Conf: MOL6

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           Sixth Meeting on Mathematics of Language (MOL6)
                        July 23-25, 1999
                  University of Central Florida
                         Orlando, Florida


For more information, including information on how to register
and all aspects of local arrangements, please visit the MOL6 local
arrangements website at: http://www.cs.ucf.edu/~jrogers/MOL6/mol6local.html.


THURSDAY 7/22

 6:00 pm   Opening Reception, Harley Hotel


FRIDAY 7/23

 9:00- 9:30 Generative Capacity of Multi-modal Categorial Grammars
		Gerhard Jager, Zentrum fur Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft

 9:30-10:00 Some remarks on the geometry of grammar
		Marc Dymetman, Xerox Research Center

10:00-10:30 Partial Proof-Nets and minimalist representations
	         Alain Lecomte, LORIA, Nancy, France

10:30-11:00 AM Break


11:00-11:30 A cubic Time Extension of Context-Free Grammars
		 Pierre Boullier, INRIA, France

11:30-12:00 Context Free Recognition with Weighted Automata
		 Corinna Cortes and Mehryar Mohri, AT&T Labs

12:00-12:30 Modularized Context-Free Grammars
	         Shuly Wintner, Institute for Research in
                 Cognitive Science (IRCS), U. Penn

12:30- 2:00 LUNCH Break


 2:00- 2:30 Relaxing Underspecified Semantic Representations for
            Reinterpretation
		 Alexander Koller, Joachim Niehren, Kristina Striegnitz
		 Universitat des Saarlandes, Saarbrucken, Germany

 2:30- 3:00 On Conditional Information in Feature-Based Theories
		 Rainer Osswald, University of Hagen, Germany

 3:00- 3:30 A Quasi-Ring Construction for Compiling Attributed
	    Type Signatures
		 Gerald Penn, Universitat Tubingen

 3:30- 4:00 PM Break

 4:00- 4:30 Taming Complexity: Constraint-Based Dependency Parsing
		Denys Duchier, Univeristy of the Saarland

 4:30- 5:00 Tabulation of Automata for Mildly Context-Sensitive Languages
		 Miguel A. Pardo, David Cabrero Souto
                 (Universidad de La Coruna, Spain) Eric de la
                 Clergerie (INRIA, France)

 5:00- 5:30 Models of tabulation for TAG parsing
                 Mark-Jan Nederhof, Saarbrucken, Germany

 5:30- 7:30 Educational Session
	     Co-Chairs: Robin Clark, UPENN and Larry Moss, Indiana University
		
SATURDAY 7/24


 9:00- 9:30 Variables, interpretations and Quine-like combinators
		 Robin Clark, Dept. of Linguistics, U. Penn. and
                 Natasha Kurtonina, IRCS

 9:30-10:00 The Algebraic Semantics of Questions
		 Rani Nelken and Nissim Francez, Dept. of Computer Science,
                 The Technion, Israel Institute of Technology

10:00-10:30 A note on a certain class of quantifier denotations in
	    natural language
		 Robin Clark, Dept. of Linguistics, U. Penn. and
                 Tom Morton, Computer Science, U. Penn.

10:30-11:00 AM Break

11:00-11:30 Generalized Tree Adjoining Grammar
		 James Rogers, School of Computer Science, University
                 of Central Florida

11:30-12:00 C-Command and Extraction in Tree Adjoining Grammar
		 Robert Frank (Dept. of Cognitive Science, Johns
                 Hopkins) Seth Kulick (IRCS), K. Vijay-Shanker
                 (U. Delaware)

12:00-12:30 Exploring the Underspecified World of Lexicalized
	    Tree Adjoining Grammars
		 K. Vijay-Shanker (U. Del), David Weir (Univ. of
                 Sussex)

12:30- 2:00 LUNCH Break

 2:00- 2:30 Context-sensitive node admissibility revisited
		Dick Oehrle, Department of Linguistics and
                Cognitive Science program, University of Arizona

 2:30- 3:00 Synchronous Parallelism Between Different Grammar Formalisms
		Mark Dras, Dept. of Computing, Macquarie University, Australia

 3:00- 3:30 A Dynamic Event Semantics for the Analysis of Verbs and
	    Voice-Affixes in Tagalog
	        Ralf Naumann, Anja Latrouite, Seminar fur
                Algemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Germany

 3:30- 4:00 PM Break


 4:00- 4:30 Regular Description of Cross-Serial Dependencies
		Hans-Peter Kolb, Uwe Moennich, and Frank Morawietz
		
 4:30- 5:00 Propositional Tense Logic for Trees
		Adi Palm, Dept. of General Linguistics, Univ. of Passau

 5:00- 5:30 The Horn Subset of systemic networks
		Jo Calder, HCRC, University of Edinburgh

 7:00 pm    Banquet Dinner and Business Meeting, Harley Hotel

SUNDAY 7/25

 9:30-10:00 Contextual Automata
		 Carlos Martin-Vide, Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics
                 and Language Engineering, Spain

10:00-10:30 A Polynomial Parser for Contextual Grammars
		 Karin Harbusch, Univ. of Koblenz-Landau, Germany

10:30-11:00 Combing Contextual Grammars and Tree Adjoining Grammars
		 Martin Kappes, Fachbereich Informatik, Johann
                 Wolfgang Goethe-Universitat, Germany

11:00-11:30 AM Break

11:30-12:00 Zipf's law outside the middle range
		 Andras Kornai, PPD Informatics/Belmont Research

12:00-12:30 Language learning via Martingales
		 Charles Yang, AI Lab MIT and Sam Gutmann,
                 Dept. of Mathematics, Northeastern Univ.

12:30- 1:00 A Local Maxima method and a Fair Dispersion Normalization for
            extracting multi-word units from corpora
		 Jaoquim Ferreira de Silva and Gabriel Pereira
                 Lopes, Universidade Nova de Lisboa