Increasing interest in the HPSG conference

[Paola Monachesi]

Hi,
I think Gosse's idea to combine the HPSG conference with other events like
Formal Grammar might be a good one.

We have noticed a decrease of abstracts within the FG conference and we are
debating whether we should go on with it. We find that there is still an
interest for the issues discussed within the FG forum, but there is clearly
an explosion of conferences/workshops and a decrease of travel money
which makes attending conferences more difficoult.

I personally think that it would be interesting to experiment with a joined
conference again, afterall the Saarbrucken version was a succesful one.

Ciao,

Paola

*****************************************************************************
Paola Monachesi                               * Tel:+31-(0)30-2536065
Utrecht University                            * Fax:+31-(0)30-2536000
Utrecht Institute of Linguistics - OTS        *
Trans 10,                                     *
NL-3512 JK Utrecht                            *
The Netherlands                               *
http://www-uilots.let.uu.nl/~Paola.Monachesi  *
*****************************************************************************


On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Emily M. Bender wrote:

> Dear HPSG List,
>
> The standing committee has been discussing ways of increasing
> interest in/submissions to the HPSG conference.  We would
> like to solicit input from the broader HPSG community, and
> therefore invite discussion on this list of the following
> questions:
>
> 1. How might we increase interest in the HPSG conference?
> 2. Should we encourage more computationally-oriented papers
>    at the HPSG conference?
> 3. What can/should be done to increase interest in HPSG
>    generally, particularly among theoretical linguists?
>
> In a separate message, I will be sending a compilation of
> our discussion so far, in the hopes that it will provoke
> further debate here.
>
> Emily
>