Tree Adjoining Grammar workshop: final CFP

[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/

	SUBMISSION DEADLINE: January 30, 2002

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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.


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 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 including an extended (4 page) version of all
accepted abstracts will be distributed at the workshop.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Chair: Robert Frank, Johns Hopkins

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


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

SPONSORS

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



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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