FG 2008

CALL FOR PAPERS

FG-2008: The 13th Conference on Formal Grammar Hamburg, Germany, August 9-10, 2008 http://www.sfb441.uni-tuebingen.de/fg08/

Collocated with the European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information

Background

FG-2008 is the 13th conference on Formal Grammar, to be held in   conjunction with the European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information, which takes place in 2008 in Hamburg, Germany.

Previous Formal Grammar meetings were held in Barcelona (1995), Prague (1996), Aix-en-Provence (1997), Saarbruecken (1998), Utrecht (1999), Helsinki (2001), Trento (2002), Vienna (2003), Nancy (2004), Edinburgh (2005), Malaga (2006) and Dublin (2007).

Aims and Scope

FG provides a forum for the presentation of new and original research on formal grammar, mathematical linguistics and the application of   formal and mathematical methods to the study of natural language. Themes of interest include, but are not limited to,

o formal and computational phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics; o model-theoretic and proof-theoretic methods in linguistics; o logical aspects of linguistic structure; o constraint-based and resource-sensitive approaches to grammar; o learnability of formal grammar; o integration of stochastic and symbolic models of grammar; o foundational, methodological and architectural issues in grammar; o mathematical foundations of statistical approaches to linguistic analysis.

Previous conferences in this series have welcomed papers from a wide variety of frameworks.

Submission Details

We invite **electronic** submissions of original, unpublished 30-minute papers (including questions, comments, and discussion). Papers should report original work which was not presented in other conferences. However, simultaneous submission is allowed, provided that the authors indicate other conference to which the work was submitted on the paper submission form. Of course, accepted papers can only be presented in   one of the venues.

Papers, written in English, should be **anonymous** and refrain from self-reference. They should be no longer than 18 A4 pages, with wide margins so that the printed area is not larger than 11x18 cm., single column, point size 11 or 12. Preparation of the manuscript in LaTeX, using the available style files at http://www.sfb441.uni-tuebingen.de/fg08/FG2008.tar.gz, is   highly recommended. Revised versions will be required to be in   LaTeX. The format of submissions is PDF.

The submission deadline is **April 20th,** 2008. Papers must be submitted electronically at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fg2008

Proceedings

Submissions will be blindly reviewed by at least three reviewers. Full, revised versions of accepted papers will be published before the conference as CSLI Publications Online Proceedings at   http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/hand/miscpubsonline.html

Important Dates

April 20th, 2008: Deadline for paper submission June 1st, 2008: Notification of acceptance June 29th, 2008: Final version due August 9-10, 2008: Conference dates

Program Committee

Pierre Boullier (INRIA, France) Wojciech Buszkowski (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland) Miriam Butt (Universitat Konstanz, Germany) Alexander Clark (Royal Halloway University of London, UK) Berthold Crysmann (DFKI, Germany) Alexander Dikovsky (Universite de Nantes, France) Denys Duchier (Universite d'Orleans, France) Annie Foret (IRISA - IFSIC, France) Nissim Francez (Technion, Israel) Gerhard Jaeger (University of Bielefeld, Germany) Makoto Kanazawa (National Institute of Informatics, Japan) Stephan Kepser (University of Tubingen, Germany) Glyn Morrill (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain) Richard Moot (Universite Bordeaux 3, France) Larry Moss (Indiana University, USA) Stefan Mueller (Universitat Bremen, Germany) Mark-Jan Nederhof (University of St. Andrews, UK) Joakim Nivre (Växjö University, Sweden) Frank Richter (Universitat Tuebingen) Sylvain Salvati (INRIA, France) Ed Stabler (UCLA, USA) Hans-Jorg Tiede (Illinois Wesleyan University, USA) Jesse Tseng (CNRS - CLLE-ERSS, France) Shuly Wintner (University of Haifa, Israel)

Organizing committee

Philippe de Groote, Inria-Lorraine, France Laura Kallmeyer, University of Tuebingen, Germany Gerald Penn, University of Toronto, Canada Giorgio Satta, University of Padova, Italy This CfP was obtained from WikiCFP