Background

FGVienna is the 8th conference on Formal Grammar held in conjunction with the European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information, which takes place in 2003 in Vienna. Previous meetings were held in Barcelona (1995), Prague (1996), Aix-en-Provence (1997), Saarbruecken (1998), Utrecht (1999), Helsinki (2001) and Trento (2002).

Aims and Scope

FGVienna 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;
• integration of stochastic and symbolic models of grammar;
• foundational, methodological and architectural issues in grammar.

Invited Speakers

• Walter Daelemans, University of Antwerp and Tilburg University
  Exemplar-based language models
• Geoffrey K. Pullum, University of California, Santa Cruz
  Issues in formalizing an informal descriptive grammar: supplementary constituents in English

Accepted papers

The proceedings are available as PostScript or compressed PostScript.

Beata Trawinski

A New Application For Raising in HPSG: ``Complex Prepositions"

Lionel Clement, Alexandra Kinyon

Automating the generation of a wide-coverage LFG for French using a MetaGrammar

David Chiang

Mildly context sensitive grammars for estimating maximum entropy parsing models

Alexandre Dikovsky

Linguistic Meaning from the Language Acquisition Perspective

Chris Fox and Shalom Lappin

Doing natural language semantics in an expressive first-order logic with flexible typing

Stephan Kepser, Uwe Mönnich

Graph Properties of HPSG Feature Structures

Daniela Dudau-Sofronie, Isabelle Tellier, Marc Tommasi

A Learnable Class of Classical Categorial Grammars from Typed Examples

Antoine Rozenknop, Jean-Cédric Chappelier, Martin Rajman

Gibbsian Tree Substitution Grammars (GTSGs): A discriminant probabilistic model for TSGs

Jan-Philipp Soehn, Manfred Sailer

At First Blush on Tenterhooks. About Selectional Restrictions Imposed by Nonheads

Carl Pollard, Jiri Hana

Ambiguity, Neutrality, and Coordination in Higher-Order Grammar

Denis Bechet

k-Valued Link Grammars are Learnable from Strings

Hans-Martin Gärtner, Jens Michaelis

A Note on Countercyclicity and Minimalist Grammars

Berthold Crysmann

An Asymmetric Theory of Peripheral Sharing in HPSG: Conjunction Reduction and Coordination of Unlikes

Anssi Yli-Jyra

Regular Approximations through Labeled Bracketing

Jesse Tseng

Phrasal affixes and French morphosyntax

Program

Registration and Accommodation

Venue

Instructions for authors

For this year's FG conference, we plan to prepare both preproceedings (to be distributed at the conference) and postproceedings that will be compiled after FG. We kindly ask you to submit your contribution to the preproceedings to jaeger@ling.uni-potsdam.de until May 28th. The volume will appear as an ESSLLI reader, and the local organizers need everything camera ready until end of the month, therefore we had to insist on such an early deadline.

The paper should be written in 11 point times font and formatted for a4-paper, single column. It should not exceed 12 pages in length. We strongly encourage you to prepare your paper in LaTeX. Style files (fgvienna.cls and fgvienna.bst) and a template for your contribution (sample.tex, which also contains additional details) are available. If you prefer to use another type setting system, please get in touch with Gerhard Jaeger soon.

Revised versions of the papers will also be made available after the conference as CSLI Publications Online Proceedings.

Important Dates

• March 15, 2003: Deadline for submissions
• May 1, 2003: Notification of acceptance
• May 28, 2003: Final version due
• August 16-17, 2003: Conference dates

Program Committee

• Gosse Bouma (Groningen)
• Chris Brew (Ohio State)
• Miriam Butt (Manchester)
• Philippe de Groote (Nancy)
• Maarten de Rijke (Amsterdam)
• Mark Hepple (Sheffield)
• Ruth Kempson (London)
• Andras Kornai (Northern Light)
• Geert-Jan Kruijff (Saarbruecken)
• Guido Minnen (Motorola)
• Uwe Moennich (Tuebingen)
• Michael Moortgat (Utrecht)
• Mark-Jan Nederhof (Groningen)
• James Rogers (Earlham)
• Anoop Sarkar (Simon Fraser)

Formal Grammar organizing committee

• Gerhard Jaeger, ZAS Berlin/University of Potsdam
• Paola Monachesi, OTS Utrecht
• Gerald Penn, University of Toronto
• Shuly Wintner, University of Haifa