Call for papers: Workshop on Information Structure in Formal Grammar

[Berthold Crysmann]

Workshop on Information Structure in Formal Grammar (co-located with
HPSG 2011)


FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

Abstracts are solicited for presentations which address linguistic,
foundational, or computational issues relating to information
structure and its interactions with formal syntax and semantics. 

The aim of the workshop is to further current research on information
structure within the HPSG community, and to encourage cross-framework
discussion of information structure and its interface to syntax and
semantics. Thus, we strongly encourage researchers from outside the
HPSG framework to submit. 


INVITED SPEAKER

Mats Rooth (Cornell University)


WORKSHOP FORMAT

There will be two sessions: a main session, with 30 minute
presentations (plus 10 min discussion), and a poster session. The poster
session is intended as a means of encouraging the presentation of work
that is not yet fully mature.

Prospective speakers may submit either a 5 page abstract for the main
session, or a 2 page abstract for the poster session. Abstracts
submitted initially for the main session may be accepted, at the
discretion of the program committee, for presentation in the poster
session instead.

RELATED EVENTS

The workshop on Information Structure in Formal Grammar is part of this
year's HPSG conference, which will take place in Seattle, WA on 24-25
August 2011. It will be preceded by a day of tutorials on 22 August,
given by Nicholas Asher (Toulouse) and Johanna Nichols (Berkeley).


SUBMISSIONS

We will use an online submission system. All abstracts should be
submitted via: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ifg2011

Abstracts should be in PDF format.

Please direct any questions to the Program Committee Chair:
ifg2011 at easychair.org

All abstracts will be reviewed anonymously by at least two
reviewers. Abstracts should not include the authors' names, and
authors are asked to avoid self-references.


IMPORTANT DATES

Abstract submission deadline: 10 April 2011
Notification of acceptance: 20 May 2011
Workshop: 23 August 2011

PUBLICATION

The workshop proceedings will be published online by CSLI
Publications, together with the proceedings for the HPSG main
conference. Only papers presented in the main session will be included
in the proceedings.

A call for contributions to the proceedings will be issued after the
conference. Proceedings of previous conferences are available at:
http://csli-publications.stanford.edu/HPSG/.

The final deadline for receipt of written versions of conference
papers is 15 November 2011.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Felix Bildhauer
Daniel Büring
Berthold Crysmann (chair)
Kordula De Kuthy
Elisabet Engdahl
Claire Gardent
Yonatan Ginzburg
Tracy Holloway King
Manfred Krifka
Jean-Marie Marandin
Laura Michaelis
Stefan Müller
Irina Nikolaeva
Patrizia Paggio
Arndt Riester
Mats Rooth
Mark Steedman
Malte Zimmermann



CONFERENCE WEB SITE

http://depts.washington.edu/hpsg2011/workshop.php

LOCAL ORGANISER

Emily Bender (U Washington)