CfP: The 2nd International Workshop on Typed Feature Structure Grammars (TFSG'07)

[Anders Søgaard]

The 2nd International Workshop on Typed Feature Structure Grammars (TFSG'07)

The workshop is part of The 16th Nordic Conference of Computational 
Linguistics, May 24-26 2007 in Tartu, Estonia. The workshop itself takes 
place May 24.

         See: http://cst.dk/anders/tfsg/tfsg07.html


CALL FOR PAPERS (2nd)

The linguistics and natural language engineering community has regained 
interestest in typed feature structure grammars in the recent years. In 
particular, efficient parsing algorithms have stimulated the development 
of broad-coverage computational grammars for a variety of languages. The 
development of these resources have raised a number of empirical and 
computational questions. TFSG'07 is a forum in which these questions can 
be asked and, maybe, answered.

Typed feature structure grammars include, for instance, construction 
grammar (CG), head-driven phrase structure grammar (HPSG) and some 
versions of categorial grammar (e.g. i-CCG). This workshop is intended 
for linguists who employ these theories in linguistic analysis or 
natural language engineering, or who investigate their formal and 
computational properties. Papers may address

     * the linguistic or computational (dis-)advantages of typed feature 
structure-based formalisms, incl. CG, HPSG and i-CCG, and comparisons of 
such formalisms with other linguistic theories,
     * the comparison of theories and computational implementations of 
typed feature structures, and
     * the design and evaluation of implemented grammars and resources 
of relevance to typed feature structure grammars.

In other words, the organizers and the program committee are especially 
interested in papers that present linguistic phenomena whose analysis in 
typed feature structure grammars is more adequate or more efficient (or 
less adequate or less efficient) than standard analyses; we also 
encourage papers that present substantial work on implementations of, or 
resources for, typed feature structure grammars. Comparisons of CG, 
HPSG, i-CCG and other theories are also welcome. Finally, the workshop 
is open to papers on the formal and computational properties of typed 
feature structure grammars, incl. complexity, learnability, and portability.

The program committee includes (the list is not yet exhaustive): Lars 
Ahrenberg (Linköping University), Emily Bender (University of 
Washington), Berthol Crysmann (DFKI, Saarbrücken), Stephan Kepser 
(Universität Tübingen), Detmar Meurers (Ohio State University), Stefan 
Müller (Universität Bremen and Universität Pottsdam), Carl Pollard (Ohio 
State University), Manfred Sailer (Universität Göttingen), Jesse Tseng 
(CNRS Loria) and Ben Waldron (Cambridge University and Norwegian 
University of Science and Technology).

The maximum length of the abstracts is six (6) pages. Submit an 
anonymous PDF file. Please use ACL style files. Contact information 
should be included in the e-mail text. E-mail the abstract and any 
questions you may have, to anders at cst.dk. Submission deadline: March 1 
2007. Notification of acceptance: April 1 2007.

The workshop is organized by Anders Søgaard, Center for Language 
Technology, and Petter Haugereid, Norwegian University of Science and 
Technology.


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Anders Søgaard
Center for Language Technology
University of Copenhagen
Njalsgade 80
DK-2300 Copenhagen S
(+45) 35329065
http://cst.dk/anders
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