23.1177, Calls: Computational Ling, Ling Theories, Syntax, Semantics/France

Thu Mar 8 16:13:22 UTC 2012

LINGUIST List: Vol-23-1177. Thu Mar 08 2012. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 23.1177, Calls: Computational Ling, Ling Theories, Syntax, Semantics/France

Moderators: Anthony Aristar, Eastern Michigan U <aristar at linguistlist.org>
            Helen Aristar-Dry, Eastern Michigan U <hdry at linguistlist.org>

Reviews: Veronika Drake, U of Wisconsin-Madison
Monica Macaulay, U of Wisconsin-Madison
Rajiv Rao, U of Wisconsin-Madison
Joseph Salmons, U of Wisconsin-Madison
Anja Wanner, U of Wisconsin-Madison
       <reviews at linguistlist.org>

Homepage: http://linguistlist.org

The LINGUIST List is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing the
discipline of linguistics with the infrastructure necessary to function in
the digital world. Donate to keep our services freely available!
https://linguistlist.org/donation/donate/donate1.cfm

Editor for this issue: Alison Zaharee <alison at linguistlist.org>
================================================================  

LINGUIST is pleased to announce an exciting service:  
Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility 
designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process 
abstracts online.  Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and 
begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, 
submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3!

Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2012 11:12:20
From: Chung-hye Han [chunghye at sfu.ca]
Subject: International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammars

E-mail this message to a friend:
http://linguistlist.org/issues/emailmessage/verification.cfm?iss=23-1177.html&submissionid=4542111&topicid=3&msgnumber=1

Full Title: International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammars 
Short Title: TAG+11 

Date: 26-Sep-2012 - 28-Sep-2012
Location: Paris, France 
Contact Person: Chung-hye Han
Meeting Email: tagplus11 at gmail.com
Web Site: http://alpage.inria.fr/tagplus11/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Linguistic Theories; Semantics; Syntax 

Call Deadline: 15-Jun-2012 

Meeting Description:

11th International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammars and Related Formalisms (TAG+11)
September 26-28, 2012
University Paris-Diderot
Paris, France
http://alpage.inria.fr/tagplus11/doku.php

The Workshop on Tree-Adjoining Grammars and related formalisms (TAG+) is a biennial workshop series that fosters exchange of ideas among linguists, psycholinguists and computer scientists interested in modeling natural language using formal grammars. The workshop series, since 1990, has demonstrated productive interactions among researchers and practitioners interested in various aspects of the Tree-Adjoining Grammar formalism and its relationship to other grammar formalisms, such as combinatory categorial grammar, dependency grammars, Minimalist grammars, HPSG, and LFG; hence the '+' in the name of the workshop.  

Tree-Adjoining Grammars (TAG) and related lexicalized grammar formalisms provide mathematical tools to model natural language and the scaffolding to encode linguistic generalizations in a principled manner. In the past, this workshop has helped identify similarities and differences between the above formalisms, leading to the shared development of broad-coverage grammars, transfer of parsing and machine learning algorithms from one formalism to another and to new insights into the properties of different formalisms and their capacity for linguistic explanation. It is our expectation that this edition of the workshop will continue enabling cross-fertilization of ideas that combine the representational flexibility of TAG-like grammar formalisms with the robustness afforded by machine learning techniques to produce a deeper insight into modeling of natural language.

The first day of the meeting will be devoted to a series of tutorial presentations, designed to introduce attendees to a range of TAG-related topics.

Invited Speakers:

Kevin Knight, University of Southern California (USA)
Bonnie Webber, University of Edinburgh (Scotland)

Tutorial Speakers:

David Chiang - USC Information Sciences Institute (USA)
Laura Kallmeyer - University of Düsseldorf (Germany)
Andreas Maletti - University of Stuttgart (Germany)

TAG+ 11 is endorsed by EACL (the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics). 

Call for Papers:

Topics of Interest:

We invite submissions on all aspects of TAG and related grammatical formalisms including the following topics:

Syntactic and semantic theory
Mathematical properties
Computational and algorithmic studies of parsing, interpretation and language generation
Machine learning models using TAG-like representations
Corpus-based research and grammar development using TAG
Psycholinguistic modeling
Applications to natural language processing or biological sequence modeling

Special Session:

We plan to organize a special session on formalisms based on synchronous tree rewriting. We especially encourage submissions on topics related to synchronous tree rewriting, including theoretical aspects, applications to machine translation and syntax-semantics interface.  

Submission Details:

Anonymous abstracts may be submitted for two types of presentations at the workshop: oral presentations and poster presentations. Poster presentations are particularly appropriate for brief descriptions of specialized implementations, resources under development and work in progress.

Regardless of the type of submission, abstracts may not exceed two pages in length (not including data, figures and references). Both one-column or two-column abstracts are permissible. However do not use a font that is smaller than 11pt. If you are using LaTeX for document preparation, then any recent ACL style file can be used. The final camera ready version of the full paper for the proceedings must be in two-column format conforming to the most recent ACL style file.

The abstract must be submitted electronically in PDF format, using the EasyChair electronic submission website at:

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tag11  

The submission instructions can be found at:

http://alpage.inria.fr/tagplus11/doku.php?id=submissions

Proceedings including full papers for accepted abstracts (both oral and poster presentations) will be available on-line before the workshop dates.  

Important Dates:

Deadline for submission of abstracts: June 15, 2012
Notification to authors of decision: July 30, 2012
Deadline for camera-ready submission: August 30, 2012
Workshop dates: September 26 to 28, 2012

Contact Information:

The workshop website is at http://alpage.inria.fr/tagplus11/doku.php.
Email contact: tagplus11 at gmail.com 

Organization:

Program Chairs:

Chung-hye Han, Simon Fraser University (Canada)
Giorgio Satta, University of Padova (Italy)

Program Committee:

Srinivas Bangalore, AT&T Research (USA)
Rajesh Bhatt, UMass (USA)
David Chiang, USC Information Sciences Institute (USA)
Benoit Crabbé University Paris-Diderot (France)
Robert Frank, Yale University (USA)
Claire Gardent, Loria (France)
Daniel Gildea, University of Rochester (USA)
Julia Hockenmaier, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA)
Liang Huang, USC Information Sciences Institute (USA)
Aravind Joshi, University of Pennsylvania (USA)
Laura Kallmeyer, University of Duesseldorf (Germany)
Makoto Kanazawa, National Institute of Informatics (Japan)
Alexander Koller, University of Potsdam (Germany)
Marco Kuhlmann, Uppsala University (Sweden)
Andreas Maletti, University of Stuttgart (Germany)
Yusuke Miyao, University of Tokyo (Japan)
Mark-Jan Nederhof, University of St Andrews (Scotland)
Steve DeNeefe, USC Information Sciences Institute (USA)
Owen Rambow, Columbia University (USA)
Maribel Romero, University of Konstanz (Germany)
Tatjana Scheffler, DFKI (Germany)
Anoop Sarkar, Simon Fraser University (Canada)
William Schuler, The Ohio State University (USA)
Stuart Shieber, Harvard University (USA)
Mark Steedman, University of Edinburgh (UK)
Matthew Stone, Rutgers University (USA)
Sylvain Salvati, INRIA Bordeaux Sud-Ouest (France)
Bonnie Webber, University of Edinburgh (UK)
Fei Xia, University of Washington (USA)

Local Arrangements Chairs:

Éric de la Clergerie - INRIA Paris Rocquencourt
Djamé Seddah - University Paris Sorbonne Paris 4
Laurence Danlos, University Paris-Diderot
Chantal Girodon, INRIA Paris Rocquencourt

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This Year the LINGUIST List hopes to raise $67,000. This money will go to help 
keep the List running by supporting all of our Student Editors for the coming
year.

See below for donation instructions, and don't forget to check out Fund 
Drive 2012 site!

http://linguistlist.org/fund-drive/2012/

There are many ways to donate to LINGUIST!

You can donate right now using our secure credit card form at  
https://linguistlist.org/donation/donate/donate1.cfm

Alternatively you can also pledge right now and pay later. To do so, go to: 
https://linguistlist.org/donation/pledge/pledge1.cfm

For all information on donating and pledging, including information on how to 
donate by check, money order, or wire transfer, please visit: 
http://linguistlist.org/donation/

The LINGUIST List is under the umbrella of Eastern Michigan University and as 
such can receive donations through the EMU Foundation, which is a registered 
501(c) Non Profit organization. Our Federal Tax number is 38-6005986. These 
donations can be offset against your federal and sometimes your state tax
return (U.S. tax payers only). For more information visit the IRS Web-Site,
or contact your financial advisor.

Many companies also offer a gift matching program, such that they will match 
any gift you make to a non-profit organization. Normally this entails your 
contacting your human resources department and sending us a form that the 
EMU Foundation fills in and returns to your employer. This is generally a
simple administrative procedure that doubles the value of your gift to
LINGUIST, without costing you an extra penny. Please take a moment to check if
your company operates such a program.

Thank you very much for your support of LINGUIST!

----------------------------------------------------------
LINGUIST List: Vol-23-1177	
----------------------------------------------------------