HPSG-04 Final Call for Papers

[Frank Van Eynde]

                 FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS --  HPSG-2004

                  11th International Conference on
                Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar

                Centre for Computational Linguistics
                   Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
                        3-6 August 2004

               http://www.ccl.kuleuven.ac.be/hpsg2004/


The 11th International Conference on HPSG will take place in Belgium on 3-6
August 2004, hosted by the Centre for Computational Linguistics of the
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. The conference includes a workshop on
Semantics in Grammar Engineering.

MAIN CONFERENCE (4-6 August 2004)

   Abstracts are solicited for 30-minute presentations (followed by 10 minutes
   discussion) which address linguistic, foundational, or computational issues
   relating to the framework of Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar.

   INVITED SPEAKERS: Jonathan Ginzburg, Henriette de Swart, t.b.a.

WORKSHOP on SEMANTICS in GRAMMAR ENGINEERING (3 August 2004)

   Semantic formalisms, such as Minimal Recursion Semantics (MRS), Constraint
   Language for Lambda Structures (CLLS), and the LFG "Glue" Semantics, among
   others, have been designed to meet the demands of both theoretical
   linguistics and natural language processing. The aim of the workshop is to
   provide a forum for the discussion of  empirical and formal approaches to
   semantics and the syntax-semantics interface in the development of
   (large-scale) computational grammars.

   INVITED SPEAKER: Ann Copestake

   We solicit abstracts (for 30+10 minute presentations) focusing on:
   * the modeling and implementation of aspect, situation types, semantic
     argument structure, semantic decomposition, word sense disambiguation,
     anaphora resolution, etc.,
   * the use of semantic formalisms in grammars for applications such as
     machine translation, information extraction, dialogue, etc.,
   * the relationship between semantic representation and disambiguation,
   * other themes relevant to the role of semantics in grammar engineering.

SUBMISSION DETAILS

   For both the main conference and the workshop,
   we invite E-MAIL submissions of abstracts for presentations,
   to consist of two parts:

   1) a separate information page in plain text format, containing
      * author name(s)
      * affiliation(s)
      * e-mail and postal address(es)
      * title of paper

   2) an extended abstract of not more than 5 (five) pages, including all
      figures and references.  Abstracts should preferably be in PDF format.

   All abstracts should be sent to gosse at let.rug.nl
   Abstracts for the main conference should mention 'HPSG-04' and abstracts for
   the workshop should mention 'workshopHPSG-04' in the subject line.
   All abstracts will be reviewed anonymously by at least two reviewers.
   Authors are asked to avoid self-references in the abstracts.

IMPORTANT DATES

   Abstract submission deadline: February 15, 2004
   Notification of acceptance: April 15, 2004

PUBLICATION

   The results of the conference will be published on-line by CSLI publications.
   A call for contributions will be issued after the conference.
   On-line proceedings of previous conferences are available at
   http://csli-publications.stanford.edu/HPSG/

PROGRAM COMMITTEE FOR THE CONFERENCE

   Gosse Bouma  (chair)
   Jonathan Ginzburg       Rob Malouf            Ivan Sag
   Kim Jong-Bok            Paola Monachesi       Manfred Sailer
   Tibor Kiss              Philip Miller         Eun-Jung Yoo
   Kordula de Kuthy        Stefan Mueller        Kei Yoshimoto
   Bob Levine              John Nerbonne         Frank Van Eynde

PROGRAM COMMITTEE FOR THE WORKSHOP

   Dorothee Beermann  (chair)
   Lars Hellan             Ash Asudeh            Manfred Sailer
   Valia Kordoni           Mary Dalrymple        Jean-Pierre Koenig
   Markus Egg

LOCAL ORGANIZATION

   Frank Van Eynde         Ineke Schuurman       Vincent Vandeghinste

CONFERENCE WEB-SITE

   For information on registration, hotels, transport, etc., see
   http://www.ccl.kuleuven.ac.be/hpsg2004/