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Subject: 28.1282, Calls: Comp Ling, Gen Ling, Ling Theories, Semantics, Syntax/USA

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Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 16:15:02
From: Rui Chaves [rchaves at buffalo.edu]
Subject: International Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar Conference

 
Full Title: International Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar Conference 
Short Title: HPSG 2017 

Date: 07-Jul-2017 - 09-Jul-2017
Location: Lexington, Kentucky, USA 
Contact Person: Rui Chaves
Meeting Email: rchaves at buffalo.edu

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics; Linguistic Theories; Semantics; Syntax 

Call Deadline: 24-Mar-2017 

Meeting Description:

The 2017 International HPSG Conference will take place on 7-9 July 2017, and
is co-located with the LSA Summer Institute, hosted by the University of
Kentucky, Lexington (USA).

Invited speakers:

Robert Borsley (University of Essex)
Laura Michealis (University of Colorado)

Tutorial: Theory & Implementation

Emily Bender (University of Washington)
Dan Flickinger (Stanford University)

Venue and Related Events:

The HPSG Conference (http://hpsg.uky.edu/) will be collocated with the LSA's
Summer Institute, at the University of Kentucky (https://lsa2017.uky.edu/),
which takes place during July 5 through 1 August.


Final Call for Papers:

Extended deadline: March 24

HPSG 2017
University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky (USA), 7-9 July 2017

Main Session:

Abstracts are solicited for presentations which address linguistic,
foundational, or computational issues relating to or in the spirit of the
framework of Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar.

Special Session ''Languages of the Seven Countries''

The special session focuses on languages from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia,
Sudan, Syria and Yemen, and is not restricted to any particular theoretic
framework. All are welcome.

Conference Format:

Prospective speakers must submit a 5 page abstract for the main session (30
minute presentation, plus 10 minute discussion). The conference will be
streamed online, and presenters who cannot attend the conference because of
travel bans can give their talks remotely.

Local Organizing Committee Chair: Fabiola Henry (fabiola.henri at uky.edu),
University of Kentucky.

Submissions:

All abstracts should be submitted in PDF format via:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hpsg2017

Please direct any questions to the Program Committee Chair:
rchaves at buffalo.edu

All abstracts will be reviewed anonymously by at least two reviewers. They
should not include the authors' names, and authors are asked to avoid
self-references.

Important Dates:

Abstract submission deadline: 24 March 2017
Notification of acceptance: 15 April 2017
Conference: 7-9 July 2017
Conference proceedings submission: 15 October 2017

Publication:

The conference proceedings will be published online by CSLI Publications. Only
papers presented in the main session will be included in the proceedings.

A call for contributions to the proceedings will be issued after the
conference. Proceedings of previous conferences are available at:
http://csli-publications.stanford.edu/HPSG/.

Program Committee:

Anne Abeillé
Doug Arnold
Emily Bender
Francis Bond
Gosse Bouma
George Broadwell
Philippa Cook
Berthold Crysmann
Kordula De Kuthy
Dan Flickinger
Antske Fokkens
Petter Haugereid
Fabiola Henri
Anke Holler
Jong-Bok Kim
Jean-Pierre Koenig
Robert D. Levine
Nurit Melnik
Philip Miller
Stefan Müller
Tsuneko Nakazawa
Joanna Nykiel
Gerald Penn
Manfred Sailer
Pollet Samvellian
Sanghoun Song
Stephen Wechsler
Shûichi Yatabe
Eun-Jung Yoo




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