LOGICAL ASPECTS OF COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS (LACL98)

FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT and CALL FOR PAPERS


CONFERENCE TIME and PLACE:

14-16 December 1998

LORIA,
INRIA-Rhone-Alpes,
Universite Pierre Mendes-France,
Grenoble 2
France


THEME

The LACL conferences provide a platform for the presentation of new and
original research on the use of logical techniques, both model-theoretic
and proof-theoretic, in the field of computational linguistics. The
first two editions of the conference were held in Nancy (France), in
September 1996 and 1997. Proceedings of these events are published in
the Springer Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series. See
http://www.loria.fr/~retore/LesLACL.html for more information.
From LACL98 on, the conference will operate on a bi-annual schedule,
so as to optimize the alternation with related events.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

We hereby invite computational linguists, logicians, computer scientists
and/or philosophers to submit papers describing original and unpublished
research related to the conference theme. Topics of interest include,
but are not limited to:

-logical foundations of computational grammar formalisms;
-model-theoretic and proof-theoretic methods in linguistics; 
-constraint-based and resource-sensitive approaches to grammatical analysis;
-linguistic applications of linear logic, type theory;
-computational complexity of type logics and feature logics;
-natural-language interfaces for automated theorem provers


SUBMISSIONS

The LACL98 conference has an electronic refereeing procedure.
Submissions consist of two parts:

-A page containing the title of the paper, the name and
affiliation of the author(s), e-mail and postal address(es).
Format: plain ASCII.
-An abstract of maximally 4 pages (including figures and references),
containing the title of the contribution, but not the name of the
author(s). Format: plain ASCII, or (preferably) postscript, DVI, PDF
(in a unix compatible mode, if encoded).

Submissions have to be sent to the following e-mail address, 
before July 31, 1998:

lacl98@let.ruu.nl

The notifications of acceptance will be sent out the first
week of September. The collection of the selected abstracts will be
available at the conference. After the conference, authors are invited
to submit a full paper (up to 20 pages) for publication. The final papers
will appear in a special volume of the Springer-Verlag series of Lecture
Notes in Computer Science (LNCS/LNAI).

IMPORTANT DATES

July 31, 1998: 4-page abstract due
1st week of September 1998:  notification of acceptance
1st week of November 1998: final 4-page abstract due
December 14-16, 1998: conference dates


PROGRAM COMMITEE

Chair: Michael Moortgat (OTS, Utrecht) 

Johan Van Benthem (ILLC, Amsterdam)
Gosse Bouma (Groningen)
Vijay Shanker (Delaware)    
Erhard Hinrichs (Tuebingen)     
Mary Dalrymple (Xerox Parc)  
Ruy de Queiroz (UFPE, Sao Paolo)      
Francois Lamarche (INRIA Nancy)       
Christian Retore (INRIA Rennes)       
Uwe Reyle (IMS Stuttgart)


ORGANISING COMMITEE

Chair: Alain Lecomte (Grenoble)

Francois Lamarche (CRIN-C.N.R.S. & INRIA-Lorraine, Nancy)
Christine Krebs (INRIA-Rhone-Alpes)

ADDRESSES

For information related to the conference organisation, contact:

Prof Alain Lecomte
Departement IMSS
Universite  Pierre  Mendes-France    
BP 47 X 38040 GRENOBLE Cedex 9
France

Tel: +33 4 76 82 78 52
Fax: +33 4 76 82 56 65
Alain.Lecomte@upmf-grenoble.fr
http://www-bshm.upmf-grenoble.fr/~alecomte

For information related to the conference program and submission
procedure, contact:

Michael Moortgat
Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS
Trans 10
3512 JK Utrecht
The Netherlands

Tel: +31 30 2536043
Fax: +31 30 2536406
Michael.Moortgat@let.ruu.nl
http://www-uilots.let.ruu.nl/user/uilots/moortgat/home.html

CONFERENCE URL

The LACL98 homepage will be regularly updated with conference
information: 

http://www-bshm.upmf-grenoble.fr/LACL98