LFG 2001, CFP 1

Rachel Nordlinger racheln at UNIMELB.EDU.AU
Mon Oct 9 09:50:09 UTC 2000 

		   FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
       			LFG2001

	2001 INTERNATIONAL LEXICAL FUNCTIONAL
		  GRAMMAR CONFERENCE

                                        25 June - 27 June 2001

	    The Department of Linguistics, University of Hong Kong
     	URL: http://www.hku.hk/linguist/research/LFG2001.html

	     Submission receipt deadline: 15 February 2001
	  Submissions should be sent to the LFG Program Committee
		          (see addresses below)


The 6th International Lexical Functional Grammar Conference will be
held by the Department of Linguistics at the University of Hong Kong
from Monday June 25 until Wednesday June 27, 2001.

LFG-2001 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 (perhaps violable) 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/ 	and
	http://www-lfg.stanford.edu/lfg/



SUBMISSIONS

The conference will primarily involve 30-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. Presentations should describe original,
unpublished work.

Abstracts and papers must be received by February 15, 2001, and should
be submitted to the program committee chairs at the address given
below. For further information or offers of organisational help,
contact the local organisers at the address below.


POSTERS

This year we're going to encourage an active poster session. All
presenters will be invited to display posters and to have a chance to
chat in more detail with participants about their work.  In addition we
will accept papers for poster presentation only.


WORKSHOPS

Workshops are a small group of talks (2-4) on a coherent topic that
can be expected to generate opposing views and discussion with the
broader audience. Participants to workshops are usually
invited. Workshop papers should be distributed in advance among
participants and participants should refer to each others approaches.

At this point in time, we welcome suggestions for workshops from
potential organisers or people with certain interests.  Suggestions for
workshops should be sent to the local organizers at:
abbodomo at hkusua.hku.hk.


TIMETABLE

  Deadline for receipt of submissions:	15 February 2001

  Acceptances sent out:                             	31 March 2001

  Conference:                                       	25 June - 27 June 2001



SUBMISSION SPECIFICATIONS

Submissions should be in the form of abstracts only.  In contrast to
previous years, we no longer accept the submission of full papers.
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.

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.

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

Regular Mail:
Include:
- Seven 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 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.  Include or preferably attach your paper as
either a plain ASCII text, PDF, HTML, or postscript file.  Postscript
files require special care to avoid problems: make sure the system is
set to include all fonts or at least all but the standard 13; if using a
recent version of Word, make sure you click the printer Properties
button and then the Postscript tab, and there choose Optimize for
Portability; on all platforms make sure the system is not asking for a
particular paper size or other device-specific configuration.  It is
your responsibility to send us a file that us and our reviewers can
print.  You can often test this by trying to look at the file in a
previewer.

All abstracts will be reviewed by at least three people.
Papers will appear in the proceedings 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 abstract submissions and inquiries about submissions to:

Program Committee Chairs:
                  Chris Manning <manning at csli.stanford.edu>
                  Rachel Nordlinger <r.nordlinger at linguistics.unimelb.edu.au>

Mail:
                                LFG2001
                                c/- Chris Manning
                                Linguistics Department
                                Stanford University
                                Stanford, CA 94305-2150
                                USA


Contact the local conference organisers at:

Email:		abbodomo at hkusua.hku.hk

Mail:		Adams Bodomo
		Department of Linguistics,
		The University of Hong Kong,
		Pokfulam Road, HONG KONG


ALL OTHER INFORMATION including accommodation and registration
Details will be included in a subsequent call for papers, and posted in due
course on the conference website:
	http://www.hku.hk/linguist/research/LFG2001.html


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Dr. Rachel Nordlinger
Dept. of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
University of Melbourne
Victoria 3010
AUSTRALIA
ph. +61-(0)3-8344-4215, fax. +61-(0)3-8344-8990

            ****PLEASE NOTE NEW EMAIL ADDRESS: racheln at unimelb.edu.au****
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