[cbrew at acm.org: Re: Increasing interest in the HPSG conference]

[Emily M. Bender]

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> 1. How might we increase interest in the HPSG conference?

a) Review full papers rather than abstracts
b) Every HPSG practitioner to promote the benefits of HPSG
c) Emphasize clarity and power of declarative approach
d) De-emphasize formalism where it conflicts with (c)
e) Be the friendliest and most constructive formal linguistics conference
f) Work on interesting phenomena (esp things where syntax interacts
with something else, prosody,semantics, discourse, morphology... but
that's maybe too personal a view)


> 2. Should we encourage more computationally-oriented papers
>    at the HPSG conference?

No. It is more beneficial for computational work on
HPSG to be well-represented
in the core computational conferences like ACL. Good
work still gets in, even though statistical papers
predominate.


> 3. What can/should be done to increase interest in HPSG
>    generally, particularly among theoretical linguists?

Erm. Good clear linguistics with substantial empirical
content, using HPSG.



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