth Dissertation Prize for his thesis 'Dependency as Modality, Parsing as Permutation. A Neurosymbolic Perspective on Categorial Grammars'. The thesis was developed in the Utrecht Institute of Language Sciences under the supervision of Michael Moortgat and Richard ...
The prize will be awarded by the chair of the FoLLI board at a ceremony during the 32nd ESSLLI summer school, which will be based in Utrecht, but held online August 2-13, 2021. Beth dissertation prize committee 2021: Samson Abramsky (University of Oxford) Maria Aloni (University of Amsterdam) Cleo Condoravdi(Stanford University)
Beth Dissertation Prize. Since 2002, FoLLI (the Association for Logic, Language, and Information) has awarded the E.W. Beth Dissertation Prize to outstanding dissertations in the fields of Logic, Language, and Information. We invite submissions for the best dissertation which resulted in a Ph.D. degree awarded in 2014.
The prize consists of: - a certificate - a donation of 3000 euros, provided by the E.W. Beth Foundation. In case two dissertations are selected, the prize will be split between the winners. - an invitation to submit the dissertation, possibly after revision, for publication in FoLLI Publications on Logic, Language and Information (Springer).
We are pleased to announce the winner of the 2023 E.W. Beth Dissertation Prize: Gabriele Vanoni, On Reasonable Space and Time Cost Models for the λ-Calculus, University of Bologna. The finalists for the prize are: Jim de Groot, Dualities in Modal Logic, Austrailian National University,; Dakotah Lambert, Unifying Classification Schemes for Languages and Processes with Attention to Locality and ...
Our Philosophy Department would like to congratulate Wesley H. Holliday (Stanford University) and Ekaterina Lebedeva (University of Lorraine) for winning the 2013 E.W Beth Dissertation Prize!
Ismail Ilkan Ceylan has been awarded the E.W. Beth Dissertation Prize 2018 for his doctoral dissertation. The prize was awarded at a ceremony which took place at the University of Sofia during the 30th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI 2018).
About this book. This book presents the Ph.D. dissertation of Ilaria Canavotto. The thesis won the E.W. Beth Dissertation Prize in 2021 for outstanding dissertations in the fields of logic, language, and information. It combines modal logics of agency, counterfactuals, and norms in order to study the reasoning underlying ascriptions of causal ...
The E.W. Beth Dissertation Prize in Logic, Language and Information 2020 has been awarded jointly to. Marcin Wągiel, "Subatomic Quantification" (Masaryk University, Brno) Juan Aguilera, "Between the Finite and the Infinite" (TU Wien) The E.W.Beth Dissertation Prize in Logic, Language and Information 2021 has been awarded jointly to
We are pleased to announce the winner of the 2022 E.W. Beth Dissertation Prize: Alexander Bentkamp, Superposition for Higher-Order Logics, VU Amsterdam. The finalists for the prize are: Vrunda Dave, On Some Fundamental Problems and Applications of Word Transducers, IIT Bombay; Markus Hecher, Advanced Tools and Methods for Treewidth-Based Problem Solving, Vienna University of Technology
The prize will be awarded by the chair of the FoLLI board at a ceremony during the 31st ESSLLI summer school in Riga, University of Latvia, August 5-16, 2019. Beth dissertation prize committee . Sujata Ghosh (ISI Chennai, India) Nina Gierasimczuk (DTU, Lyngby, Denmark) Thomas Icard (Stanford U., US)
The Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI) each year awards the E. W. Beth Dissertation Prize, named in honor of the Dutch mathematician Evert Willem Beth, to outstanding PhD theses in the fields of Logic, Language, and Information. Dissertations are evaluated on the basis of their technical depth, strength and originality. Each year the award can be assigned ex aequo to more ...
Nominations are now invited for the best diss ertation in these areas resulting in a Ph.D. degree awarded in 2023. ===== ===== ===== Qualifications: - A Ph.D. dissertation on a topic concerning Logic, Language, or Informat ion is eligible for the Beth Dissertation Prize 2024, if the degree was awa rded between January 1st and December 31st, 2023.
The prize consists of. a certificate. an invitation to present the thesis during ESSLLI 05. a donation of 2500 euros provided by the E. W. Beth Foundation. fee waive for ESSLLI 05 attendance. the possibility to publish the thesis (or a revised version of it) in the new series of books in Logic, Language and Information to be published by ...
The dissertations are judged on the impact they made in their respective fields, breadth and originality of the work, and also on its interdisciplinarity. Ideally the winning dissertation will be of interest to researchers in all three fields. The selection for the E.W. Beth Dissertation Prize for the year 2005 is concluded.
Since 2002, FoLLI (the Association for Logic, Language, and Information) has awarded the E.W. Beth Dissertation Prize to outstanding dissertations in the fields of Logic, Language, and Information. Look at the Beth Dissertation call for further information.. The award ceremony will take place during the Student Session of ESSLLI, on Tuesday, August 23, at 15:50 in Room D1.01.