From john.lowe at orinst.ox.ac.uk Fri Oct 18 08:43:28 2019 From: john.lowe at orinst.ox.ac.uk (John Lowe) Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2019 12:43:28 +0000 Subject: [HPSG-L] LFG20: First Call for Papers Message-ID: First Call for Papers LFG20: The 25th International Lexical-Functional Grammar Conference 23 June - 25 June 2020 University of Oslo Conference website: TBA Conference e-mail (NOT for abstract submission): lfg-2020 'at' iln.uio.no Abstract submission deadline: 15 February 2020, 23:59 UTC-12 (midnight anywhere on Earth) Abstracts should be submitted using the online submission system at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lfg20 Invited speakers: Tatiana Nikitina (CNRS, Paris) and Helge Dyvik (University of Bergen) Workshop: 26 June 2020. We invite proposals for workshops to be held on the day following the main conference. If you are interested in organizing a workshop, please contact lfg-2020 'at' iln.uio.no. The deadline for workshop proposals is 30 November 2019. LFG20 welcomes work within the formal architecture of Lexical-Functional Grammar as well as typological, formal, and computational work within the 'spirit of LFG' as a lexicalist approach to language employing a parallel, constraint-based framework. The conference aims to promote interaction and collaboration among researchers interested in non-derivational approaches to grammar, where grammar is seen as the interaction of (perhaps violable) constraints from multiple levels of structuring, including those of syntactic categories, grammatical relations, semantics and discourse. LFG20 will be preceded by two other linguistics conferences being held in Oslo: the 12th International Conference of Nordic and General Linguistics, June 15-17, and the 12th International Austronesian and Papuan Languages and Linguistics Conference, June 18-20. SUBMISSIONS: TALKS AND POSTERS The main conference sessions will involve 45-minute talks (30 min + 15 min discussion), and poster presentations. Contributions can focus on results from completed as well as ongoing research, with an emphasis on novel approaches, methods, ideas, and perspectives, whether descriptive, theoretical, formal or computational. Presentations should describe original, unpublished work. DISSERTATION SESSION As in previous years, we are hoping to hold a special session that will give students the chance to present recent PhD dissertations (or other student research dissertations). The dissertations must be completed by the time of the conference, and they should be made publicly accessible (e.g., on the World Wide Web). The talks in this session should provide an overview of the main original points of the dissertation; the talks will be 20 minutes, followed by a 10-minute discussion period. Students should note that the main sessions are certainly also open to student submissions. Students who present papers in either session will receive a small subvention towards their conference costs from the International LFG Association (ILFGA). TIMETABLE Deadline for workshop proposals: 30 November 2019 Deadline for abstracts: 15 February 2020, 23:59 UTC-12 (midnight anywhere on Earth) Notification of acceptance: 27 March 2020 Conference: 23 June - 25 June 2020 SUBMISSION SPECIFICATIONS The language of the conference is English, and all abstracts must be written in English. All abstracts should be submitted using the online submission system. Submissions should be in the form of abstracts only. Abstracts can be up to three A4 pages, including figures and references. Abstracts should be in 10pt or larger type, with margins of at least 2cm on all four sides, and should include a title. Omit name and affiliation (including in PDF document properties), and avoid obvious self-reference. Please submit your abstract in .pdf format (or a plain text file). If you have any trouble converting your file into .pdf please contact the Program Committee at the address below. (On the Easychair submission system, if you upload your abstract as a .pdf file, please simply type 'abstract attached' in the abstract box.) The number of submissions is not restricted. However, in the interests of high participation and broad representation, each author should be involved in a maximum of two oral papers and can only be a single author of one. There are no restrictions on poster presentations. Authors may want to keep this in mind when stating their preferences concerning the mode of presentation of their submissions. All abstracts will be reviewed anonymously by at least three referees. Papers accepted to the conference can be submitted to the refereed proceedings, and will be published, subject to acceptance, online by CSLI Publications. (Please note that papers submitted to the proceedings are no longer automatically accepted for publication in the proceedings.) See http://web.stanford.edu/group/cslipublications/cslipublications/LFG/ for recent proceedings. PRE-CONFERENCE EXCURSION There will be a pre-conference excursion on the 22nd June 2020. More information will be provided at a later date. ORGANISERS AND THEIR CONTACT ADDRESSES If you have queries about abstract submission or have problems using the EasyChair submission system, please contact the Program Committee. Program Chairs (Email: lfg20 'at' easychair.org) John Lowe, University of Oxford Agnieszka Patejuk, Polish Academy of Sciences and University of Oxford Local conference organizers (Email: lfg-2020 'at' iln.uio.no) Helge Lødrup Dag Haug FURTHER INFORMATION Further information about LFG as a framework for linguistic analysis is available at the following site: https://ling.sprachwiss.uni-konstanz.de/pages/home/lfg/ From alicia.boerner at ruhr-uni-bochum.de Fri Oct 18 10:04:28 2019 From: alicia.boerner at ruhr-uni-bochum.de (=?utf-8?Q?Alicia_Katharina_B=C3=B6rner?=) Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2019 16:04:28 +0200 Subject: [HPSG-L] "The Limits of Experimentation" - Conference Bochum, Germany (May 2020) Message-ID: <2D32BA4B-7EF4-4C5B-B26C-18438DA58358@ruhr-uni-bochum.de> Dear colleagues, in a project on the syntactic behavior of adverbials in German, Tibor Kiss, Jutta Pieper and I follow an experimental linguistic approach (for more information, visit us on our website ). In conducting different acceptability studies (Forced Choice, Likert Scales, Sentence Fragment Arrangement), we came across various problematic aspects in experimental practice, ranging from questions of concrete limitations of factorial designs to debates concerning an adequate method-specific statistical analysis. These challenges are not restricted to acceptability judgments, rather, they are very general in nature. The project is funded by the German Research Association (DFG) and will come to its official end by the end of July, 2020. In light of the various problematic aspects, we are organizing a conference with the title The Limits of Experimentation - Current Challenges in Experimental Linguistic Practice . The purpose of the conference is to bring together experimental researchers working in different strands and different linguistic sub-disciplines or related areas where each individual proposal attacks important theoretical and practical questions in linguistic experimentation. With this, we want to contribute to a critical evaluation of current standards as well as to the development of new standards and guidelines in the field. Here is the main conference information: main conference site https://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/limitsofexperimentation/ conference date May 22-23, 2020 conference venue Convention Centre, Hall 1, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany, Universitätsstraße 150, 44801 Bochum invited speakers Barbara Hemforth (Paris Diderot University, Laboratoire de Linguistique Fomelle), Sharvan Vasishth (University of Potsdam, Department of Linguistics) contact limitsofexperimentation at ruhr-uni-bochum.de organizing committee Tibor Kiss, Alicia Katharina Börner, Jutta Pieper, and Sarah Broll In case you too came across such practical questions, we would be happy to discuss them with you. The Call for Papers is now online! We invite submissions on questions of experimental practice, independent of the (linguistic) sub-discipline. Abstracts should be geared to 30+15 minute talks and should not exceed 1500 words including data, graphics and references. Abstracts should be anonymously submitted in doc(x)- or pdf-format, until November 15, 2019. For more detailed information on content, please visit our conference website! Submission Details submission link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lofe2020 deadline for abstract submission November 15, 2019 notification of acceptance January 10, 2020 With kind regards, Alicia Katharina Börner From john.lowe at orinst.ox.ac.uk Tue Oct 22 16:24:44 2019 From: john.lowe at orinst.ox.ac.uk (John Lowe) Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2019 20:24:44 +0000 Subject: [HPSG-L] LFG20: Call for Workshop proposals Message-ID: LFG20, Oslo: Call for Workshops LFG20 will take place from 23-25 June 2020 in Oslo. The conference organizers would like to solicit proposals for a workshop (or workshops) to be held at the same venue on the 26 June 2020, the day following the main conference. Workshop proposals should aim to address relevant themes or topical issues in linguistic theory which would be of interest to an LFG audience, but need not necessarily be restricted to papers on LFG. Proposals are invited both for workshops which are invitation only, and for workshops which are open to submissions. In either case, the workshop proposer will be responsible for the workshop programme. If you would like to propose a workshop for LFG20, or if you would like to make further enquiries, please contact lfg-2020 'at' iln.uio.no. The deadline for workshop proposals is 30 November 2019. From rloukanova at gmail.com Sun Oct 27 11:50:12 2019 From: rloukanova at gmail.com (Roussanka Loukanova) Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2019 16:50:12 +0100 Subject: [HPSG-L] CfP: Natural Language Processing in Artificial Intelligence - NLPinAI 2020 Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS Natural Language Processing in Artificial Intelligence - NLPinAI 2020 22 - 24 February, 2020 - Valletta, Malta http://www.icaart.org/NLPinAI.aspx?y=2020 http://www.icaart.org/NLPinAI.aspx Special Session within the 12th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - ICAART 2020 http://www.icaart.org ------------------------------------------------------------- SCOPE Computational and technological developments that incorporate natural language are proliferating. Adequate coverage encounters difficult problems related to partiality, underspecification, and context-dependency, which are signature features of information in nature and natural languages. Furthermore, agents (humans or computational systems) are information conveyors, interpreters, or participate as components of informational content. Generally, language processing depends on agents' knowledge, reasoning, perspectives, and interactions. The session covers theoretical work, applications, approaches, and techniques for computational models of information and its presentation by language (artificial, human, or natural in other ways). The goal is to promote intelligent natural language processing and related models of thought, mental states, reasoning, and other cognitive processes. TOPICS We invite contributions relevant to the following topics, without being limited to them: - Type theories for applications to language and information processing - Computational grammar - Computational syntax - Computational semantics of natural languages - Computational syntax-semantics interface - Interfaces between morphology, lexicon, syntax, semantics, speech, text, pragmatics - Parsing - Multilingual processing - Large-scale grammars of natural languages - Interfaces between morphology, lexicon, syntax, semantics, speech, text, pragmatics - Models of computation and algorithms for natural language processing - Computational models of partiality, underspecification, and context-dependency - Models of situations, contexts, and agents, for applications to language processing - Information about space and time in language models and processing - Models of computation and algorithms for linguistics - Data science in language processing - Machine learning of language - Interdisciplinary methods - Integration of formal, computational, model theoretic, graphical, diagrammatic, statistical, and other related methods - Logic for information extraction or expression in written and spoken language - Language processing based on biological fundamentals of information and languages - Computational neuroscience of language IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission: December 19, 2019 Authors Notification: January 9, 2020 Camera Ready and Registration: January 17, 2020 PAPER SUBMISSION: Prospective authors are invited to submit papers in any of the topics listed above. Instructions for preparing the manuscript (in Word and Latex formats) are available at: Paper Templates http://www.icaart.org/Templates.aspx Please also check the Guidelines http://www.icaart.org/Guidelines.aspx Papers must be submitted electronically via the web-based submission system using the button SUBMIT PAPER on the pages of NLPinAI 2020. PUBLICATIONS After thorough reviewing by the special session program committee, all accepted papers will be published in a special section of the conference proceedings book - under an ISBN reference and on digital support - and submitted for indexation by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (CPCI/ISI), DBLP, EI (Elsevier Engineering Village Index), Scopus, Semantic Scholar and Google Scholar. SCITEPRESS is a member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/) and every paper is given a DOI (Digital Object Identifier). All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the SCITEPRESS Digital Library We expect a post-conference, post-proceedings Special Issue with extended publications based on selected papers presented at NLPinAI 2020. ------------------------------------------------------------- CHAIR: Roussanka Loukanova Sweden and Bulgaria CONTACT: Roussanka Loukanova (rloukanova the special symbol gmaildotcom) ------------------------------------------------------------- From john.lowe at orinst.ox.ac.uk Fri Oct 18 12:43:28 2019 From: john.lowe at orinst.ox.ac.uk (John Lowe) Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2019 12:43:28 +0000 Subject: [HPSG-L] LFG20: First Call for Papers Message-ID: First Call for Papers LFG20: The 25th International Lexical-Functional Grammar Conference 23 June - 25 June 2020 University of Oslo Conference website: TBA Conference e-mail (NOT for abstract submission): lfg-2020 'at' iln.uio.no Abstract submission deadline: 15 February 2020, 23:59 UTC-12 (midnight anywhere on Earth) Abstracts should be submitted using the online submission system at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lfg20 Invited speakers: Tatiana Nikitina (CNRS, Paris) and Helge Dyvik (University of Bergen) Workshop: 26 June 2020. We invite proposals for workshops to be held on the day following the main conference. If you are interested in organizing a workshop, please contact lfg-2020 'at' iln.uio.no. The deadline for workshop proposals is 30 November 2019. LFG20 welcomes work within the formal architecture of Lexical-Functional Grammar as well as typological, formal, and computational work within the 'spirit of LFG' as a lexicalist approach to language employing a parallel, constraint-based framework. The conference aims to promote interaction and collaboration among researchers interested in non-derivational approaches to grammar, where grammar is seen as the interaction of (perhaps violable) constraints from multiple levels of structuring, including those of syntactic categories, grammatical relations, semantics and discourse. LFG20 will be preceded by two other linguistics conferences being held in Oslo: the 12th International Conference of Nordic and General Linguistics, June 15-17, and the 12th International Austronesian and Papuan Languages and Linguistics Conference, June 18-20. SUBMISSIONS: TALKS AND POSTERS The main conference sessions will involve 45-minute talks (30 min + 15 min discussion), and poster presentations. Contributions can focus on results from completed as well as ongoing research, with an emphasis on novel approaches, methods, ideas, and perspectives, whether descriptive, theoretical, formal or computational. Presentations should describe original, unpublished work. DISSERTATION SESSION As in previous years, we are hoping to hold a special session that will give students the chance to present recent PhD dissertations (or other student research dissertations). The dissertations must be completed by the time of the conference, and they should be made publicly accessible (e.g., on the World Wide Web). The talks in this session should provide an overview of the main original points of the dissertation; the talks will be 20 minutes, followed by a 10-minute discussion period. Students should note that the main sessions are certainly also open to student submissions. Students who present papers in either session will receive a small subvention towards their conference costs from the International LFG Association (ILFGA). TIMETABLE Deadline for workshop proposals: 30 November 2019 Deadline for abstracts: 15 February 2020, 23:59 UTC-12 (midnight anywhere on Earth) Notification of acceptance: 27 March 2020 Conference: 23 June - 25 June 2020 SUBMISSION SPECIFICATIONS The language of the conference is English, and all abstracts must be written in English. All abstracts should be submitted using the online submission system. Submissions should be in the form of abstracts only. Abstracts can be up to three A4 pages, including figures and references. Abstracts should be in 10pt or larger type, with margins of at least 2cm on all four sides, and should include a title. Omit name and affiliation (including in PDF document properties), and avoid obvious self-reference. Please submit your abstract in .pdf format (or a plain text file). If you have any trouble converting your file into .pdf please contact the Program Committee at the address below. (On the Easychair submission system, if you upload your abstract as a .pdf file, please simply type 'abstract attached' in the abstract box.) The number of submissions is not restricted. However, in the interests of high participation and broad representation, each author should be involved in a maximum of two oral papers and can only be a single author of one. There are no restrictions on poster presentations. Authors may want to keep this in mind when stating their preferences concerning the mode of presentation of their submissions. All abstracts will be reviewed anonymously by at least three referees. Papers accepted to the conference can be submitted to the refereed proceedings, and will be published, subject to acceptance, online by CSLI Publications. (Please note that papers submitted to the proceedings are no longer automatically accepted for publication in the proceedings.) See http://web.stanford.edu/group/cslipublications/cslipublications/LFG/ for recent proceedings. PRE-CONFERENCE EXCURSION There will be a pre-conference excursion on the 22nd June 2020. More information will be provided at a later date. ORGANISERS AND THEIR CONTACT ADDRESSES If you have queries about abstract submission or have problems using the EasyChair submission system, please contact the Program Committee. Program Chairs (Email: lfg20 'at' easychair.org) John Lowe, University of Oxford Agnieszka Patejuk, Polish Academy of Sciences and University of Oxford Local conference organizers (Email: lfg-2020 'at' iln.uio.no) Helge L?drup Dag Haug FURTHER INFORMATION Further information about LFG as a framework for linguistic analysis is available at the following site: https://ling.sprachwiss.uni-konstanz.de/pages/home/lfg/ From alicia.boerner at ruhr-uni-bochum.de Fri Oct 18 14:04:28 2019 From: alicia.boerner at ruhr-uni-bochum.de (=?utf-8?Q?Alicia_Katharina_B=C3=B6rner?=) Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2019 16:04:28 +0200 Subject: [HPSG-L] "The Limits of Experimentation" - Conference Bochum, Germany (May 2020) Message-ID: <2D32BA4B-7EF4-4C5B-B26C-18438DA58358@ruhr-uni-bochum.de> Dear colleagues, in a project on the syntactic behavior of adverbials in German, Tibor Kiss, Jutta Pieper and I follow an experimental linguistic approach (for more information, visit us on our website ). In conducting different acceptability studies (Forced Choice, Likert Scales, Sentence Fragment Arrangement), we came across various problematic aspects in experimental practice, ranging from questions of concrete limitations of factorial designs to debates concerning an adequate method-specific statistical analysis. These challenges are not restricted to acceptability judgments, rather, they are very general in nature. The project is funded by the German Research Association (DFG) and will come to its official end by the end of July, 2020. In light of the various problematic aspects, we are organizing a conference with the title The Limits of Experimentation - Current Challenges in Experimental Linguistic Practice . The purpose of the conference is to bring together experimental researchers working in different strands and different linguistic sub-disciplines or related areas where each individual proposal attacks important theoretical and practical questions in linguistic experimentation. With this, we want to contribute to a critical evaluation of current standards as well as to the development of new standards and guidelines in the field. Here is the main conference information: main conference site https://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/limitsofexperimentation/ conference date May 22-23, 2020 conference venue Convention Centre, Hall 1, Ruhr-Universit?t Bochum, Germany, Universit?tsstra?e 150, 44801 Bochum invited speakers Barbara Hemforth (Paris Diderot University, Laboratoire de Linguistique Fomelle), Sharvan Vasishth (University of Potsdam, Department of Linguistics) contact limitsofexperimentation at ruhr-uni-bochum.de organizing committee Tibor Kiss, Alicia Katharina B?rner, Jutta Pieper, and Sarah Broll In case you too came across such practical questions, we would be happy to discuss them with you. The Call for Papers is now online! We invite submissions on questions of experimental practice, independent of the (linguistic) sub-discipline. Abstracts should be geared to 30+15 minute talks and should not exceed 1500 words including data, graphics and references. Abstracts should be anonymously submitted in doc(x)- or pdf-format, until November 15, 2019. For more detailed information on content, please visit our conference website! Submission Details submission link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lofe2020 deadline for abstract submission November 15, 2019 notification of acceptance January 10, 2020 With kind regards, Alicia Katharina B?rner From john.lowe at orinst.ox.ac.uk Tue Oct 22 20:24:44 2019 From: john.lowe at orinst.ox.ac.uk (John Lowe) Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2019 20:24:44 +0000 Subject: [HPSG-L] LFG20: Call for Workshop proposals Message-ID: LFG20, Oslo: Call for Workshops LFG20 will take place from 23-25 June 2020 in Oslo. The conference organizers would like to solicit proposals for a workshop (or workshops) to be held at the same venue on the 26 June 2020, the day following the main conference. Workshop proposals should aim to address relevant themes or topical issues in linguistic theory which would be of interest to an LFG audience, but need not necessarily be restricted to papers on LFG. Proposals are invited both for workshops which are invitation only, and for workshops which are open to submissions. In either case, the workshop proposer will be responsible for the workshop programme. If you would like to propose a workshop for LFG20, or if you would like to make further enquiries, please contact lfg-2020 'at' iln.uio.no. The deadline for workshop proposals is 30 November 2019. From rloukanova at gmail.com Sun Oct 27 15:50:12 2019 From: rloukanova at gmail.com (Roussanka Loukanova) Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2019 16:50:12 +0100 Subject: [HPSG-L] CfP: Natural Language Processing in Artificial Intelligence - NLPinAI 2020 Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS Natural Language Processing in Artificial Intelligence - NLPinAI 2020 22 - 24 February, 2020 - Valletta, Malta http://www.icaart.org/NLPinAI.aspx?y=2020 http://www.icaart.org/NLPinAI.aspx Special Session within the 12th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - ICAART 2020 http://www.icaart.org ------------------------------------------------------------- SCOPE Computational and technological developments that incorporate natural language are proliferating. Adequate coverage encounters difficult problems related to partiality, underspecification, and context-dependency, which are signature features of information in nature and natural languages. Furthermore, agents (humans or computational systems) are information conveyors, interpreters, or participate as components of informational content. Generally, language processing depends on agents' knowledge, reasoning, perspectives, and interactions. The session covers theoretical work, applications, approaches, and techniques for computational models of information and its presentation by language (artificial, human, or natural in other ways). The goal is to promote intelligent natural language processing and related models of thought, mental states, reasoning, and other cognitive processes. TOPICS We invite contributions relevant to the following topics, without being limited to them: - Type theories for applications to language and information processing - Computational grammar - Computational syntax - Computational semantics of natural languages - Computational syntax-semantics interface - Interfaces between morphology, lexicon, syntax, semantics, speech, text, pragmatics - Parsing - Multilingual processing - Large-scale grammars of natural languages - Interfaces between morphology, lexicon, syntax, semantics, speech, text, pragmatics - Models of computation and algorithms for natural language processing - Computational models of partiality, underspecification, and context-dependency - Models of situations, contexts, and agents, for applications to language processing - Information about space and time in language models and processing - Models of computation and algorithms for linguistics - Data science in language processing - Machine learning of language - Interdisciplinary methods - Integration of formal, computational, model theoretic, graphical, diagrammatic, statistical, and other related methods - Logic for information extraction or expression in written and spoken language - Language processing based on biological fundamentals of information and languages - Computational neuroscience of language IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission: December 19, 2019 Authors Notification: January 9, 2020 Camera Ready and Registration: January 17, 2020 PAPER SUBMISSION: Prospective authors are invited to submit papers in any of the topics listed above. Instructions for preparing the manuscript (in Word and Latex formats) are available at: Paper Templates http://www.icaart.org/Templates.aspx Please also check the Guidelines http://www.icaart.org/Guidelines.aspx Papers must be submitted electronically via the web-based submission system using the button SUBMIT PAPER on the pages of NLPinAI 2020. PUBLICATIONS After thorough reviewing by the special session program committee, all accepted papers will be published in a special section of the conference proceedings book - under an ISBN reference and on digital support - and submitted for indexation by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (CPCI/ISI), DBLP, EI (Elsevier Engineering Village Index), Scopus, Semantic Scholar and Google Scholar. SCITEPRESS is a member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/) and every paper is given a DOI (Digital Object Identifier). All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the SCITEPRESS Digital Library We expect a post-conference, post-proceedings Special Issue with extended publications based on selected papers presented at NLPinAI 2020. ------------------------------------------------------------- CHAIR: Roussanka Loukanova Sweden and Bulgaria CONTACT: Roussanka Loukanova (rloukanova the special symbol gmaildotcom) -------------------------------------------------------------