[Corpora-List] 2nd CFP: TAG+11 Workshop on TAGs and Related Formalism

[Djamé Seddah]

** Apologies for cross-posting **


                      SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS
                The Eleventh International Workshop 
                    on Tree Adjoining Grammars 
                      and Related Formalisms 
                              (TAG+11)

                        26-28 September 2012
                      University Paris-Diderot
                            Paris, France

              http://alpage.inria.fr/tagplus11/doku.php


The Workshop on Tree-Adjoining Grammars and related formalisms
(TAG+) is a biennial workshop series that fosters exchange of ideas
among linguists, psycholinguists and computer scientists interested
in modeling natural language using formal grammars.  The workshop
series, since 1990, has demonstrated productive interactions among
researchers and practitioners interested in various aspects of the
Tree-Adjoining Grammar formalism and its relationship to other
grammar formalisms, such as combinatory categorial grammar, dependency
grammars, Minimalist grammars, HPSG, and LFG; hence the "+" in the
name of the workshop.

Tree-Adjoining Grammars (TAG) and related lexicalized grammar
formalisms provide mathematical tools to model natural language and
the scaffolding to encode linguistic generalizations in a principled
manner.  In the past, this workshop has helped identify similarities
and differences between the above formalisms, leading to the shared
development of broad-coverage grammars, transfer of parsing and
machine learning algorithms from one formalism to another and to
new insights into the properties of different formalisms and their
capacity for linguistic explanation.  It is our expectation that
this edition of the workshop will continue enabling cross-fertilization
of ideas that combine the representational flexibility of TAG-like
grammar formalisms with the robustness afforded by machine learning
techniques to produce a deeper insight into modeling of natural
language.

The first day of the meeting will be devoted to a series of tutorial
presentations, designed to introduce attendees to a range of
TAG-related topics.


Invited Speakers:
-----------------
* Kevin Knight, University of Southern California (USA)
* Bonnie Webber, University of Edinburgh (Scotland)


Tutorial Speakers:

* David Chiang – USC Information Sciences Institute (USA)
* Laura Kallmeyer – University of Düsseldorf (Germany)
* Andreas Maletti – University of Stuttgart (Germany)


Topics of Interest:
-------------------
We invite submissions on all aspects of TAG and related grammatical 
formalisms including the following topics:

* syntactic and semantic theory;
* mathematical properties;
* computational and algorithmic studies of parsing, interpretation and 
language generation;
* machine learning models using TAG-like representations;
* corpus-based research and grammar development using TAG;
* psycholinguistic modeling; and
* applications to natural language processing or biological sequence modeling.


Special Session:
----------------
We plan to organize a special session on formalisms based on
synchronous tree rewriting.  We especially encourage submissions
on topics related to synchronous tree rewriting, including theoretical
aspects, applications to machine translation and syntax-semantics
interface.


Submission Details:
-------------------
Anonymous abstracts may be submitted for two types of presentations
at the workshop: oral presentations and poster presentations. Poster
presentations are particularly appropriate for brief descriptions
of specialized implementations, resources under development and
work in progress.

Regardless of the type of submission, abstracts may not exceed two
pages in length (not including data, figures and references).  Both
one-column or two-column abstracts are permissible. However do not
use a font that is smaller than 11pt. If you are using LaTeX for
document preparation, then any recent ACL style file can be used.
The final camera ready version of the full paper for the proceedings
must be in two-column format conforming to the most recent ACL style
file.

The abstract must be submitted electronically in PDF format, using
the EasyChair electronic submission website at

http://alpage.inria.fr/tagplus11/doku.php?id=submissions

Proceedings including full papers for accepted abstracts (both oral and poster presentations) will be available on-line before the workshop dates.  


Important dates:
----------------
* Deadline for submission of abstracts: June 15, 2012.
* Notification to authors of decision: July 30, 2012.
* Deadline for camera-ready submission: September 7, 2012.
* Workshop dates: September 26 to 28, 2012.


Contact Information:
--------------------
The workshop website is at http://alpage.inria.fr/tagplus11/doku.php

Email contact: tagplus11 at gmail.com 


Organization:
--------------
Program Chairs

* Chung-hye Han, Simon Fraser University (Canada)
* Giorgio Satta, University of Padova (Italy)

Program Committee

* Srinivas Bangalore, AT&T Research (USA)
* Rajesh Bhatt, UMass (USA)
* David Chiang, USC Information Sciences Institute (USA)
* Benoit Crabbé University Paris-Diderot (France)
* Robert Frank, Yale University (USA)
* Claire Gardent, CNRS/LORIA, Nancy (France)
* Daniel Gildea, University of Rochester (USA)
* Julia Hockenmaier, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA)
* Liang Huang, USC Information Sciences Institute (USA)
* Aravind Joshi, University of Pennsylvania (USA)
* Laura Kallmeyer, University of Duesseldorf (Germany)
* Makoto Kanazawa, National Institute of Informatics (Japan)
* Alexander Koller, University of Potsdam (Germany)
* Marco Kuhlmann, Uppsala University (Sweden)
* Andreas Maletti, University of Stuttgart (Germany)
* Yusuke Miyao, University of Tokyo (Japan)
* Mark-Jan Nederhof, University of St Andrews (Scotland)
* Steve DeNeefe, SDL Language Weaver (USA)
* Owen Rambow, Columbia University (USA)
* Maribel Romero, University of Konstanz (Germany)
* Tatjana Scheffler, DFKI (Germany)
* Anoop Sarkar, Simon Fraser University (Canada)
* William Schuler, The Ohio State University (USA)
* Stuart Shieber, Harvard University (USA)
* Mark Steedman, University of Edinburgh (UK)
* Matthew Stone, Rutgers University (USA)
* Sylvain Salvati, INRIA Bordeaux Sud-Ouest (France)
* Bonnie Webber, University of Edinburgh (UK)
* Fei Xia, University of Washington (USA)

Local Arrangements Chairs

* Éric de la Clergerie – INRIA Paris Rocquencourt
* Djamé Seddah – University Paris Sorbonne Paris 4
* Laurence Danlos, University Paris-Diderot
* Chantal Girodon, INRIA Paris Rocquencourt


TAG+11 is endorsed by EACL (the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics).



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