FGVienna:
The 8th conference on Formal Grammar

Collocated with the

European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information

Vienna, Austria, 16-17 August 2003

Program

The proceedings are available as PostScript or compressed PostScript.

Saturday, August 16th
09:30 - 10:00 Welcome + registration 
Invited talk
10:00 - 11:00 Geoffrey K. Pullum Issues in formalizing an informal descriptive grammar: supplementary constituents in English
11:00 - 11:20 Break 
Session I
11:20 - 12:00 Lionel Clement, Alexandra Kinyon Automating the generation of a wide-coverage LFG for French using a MetaGrammar
12:00 - 12:40 David Chiang Mildly context sensitive grammars for estimating maximum entropy parsing models
12:40 - 14:00 Lunch 
Session II: HPSG
14:00 - 14:40 Stephan Kepser and Uwe Mönnich Graph Properties of HPSG Feature Structures
14:40 - 15:20 Beata Trawinski A New Application For Raising in HPSG: "Complex Prepositions"
15:20 - 16:00 Jesse Tseng Phrasal affixes and French morphosyntax
16:00 - 16:30 Break 
Session III: Coordination
16:30 - 17:10 Berthold Crysmann An Asymmetric Theory of Peripheral Sharing in HPSG: Conjunction Reduction and Coordination of Unlikes
17:10 - 17:50 Carl Pollard, Jiri Hana Ambiguity, Neutrality, and Coordination in Higher-Order Grammar
Conference dinner
20:00 Restaurant Ubl, Pressgasse 26
Sunday, August 17th
Session IV
09:30 - 10:10 Hans-Martin Gärtner and Jens Michaelis A Note on Countercyclicity and Minimalist Grammars
10:10 - 10:50 Anssi Yli-Jyra Regular approximations through bracketed labeling
10:50 - 11:20 Break 
Session V: Learning
11:20 - 12:00 Denis Bechet k-Valued Link Grammars are Learnable from Strings
12:00 - 12:40 Daniela Dudau-Sofronie, Isabelle Tellier, Marc Tommasi A Learnable Class of Classical Categorial Grammars from Typed Examples
12:40 - 14:00 Lunch 
Session VI: Semantics
14:00 - 14:40 Alexandre Dikovsky Linguistic Meaning from the Language Acquisition Perspective
14:40 - 15:20 Chris Fox and Shalom Lappin Doing natural language semantics in an expressive first-order logic with flexible typing
15:20 - 16:00 Jan-Philipp Soehn and Manfred Sailer At First Blush on Tenterhooks. About Selectional Restrictions Imposed by Nonheads
16:00 - 16:30 Break 
Invited talk
16:30 - 17:30 Walter Daelemans Exemplar-based language models


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