FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT and CALL FOR PAPERS
CONFERENCE TIME and PLACE:
14-16 December 1998
Projet Calligramme (LORIA),
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and unpublished research related to the conference theme.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:
e-mail: 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: Prof. Alain Lecomte (Grenoble)
Prof. Denis Vernant (PL&C), Jean-Michel Adam (IMSS), Claude Jeannin
(UFR SHS), Catherine Finkel (UPMF)
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
e-mail: 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
e-mail: 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