OASIS (Ontology as Structure by the Interfaces with Semantics) 5

Conference to take place at the University of Edinburgh, 3-5 December 2025

Deadline for abstracts: 15 August 2025

The OASIS conference series aims to promote conversation across different disciplines that interface with semantics, using ontological questions as shared reference points. The broad questions in the background are these:
- What basic ontological building blocks do we use to talk and think about the world?
- How do these building blocks get combined?
- How do grammatical and cognitive phenomena motivate the answers to the first two questions?
For more information, see the OASIS credo.

Invited Speakers:
Fabienne Martin, Universiteit Utrecht
Tadeg Quillien, University of Edinburgh
Roberto Zamparelli, Università di Trento

Satellite workshop (3rd December) organised by the SynCop project:
Nominals in non-referential use
For details, see the full Call for Papers on the conference website.

Abstract submission

Abstracts are due on August 15, 2025. Submission will be via the conference OpenReview page.

If you are submitting for the satellite workshop, please indicate this by including “[for satellite workshop]” under the title of your abstract.

Abstracts must be anonymous, in pdf format, 2 A4 pages, in a font size no less than 12pt. You may submit at most two abstracts but can be single author on only one.  

Linguists and others submitting very technical research: It is absolutely necessary that you do what you can to make your abstract accessible to an interdisciplinary audience. This doesn't mean eschewing all formalism, but do pitch your abstract so that a non-technical reader can get something interesting out of it.

Important dates

• August 15, 2025: Abstract deadline
• September 15, 2025: Notification
• December 3, 2025: Satellite workshop
• December 4-5, 2025: Main conference

Website

https://oasis.cnrs.fr/meetings/oasis-5

Contact

oasis5edinburgh@gmail.com

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