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Conference on Formal Grammar

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Background

FG-2007 is the 12th conference on Formal Grammar, to be held in conjunction with the European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information, which takes place in 2007 in Dublin, Ireland.

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), Nancy (2004), Edinburgh (2005) and Malaga (2006).

Aims and Scope

FG 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,

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

Previous conferences in this series have welcomed papers from a wide variety of frameworks.

Invited Speakers

• Rens Bod, University of St Andrews - From Exemplar to Grammar
• Yoad Winter, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology - Multiple Coordination: Meaning Composition vs. the Syntax-Semantics Interface

Conference Program

The conference program is now online.

Accepted Papers

• Alexander Dikovsky. Multimodal categorial dependency grammars
• Erwan Moreau. Identification of Natural Languages in the Limit: Exploring Frontiers of Finite Elasticity for General Combinatory Grammars
• Marco Kuhlmann and Mathias Möhl. The string-generative capacity of regular dependency languages
• Michael Moortgat and Mati Pentus. Type similarity for the Lambek-Grishin calculus
• Makoto Kanazawa and Sylvain Salvati. Generating Control Languages with Abstract Categorial Grammars
• Bruno Mery, Christian Retoré and Christian Bassac. A Montagovian Generative Lexicon
• Timm Lichte. An MCTAG with Tuples for Coherent Constructions in German
• Richard Moot. Filtering axiom links for proof nets
• Felix Bildhauer. Prosodic Phrasing in HPSG
• Alexander Koller and Stefan Thater. Solving unrestricted dominance graphs
• Alexander Koller and Owen Rambow. Relating dominance formalisms
• Miltiadis Kokkonidis. Scoping and Recursive Modification in Type-Logical Lexical Functional Grammar

Submission Details

We invite electronic submissions of original, unpublished 30-minute papers (including questions, comments, and discussion). Papers should report original work which was not presented in other conferences. However, simultaneous submission is allowed, provided that the authors indicate other conference to which the work was submitted on the paper submission form. Of course, accepted papers can only be presented in one of the venues.

Papers, written in English, should be anonymous and refrain from self-reference. They should be no longer than 12 A4 pages, with wide margins so that the printed area is not larger than 11x18 cm., single column, point size 11 or 12. Preparation of the manuscript in LaTeX, using the available style files, is highly recommended. Revised versions will be required to be in LaTeX. The format of submissions is PDF.

The submission deadline is April 7th, 2007. Papers must be submitted electronically, at this website.

Proceedings

Submissions are blindly reviewed by at least three reviewers. Accepted papers are now available in pre-proceedings form on-line or as a compressed archive. No paper proceedings will be available at the conference, but a book of (short) abstracts will be printed and distributed to participants. Full, revised versions of accepted papers will be published after the conference as CSLI Publications Online Proceedings.

Important Dates

• April 7th, 2007: Deadline for paper submission
• May 29th, 2007: Notification of acceptance
• June 30th, 2007: Final version due
• August 4-5, 2007: Conference dates

Program Committee

• Anne Abeille (Paris 7, France)
• Tilman Becker (DFKI, Germany)
• Pierre Boullier (INRIA, France)
• Chris Brew (Ohio State University, USA)
• Wojciech Buszkowski (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland)
• Miriam Butt (Universitat Konstanz, Germany)
• Alexander Clark (Royal Halloway University of London, UK)
• Berthold Crysmann (DFKI, Germany)
• Denys Duchier (Universite d'Orleans, France)
• Tim Fernando (Trinity College, Ireland)
• Annie Foret (IRISA - IFSIC, France)
• Nissim Francez (Technion, Israel)
• Philippe de Groote (LORIA, France)
• Mark Hepple (University of Sheffield, UK)
• Gerhard Jaeger (University of Bielefeld, Germany)
• Aravind Joshi (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
• Makoto Kanazawa (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
• Stephan Kepser (University of Tuebingen, Germany)
• Jonas Kuhn (University of Potsdam, Germany)
• Jens Michaelis (Universitat Osnabrueck, Germany)
• Larry Moss (Indiana University, USA)
• Stefan Mueller (Universitat Bremen, Germany)
• Mark-Jan Nederhof (University of St. Andrews, UK)
• Richard Oehrle (Cataphora, USA)
• Owen Rambow (Columbia University, USA)
• James Rogers (Earlham College, USA)
• Ed Stabler (UCLA, USA)
• Hans-Jorg Tiede (Illinois Wesleyan University, USA)
• Jesse Tseng (LORIA, France)
• Willemijn Vermaat (Victoria University, New Zealand)
• Shuly Wintner (University of Haifa, Israel)

Organizing committee

• Laura Kallmeyer (University of Tuebingen, Germany)
• Paola Monachesi (OTS Utrecht, The Netherlands)
• Gerald Penn (University of Toronto, Canada)
• Giorgio Satta (University of Padua, Italy)