MATHEMATICS OF LANGUAGE
June 20-22, 2003
Bloomington, Indiana, USA

FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

MoL8 is the eighth Mathematics of Language Conference and will be held
June 20-22, 2003, in conjunction with the North American Summer School
in Logic, Language and Information, in Bloomington, Indiana.



AIMS and SCOPE
MoL8 hopes to provide a platform for presentation of new and original
research on all mathematical linguistics and the mathematical study
of natural languages.
Themes of interest include, but are not limited to,
* formal language theory;
* formal and computational syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and phonology;
* model-theoretic and proof-theoretic methods in linguistics;
* constraint-based and resource-sensitive approaches to grammar;
* foundational, methodological and architectural issues in grammar;
* logical aspects of linguistic structure;
* mathematical foundations of statistical approaches to linguistic analysis.

SPECIAL SESSIONS and INVITED SPEAKERS [to be announced]
SUBMISSION DETAILS
We invite E-MAIL submissions of abstracts for 30-minute papers (including
questions, comments, and discussion).
A submission should consist of two parts:
- an information sheet (in ascii), containing the name of the author(s),
affiliation(s), e-mail and postal address(es) and a title;
- an abstract, consisting of a description of not more than 5 pages
(including figures and references). Abstracts may be either in plain
ASCII or in (unix-compatible encoded) postscript, PDF, or DVI.

Abstracts can be sent to
oehrle@linc.cis.upenn.edu
ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE
February 15, 2003

NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE
March 30, 2003

PROCEEDINGS
A full version of the accepted paper will be included in the conference
proceedings, to be distributed at the conference. Full papers are due
May 1, 2003.
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Anne Abeill'e (Paris 7) Tilman Becker (DFKI)
Patrick Blackburn (LORIA) Pierre Boullier (INRIA)
Gosse Bouma (Groningen) Wojciech Buszkowski (Adam Mickiewicz University)
Christophe Fouquere (Paris 13) Nissim Francez (Haifa)
Thilo Goetz (IBM) Gerhard Jaeger (Potsdam)
David Johnson (IBM) Mark Johnson (Brown)
Aravind Joshi (UPenn) Ruth Kempson (London)
Andras Kornai (Metacarta) Marcus Kracht (UCLA)
Uli Krieger (DFKI) Geert-Jan Kruijff (Saarbr"ucken)
Natasha Kurtonina (Fitchburg) Alain Lecomte (Grenoble)
Carlos Martin-Vide (Tarragona) Jens Michaelis (Potsdam)
Mehryar Mohri (AT&T) Uwe M"onnich (T"ubingen)
Michael Moortgat (Utrecht) Drew Moshier (Chapman)
Larry Moss (Indiana) Mark-Jan Nederhof (Groningen)
Gertjan van Noord (Groningen) Richard Oehrle (Berkeley, CA)
Gerald Penn (Toronto) Stanley Peters (Stanford)
Geoffrey Pullum (Santa Cruz) Owen Rambow (Columbia)
Christian Retore (INRIA & LaBRI)James Rogers (Earlham)
Robert van Rooy (A'dam) Giorgio Satta (Padua)
Vijay K. Shanker (Delaware) Ed Stabler (UCLA)
Mark Steedman (Edinburgh) Hans Joerg Tiede (Illinois Wesleyan)
Christian Wartena (Potsdam)



FURTHER INFORMATION
Web site for MoL8 : http://grail.let.uu.nl/mol8/
Web site for NASSLLI: http://www.indiana.edu/~nasslli/
The organizers:
Richard T. Oehrle oehrle@linc.cis.upenn.edu
James Rogers jrogers@cs.earlham.edu

printable version: http://grail.let.uu.nl/mol8/mol8cfp.pdf