CFP ESSLLI Workshop: Multilingual Grammar Development

[Frederik Fouvry]

			   CALL FOR PAPERS

			   ESSLLI Workshop
			 25 to 29 August 2003

      Ideas and Strategies for Multilingual Grammar Development

	Taking place during ESSLLI 2003 (18-29 August), Vienna
		    http://www.logic.at/esslli03/

     Workshop Website: http://www.dfki.uni-sb.de/~siegel/esslli/

Many broad-coverage grammars have been developed over the past decade
that represent deep linguistic analysis in several frameworks,
including Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG),
Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG), and Lexicalized Tree Adjoining
Grammar (LTAG). In HPSG, for example, there are extensive grammars for
English, German and Japanese. Although these are couched in the same
framework, they were developed more or less independently of each
other, and are not sufficiently documented.  (Exceptions to this are
Müller (1999) and Alshawi (1992) and Butt et aliae (1999)).  Recently,
however, efforts have begun to parallelize the grammar development
process across languages.

In this workshop at the 2003 European Summer School in Logic,
Language, and Information (ESSLLI2003) in Vienna, participants will
address the issue of building a methodology for parallel grammar
development in linguistically rich frameworks. This methodology should
guide the definitions of common formats, procedures, development
tools, grammar components, and documentation practice, as well as
standardized evaluation methods.

Topics of the workshop include:

- Methodology for multilingual, broad-coverage, deep grammar
  development within linguistically rich frameworks such as those
  using unification-based grammars. Such approaches may include
  grammar templates, external specifications, or other tactics.

- Guidelines for grammar writers either in the initial stages of
  development or as long-term best practices.

- Organization of a grammar in layered, reusable structures.

- Strategies for adapting existing resources such as taggers or
  morphological analyzers.

The workshop will be held during the second week of ESSLLI2003, 25-29
August 2003, with each of the five sessions allowing for the
presentation of three 20-minute papers followed by discussion.

Submission details:

Abstracts of not more than four pages on any of the above topics are
due by Friday, 14 March 2003 with electronic submission in either
PostScript or PDF format, to multigram at coli.uni-sb.de.

Reviewing will be done anonymously, and the final program will be
determined by the workshop organizers based on these reviews. Authors
will be advised of the results by Monday, 5 May 2003. Full papers to
be included in the workshop proceedings will be due by Saturday, 24
May 2003.

Please note that all workshop participants including presenters must
register for ESSLLI2003. Reduced registration fees apply to authors of
accepted papers.