A one-day pre-conference workshop on 'Modeling and Representation in Computational Semantics' will be held in Hyderabad, India on January 7, 2007. The workshop will focus on issues pertaining to techniques for automatic construction of semantic representations for natural language expressions, representations that lend themselves to deductive reasoning.

Computational semantics is a relatively new area of research that combines insights from many disciplines, including formal logic, computational linguistics, psychology, automated reasoning, artificial intelligence, linguistics, philosophy and natural language technology. Natural Language Processing has now reached a stage where the exploration and development of semantic models for representing and interpreting natural language utterances has become a crucial task. The theme of the workshop was chosen in view of the emerging interest of NLP research communities in India and abroad towards semantic processing.