TAG+6 Workshop Program

[Trisha Yannuzzi]

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			    T A G + 6
		       P R O G R A M

	       6th International Workshop on
        Tree Adjoining Grammars and Related Frameworks

		       20-23 May 2002
		       Venice, Italy
	       http://www.ircs.upenn.edu/tag/

		      INVITED SPEAKERS
			Joan Bresnan
		      Guglielmo Cinque
			 Jan Hajic

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All presentations will take place in the Auditorium
Santa Margherita, Campo Santa Margherita.

Monday, May 20

4:00  Presentation of the Conference

4:15  Compositional Semantics for Relative Clauses in
       Lexicalized Tree Adjoining Grammars
       Chung-Hye Han (Simon Fraser)

4:45  Putting weakly context-free formalisms in order
       David Chiang (Pennsylvania)

5:30  Supertagging for Combinatory Categorial Grammar
       Stephen Clark (Edinburgh)

Tuesday, May 21

9:30  Learning languages from positive examples with
       dependencies
       Jerome Besombes and Jean-Yves Marion (LORIA)

10:00 Towards a dynamic version of TAG 	
       Vincenzo Lombardo (Torino) and Patrick Sturt (Glasgow)

10:45 Resumptive pronouns, wh-island violations and sentence
       production
       Cassandra Cresswell (Pennsylvania)

11:45 Statistical Morphological Tagging and Parsing of
       Korean with an LTAG Grammar
       Chung-Hye Han (Simon Fraser) and Anoop Sarkar
       (Pennsylvania)

12:15 INVITED SPEAKER - Joan Bresnan (Stanford)

1:15  Lunch

3:00  Notes on the Complexity of Complex Heads in a
       Minimalist Grammar
       Jens Michaelis (Potsdam)

3:30  Learning Mirror Theory
       Gregory M. Kobele, Travis Collier, Charles Taylor, and
       Edward Stabler (UCLA)

4:00  Poster Session

5:00  Quantification over possible worlds in LTAG:
       some constraints
       Maribel Romero (Pennsylvania)

5:30  One More Perspective on Semantic Relations in TAG
       James Rogers (Earlham)

6:00  Locality Structure - an alternative to the TAG
       derivation structure basis for semantics
       Laura Kallmeyer (Paris 7)

Wednesday, May 22

9:30  A Proof System for Tree Adjoining Grammars
       Adi Palm (Passau)

10:00 Tree-Adjoining Grammars as Abstract Categorial
       Grammars
       Philippe de Groote (LORIA)

10:30 NL-diamond grammars are context free
       Gerhard Jaeger (ZAS)

11:00 Poster Session

12:00 Parsing MCS languages with Thread Automata
       Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie (INRIA)

12:30 Evaluation of LTAG Parsing with Supertag Compaction	
       Olga Shaumyan, John Carroll, and David Weir (Sussex)

1:00  Lunch

3:00  Korean-English MT and S-TAG
       Mark Dras (Macquarie) and Chung-Hye Han (Simon Fraser)

3:30  INVITED SPEAKER - Jan Hajic (Charles University,
       Prague)

4:30  Coffee break

5:00  Clustering for Obtaining Syntactic Classes of Words
       from Automatically Extracted LTAG Grammars
       Tadayoshi Hara, Yusuke Miyao, and Jun-ichi Tsujii
       (Tokyo)

5:30  DTAG? Attempt to generate a useful TAG for German using
       a metagrammar
       Kim Gerdes (Paris 7)

6:00  A New Metagrammar Compiler
       B. Gaiffe, B. Crabbe, A. Roussanaly (Loria)

Thursday, May 23

9:30  "Long" Transformations in TAG
       Seth Kulick (Pennsylvania)

10:00 INVITED SPEAKER - Guglielmo Cinque (Venezia)

11:00 Coffee Break

11:30 Cross-Serial Dependencies in Tagalog
       Anna Maclachlan (Discern) and Owen Rambow (AT&T
       Research)

12:15 Reranking an N-Gram SuperTagger
       John Chen, Srinivas Bangalore, Michael Collins, and
       Owen Rambow (AT&T Research)

12:45 Hidden Markov Model-based Supertagging in a
       user-initiative dialogue system
       Jens Baecker and Karin Harbusch (Koblenz-Landau)

For further information, including registration and
accomodations, see the conference web page at:
		
http://www.ircs.upenn.edu/tag/

Plese note that because of the difficulty of arranging
accomodations in Venice during the summer, we suggest that
anyone intending to come to TAG+6 should make hotel
reservations as soon as possible.