Corpora: Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammars and Related Frameworks

From: Bob Frank (rfrank@jhu.edu)
Date: Fri Oct 26 2001 - 23:27:34 MET DST

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                  C a l l f o r P a p e r s

                            T A G + 6

                  6th International Workshop on
          Tree Adjoining Grammars and Related Frameworks

                         20-23 May 2002
                          Venice, Italy
                 http://www.ircs.upenn.edu/tag/

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    Sponsors: University of Padua, University of Venice,
         Institute for Research in Cognitive Science (IRCS) and
         Institute for Scientific and Technological Research (ITC-IRST)

    GOALS AND SCOPE

    The Tree Adjoining Grammar (TAG) formalism has been studied
    for some time, both for its mathematical properties and
    computational applications, as well as for its role in
    constructing grammatical theories and models of language
    processing. Over the years, these lines of inquiry have fed
    off of one another: empirical consequences have been derived
    from TAG's mathematical restrictiveness, and extensions to
    the TAG formalism have been motivated by the exigencies of
    grammatical analysis. One of the main goals of the TAG+6,
    then, is to bring together the full range of researchers
    interested in the TAG formalism, to continue the kinds of
    productive interaction that have been the hallmark of TAG
    research. We anticipate holding sessions devoted to
    syntactic theory, mathematical properties, computational and
    algorithmic studies of parsing and generation,
    psycholinguistic modeling, and applications to natural
    language processing.

    It has been observed for some time that a range of
    grammatical frameworks, for example minimalist syntax,
    categorial grammar, dependency grammars, HPSG, and LFG,
    share certain properties with the TAG formalism. Such
    properties include lexicalization of syntactic structure, a
    conception of syntactic derivation rooted in generalized
    transformations, a simple notion of local grammatical
    dependency, and mildly context sensitive generative
    capacity. A second main goal of TAG+6, and the reason for
    the + in the workshop's name, is to better understand these
    connections between TAG and other related grammatical
    frameworks. In addition to submitted papers on such
    connections, TAG+6 will also include invited presentations
    by experts on some of these related grammatical frameworks.
    They will be announced later in the fall.

    PROGRAM COMMITTEE

    Chair: Robert Frank, Johns Hopkins

    Anne Abeillé, Paris 7 Seth Kulick, Pennsylvania
    William Badecker, Johns Hopkins Larry Moss, Indiana
    Srinivas Bangalore, AT&T Gertjan van Noord, Groningen
    Tilman Becker, DFKI Martha Palmer, Pennsylvania
    Tonia Bleam, Northwestern Owen Rambow, AT&T
    Marie-Hélène Candito, Paris 7 Norvin Richards, MIT
    Mark Dras, Macquarie James Rogers, Earlham
    Fernanda Ferreira, Michigan State Ed Stabler, UCLA
    Claire Gardent, Nancy Mark Steedman, Edinburgh
    David Lebeaux, NEC Yuka Tateisi, Tokyo
    Richard Oehrle Juan Uriagereka, Maryland
    Anthony Kroch, Pennsylvania K. Vijay-Shanker, Delaware
                                       David Weir, Sussex

    ORGANIZING COMITTEE

    Co-Chairs: Rodolfo Delmonte, Venice & Giorgio Satta, Padua

    Julia Akhramovitch, Venice Carlo Minnaja, Padua
    Antonella Bristot, Venice Laura Paccagnella, Padua
    David Chiang, Pennsylvania Luisella Romeo, Venice
    Aravind K. Joshi, Pennsylvania Anoop Sarkar, Pennsylvania
    Alberto Lavelli, ITC-IRST Trisha Yannuzzi, Pennsylvania

    SUBMISSION DETAILS

    We invite submissions on all aspects of TAG and related
    systems. Anonymous abstracts may be submitted for two sorts
    of presentations at the workshop: long talks, which will be
    40 minutes in length, and short talks, 20 minutes in length.
    Regardless of type of submission, abstracts may not exceed
    two pages in length (not including data, figures and
    references). All abstracts must be submitted electronically
    to the following address:

          tag6@ircs.upenn.edu

    Please use 'Abstract' as the Subject header and include,
    below the abstract, the following information, which should
    constitute the body of the message:

          1. Name(s) of author(s)
          2. Affiliation(s)
          3. E-mail address(es)
          4. Postal address(es)
          5. Title of talk
          6. Preference for long or short presentation

    The anonymous abstract may then be included either in the
    body of the message in ASCII format, or else as a PDF
    attachment.

        Abstract Submission Deadline: January 30, 2002
        Notification Of Acceptance: March 1, 2002

    PROCEEDINGS

    Proceedings including an extended (4 page) version of all
    accepted abstracts will be distributed at the workshop.
    Camera-ready copies of these extended versions will be due
    April 1, 2002.

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