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TAG TUTORIALS -- ANNOUNCEMENT
July 28 to July 31, 1998
TAG+ WORKSHOP -- FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
August 1 to August 3, 1998
Philadelphia, PA, USA
URL: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~ircs/mol/tag98.html
The fourth workshop on tree-adjoining grammars and related frameworks
(hence the + after TAG) will be held at the Institute for Research in
Cognitive Science at the University of Pennsylvania in August 1998,
from August 1 to August 3. Previous workshops were held at Dagstuhl
(1990), UPenn (1992), and Univ. Paris 7 (1994).
Prior to the workshop there will be a tutorial (including labs and
demos) from July 28 to July 31 1998. Information about the tutorial
is below, followed by information about the workshop.
TUTORIAL
Attendance
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The tutorial is open to anyone interested, though we request a
pre-registration and we may limit attendance. We therefore suggest
you indicate interest in attending to Jennifer MacDougall at the
earliest date possible. (See contact information below.)
Travel Stipends
===============
A limited number of travel stipends will be available for graduate
students (i.e., people studying towards a master's or doctorate
degree). This stipend will be limited to a maximum of US$600. If you
are interested in obtaining such a stipend, please send a message to
Jennifer MacDougall at the address below. Please include a one-page
summary (in ASCII text format) of your educational background and of
your planned or present research, and indicate how the tutorial would
enhance your education and/or planned research. (Information about
accommodations will be provided at a later date.)
Contact Information
===================
Jennifer MacDougall
553 Moore Building
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6389
USA
Telephone: (215) 898-3191
FAX: (215) 898-0587
Email: jmacdoug@central.cis.upenn.edu
Proposed Schedule
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Tuesday July 28
Overview and Introduction
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Morning
Lectures
* General Introduction
* Formal Overview
* Linguistic Overview
* Lexicalized Grammars
Afternoon
Lab session
* Intro to the XTAG system
* Lab session with XTAG
Wednesday July 29
Computation and Applications
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Morning
Lectures
* Parsing
* Supertagging and other stochastic approaches
* Synchronous TAG
* Generation
Afternoon
Demos:
* XTAG-- second lab session
* Supertagger
* Other parsers
* TAG-based generation systems
Note: if you would like to demo a system, please let us know and we
will include it.
Thursday July 30
TAG, Linguistic Issues, and Related Grammatical Systems
--------------------------------------------------------
Morning
Lectures
* TAG and Generative Grammar
* TAG and HPSG
* TAG and Categorial Grammars
* TAG and LFG
Afternoon
Lecture
* Grammar organization
Demos
* Grammar organization demos
* MT demo
Friday July 31
Selected Advanced Topics
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Morning and early afternoon
Lectures
* Advanced Topics: Formal and Linguistics Issues
+ Coordination
+ Scrambling
+ Clitic climbing
+ Lexical semantics
+ D-Tree Grammars
+ Other topcis
WORKSHOP
Papers on all aspects of TAG (linguistic, mathematical, computational,
and applicational), as well as papers relating TAGs to other
frameworks, are invited. As in the past there will be some invited
talks on other grammar formalisms which have interesting relationships
to TAGs (for example, Categorial Grammars and HPSG).
GUIDELINES FOR ABSTRACTS:
Abstracts should be at most two pages (exclusive of references), and
should be submitted in ASCII format, as a .ps file, or as
SELF-CONTAINED latex file to jmacdoug@central.cis.upenn.edu. (If email
is not available, please send the abstract to the address given
below.) Please indicate on the abstract if you would prefer to give a
short presentation (10 minutes) or a long one (30 minutes). The
abstract should contain your name, address, and email address.
Proceedings including extended versions (4 pages) of accepted
abstracts will be available at the workshop.
Deadline for submission for abstracts: April 30 (extended)
Notification of acceptance: May 15
Deadline for submission of camera-ready
extended abstract: July 6
Workshop Dates: August 1 to August 3
If you do not want to submit an abstract, but would like to attend, we
would appreciate it if you could inform us by email by July 6 (unless
you have already done so). If you would like to present a demo,
please let us know as soon as possible, including information about
required hard and software.
PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
Anne Abeille (Universit'e Paris 7)
Tilman Becker (DFKI)
Christy Doran (University of Pennsylvania)
Robert Frank (Johns Hopkins University)
Klaus Netter (DFKI)
Richard Oehrle (University of Arizona)
Owen Rambow (CoGenTex, Inc.)
Giorgio Satta (Universita di Padova)
Yuka Tateisi (University of Tokyo)
K. Vijayshanker (University of Delaware)
David Weir (University of Sussex)
CONTACT ADDRESS:
Jennifer MacDougall
553 Moore Building
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6389
USA
Telephone: (215) 898-3191
FAX: (215) 898-0587
Email: jmacdoug@central.cis.upenn.edu
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
Anne Abeille (Paris 7)
Tilman Becker (DFKI)
Owen Rambow (CoGenTex, Inc.)
Giorgio Satta (Universita di Padova)
K. Vijayshanker (University of Delaware)