Formal Grammar 2007

Aims and Scope

FG is a series of conferences on Formal Grammar, held in conjunction with the European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information, which takes place yearly in Europe. FG provides a forum for the presentation of new and original research on formal grammar, with particular regard to the application of formal methods to natural language analysis.
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;
• constraint-based and resource-sensitive approaches to grammar;
• learnability of formal grammar;
• the integration of stochastic and symbolic models of grammar;
• foundational, methodological and architectural issues in grammar.

Editor's note

FG-2007 took place with ESSLLI 2007 in Dublin, Ireland on August 4-5, 2007. This year's conference included 12 contributed papers covering, as usual, a wide range of topics in formal grammar. In addition to the papers included in this volume, the conference also featured two invited talks by

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

Gerald Penn, editor

Proceedings

The final Proceedings will made available as one PDF file, and as individual chapters:

• Rens Bod. From Exemplar to Grammar (PDF)
• Yoad Winter. Multiple Coordination: Meaning Composition vs. the Syntax-Semantics Interface (PDF)
• Felix Bildhauer. Prosodic Phrasing in HPSG (PDF)
• Alexander Dikovsky. Multimodal Categorial Dependency Grammars (PDF)
• Makoto Kanazawa and Sylvain Salvati. Generating Control Languages with Abstract Categorial Grammars (PDF)
• Miltiadis Kokkonidis. Scoping and Recursive Modification in TL-LFG (PDF)
• Alexander Koller and Owen Rambow. Relating Dominance Formalisms (PDF)
• Alexander Koller and Stefan Thater. Solving Unrestricted Dominance Graphs (PDF)
• Marco Kuhlmann and Mathias Möhl. The String-Generative Capacity of Regular Dependency Languages (PDF)
• Timm Lichte. An MCTAG with Tuples for Coherent Constructions in German (PDF)
• Bruno Mery, Christian Retoré and Christian Bassac. A Montagovian Generative Lexicon (PDF)
• Michael Moortgat and Mati Pentus. Type Similarity for the Lambek-Grishin Calculus (PDF)
• Richard Moot. Filtering Axiom Links for Proof Nets (PDF)
• Erwan Moreau. Identification of Natural Languages in the Limit: Exploring Frontiers of Finite Elasticity for General Combinatory Grammars (PDF)

Program Committee

• Anne Abeille (Paris 7, FR)
• Tilman Becker (DFKI, DE)
• Pierre Boullier (INRIA, FR)
• Chris Brew (Ohio State, US)
• Wojciech Buszkowski (Poznan, PL)
• Miriam Butt (Konstanz, DE)
• Alexander Clark (Royal Holloway University, UK)
• Berthold Crysmann (DFKI, DE)
• Philippe de Groote (LORIA, FR)
• Denys Duchier (LORIA, FR)
• Tim Fernando (Trinity College, IE)
• Annie Foret (IRISA-IFSIC, FR)
• Nissim Francez (Technion, IL)
• Mark Hepple (Sheffield, UK)
• Gerhard Jaeger (Bielefeld, DE)
• Aravind Joshi (UPenn, US)
• Makoto Kanazawa (National Institute of Informatics, JP)
• Stephan Kepser (Tübingen, DE)
• Jonas Kuhn (Potsdam, DE)
• Jens Michaelis (Osnabrück, DE)
• Lawrence S. Moss (Indiana, US)
• Stefan Müller (Bremen, DE)
• Mark-Jan Nederhof (St. Andrews, UK)
• Richard Oehrle (Cataphora, US)
• Owen Rambow (Columbia, US)
• James Rogers (Earlham College, US)
• Ed Stabler (UCLA, US)
• Hans Joerg Tiede (Illinois Wesleyan, US)
• Jesse Tseng (LORIA, FR)
• Willemijn Vermaat (Utrecht, NL)
• Shuly Wintner (Haifa, IL)
• Anssi Yli-Jyrae (Helsinki, FI)

External Reviewers

• Cyril Allauzen (NYU, US)
• Alexander Dikovsky (Nantes, FR)
• Martin Jansche (Google, US)
• Cristina Tirnauca (Rovira i Virgili University, ES)

Organizing committee

• Laura Kallmeyer, Universität Tübingen
• Paola Monachesi, OTS Utrecht
• Gerald Penn, University of Toronto
• Giorgio Satta, University of Padova