Formal Grammar 99: second call for papers

Mon Feb 15 16:14:14 UTC 1999

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			FORMAL GRAMMAR CONFERENCE

            		     August 7-8, 1999,
		         Utrecht, The Netherlands

			  SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS

FG99 is the 5th conference on Formal Grammar held in conjunction
with the European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information, which
takes place in 1999 in Utrecht. Previous meetings were held in Barcelona
(1995), Prague (1996), Aix-en-Provence (1997), and as part of the
Joint Conference on Formal Grammar, Head-Driven Phrase
Structure Grammar, and Categorial Grammar (FHCG98) held
in Saarbruecken last August.

AIMS and SCOPE

FG99 provides a forum for the presentation of new and original
research on formal grammar, especially with regard to the application
of formal methods to natural language analysis.

Themes of interest include, but are not limited to,

* formal and computational syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and phonology;
* model-theoretic and proof-theoretic methods in linguistics;
* constraint-based and resource-sensitive approaches to grammar;
* foundational, methodological and architectural issues in grammar.

Previous conferences in this series have welcomed papers from
a wide variety of frameworks.

SPECIAL SESSIONS and INVITED SPEAKERS. There will be a	SYMPOSIUM on

	Grammatical Resources and Grammatical Inference

		     David Dowty (Ohio State)
		     Polly Jacobson (Brown)
		     Gerhard Jaeger (Berlin)
		     Reinhard Muskens (Tilburg)
		     Mark Steedman (Edinburgh)
	commentator: Johan van Benthem (Amsterdam) [tentative]

SUBMISSION DETAILS

We invite E-MAIL submissions of abstracts for 30-minute papers (including
questions, comments, and discussion).

A submission should consist of two parts:

- an information sheet (in ascii), containing the name of the author(s),
  affiliation(s), e-mail and postal address(es) and a title;

- an abstract, consisting of a description of not more than 5 pages
  (including figures and references). Abstracts may be either in plain
  ASCII or in (unix-compatible encoded) postscript, PDF, or DVI.

Abstracts can be sent to

	fg at ufal.mff.cuni.cz (Geert-Jan M. Kruijff)

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE

March 1, 1999

NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE

April 30, 1999

PROCEEDINGS

A full version of each accepted paper will be included in the conference
proceedings, to be distributed at the conference. Full papers are due
June 30, 1999.

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

Anne Abeill'e	  (Paris)		Gosse Bouma	  (Groningen)
John Coleman      (Oxford)		Mary Dalrymple    (Xerox Parc)
David Dowty	  (Ohio State)		Elisabet Engdahl (Gotenborg)
Daniele Godard    (Lille)		Jack Hoeksema	  (Groningen)
Polly Jacobson    (Brown)		Mark Johnson	  (Brown)
Ruth Kempson 	  (London)		Shalom Lappin     (London)
Anton Nijholt     (Twente)		Owen Rambow	  (Cogentex)
Mark Steedman	  (Edinburgh)

FURTHER INFORMATION

Web site for ESSLLI XI: http://esslli.let.uu.nl

Web site for FG99 : http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/fg.html

The organizers:

Geert-Jan Kruijff     gj at ufal.mff.cuni.cz
Glyn Morrill	      glyn at lsi.upc.es
Paola Monachesi	      Paola.Monachesi at let.uu.nl
Dick Oehrle 	      oehrle at linc.cis.upenn.edu

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{August 7-8, 1999}\qquad Utrecht\\
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{\bf Programme Committee}
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Anne Abeill\'e (Paris)\\
Gosse Bouma (Groningen)\\
John Coleman (Oxford) \\
Mary Dalrymple (Xerox Parc)\\
David Dowty (Ohio State)\\
Elisabet Engdahl (Gotenborg)\\
Daniele Godard (Lille)\\
Jack Hoeksema (Groningen)\\
Polly Jacobson (Brown)\\
Mark Johnson (Brown)\\
Ruth Kempson (London)\\
Shalom Lappin (London)\\
Anton Nijholt (Twente)\\
Owen Rambow (Cogentex)\\
Mark Steedman (Edinburgh)\\[12pt]
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{\bf Organizing Committee}
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Geert-Jan Kruijff (Prague)\\
Paola Monachesi (Utrecht)\\
Glyn Morrill (Barcelona)\\
Richard Oehrle (Arizona)
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{\bf Important Dates}

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Abstracts Due: March 1, 1999\\
Notification: April 30, 1999\\
Final Versions: June 30, 1999\\
Conference: August 7-8, 1999\\
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{\bf Addresses:\quad}

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ESSLLI XI: \\
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FG99 :\\
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FG99 is the 5th conference on Formal Grammar held in conjunction
with the European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information, which
takes place in 1999 in Utrecht. Previous meetings were held in Barcelona
(1995), Prague (1996), Aix-en-Provence (1997), and as part of the
Joint Conference on Formal Grammar, Head-Driven Phrase
Structure Grammar, and Categorial Grammar (FHCG98) held
in Saarbr\"{u}cken last August.

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{\it Aims And Scope} FG99 provides a forum for  new and original
research on formal grammar, especially with regard to the application
of formal methods to natural language analysis.
Themes of interest include, but are not limited to,

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\item formal and computational syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and phonology;
\item model-theoretic and proof-theoretic methods in linguistics;
\item constraint-based and resource-sensitive approaches to grammar;
\item foundational, methodological and architectural issues in grammar.
\end{itemize}

\noindent Previous conferences in this series have welcomed papers from
a wide variety of frameworks.

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{\it Symposium:} {\bf Grammatical Resources and Grammatical Inference}
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David Dowty (Ohio State) & Polly Jacobson (Brown) & Gerhard J\"{a}ger (Berlin)\\
\multicolumn{3}{c}{Reinhard Muskens (Tilburg) \hspace{36pt}Mark Steedman (Edinburgh)}\\
\multicolumn{3}{c}{commentator: Johan van Benthem (Amsterdam) $[$tentative$]$}
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{\it Submission Details} We invite E-MAIL submissions of abstracts
for 30-minute papers (including questions, comments, and discussion).
A submission should consist of two parts:

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\item  an information sheet (in ascii), containing the name of the author(s),
affiliation(s), e-mail and postal address(es) and a title;

\item an abstract, consisting of a description of not more than 5 pages
(including figures and references). Abstracts may be either in plain
ASCII or in (unix-compatible encoded) postscript, PDF, or DVI.
\end{itemize}

\noindent Abstracts can be sent to {\tt fg at ufal.mff.cuni.cz} (Geert-Jan M. Kruijff).

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{\it Abstract Submission Deadline} March 1, 1999

{\it Notification of Acceptance} April 30, 1999

{\it Proceedings} A full version of each accepted paper will be
included in the conference proceedings, to be distributed at the
conference. Full papers are due June 30, 1999.

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