LFG2001: 2nd Call For Papers: Something to do over the hols

[Christopher Manning]

                         SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS
                                LFG2001

                 2001 INTERNATIONAL LEXICAL FUNCTIONAL
                           GRAMMAR CONFERENCE

                         25 June - 27 June 2001

         The Department of Linguistics, University of Hong Kong
         URL: http://www.hku.hk/linguist/research/LFG2001.html

         Abstract submission receipt deadline: 15 February 2001
        Submissions should be sent to the LFG Program Committee
                         (see addresses below)


The 6th International Lexical Functional Grammar Conference will be
held by the Department of Linguistics at the University of Hong Kong
from Monday June 25 until Wednesday June 27, 2001.

LFG-2001 welcomes work both within the formal architecture of
Lexical-Functional Grammar and 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
nonderivational approaches to grammar, where grammar is seen as the
interaction of (perhaps violable) constraints from multiple levels, including
category information, grammatical relations, and semantic information.
Further information about the syntactic theory LFG can be obtained from:

                  http://clwww.essex.ac.uk/LFG/         and
                  http://www-lfg.stanford.edu/lfg/


KEYNOTE SPEAKER

We are pleased to announce that Sam Mchombo will give an invited talk at
the conference.


SUBMISSIONS

The conference will primarily involve 30-minute talks, poster/system
presentations and workshops.  Talks and poster presentations will 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describe original, unpublished work.


POSTERS

This year we're going to encourage an active poster session. All
presenters will be invited to display posters and to have a chance to
chat in more detail with participants about their work.  In addition we
will accept papers for poster presentation only.


WORKSHOPS

Workshops are a small group of talks (2-4) on a coherent topic that
can be expected to generate opposing views and discussion with the
broader audience. Participants to workshops are usually
invited. Workshop papers should be distributed in advance among
participants and participants should refer to each others approaches.

At this point in time, we welcome suggestions for workshops from
potential organisers or people with certain interests.  Suggestions for
workshops should be sent to the local organizers at:
abbodomo at hkusua.hku.hk.


TIMETABLE

  Deadline for receipt of talk submissions:      15 February 2001
  Late deadline for poster-only submissions:     15 March 2001

  Acceptances sent out:                          31 March 2001

  Conference:                                    25 June - 27 June 2001


SUBMISSION SPECIFICATIONS

Abstracts for talks must be received by February 15, 2001, while
poster-only abstracts will be accepted until March 15, 2001. All
abstracts should be sent to the program committee chairs at the address
given below. For workshops, further site information or offers of
organisational help, contact the local organisers at the address below.

Submissions should be in the form of abstracts only.  In contrast to
previous years, we are not acccepting the submission of full papers.
Abstracts should be one A4 page in 10pt or larger type and
include a title. Omit name and affiliation, and obvious self
reference. A second page may be used for data, c-/f- and related
structures, and references.

Submissions should indicate whether they wish to be considered only as a
talk, as either a talk or a poster, or only as a poster/demonstration.
In the absence of specification, submissions will be considered for both
classes, and the program chairs may decide that certain submissions are
better as poster presentations than as read papers.

Abstracts may be submitted by email or by regular mail (or by
both means as a safety measure). Email submission is preferred.

Regular Mail:
Include:
- Eight copies of the abstract/paper.
- A card or cover sheet with the paper title, name(s) of the
author(s), affiliation, address, phone/fax number, e-mail address, and
whether the author(s) are students.

Email:
Include the paper title, name(s) of the author(s), address, phone/fax
number, email address, and whether the author(s) are students in the
body of your email message.  Include or preferably attach your paper as
either a plain ASCII text, PDF, HTML, or postscript file.  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 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 us and our reviewers can
print.  You can often test this by trying to look at the file in a
screen previewer such as Ghostview.

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.

ORGANISERS AND THEIR CONTACT ADDRESSES

Send abstract submissions and inquiries about submissions to:

Program Committee Chairs:

       Chris Manning <manning at csli.stanford.edu>
       Rachel Nordlinger <r.nordlinger at linguistics.unimelb.edu.au>

Mail:
                                LFG2001
                                c/- Chris Manning
                                Linguistics Department
                                Stanford University
                                Stanford, CA 94305-2150
                                USA


Contact the local conference organisers at:

Email:          abbodomo at hkusua.hku.hk

Mail:           Adams Bodomo
                Department of Linguistics,
                The University of Hong Kong,
                Pokfulam Road, HONG KONG


ALL OTHER INFORMATION including accommodation and registration
details will be included in a subsequent call for participation.  Some
details are already posted on the conference website:

        http://www.hku.hk/linguist/research/LFG2001.html