FG-MOL 2005: Final Call for Papers

[Shuly Wintner]

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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

                          http://www.formalgrammar.tk/

Deadline for paper submission: April 1st, 2005

                               Call for Papers

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,
  o  formal and computational phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics;
  o  model-theoretic and proof-theoretic methods in linguistics;
  o  logical aspects of linguistic structure;
  o  constraint-based and resource-sensitive approaches to grammar;
  o  learnability of formal grammar;
  o  integration of stochastic and symbolic models of grammar;
  o  foundational, methodological and architectural issues in grammar;
  o  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

Submission Details

We invite electronic submissions of original, unpublished 30-minute
papers (including questions, comments, and discussion). 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, single column, point size 11 or 12, written in
English. Submissions should be prepared in plain text (ASCII) or PDF.
Preparation of the manuscript in LaTeX, using the available style
files, 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.


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

Program Committee

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

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

Sponsors:

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

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