CFP: Special Issue of _Research on Language and Computation_

[Emily Bender]

CFP: Special Issue of _Research on Language and Computation_

Call for Submissions
Special Issue of _Research on Language and Computation_

Title of Special Issue:
Shared Representation in Multilingual Grammar Engineering

Guest Editors:
Emily Bender, Dan Flickinger, Frederik Fouvry, and Melanie Siegel

The Workshop "Ideas and Strategies for Multilingual Grammar
Development" at ESSLLI 2003 (http://www.dfki.uni-sb.de/~siegel/esslli/)
in Vienna showcased a variety of multilingual grammar engineering
projects and highlighted many of the issues that such projects raise.
As a follow-up to that workshop, we would like to produce a volume
focusing on one of those issues, namely the question of shared
representations across grammars.

Papers should address the following issues:

-- Which levels of representation should be shared across grammars?
-- To what extent should the representations be shared?  (For example, in
   a shared LFG f-structure, must all features be present in the f-structures
   for all languages?  In a project sharing a semantic representation,
   such as MRS in HPSG, is sharing the same algebra enough, or must
   the representations reflect convergent semantic analyses?)
-- What are the implications (engineering and linguistic) of
   such mismatches as are allowed?
-- How can the process of standardization be designed to
   avoid settling on representations that favor European languages?
-- What kinds of evaluation methods are available to test grammars
   or grammar outputs for conformance with the standards?

Papers should be grounded in a specific implementation effort,
and discuss how the results of that work illuminate the issues
above.  We welcome submissions from all implementation frameworks.

Workshop participants are particularly encouraged to develop submissions
based on their workshop papers.  However, we are also interested
in submissions from groups which were not represented at the workshop.
Each paper will be double-refereed as arranged by the editors, and, as
is standard for journal submission, the final decision for inclusion
in the volume will result from this process.

To increase the cohesiveness of the volume, drafts of all accepted
papers will be circulated to authors, and authors will be encouraged
to make reference to other papers in the volume in their revised
papers. In addition, the editors will write a position paper on the
central theme, which will be made available to authors of accepted
papers upon notification of acceptance.  Authors will be asked to
address that position paper in a short section or paragraph, in
addition to making any further revisions requested by reviewers.

The papers should be not more than 30 pp., and should preferably be in
LaTeX.  (If you wish to submit in some other format, please let us
know.)

For submission in LaTeX, Kluwer Academic Publishers have developed a
Kluwer LaTeX class file, which can be downloaded from:

http://www.wkap.nl/authors/jrnlstylefiles/

Use of this class file is highly recommended. Do not use versions
downloaded from other sites. Technical support is available at:
texhelp at wkap.nl. If you are not familiar with TeX/LaTeX, the class
file will be of no use to you. In that case, submit your article in a
common word processor format.

The deadline for submission of manuscripts is March 15th, 2004.
Manuscripts may be submitted electronically to Emily Bender at
ebender at u.washington.edu.