FG-MOL 2005: Call for Papers

[Shuly Wintner]

FG-MOL 2005:
  The 10th conference on Formal Grammar
  and
  The 9th Meeting on Mathematics of Language

Collocated with the
European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information
Edinburgh, Scotland, 5-7 August 2005

Sponsored by:
The Association for the Mathematics of Language (ACL SigMoL)
Institute for Communicating and Collaborative Systems/Human 
Communication Research Centre, University of Edinburgh
The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada

Call for Papers

PLEASE NOTE:
Due to the difficulty of reserving housing, we need notification of 
intent to submit a paper, along with a preliminary abstract (no more 
than 1000 words) and any requests for additional rooms in the 
conference housing no later than January 31st, 2005.

Background

FG-MOL 2005 is the 10th conference on Formal Grammar and the 9th 
Meeting on the Mathematics of Language, to be held in conjunction with 
the European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information, which 
takes place in 2005 in Edinburgh.

Previous Formal Grammar meetings were held in Barcelona (1995), Prague 
(1996), Aix-en-Provence (1997), Saarbruecken (1998), Utrecht (1999), 
Helsinki (2001), Trento (2002), Vienna (2003) and Nancy (2004).

MoL meetings are organized biennially by the Association for 
Mathematics of Language, which is a Special Interest Group of the 
Association for Computational Linguistics. This is the second time the 
two events are held in tandem, following the success of FG-MOL 2001.

Aims and Scope

FG-MOL provides a forum for the presentation of new and original 
research on formal grammar, mathematical linguistics and the 
application of formal and mathematical methods to the study of natural 
language.
Themes of interest include, but are not limited to,
  - formal and computational phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics  
and pragmatics;
  - model-theoretic and proof-theoretic methods in linguistics;
  - logical aspects of linguistic structure;
  - constraint-based and resource-sensitive approaches to grammar;
  - learnability of formal grammar;
  - integration of stochastic and symbolic models of grammar;
  - foundational, methodological and architectural issues in grammar;
  - mathematical foundations of statistical approaches to linguistic 
analysis.
Previous conferences in this series have welcomed papers from a wide 
variety of frameworks.

Invited Speakers
TBA

NOTE: Notification of Intent to Submit/Attend

Due to the difficulty of reserving housing in Edinburgh in August, we 
will need to make a firm commitment for the number of rooms by early 
February. Consequently, we are asking those who intend to submit papers 
to the conference to submit a preliminary abstract by January 31st, 
with the full paper being due by April 1st. We will also need requests 
for housing from those who will be attending but not presenting a paper 
by the January 31st.

Submission Details

We invite electronic submissions of original, unpublished 30-minute 
papers (including questions, comments, and discussion). Because of the 
housing restrictions, submission involves three steps.

	1.  	 Notification of Intent to Submit
Preliminary abstracts, of no more than 1000 words, must be submitted 
via web-from at  http://cs.haifa.ac.il/~shuly/fg05/intent.html no later 
than January 31, 2005. Preliminary abstracts are not anonymous, but 
will not be seen by anyone who will be involved in making acceptance 
decisions on any individual papers.
	2.  	Request for Housing
Those intending to stay in conference housing, including those 
intending to submit a paper, must submit a request via the same 
web-form at http://cs.haifa.ac.il/~shuly/fg05/intent.html  no later 
than January 31, 2005. We will be reserving a block of rooms in 
Edinburgh student accommodations on Arthur's Seat for the nights of 
4--7/August with estimated cost of about GBP 40 per night (singles 
only). We can only guarantee accommodations for those who have 
requested them by this date. Requests from those submitting papers may 
be (but do not have to be) contingent on acceptance of their paper. 
Requests other than those for authors of submitted papers are binding 
and must be accompanied by a 30% deposit.
	3.  	Paper submission
Papers must be submitted using a dedicated web-based form by  April 1, 
2005. Papers should be anonymous and refrain from  self-reference. They 
should be no longer than 8 pages. Submissions should be prepared in 
plain text (ASCII) or PDF. Preparation of the manuscript in LaTeX is 
highly recommended. Revised versions will be required to be in LaTeX, 
but assistance in translating to LaTeX form will be available.

Proceedings
Accepted abstracts will be included in the conference proceedings, to 
be distributed at the conference. Full, revised versions will be 
published after the conference as CSLI Publications Online Proceedings.

Depending on the quality of the papers, we will consider publishing a 
selected number of them in a special issue of Research on Language and 
Computation.

Social Program
A conference dinner is planned for Saturday, August 6th. More details  
will be published in due course.

Registration and accommodation
On-line registration forms for the conference and for conference 
housing will available no later than March 1st. Registration will 
include membership in ACL ($60/$30 students) for those who are not 
current members. There will be a discount for early registration (by 
May 31st).

Important Dates
	• 	 January 31st, 2005: Deadline for housing requests
	• 	 January 31st, 2005: Deadline for preliminary abstracts
	• 	 April 1st, 2005: Deadline for paper submission
	• 	 May 13th, 2005: Notification of acceptance
	• 	 May 31st, 2005: Early registration ends
	• 	 July 1st, 2005: Full version due
	• 	 August 5-7, 2005: Conference dates

Program Committee
Over 40 prominent researchers. See the website for the list.

Organizing committee
	• 	 Gerhard Jaeger, University of Bielefeld
	• 	 Paola Monachesi, OTS Utrecht
	• 	 Gerald Penn, University of Toronto
	• 	 James Rogers, Earlham College
	• 	 Shuly Wintner, University of Haifa

Acknowledgments

We are grateful to the Association for Computational Linguistics and 
the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada for 
financially supporting the conference. We are extremely grateful to 
ICCS/HCRC at University of Edinburgh for making this conference 
possible through local organization.

FG-MOL 2005, http://cs.haifa.ac.il/~shuly/fg05/