2nd Call for papers: Categorial Grammars 2004, An Efficient Tool for NLP

[Sylvain Degeilh]

2nd Call for papers: Categorial Grammars 2004,
      An Efficient Tool for NLP
Montpellier, France, 7-11 June 2004
     http://www.lirmm.fr/CG2004

Organised by LIRMM (http://www.lirmm.fr), supported by the Université
Montpellier II (http://www.univ-montp2.fr) and the Languedoc-Roussillon
delegation of CNRS (http://www.dr13.cnrs.fr)


Important dates:
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Submission EXTENDED deadline: 7 March, 2004
Notification of accepted papers: 7 April, 2004
Final versions, deadline: 7 May, 2004
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Proceedings:  The accepted papers will be published as a special issue of
Applied Logic by Elsevier.  The results must be unpublished and not
submitted for publication elsewhere, including other symposia or workshops.
The authors should mention at least one keyword among the topics below at
the end of the abstract.  For more instructions go to:
http://www.lirmm.fr/CG2004
All papers should be submitted electronically to: degeilh at lirmm.fr

Topics:
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Formal grammars for natural languages,
in particular (non exhaustive list) :
Pregroups
Pregroups applied to natural languages
Compact bilinear logic
Non-symmetric *-autonomous categories
Lambek syntactical calculus
Multimodal categorial grammars
Word order, discontinuous constituents
Dependencies, constraints to movement
Learning algorithms
Complexity of algorithms
Minimalist grammars
Lexical grammars
Tree adjoining grammars



Algorithmic and theoretical problems arising during syntactical analysis
Categorial grammars, type grammars and pregroups are formal structures for
deciding whether a string of words is a grammatical sentence.  They assign
one or more types to each word in the dictionary.  One solves the problem
whether a sequence of words is a grammatical sentence, by performing
computations on the corresponding string(s) of types.  This makes it
possible to characterise the syntactic properties of natural languages
entirely in terms of their lexical types and prove general properties,
independent of the actual language fragment. These grammars are related to
other mathematical approaches like intuitionist, classical and compact
bilinear logic, non-symmetric *-autonomous categories, Montague semantics
and Chomsky's minimalist programme.  Some of these methods have matured to
highly efficient tools for syntactical analysis.   Previous meetings were
held in Tucson, Rome, Nancy, Nantes, Trento and Ottawa.  This symposium will
cover new theoretical results and applications to natural languages.

Some Speakers:
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Michele Abrusci (Univ Roma 3, Italy)
Jason Baldridge (Univ of Edinburgh, UK)
Philippe Blache (Univ of Aix-en-Provence, France)
Julia Hockenmaier (Univ of Pennsylvania, USA)
Maciej Kandulski (Adam Mickiewicz Univ, Poland)
Ruth Kempson (King's College London, UK)
Joachim Lambek (McGill Univ, Canada)
Alain Lecomte (Univ Grenoble 2, France)
Reinhard Muskens (Tilburg Univ, The Netherlands)
Richard Oehrle (Univ of Pennsylvania, USA)
Guy Perrier (Loria, France)

Scientific Programme Committee:
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Wojciech Buszkowski (Univ of Poznan, Poland)
Claudia Casadio (Univ Chieti, Italy)
Dov Gabbay (King's College London, UK)
Michael Moortgat (Univ of Utrecht, The Netherlands)
Christian Retoré (Univ Bordeaux I, France)
Mark Steedman (Univ of Edinburgh, UK)
Edward Stabler (UCLA, USA)

Organising Committee:
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Raffaella Bernardi (Free University of Bolzano-Bozen, Italy)
Sylvain Degeilh (Univ Montpellier II, France)
Michael Moortgat (Univ of Utrecht, The Netherlands)
Anne Preller (Univ Montpellier III, France)
Violaine Prince (Univ Montpellier II, France)

Symposium site : Délégation Languedoc-Roussillon du CNRS
http://www.dr13.cnrs.fr