Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammars and Related Frameworks

[Bob Frank]

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              C a l l   f o r   P a p e r s

                        T A G + 6

              6th International Workshop on
      Tree Adjoining Grammars and Related Frameworks

                     20-23 May 2002
                      Venice, Italy
             http://www.ircs.upenn.edu/tag/

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Sponsors: University of Padua, University of Venice,
     Institute for Scientific and Technological Research
     (ITC-IRST), and Institute for Research in Cognitive
     Science (IRCS)


GOALS AND SCOPE

The Tree Adjoining Grammar (TAG) formalism has been studied
for some time, both for its mathematical properties and
computational applications, as well as for its role in
constructing grammatical theories and models of language
processing.  Over the years, these lines of inquiry have fed
off of one another: empirical consequences have been derived
from TAG's mathematical restrictiveness, and extensions to
the TAG formalism have been motivated by the exigencies of
grammatical analysis.  One of the main goals of the TAG+6,
then, is to bring together the full range of researchers
interested in the TAG formalism, to continue the kinds of
productive interaction that have been the hallmark of TAG
research.  We anticipate holding sessions devoted to
syntactic theory, mathematical properties, computational and
algorithmic studies of parsing and generation,
psycholinguistic modeling, and applications to natural
language processing.

It has been observed for some time that a range of
grammatical frameworks, for example minimalist syntax,
categorial grammar, dependency grammars, HPSG, and LFG,
share certain properties with the TAG formalism.  Such
properties include lexicalization of syntactic structure, a
conception of syntactic derivation rooted in generalized
transformations, a simple notion of local grammatical
dependency, and mildly context sensitive generative
capacity.  A second main goal of TAG+6, and the reason for
the + in the workshop's name, is to better understand these
connections between TAG and other related grammatical
frameworks.  In addition to submitted papers on such
connections, TAG+6 will also include invited presentations
by experts on some of these related grammatical frameworks.
They will be announced later in the fall.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Chair: Robert Frank, Johns Hopkins

Anne Abeillé, Paris 7             Seth Kulick, Pennsylvania
William Badecker, Johns Hopkins   Larry Moss, Indiana
Srinivas Bangalore, AT&T          Gertjan van Noord, Groningen
Tilman Becker, DFKI               Martha Palmer, Pennsylvania
Tonia Bleam, Northwestern         Owen Rambow, AT&T
Marie-Hélène Candito, Paris 7     Norvin Richards, MIT
Mark Dras, Macquarie              James Rogers, Earlham
Fernanda Ferreira, Michigan State Ed Stabler, UCLA
Claire Gardent, Saarbrücken       Mark Steedman, Edinburgh
David Lebeaux, NEC                Yuka Tateisi, Tokyo
Richard Oehrle                    Juan Uriagereka, Maryland
Anthony Kroch, Pennsylvania       K. Vijay-Shanker, Delaware
                                   David Weir, Sussex

ORGANIZING COMITTEE

Co-Chairs: Rodolfo Delmonte, Venice & Giorgio Satta, Padua

Julia Akhramovitch, Venice     Carlo Minnaja, Padua
Antonella Bristot, Venice      Laura Paccagnella, Padua
David Chiang, Pennsylvania     Luisella Romeo, Venice
Aravind K. Joshi, Pennsylvania Anoop Sarkar, Pennsylvania
Alberto Lavelli, ITC-IRST      Trisha Yannuzzi, Pennsylvania

SUBMISSION DETAILS

We invite submissions on all aspects of TAG and related
systems.  Anonymous abstracts may be submitted for two sorts
of presentations at the workshop: long talks, which will be
40 minutes in length, and short talks, 20 minutes in length.
Regardless of type of submission, abstracts may not exceed
two pages in length (not including data, figures and
references).  All abstracts must be submitted electronically
to the following address:

      tag6 at ircs.upenn.edu

Please use 'Abstract' as the Subject header and include,
below the abstract, the following information, which should
constitute the body of the message:

      1. Name(s) of author(s)
      2. Affiliation(s)
      3. E-mail address(es)
      4. Postal address(es)
      5. Title of talk
      6. Preference for long or short presentation

The anonymous abstract may then be included either in the
body of the message in ASCII format, or else as a PDF
attachment.

    Abstract Submission Deadline:         January 30, 2002
    Notification Of Acceptance:           March 1, 2002

PROCEEDINGS

Proceedings including an extended (4 page) version of all
accepted abstracts will be distributed at the workshop.
Camera-ready copies of these extended versions will be due
April 1, 2002.
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	Bob Frank
	Department of Cognitive Science		410-516-8699
	Johns Hopkins University		       -8020 (fax)
	3400 N. Charles Street
	Baltimore, MD 21218
	http://www.cog.jhu.edu/faculty/rfrank.html