FGTrento:
The 7th conference on Formal Grammar

to be held jointly with the

First COLOGNET-ELSNET Symposium

Trento, Italy, 3-4 August 2002

The full proceedings are now available on-line.

Tentative Program

Saturday, 3 August 2002

09:30-10:00   Welcome and Opening; Coffee
Special Session: Formal Grammar and the Curriculum Chair: Paola Monachesi
10.00-10:45 Frank Richter, Ejaterina Ovchinnikova, Beata Trawinski, and W. Detmar Meurers, Interactive graphical software for teaching the formal grammar Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar
10.45-11:30 Michael Moortgat and W. K. Vermaat Teaching tools for logic-based grammar formalisms
11.30-12:00   Panel discussion
12:00-14:00   Lunch Break
Session 1
14:00-14:30 Mark-Jan Nederhof and Giorgio Satta IDL-Expressions: A Compact Representation for Finite Languages in Generation Systems
14:30-15:00 Jean-Cédric Chappelier, Martin Rajman and Antoine Rozenknop Polynomial Tree Substitution Grammars: Characterization and New Examples
15:00-15:30 Stephan Kepser, Uwe Mönnich and Frank Morawietz Model Checking Secondary Relations
15:30-16:00   Coffee Break
Session 2
16:00-16:30 Anna Lifshits-Zamansky, Nissim Francez and Yoad Winter Order-Based Inference using the Lambek Calculus
16:30-17:00 Alain Lecomte and Christian Retoré Bi-grammars: a logical system for syntax, semantics and their correspondence
17:00-17:30 Glyn Morrill Towards generalised discontinuity
17:30-18:00   Break
Business Meeting
18:00   Business meeting
Workshop dinner
20.00 Workshop participants, partners and guests Dinner (Trattoria Piedicastello, Via Piedicastello 11)

Sunday, 4 August 2002

CologNet Symposium Chair: Michael Moortgat
09:30-10:15 Khalil Simaan (ILLC, Universiteit van Amsterdam) Probabilistic Models of NLP: Issues of Empirical Validity and Technological Viability
10:15-11:00 Richard Moot (UiL OTS, Universiteit Utrecht) Statistical Parsing for Type-Logical Grammars
11:00-11:30   Coffee Break
11:30-12:15 Geert-Jan Kruijff (COLI, Universitaet des Saarlandes) Learning linearization rules from treebanks
12:15-13:00   Panel discussion
13:00-14:30   Lunch Break
Session 3
14:30-15:00 Howard Gregory Relevance logic and natural language semantics
15:00-15:30 Werner Frey and Hans-Martin Gaertner On the Treatment of Scrambling and Adjunction in Minimalist Grammars
15:30-16:00   Coffee Break
16:00-16:30 Stefan Müller Multiple Frontings in German
16:30-17:00 Frank Richter and Manfred Sailer Collocations and the Representation of Polarity
17:00-17:30   Concluding discussion
A night at the Opera
20.00 Workshop participants, partners and guests Nabucco in Verona


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