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<div align="center"><font color="#000000"><b>Second Call for Papers:
LFG 2005</b></font></div>
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<div align="center"><font color="#000000"><b>TENTH INTERNATIONAL
LEXICAL FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR CONFERENCE</b></font></div>
<div align="center"><font color="#000000"><b><br></b></font></div>
<div align="center"><font color="#000000"><b>18 - 20 July
2005</b></font></div>
<div align="center"><font color="#000000"><b><br></b></font></div>
<div align="center"><font color="#000000">Bergen, Norway</font></div>
<div align="center"><font color="#000000"><br></font></div>
<div align="center"><font color="#000000">Conference website:
http://ling.uib.no/lfg05/</font></div>
<div align="center"><font color="#000000"><br></font></div>
<div align="center"><font color="#000000">Abstract submission receipt
deadline:<b> 15 February 2005</b></font></div>
<div align="center"><font color="#000000">Submissions should be sent
to the LFG Program Committee</font></div>
<div align="center"><font color="#000000">(see addresses
below)</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000"><br>
The 10th International Lexical Functional Grammar Conference will be
hosted by the Section of Linguistic Studies at the University of
Bergen, Norway from 18 to 20 July 2005. A pre-conference
activity is planned for 17 July.<br>
<br>
LFG 2005 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.<br>
<br>
Further information about LFG as a syntactic theory is available at
the following sites:<br>
<http://www.essex.ac.uk/linguistics/LFG/><br>
<http://www-lfg.stanford.edu/lfg/><br>
<br>
<br>
<b>SUBMISSIONS: TALKS AND POSTERS<br>
<br>
</b>The main conference sessions will involve 45-minute talks (30 min.
+ 15 min. discussion), and poster/system presentations. Contributions
should 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.<br>
<br>
<br>
<b>DISSERTATION SESSION<br>
<br>
</b>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 contents of the
dissertation; the talks will be 20 minutes, followed by a 10-minute
discussion period. The International LFG Association (ILFGA)
will pay the conference fees for the students presenting at the
student session.<br>
<br>
Students should note that the main sessions are certainly also open to
student submissions.<br>
<br>
<br>
<b>WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS<br>
<br>
</b>We also invite proposals for workshops, made up of a small group
of talks (2-4) on a coherent topic that can be expected to provide a
general overview of the issues relevant to the topic, and generate
opposing views and discussion with the broader audience. Panelists for
workshops are usually determined by the workshop organisers. Workshop
papers should be distributed in advance among panelists so they can
cross-reference one another's approaches. Suggestions for workshops
(title, names and affiliations of organizers, 10 line description)
should be sent to the local organisers at: lfg05@uib.no.<br>
<br>
Proposals are also welcome for tutorials, which provide an
introduction for non-experts to a specific field of study. Suggestions
for tutorials (title, names and affiliations of teachers, and 20 line
description of audience, goals, contents, teaching methods, tools
used) should be sent to the local organisers.<br>
<br>
People with specific interests who want to suggest tutorials or
workshops but may not intend to be organizers/teachers themselves are
invited to communicate their suggestions on the LFG list.<br>
<br>
<br>
<b>TIMETABLE<br>
<br>
</b>Deadline for abstracts:<x-tab>
</x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab>15
February 2005<br>
Acceptances sent out:<x-tab>
</x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab>31
March 2005<br>
<br>
Deadline for workshop submissions:<x-tab> </x-tab>15 January 2005<br>
Workshop acceptances:<x-tab>
</x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab>15
February 2005<br>
<br>
<br>
<b>ABSTRACT SUBMISSION SPECIFICATIONS<br>
<br>
</b>Submissions for talks, posters/demonstrations and the dissertation
session should be in the form of<i> abstracts</i> only. Abstracts can
be up to two A4 pages in 10pt or larger type and should include a
title. Omit name and affiliation, and obvious self-reference.
Note: we no longer ask for a separate page for data and figures (c-/f-
and related structures). They can be included in the text of the
abstract, obeying the overall two-page limit.</font></div>
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Abstracts may be submitted by email or by regular mail to the Program
Committee (see addresses below). Email submission is preferred.<br>
<br>
If the abstract is submitted by email, please include the following
author information in the body of your message, while attaching the
abstract. If the abstract is sent on paper, please include 8 copies of
the abstract and a separate cover sheet with the following author
information.<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
PAPER TITLE: ____________________________________<br>
<br>
<i>For each author:<br>
</i> NAME:
______________________________________<br>
AFFILIATION:
_________________________________<br>
E-MAIL ADDRESS:
_____________________________<br>
IS AUTHOR A STUDENT? (Y/N) ___<br>
<br>
<i>For dissertation session submissions:<br>
</i> UNIVERSITY:
_________________________________<br>
ADVISOR(S):
_________________________________<br>
(EXPECTED) DATE OF SUBMISSION: _________________<br>
<br>
SESSION TYPE: ________<br>
(1) talk or poster,<br>
(2) talk only,<br>
(3) poster/demonstration only,<br>
(4) dissertation session.)<br>
<br>
(<i>Note: In the absence of session type specification, submissions
will be considered for both the talk and the poster sessions, and the
program co-chairs may decide that certain submissions are better as
poster presentations than as read papers.</i>)<br>
<br>
If sent by email, the preferred file formats for the abstracts are PDF
or plain ASCII. If you cannot create PDF, then HTML and Postscript
will be accepted. Postscript files require special care to avoid
problems: make sure your system is set to include all fonts, or at
least all but the standard 13; if using a recent version of Microsoft
Word, make sure you click the printer Properties button and then the
Postscript tab, and there choose Optimize for Portability; on all
platforms make sure the system is not asking for a particular paper
size or other device-specific configuration. It is your responsibility
to send us a file that we and our reviewers can print. You can preview
your Postscript file by means of Ghostview or similar software.<br>
<br>
All abstracts will be reviewed by at least three people. Papers will
appear in the proceedings, which will be published online by CSLI
Publications. Selected papers may also appear in a printed
volume published by CSLI Publications.<br>
<br>
<br>
<b>PROGRAM COMMITTEE, ORGANISERS AND THEIR CONTACT ADDRESSES<br>
<br>
</b>Submissions for papers and posters and inquiries about
submissions<i> only</i> should be sent to the LFG Program
Committee:<br>
<br>
Email:<x-tab> </x-tab><br>
Tara Mohanan <elltaram@nus.edu.sg><br>
Aoife Cahill <aoife.cahill@computing.dcu.ie><br>
<br>
Postal Address:<x-tab> </x-tab><br>
LFG 2005 c/o Tara Mohanan<br>
Department of English Language and Literature<br>
FASS Block 5, 7 Arts Link<br>
National University of Singapore<br>
Singapore 117570<br>
<br>
Suggestions for workshops and tutorials, as well as general inquiries
for information and assistance about the conference, should be sent to
the local organisers.<br>
<br>
Email: lfg05@uib.no<br>
<br>
Postal address:<br>
LFG 2005 c/o Prof. Helge Dyvik<br>
UiB, LiLi<br>
Sydnesplassen 7<br>
5007 Bergen<br>
Norway<br>
<br>
INFORMATION about Bergen, as well as accommodation and registration
details, are available on the conference website:<br>
<x-tab>
</x-tab>http://ling.uib.no/lfg05/</font><br>
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