FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS HPSG-2004 11th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar Centre for Computational Linguistics Katholieke Universiteit Leuven 3-6 August 2004 http://www.ccl.kuleuven.ac.be/hpsg2004/ The 11th International Conference on HPSG will take place in Belgium on 3-6 August 2004, hosted by the Centre for Computational Linguistics of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. The conference will include a workshop on SEMANTICS in GRAMMAR ENGINEERING. MAIN CONFERENCE Abstracts are solicited for 30-minute presentations (followed by 10 minutes discussion) which address linguistic, foundational, or computational issues relating to the framework of Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar. INVITED SPEAKERS Jonathan Ginzburg two other speakers to be announced WORKSHOP on SEMANTICS in GRAMMAR ENGINEERING Semantic formalisms, such as Minimal Recursion Semantics (MRS), Constraint Language for Lambda Structures (CLLS), and the LFG "Glue" Semantics, among others, have been designed to meet the demands of both theoretical linguistics and natural language processing. The aim of the workshop is to provide a forum for the discussion of empirical and formal approaches to semantics and the syntax-semantics interface in the development of (large-scale) computational grammars. We solicit abstracts (for 30+10 minute presentations) focusing on: -- the modeling and implementation of aspect, situation types, semantic argument structure, semantic decomposition, word sense disambiguation, anaphora resolution, etc., -- the use of semantic formalisms in grammars for applications such as machine translation, information extraction, dialogue, etc., -- the relationship between semantic representation and disambiguation, -- other themes relevant to the role of semantics in grammar engineering. SUBMISSION DETAILS We invite E-MAIL submissions of abstracts for presentations, to consist of two parts 1) a separate information page in plain text format, containing - author name(s) - affiliation(s) - e-mail and postal address(es) - title of paper - specification of whether the abstract is intended for the main conference or for the workshop 2) an extended abstract of not more than 5 (five) pages, including all figures and references. Abstracts should preferably be in PDF format. Abstracts, mentioning 'HPSG-04' in the subject line, should be sent to gosse@let.rug.nl All abstracts will be reviewed anonymously by at least two reviewers. Authors are asked to avoid self-references in the abstracts. IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission deadline: February 15, 2004 Notification of acceptance: April 15, 2004 PUBLICATION The results of the conference will be published on-line by CSLI publications. A call for papers for contributions to the on-line proceedings will be issued after the conference. On-line proceedings of previous conferences are available at: http://csli-publications.stanford.edu/HPSG/ PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Gosse Bouma (chair) Frank Van Eynde (local arrangements) Dorothee Beermann (workshop organization) Lars Hellan (workshop organization) Valia Kordoni (workshop organization) Jonathan Ginzburg Rob Malouf Ivan Sag Kim Jong-Bok Paola Monachesi Manfred Sailer Tibor Kiss Philip Miller Eun-Jung Yoo Kordula de Kuthy Stefan Mueller Kei Yoshimoto Bob Levine John Nerbonne CONFERENCE WEB-SITE For information on registration, hotels, transport, etc., visit http://www.ccl.kuleuven.ac.be/hpsg2004/