Call for Papers -- FGNancy: The 9th conference on Formal Grammar

Collocated with the
European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information
Nancy, France, 7-8 August 2004
http://cs.haifa.ac.il/~shuly/fg04/

Background

FGNancy is the 9th conference on Formal Grammar held in conjunction with the European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information, which takes place in 2004 in Nancy. Previous meetings were held in Barcelona (1995), Prague (1996), Aix-en-Provence (1997), Saarbruecken (1998), Utrecht (1999), Helsinki (2001), Trento (2002) andVienna (2003).

Aims and Scope

FGNancy 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
Two invited talks will be delivered by distinguished researchers. Speakers and titles will be published in due course.

Submission Details

We invite e-mail submissions of original, unpublished 30-minute papers (including questions, comments, and discussion). A submission should consist of two parts:
     1.      an information sheet (in plain text), containing:
    ?     title,
    ?     the name of the author(s),
    ?     affiliation(s),
    ?     one e-mail address for the corresponding author,
    ?     if the same paper is under review for some other conference, the name of that conference.
     2.      an anonymous abstract, consisting of a description of not more than 8 pages, including figures and references. Abstracts should be sent as email attachments in plain text (ASCII), PostScript or PDF. Preparation of the manuscript in LaTeX is highly recommended.
Submissions should be sent to shuly@cs.haifa.ac.il (Shuly Wintner).

Proceedings

Accepted abstracts will be included in the conference proceedings, to be distributed at the conference. Full, revised versions will also be made available after the conference as CSLI Publications Online Proceedings.

Social Program
A conference dinner is planned for Saturday, August 7th. More details will be published in due course.

Registration and accommodation
Registration will be handled by the ESSLLI local organizers. Registration fee is expected to be approximately Euro 10-20 for ESSLLI participants, Euro 50-60 for others. Fees include one copy of the Proceedings. Accommodation will be handled by the ESSLLI organizers only for participants of ESSLLI. Other participants of FGNancy are expected to arrange their own accommodation.

Important Dates
    ?     March 10, 2003: Deadline for submissions
    ?     May 1, 2003: Notification of acceptance
    ?     August 7-8, 2003: Conference dates

Program Committee
    ?     Chris Brew (Ohio State University) cbrew@acm.org
    ?     Miriam Butt (Universität Konstanz) miriam.butt@uni-konstanz.de
    ?     David Chiang (University of Pennsylvania) dchiang@cis.upenn.edu
    ?     Tim Fernando (Trinity College, Dublin) Tim.Fernando@cs.tcd.ie
    ?     Philippe de Groote (LORIA, Nancy) Philippe.de.Groote@loria.fr
    ?     Mark Hepple (University of Sheffield) M.Hepple@dcs.shef.ac.uk
    ?     Makoto Kanazawa (University of Tokyo) kanazawa@iii.u-tokyo.ac.jp
    ?     Jonas Kuhn (University of Texas at Austin) jonask@mail.utexas.edu
    ?     Shalom Lappin (King's College, London) lappin@dcs.kcl.ac.uk
    ?     Jens Michaelis (Universität Potsdam) michael@ling.uni-potsdam.de
    ?     Guido Minnen (DaimlerChrysler AG) guido.minnen@daimlerchrysler.com
    ?     Uwe Moennich (Universität Tübingen) uwe.moennich@uni-tuebingen.de
    ?     Stefan Mueller (Universität Bremen) Stefan.Mueller@cl.uni-bremen.de
    ?     Mark-Jan Nederhof (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen) markjan@let.rug.nl
    ?     James Rogers (Earlham College) jrogers@cs.earlham.edu
    ?     Anoop Sarkar (Simon Fraser University) anoop@cs.sfu.ca
    ?     Giorgio Satta (University of Padua) satta@dei.unipd.it

Formal Grammar organizing committee
    ?     Gerhard Jaeger, University of Potsdam / Stanford University
    ?     Paola Monachesi, OTS Utrecht
    ?     Gerald Penn, University of Toronto
    ?     Shuly Wintner, University of Haifa