HPSG-04 First Call for Papers

[Bouma G.]

                       FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

			     HPSG-2004

                  11th International Conference on
		Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar
                Centre for Computational Linguistics
                   Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
			  3-6 August 2004
	         http://www.ccl.kuleuven.ac.be/hpsg2004/

The 11th International Conference on HPSG will take place in Belgium
on 3-6 August 2004, hosted by the Centre for Computational Linguistics
of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. The conference will include a
workshop on SEMANTICS in GRAMMAR ENGINEERING.

MAIN CONFERENCE

Abstracts are solicited for 30-minute presentations (followed by 10
minutes discussion) which address linguistic, foundational, or
computational issues relating to the framework of Head-Driven Phrase
Structure Grammar.

INVITED SPEAKERS

to be announced

WORKSHOP on SEMANTICS in GRAMMAR ENGINEERING

Semantic formalisms, such as Minimal Recursion Semantics (MRS),
Constraint Language for Lambda Structures (CLLS), and the LFG "Glue"
Semantics, among others, have been designed to meet the demands of
both theoretical linguistics and natural language processing. The aim of
the workshop is to provide a forum for the discussion of  empirical and
formal approaches to semantics and the syntax-semantics interface in the
development of (large-scale) computational grammars.

We solicit abstracts (for 30+10 minute presentations) focusing on:
-- the modeling and implementation of aspect, situation types, semantic
argument structure, semantic decomposition, word sense disambiguation,
anaphora resolution, etc.,
-- the use of semantic formalisms in grammars for applications such as
machine translation, information extraction, dialogue, etc.,
-- the relationship between semantic representation and disambiguation,
-- other themes relevant to the role of semantics in grammar
engineering.

SUBMISSION DETAILS

We invite E-MAIL submissions of abstracts for presentations,
to consist of two parts

1) a separate information page in plain text format, containing
   - author name(s)
   - affiliation(s)
   - e-mail and postal address(es)
   - title of paper
   - specification of whether the abstract is intended for the
     main conference or for the workshop

2) an anonymous extended abstract of not more than 5 (five) pages, including
   all figures and references.  Abstracts should preferably be in PDF format.

Abstracts, mentioning 'HPSG-04' in the subject line, should be sent to

                          gosse at let.rug.nl

All abstracts will be reviewed anonymously by at least two reviewers.
Authors are asked to avoid self-references in the abstracts.

IMPORTANT DATES

Abstract submission deadline:	 February 15, 2004
Notification of acceptance:	 April 15, 2004

PUBLICATION

The results of the conference will be published on-line by CSLI
publications. A call for papers for contributions to the on-line
proceedings will be issued after the conference. On-line proceedings
of previous conferences are available at:

          http://csli-publications.stanford.edu/HPSG/

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

Gosse Bouma       (chair)
Frank Van Eynde   (local arrangements)
Dorothee Beermann (workshop organization)
Lars Hellan       (workshop organization)
Valia Kordoni     (workshop organization)

Jonathan Ginzburg       Rob Malouf            Ivan Sag
Kim Jong-Bok            Paola Monachesi       Manfred Sailer
Tibor Kiss              Philip Miller         Eun-Jung Yoo
Kordula de Kuthy        Stefan Mueller        Kei Yoshimoto
Bob Levine              John Nerbonne

CONFERENCE WEB-SITE

For information on registration, hotels, transport, etc., visit

              http://www.ccl.kuleuven.ac.be/hpsg2004/

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