<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">CFP: Tenth Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammar and Related Formalisms<br>(TAG+10)<br><br>The Tenth International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammar and<br>Related Formalisms (TAG+10)<br><br>10-12 June 2010<br>Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA<br><br>CALL FOR PAPERS<br><br>The Workshop on Tree-Adjoining Grammars and related formalisms (TAG+)<br>is a biennial workshop series that fosters exchange of ideas among<br>linguists, psycholinguists and computer scientists interested in<br>modeling natural language using formal grammars. The workshop series,<br>since 1990, has demonstrated productive interactions among<br>researchers and practitioners interested in various aspects of the<br>Tree-Adjoining Grammar formalism and its relationship to other<br>grammar formalisms, such as combinatory categorial grammar,<br>dependency grammars, Minimalist grammars, HPSG, and LFG; hence the<br>``+'' in the name of the workshop. These discussions have helped<br>identify similarities and differences between formalisms, led to<br>the shared development of broad-coverage grammars, transfer of<br>parsing and machine learning algorithms from one formalism to another<br>and to new insights into the properties of different formalisms and<br>their capacity for linguistic explanation.<br><br>Tree-Adjoining Grammars (TAG) and related lexicalized grammar<br>formalisms provide mathematical tools to model natural language and<br>the scaffolding to encode linguistic generalizations in a principled<br>manner. Additionally, these lexicalized representations offer strong<br>and unique underpinnings for computational models of language,<br>complementing the present day predominance of statistical models. The<br>linguistic and mathematical sophistication of these formalisms in<br>conjunction with the computational grammars that have been<br>implemented for many languages offer an unprecedent resource to<br>practitioners in natural language processing and machine learning<br>communities. It is our expectation that this workshop will enable<br>cross-fertilization of ideas that combine the representational<br>flexibility of TAG-like grammar formalisms with the robustness<br>afforded by machine learning techniques to produce a deeper insight<br>into modeling natural language.<br><br>The first day of the workshop will be devoted to a series of<br>tutorials, designed to introduce participants to a range of aspects of<br>TAG and related formalisms. Currently planned tutorials include<br>Formal Aspects of Mildly Context-Sensitive Grammars, Syntax and TAG,<br>Semantics and TAG, Parsing with TAG, Machine Learning of Syntactic<br>Structure.<br><br>We especially welcome the participation of student researchers in this<br>workshop, both from the TAG community and beyond, and expect to be<br>able to provide funding for students with accepted paper to attend the<br>tutorials and workshop.<br><br><br>Topics of Interest:<br><br>We invite submissions on all aspects of TAG and related grammatical<br>formalisms including the following topics:<br><br>* syntactic and semantic theory;<br>* mathematical properties;<br>* computational and algorithmic studies of parsing, interpretation and<br>language generation;<br>* machine learning models using TAG-like representations;<br>* corpus-based research and grammar development using TAG;<br>* psycholinguistic modeling; and<br>* applications to natural language processing or biological sequence<br>modeling.<br><br>Submission Details:<br><br>Anonymous abstracts may be submitted for two types of presentations<br>at the workshop: oral presentations and poster presentations.<br>Poster presentations are particularly appropriate for brief<br>descriptions of specialized implementations, resources under<br>development and work in progress.<br><br>Regardless of the type of submission, abstracts may not exceed two<br>pages in length (not including data, figures and references). Both<br>one-column or two-column abstracts are permissible. However do not<br>use a font that is smaller than 11pt. If you are using LaTeX for<br>document preparation, then any recent ACL style file can be used. The<br>final camera ready version of the full paper for the proceedings must<br>be in two-column format conforming to the most recent ACL style file.<br><br>Proceedings including full papers for accepted abstracts (including<br>both oral and poster presentations) will be available on-line and at<br>the workshop. In addition, we will explore possibilities for<br>subsequent publication of workshop articles.<br><br>Important dates:<br><br>* Deadline for submission of abstracts: March 15, 2010.<br>* Notification to authors of decision: April 19, 2010.<br>* Deadline for camera-ready submission: May 3, 2010.<br>* Workshop dates: June 10 to 12, 2010.<br><br>Contact Information:<br><br>The workshop website is at <a href="http://sites.google.com/site/tagplus10/">http://sites.google.com/site/tagplus10/</a><br><br>Email contact: <a href="mailto:tagplus10@gmail.com">tagplus10@gmail.com</a><br><br>Organization:<br><br>Program Chairs<br><br>Srinivas Bangalore, AT&T Research (USA)<br>Maribel Romero, University of Konstanz (Germany)<br><br>Local Arrangements Chair<br><br>Robert Frank, Yale University (USA)<br><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></body></html>