FGVienna:
The 8th conference on Formal Grammar
Collocated with the
Vienna, Austria, 16-17 August 2003
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.
Previous conferences in this series have welcomed papers from
a wide variety of frameworks.
Invited Speakers
We are pleased to announce two invited talks by distinguished
researchers.
- 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
The tentative program is available here.
Registration and Accommodation
Local arrangements are handled by the
ESSLLI local organizers.
Both registration
and accommodation
are handled on-line. The early registration fee is EUR 50 and the
deadline for early registration is June 15, 2003. On-site
registration will be possible at EUR 60. FG participants can, but
are not required to, register for ESSLLI as well.
Venue
Room FH HS 3
Technical University of Vienna
Wiedner Hauptstrasse 8-10
A - 1040 Vienna
This is building D on this map.
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
FGVienna,
http://cs.haifa.ac.il/~shuly/fg03/
Maintained by
shuly@cs.haifa.ac.il
.
Last modified: Wed Aug 6 16:55:50 IDT 2003