Promoting interest in HPSG

[Georgia]

I'm  coming late to this discussion, but I would think that the quality of
the submissions would be of even more importance in deciding this issue. If
there are enough good papers to have a conference, then the problem is just
how to get people to come--i.e., marketing.

Georgia

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rob Malouf" <rmalouf at mail.sdsu.edu>
To: "Emily M. Bender" <ebender at u.washington.edu>
Cc: <hpsg-l at lists.Stanford.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2004 5:19 PM
Subject: Re: Promoting interest in HPSG


> At the risk of really stepping in it...  is it obvious that we ought to
> be promoting interest in the HPSG conference?  Maybe the drop-off in
> submissions is sign that we don't really need an HPSG conference *and* a
> formal grammar conference *and* a construction grammar conference *and*
> an LFG conference *and* a dozen other theoretical and computational
> linguistics conferences.  Maybe preserving the HPSG conference as such
> isn't the most forward-thinking way for the standing committee to foster
> a research community that goes beyond the current style of "name brand"
> syntax.  I don't really know what would be better (perhaps organizing
> conferences around particular descriptive challenges?), but I think we
> should open this discussion up to a broader range of options.
> --
> Rob Malouf <rmalouf at mail.sdsu.edu>
> Department of Linguistics and Oriental Languages
> San Diego State University
>
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