CfP: Workshop on Typed Feature Structure Grammars (extended deadline)

[Anders Søgaard]

On the request of a couple of authors, the abstract submission deadline 
of the Workshop on Typed Feature Structure Grammar has been extended by 
a week. The new deadline is March 22 2006. The workshop website is 
cst.dk/anders/tfsg.

CfP: WORKSHOP ON TYPED FEATURE STRUCTURE GRAMMARS

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

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), Stephan 
Oepen (University of Oslo and CSLI), 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. OBS: New deadline: March 22 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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