CfP: Workshop on Typed Feature Structure Grammars

[Anders Søgaard]

[Apologies for multiple postings.]

WORKSHOP ON TYPED FEATURE STRUCTURE GRAMMARS
(cst.dk/anders/tfsg)

The workshop is part of The 22nd Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics,
June 19-22 2006 in Aalborg, Denmark.

CALL FOR PAPERS

The linguistics and natural language engineering community, including
the Scandinavian one, have regained interestest in typed feature
structure grammars in the recent years. In particular, efficient parsing
algorithms have stimulated the development of broad-coverage
computational grammars for a variety of languages. The development of
these resources have raised a number of empirical and computational
questions. The Workshop on Typed Feature Structure Grammars is a forum
in which these questions can be asked and, maybe, answered.

Typed feature structure grammars include construction grammar (CG),
head-driven phrase structure grammar (HPSG) and some versions of
categorial grammar. This workshop is intended for linguists who employ
these theories in linguistic analysis or natural language engineering,
or who investigate their formal and computational properties. Papers may
address

     * the linguistic or computational (dis-)advantages of typed feature
structure-based formalisms, incl. CG and HPSG, and comparisons of such
formalisms with other linguistic theories,
     * the comparison of theories and computational implementations of
typed feature structures, and
     * the design and evaluation of implemented grammars and resources
of relevance to typed feature structure grammars.

In other words, the organizers and the program committee are especially
interested in papers that present linguistic phenomena whose analysis in
typed feature structure grammars is more adequate or more efficient (or
less adequate or less efficient) than standard analyses; we also
encourage papers that present substantial work on implementations of, or
resources for, typed feature structure grammars. Comparisons of CG, HPSG
and other theories are also welcome. Finally, the workshop is open to
papers on the formal and computational properties of typed feature
structure grammars, incl. complexity, learnability, and portability.

The program committee includes Lars Ahrenberg (Linköping University),
Dan Flickinger (Stanford University), Lars Hellan (Norwegian University
of Science and Technology), Lars G. Johnsen (University of Bergen),
Stefan Müller (Universität Bremen and Universität Pottsdam), Jesse Tseng
(CNRS Loria) and Jürgen Wedekind (University of Copenhagen). The
proceedings are planned to be published in the form of a book. The
final, camera-ready papers are submitted after the conference.
Guidelines and LaTeX style sheets are provided.

The maximum length of the abstracts is two (2) pages. Submit an
anonymous PDF file. Contact information should be included in the e-mail
text. E-mail the abstract and any questions you may have, to
anders at cst.dk. Deadline: March 15 2006. Notification of acceptance:
April 15 2006.

The workshop is organized by Anders Søgaard, Center for Language
Technology, and Petter Haugereid, Norwegian University of Science and
Technology.

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Anders Søgaard
Center for Language Technology
University of Copenhagen
Njalsgade 80
DK-2300 Copenhagen S
(+45) 35329065
http://cst.dk/anders
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