HPSG08: Last Call for Papers

[Shuichi Yatabe]

Dear all,

This is the last call for papers for the 15th
International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase
Structure Grammar (HPSG-2008).

http://www2.nict.go.jp/x/x161/en/member/bond/hpsg-2008/

HPSG-2008 will take place on 28-30 July, 2008, near the
historic cities of Nara and Kyoto in Japan.


Invited Speakers

Mutsumi Imai (Keio University)
Tibor Kiss (Ruhr-Universit"at Bochum)
Stephen Wechsler (University of Texas at Austin)


Call for Papers

Abstracts are solicited for presentations which address
linguistic, foundational, or computational issues
relating to the framework of Head-Driven Phrase Structure
Grammar.  Each presentation will be allotted 40 minutes,
but the talk itself must be at most 30 minutes long,
leaving at least 10 minutes for discussion.

The last day of the conference will be devoted to a
workshop on "Grammar at the Interfaces", whose purpose
is to explore not just various problems regarding
grammar-internal interfaces (such as the syntax-semantics
interface and the morphology-syntax interface) but also
issues surrounding the interface between competence grammar
and extragrammatical factors.  Papers that do not utilize
the theoretical framework of HPSG will be as welcome as
papers that do.


Submissions

We will use an online submission system. All abstracts should be
submitted via http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hpsg2008
Abstracts should be in PDF format and should not be more than
5 (five) pages long.

Please direct any questions to the Program Committee Chair:
hpsg2008 at easychair.org

Abstracts for the main conference should mention 'HPSG-08' and
abstracts for the workshop should mention 'Workshop-08' in the
title.  All abstracts will be reviewed anonymously by at least
two reviewers.  Abstracts should not include the authors' names and
authors are asked to avoid self-references.  The Program Committee
reserves the right to reassign accepted papers from the main
conference to the workshop, and vice versa.


Important Dates

Abstract submission deadline:   March 1, 2008
Notification of acceptance:     April 15, 2008
Conference:     July 28-30, 2008


Publication

The conference proceedings will be published online by CSLI
publications. A call for contributions to the publications will be
issued after the conference. Proceedings of previous conferences are
available at http://csli-publications.stanford.edu/HPSG/. The final
deadline for receipt of written versions of conference papers is
October 25, 2008.


Program Committee

Anne Abeill'e, Olivier Bonami, Bob Borsley, Gosse Bouma,
Rui Chaves, Berthold Crysmann, Markus Egg, Elisabet Engdahl,
Daniel Flickinger, Jonathan Ginzburg, Dani`ele Godard,
Chikara Hashimoto, Erhard Hinrichs, Anke Holler,
Chiharu Uda Kikuta, Jong-Bok Kim, Tibor Kiss, Anna Kupsc,
Shalom Lappin, Robert Levine, Rob Malouf, Nurit Melnik,
Detmar Meurers, Stefan M"uller, Tsuneko Nakazawa,
Gerald Penn, Adam Przepi'orkowski, Frank Richter,
Louisa Sadler, Ivan Sag, Manfred Sailer, Jesse Tseng,
Stephen Wechsler, Shuichi Yatabe (chair), and Kei Yoshimoto.


Conference Web Site

http://www2.nict.go.jp/x/x161/en/member/bond/hpsg-2008/

Submission Web Site

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hpsg2008

Supported by the National Institute of
Information and Communications Technology

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Shuichi Yatabe
University of Tokyo