LFG98 Abstracts (reminder)

[Tracy Holloway King]

ABSTRACTS: due 30 January 1998

                                 LFG98

        1998 INTERNATIONAL LEXICAL FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR CONFERENCE

                         30 June - 2 July 1998
           The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

              Submission receipt deadline: 30 January 1998
             URL: http://www.sultry.arts.usyd.edu.au/LFG98/
                Enquiries: lfg98 at sultry.arts.usyd.edu.au

The Linguistic and Allied Workers Federation of Australia in association
with the Unofficial LFG Conference Organizing Committee and the
University of Queensland is pleased to invite you to participate in
LFG98 which will take place from 30 June till 2 July 1998 at Emmanuel
College, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.

LFG98, the third in a series of international conferences, will take
place just before the Australian Linguistic Society annual meeting and
the two week Australian Linguistic Institute.  The conference welcomes
work both within the formal architecture of Lexical-Functional Grammar
and typological, formal, and computational work within the 'spirit of
LFG', as a lexicalist approach to language employing a parallel,
constraint-based framework.  The conference aims to promote interaction
and collaboration among researchers interested in nonderivational
approaches to grammar, where grammar is seen as the interaction of
constraints from multiple levels, including category information,
grammatical relations, and semantic information.  Further information
about the syntactic theory LFG can be obtained from:

        http://clwww.essex.ac.uk/LFG/



PARTICIPATION

LFG98 will be attended by most of the leading figures in the
international LFG community including Farrell Ackerman, Avery Andrews,
Kersti Borjars, Joan Bresnan, Mary Dalrymple, Ron Kaplan, K.P. Mohanan,
Tara Mohanan, Nigel Vincent, Annie Zaenen, ...


SUBMISSIONS

The conference will involve 20-minute talks, poster/system
presentations, and workshops.  Talks and poster presentations will focus
on results from completed as well as ongoing research, with an emphasis
on novel approaches, methods, ideas, and perspectives, whether
descriptive, theoretical, formal or computational.  We particularly
welcome papers and suggestions for workshops on languages of the
Asia-Pacific region.  Presentations should describe original,
unpublished work.

Abstracts and papers must be received by 30 January 1998, and should be
submitted to the program committee chairs at the address given below.
For further information or offers of organisational help, contact the
LAWFA Organisers at the address below.


POSTER/SYSTEM PRESENTATIONS

We plan on having a scheduled session for posters and the demonstration
of systems, with the posters also available for viewing at other times
throughout the conferece.


TIMETABLE

Deadline for receipt of submissions:                 30 January 1998
Acceptances sent out:                                16 March 1998

Deadline for receipt of papers for proceedings:      15 May 1998
Conference:                                          30 June - 2 July 1998


SUBMISSION SPECIFICATIONS

People may submit either abstracts or full length papers for refereeing.
The advantages of full paper submission are that it allows better
assessment of your work and that (at least for some people) accepted
refereed full papers count as a higher status publication.  The program
chairs may decide that certain submissions are better as poster
presentations than as read papers.  Submitters may also indicate if they
wish a submission to be considered as a poster/system presentation.

Full length papers.  Papers should be no more than 15 pages, including
figures and references, in 11 or 12pt type, on A4/US Letter paper.  The
printed text area must not exceed 165x230mm (6.5x9 inches), and should
be centred horizontally and vertically on the page.  Omit name and
affiliation, and obvious self reference from the version for review.
Papers should include a roughly 100-200 word abstract at the beginning.

Abstracts.   Abstracts should be one A4 page in 10pt or larger type and
include a title.   Omit name and affiliation, and obvious self
reference.  A second page may be used for data, c-/f- and related
structures, and references.

Papers/abstracts may be submitted by email or by regular mail (or by
both means as a safety measure).  Email submission is preferred.

Paper.  Include:
   - Five copies of the abstract/paper.
   - A card or cover sheet with the paper title, name(s) of the
author(s), affiliation, address, phone/fax number, e-mail address, and
whether the author(s) are students.

Email.  Include or attach your paper as either a plain ASCII text, HTML,
or postscript file.  Include the paper title, name(s) of the author(s),
address, phone/fax number, email address, and whether the author(s) are
students in the body of your email message.

All papers/abstracts will be reviewed by at least two people.  Accepted
papers will appear in the proceedings, which will be distributed to all
participants at the workshop, and which will be published online by CSLI
Publications.  Selected papers may also appear in a printed volume
published by CSLI Publications.


ORGANISERS AND THEIR CONTACT ADDRESSES

Send paper/abstract/poster submissions and inquiries about submissions to:

Program Committee Chairs:   Tracy King  <thking at parc.xerox.com>
                            Miriam Butt <miriam.butt at uni-konstanz.de>

Mail:                       Tracy Holloway King
                            Information Sciences and Technologies Laboratory
                            Xerox PARC
                            3333 Coyote Hill Road
                            Palo Alto CA 94304
                            USA


Contact the conference organisers at:

Linguistic & Allied         Christopher Manning <cmanning at mail.usyd.edu.au>
Organisers:                 Jane Simpson <jhs at mail.usyd.edu.au>

Email:                      lfg98 at sultry.arts.usyd.edu.au

Mail:                       Christopher Manning or Jane Simpson
                            Linguistics F12
                            University of Sydney NSW 2006
                            AUSTRALIA