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<span>FG</span>-<span>2008</span>: The 13th Conference on Formal Grammar<br>************************************************<br><br>Hamburg, Germany, August 9-10, <span>2008</span><br>
<a href="http://www.sfb441.uni-tuebingen.de/fg08/" target="_blank">http://www.sfb441.uni-tuebingen.de/fg08/</a><br>
<br>Collocated with the European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information<br></div><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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<span>FG</span>-<span>2008</span> is the 13th conference on Formal Grammar, to be held in
conjunction with the European Summer School in Logic, Language and
Information, which takes place in <span>2008</span> in Hamburg, Germany.
Previous Formal Grammar meetings were held in Barcelona (1995),
Prague (1996), Aix-en-Provence (1997), Saarbruecken (1998), Utrecht
(1999), Helsinki (2001), Trento (2002), Vienna (2003), Nancy (2004),
Edinburgh (2005), Malaga (2006) and Dublin (2007).<br><br><br>
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<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Aims and Scope:<br><br></div>
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<span>FG</span> provides a forum for the presentation of new and original research
on formal grammar, mathematical linguistics and the application of
formal and mathematical methods to the study of natural language.
Themes of interest include, but are not limited to,
<ul><li>formal and computational phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics
and pragmatics;</li><li>model-theoretic and proof-theoretic methods in linguistics;</li><li>logical aspects of linguistic structure;</li><li>constraint-based and resource-sensitive approaches to grammar;</li><li>learnability of formal grammar;</li>
<li>integration of stochastic and symbolic models of grammar;</li><li>foundational, methodological and architectural issues in grammar;</li><li> mathematical foundations of statistical approaches to linguistic analysis.</li>
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Previous conferences in this series have welcomed papers from a wide
variety of frameworks.
</div><br clear="all"><br>Program:<br><br><div>
<div>Saturday, August 9th</div>
<div><ul><li>9.30 a.m. - 9.40 a.m. opening</li><li>9.40 a.m. - 10.40 a.m. Invited talk: Philipp Koehn. <span>The Emerging Role of Grammars in Statistical Machine Translation</span></li><li><i>coffee</i></li><li><span>11.10 a.m. - 11.50 a.m.</span> Geoffrey Pullum and Hans-Jörg Tiede: Inessential Features and Expressive Power of Descriptive Metalanguages</li>
<li><span>11.50 a.m. - 12.30 p.m.</span> Yael Sygal and Shuly Wintner: Type Signature Modules.</li><li><i>lunch</i></li><li><span>2.30 p.m. - 3.10 p.m.</span> Wolfgang Maier and Anders Søgaard: Treebanks and mild context-sensitivity.</li>
<li><span>3.10 p.m. - 3.50 p.m.</span> Stephan Kepser: A Landscape of Logics for Finite Unordered Unranked Trees.</li><li><i>coffee</i></li><li><span>4.20 p.m. - 5.00 p.m.</span> Anne Bjerre and Tavs Bjerre: <span>Danish there-constructions with intransitive verbs</span></li>
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<div>Sunday August 10th</div>
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<ul><li><span>9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m.</span> Invited talk: Markus Egg. <span>Underspecification: from semantics to discourse</span></li><li><i>coffee</i></li><li><span>11.00 a.m. - 11.40 a.m.</span> Mehdi Manshadi, James Allen and Mary D. Swift: Toward a Universal Underspecified Semantic Representation.</li>
<li><span>11.40 a.m. - 12.20 p.m.</span> Alain Lecomte: Semantics in Minimalist-Categorial Grammars<span>12.20 p.m. - 12.30 p.m.</span> closing</li></ul>
<div><br></div></div></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Laura Kallmeyer<br><a href="http://www.sfb441.uni-tuebingen.de/~lk/">http://www.sfb441.uni-tuebingen.de/~lk/</a><br>SFB 441, Universitaet Tuebingen<br>Nauklerstr. 35, 72074 Tuebingen, Germany<br>
Phone +49 (0)7071 2977513, Fax +49 (0)7071 295830<br>
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