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CALL FOR PAPERS
CONFERENCE ON SEMANTICS
THE INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES
OF
THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM
DECEMBER 14-16, 1997
ORGANIZERS: EDIT DORON AND FRED LANDMAN
The Institute for Advanced Studies of the Hebrew University of
Jerusalem is organizing during the Fall semester of 1997/98 a research
project on semantics, on which a large group of visiting and local
scholars in the field of semantics will collaborate.
As part of the activities, we are organizing a three day conference on
semantics on December 14-16 (sun-tue), 1997.
Due to the special nature of the conference as part of the research
project, we will have rather more invited speakers than is usual. But
we will have space for about 7 contributed talks, for which this
notice is the call for papers.
We decided not to set a topic for the conference, but the list of
invited speakers to the conference (see below) should give an
indication of the kind of research that will be going on in the
project; papers of central interest to a cross-section of the
participants in the project may receive preferential treatment.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR SUBMITTING A PAPER:
Send a 2 page abstract by mail or by fax (NOT by email) in a format
which is legible to the human eye without computer assistance to:
Fred Landman
Semantics Project
The Institute for Advanced Studies
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Givat Ram, 91904
Jerusalem
Israel
FAX: 972-2-652 3429
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: SEPTEMBER 15, 1997
NOTE: the deadline is strict. We will make the decisions known
only a few days after the deadline, so as to allow participants to
make travel arrangements.
For communications contact Fred Landman by email at:
landman@ccsg.tau.ac.il
(Note: I will be at the LSA summer institute at Cornell University
during July.)
INVITED SPEAKERS:
Dorit Abusch (Stuttgart)
Maria Bittner (Rutgers)
Gennaro Chierchia (Milan)
Ariel Cohen (Ben Gurion)
Edit Doron (Hebrew U)
Jonathan Ginzburg (Hebrew U)
Jeroen Groenendijk (Amsterdam)
Irene Heim (MIT) [possibly]
Pauline Jacobson (Brown)
Fred Landman (Tel Aviv)
Tanya Reinhart (Tel Aviv)
Mats Rooth (Stuttgart)
Malka Rappaport Hovav (Bar-Ilan)
Susan Rothstein (Bar-Ilan)
Lenore Shoham (Tel Aviv)
Yoad Winter (Utrecht)
Call for Papers and for Participation
AUSTRALIAN NATURAL LANGUAGE POSTGRADUATE WORKSHOP
In 1998, ANLPW will replace the Australian NLP Summer Workshop (ANLPSW),
which is traditionally held as part of the Australasian Computer Science
Week (Melbourne 1996, Sydney 1997) to provide a forum for Australian NLP
researchers to meet, present their work and interact with each other.
As part of the ANLP fortnight, ANLPW in 1998 is more specifically
intended as an opportunity for PhD/Masters/Honours students to present
their research and interact with each other.
The Australian NL Postgraduate Workshop will be held at the University
of Melbourne on Monday 19 and Tuesday 20 January 1998.
Papers from both Australian and international students are invited,
describing either completed research projects or research in progress
in any area of computational linguistics or NLP. We would especially
like to encourage young researchers who have not yet had the opportunity
to present their work to participate in those two days.
The standard ANLPF submission format, length and instructions apply to
papers submitted to the Postgraduate Workshop (see the ANLPF
Homepage at: "http://www.cs.flinders.edu.au/research/AI/ANLPF").
E-mail submissions are greatly preferred and should be sent to: D.Estival@linguistics.unimelb.edu.au
The submissions to ANLPW will be reviewed by a committee composed
of members of the ANLPF organization and reviewing committees.
Schedule:
Expression of interest: 15 September 1997
Email Submission of Papers: 31 October 1997
Paper Acceptances sent: 28 November 1997
Final camera ready copy due: 22 December 1997
Earlybird/author registration deadline: 1 December 1997
Dr Dominique Estival
Department of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
University of Melbourne
Parkville Victoria 3052
AUSTRALIA
tel: +61-3-9344-4227
fax: +61-3-9344-8990
D.Estival@linguistics.unimelb.edu.au
http://www.arts.unimelb.edu.au/Dept/LALX/staff/estival.html
The GLOW Colloquium (Extraordinary) 1998
Hyderabad, India
January 20-22, 1998
Central Institute of English & Foreign Languages,
Hyderabad, India
Call for Papers
We are happy to announce that the GLOW organization has agreed to
a GLOW colloquium in Hyderabad (India), which will be the first
meeting of GLOW to be held in Asia. This is in response to a need
expressed by some Asian linguists for a geographically more
accessible GLOW. (The Hyderabad colloquium will be in addition to
the GLOW colloquium in Tilburg in the same year.)
The aim is to bring together current theoretical discussion in
Europe and America and language data and analysis sourced from
ongoing work in universities in the Asian region.
This extraordinary GLOW colloquium
* will follow the GLOW pattern of organization for the conference
programme, and its procedure for selection of abstracts
* will, as the first GLOW meeting in Asia, aim to focus generally
on Asian generative linguistics, but will not be further
restricted with respect to theme.
Invited Speaker: Mamoru Saito, Nanzan University, Japan.
Abstract Submission
The colloquium will consist of approximately 20 talks of 45 minutes
each, followed by 15 minutes of discussion. Abstracts may not
exceed 2 pages with at least a 1 inch margin on all four sides and
should employ a font no smaller than 12 pt. They should be sent
anonymously in tenfold, accompanied by a camera-ready original with
the author's name, address and affiliation, to
GLOW Selection Committee
c/o. K A Jayaseelan
Central Institute of English & Foreign Languages
Hyderabad 500007, India
Phone: (91)(40) 701 8131 (Work)
(91)(40) 701 7512 (Home)
Fax: (91)(40) 701 8402
E-mail: jay@ciefl.globemail.com
Submission by fax or e-mail will not be accepted.
Deadline for submission of abstracts: September 15, 1997
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The GLOW Workshop
Verb Typology of African and Asian Languages
January 23, 1998
Central Institute of English & Foreign Languages
Hyderabad 500007, India
Abstracts
Three anonymous copies accompanied by a camera-ready original with
the author's name, address, and affiliation should be sent to
GLOW Workshop
c/o. K A Jayaseelan
Central Institute of English & Foreign Languages
Hyderabad 500007, India
Deadline for submission of abstracts: September 15, 1997
General Information
Accommodation
Speakers will be given accommodation and food in the guest houses
of CIEFL and neighbouring science Institutes, free of charge. Non-
speaker participants will be offered inexpensive University
accommodation and food on a first-come basis. We regret that we are
not in a position to offer even partial reimbursement for speakers'
travel, but hope that lower living expenses in Hyderabad will
partly make up for this. (Hyderabad can also provide hotel
accommodation of acceptable standard at very inexpensive rates
compared to Europe.)
The Venue
The Colloquium and the Workshop will be held in the main building
of the Central Institute of English & Foreign Languages
(Hyderabad).
Hyderabad is on the tourist map of India, being an old city
(founded c. 1500 A.D). It has a distinctive Deccani muslim culture.
It is well-connected by air and rail to Bombay, Delhi and Madras,
and also to tourist resorts like Goa. The town has some good eating
places and a long tradition of excellent cuisine. The weather in
January is temperate (between 24 and 12 degrees C).
Travel
International air-fares are at their annual lowest during the
period beginning January 12th. Participants may be able to make a
further saving by booking tickets early.
The Hyderabad airport receives very few international flights; so
international travellers usually arrive at Bombay, Delhi, Calcutta
or Madras and change to a domestic airline. Make sure that you have
a confirmed ticket on the domestic sector.
"Pre-paid" taxis are available at the Hyderabad airport. (Ask for
'Arts College', a nearby landmark.)
Conference Fee
A conference fee of (Indian) Rs 750 or US$ 25 must be paid by bank
draft drawn in favour of GLOW Colloquium, CIEFL, Hyderabad. Payment
by credit cards cannot be accepted.
National Currency
The national currency is the (Indian) Rupee. The current exchange
rates are (approximately)
US$ 1 = Rs 36
Sterling = Rs 57
DM 1 = Rs 20
FF 1 = Rs 6
Visas
A tourist visa is recommended. We can send an official letter of
invitation for other types of visas (if required).
Michigan Linguistic Society: Call for Papers for Oct. 18th Meeting
MLS this year will be held at Central Michigan University on October
18th. The invited speaker is Richard Rhodes from UC Berkeley, who will
be speaking on Ojibway. You are invited to submit one-page abstracts
(with name, affiliation, and email address) for 20 or 30-minute paper
seesions via either regular mail or email to the address below:
Bill Spruiell
Department of English Language and Literature
Central Michigan Unversity
Mt. Pleasant, MI 48859
(or)
Deadline for submission of abstracts is Sept. 22nd; programs will be
sent out as soon as possible after this date. "Hard Copies" of this
notice will be sent to individual departments; if you know of
colleagues who might be interested but who may not have received the
email version, please pass this along.
Thanx muchly -- Bill Spruiell
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Opinions expressed in this message do not necessarily represent those of
Central Michigan U.
Bill Spruiell
Central Michigan University
Dept. of English Language and Literature
Call for papers:
SINN UND BEDEUTUNG 1997
2nd annual meeting of the
GESELLSCHAFT FÜR SEMANTIK
('Association for Semantics')
5.12. - 7.12. 1997
Humboldt University and
Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft ('Center for General Linguistics')
Berlin
INVITED SPEAKERS:
Angelika Kratzer (UMass, Amherst)
Frans Zwarts (Groningen)
This year, the second annual meeting of the GESELLSCHAFT FÜR
SEMANTIK ('Association for Semantics') will take place in Berlin.
The conference, SINN UND BEDEUTUNG 1997, aims at being a forum
for the discussion of semantic issues of various theoretical approaches.
We would like the conference to take place in an informal and inspiring
atmosphere which also allows for presenting work in progress.
More information about the GESELLSCHAFT FÜR SEMANTIK
is available at http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/GfS.
Abstracts are invited for thirty-minute papers plus 15 minutes
discussion on any aspect of semantic theory.
Conference languages will be German and English.
Please, submit two copies of your abstract, which should be
3/4- to 1 page long. Submissions by email will also be accepted.
*DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS IS OCTOBER 1, 1997*
If more submissions arrive than we have space for, abstracts will be refereed.
The abstracts will be collected in a brochure which will be available
at the conference. We hope that we can avoid registration fees.
In order to get a survey of the number of participants, we would like
to ask you for early registration with the form below. Registered
participants will get information about the conference - e.g., travelling,
accommodation etc. - as soon as possible.
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Important dates:
01. 10. 1997 Deadline for submission of abstracts
end of Oct. Notification of speakers
beginning of Nov. Conference programme available
05. - 07. 12. 1997 SINN UND BEDEUTUNG 1997
Organization: Ewald Lang, Claudia Maienborn, Renate Musan, Heike Wiese
Contact:
sinn-97@rz.hu-berlin.de
(030)20196-768/-796/-721
Sinn und Bedeutung 1997
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Inst. für Dt. Sprache und Linguistik
Schuetzenstrasse 21
10117 Berlin
Germany
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R E G I S T R A T I O N F O R M / A N M E L D E F O R M U L A R
Name________________________________________________________
Affiliation/ Institution____________________________________________
Address/ Adresse_______________________________________________
Code/ PLZ_____________________________________________________
Country/ Land__________________________________________________
E-mail________________________________________________________
FORMAL WAY TO CHINESE LANGUAGES
University of California, Irvine
December 12-14, 1997
Call for Papers
Deadline for abstract submission: October 1, 1997
Formal Way to Chinese Languages will be held on December 12-14, 1997
at University of California, Irvine. Papers on all areas of formal
linguistics on Chinese languages are invited.
All abstract submissions must be received by October 1,
1997. Abstracts must be no more than one page, single spaced, with all
margins at least one inch wide, in 12-point type (examples may be in
10-point type), and camera-ready, on A4 or 8.5" letter size
paper. Mail five copies of the abstract, one with author's name and
affiliation, four without, along with a separate index card with paper
title, name of author(s), affiliation and status
(student/non-student), mailing and e-mail addresses, and telephone and
fax numbers. Submissions are limited to a maximum of one individual
and one joint abstract per author. We regret that we cannot accept
abstract submissions by e-mail or fax.
Presentations will be tentatively 20 minutes long, plus 10 minutes for
questions. The details are unsettled at this time, but based on the
number of submissions. Abstracts and presentations are in
English. Notice of acceptance or rejection will be sent by e-mail in
early November, 1997. Pre-registration materials and preliminary
schedule will be available in late November, 1997.
Abstracts and inquiries should be sent to:
Formal Way to Chinese Languages
c/o Irvine Linguistics Students Association (ILSA)
School of Social Sciences
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA 92697, U.S.A.
E-mail: ilsa@orion.oac.uci.edu
CALL FOR PAPERS
CONFERENCE: THE EVOLUTION OF LANGUAGE
LONDON APRIL 6-9 1998
ORGANISED BY: Professor Jean Aitchison (Oxford University), Professor
Jim Hurford (Department of Linguistics, University of Edinburgh) and
Dr. Chris Knight (Department of Sociology, University of East London).
This will be the second conference in a series concerned with the
evolutionary emergence of speech. From a wide range of disciplines, we
seek to attract researchers willing to integrate their perspectives
with those of modern Darwinism.
FOCUSED THEMES:
- From Proto-Language to Language
- Modelling Language Evolution
SPEAKERS WILL INCLUDE: Derek Bickerton (Hawaii), Paul Bloom (Arizona),
Luigi Cavalli-Sforza (Stanford), Robin Dunbar (Liverpool), Dean Falk
(New York), Philip Lieberman (Brown), Bjorn Lindblom (Stockholm), John
Maynard-Smith (Sussex), Frederick Newmeyer (Washington), Johanna
Nichols (Berkeley), Michael Studdert-Kennedy (Haskins Labs).
PLEASE SEND YOUR 500-WORD ABSTRACT (DEADLINE OCTOBER 1ST, 1997) TO:
Dr. Chris Knight, Department of Sociology, University of East London,
Longbridge Road, Dagenham, Essex RM8 2AS, UK,
OR BY EMAIL TO:
PACLIC 12 -- FIRST CALL FOR PAPER
THE 12TH PACIFIC ASIA CONFERENCE ON
LANGUAGE, INFORMATION AND COMPUTATION
The Chinese and Oriental Language Information Processing
Society (COLIPS -- http://www.iscs.nus.sg/~colips/) is pleased
to announce that the 12th Pacific Asia Conference on Language,
Information and Computation (PACLIC 12) will be held in
Singapore on February 18-20, 1998.
The Conference is an annual meeting of scholars with a wide
range of interest in theoretical and computational
linguistics. The Conference solicits papers treating any field
in theoretical and computational linguistics, including
syntax, morphology, phonology, semantics, pragmatics,
discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, formal grammar theory,
natural language processing, and computer applications. We
plan to give each paper 30 minutes for presentation and
discussion.
Full paper submission is required. Please mail 4 hard copies
of the paper with the title, the author's name, affiliation,
mailing address, FAX number (if any) and e-mail address on a
separate page to the address shown below. Submission by e-mail
is encouraged (but no FAX submissions). Accepted papers will
be published in the conference proceedings.
IMPORTANT DATES
Deadline for paper submission: October 1, 1997
Notification of acceptance: November, 15, 1997
Submission of camera-ready due: January 1, 1998
Conference: February 18-20, 1998
CONTACT
Please email your paper submission to:
paclic12@iss.nus.sg
We only accept (1) Microsoft Word Rich Text Format (.rtf); (2)
Plain text (.txt); and (3) Postscript (.ps)). Otherwise,
please send three hard copies to:
PACLIC 12
Institute of Systems Science
National University of Singapore
Heng Mui Keng Terrace, Kent Ridge
Singapore 119597
For up-to-date information on the conference, please check our
web page
http://www.iscs.nus.sg/~colips/paclic92.html
or write to the addresses above.
CONFERENCE CHAIRS
Kim Teng Lua Chairman
National University of Singapore, and
President of the Chinese and Oriental Language Information
Processing Society (COLIPS)
Benjamin K. T'sou Co-chairman
City University of Hong Kong
Chu-Ren Huang Co-chairman
Taiwan Academia Sinica
Young-Hern Lee Co-chairman
Korea Chosun University, and
President of the Korean Society for Language and
Information (KSLI)
Akira Ikeya Co-Chairman
Tokyo Gakuen University
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Jin Guo National University of Singapore (Chairman)
Akira Ishikawa Sophia University
Baosheng Yuan National University of Singapore
Byung-Soo Park Kyung Hee University Korea
Changning Huang Tsinghua University
Chris Tancredi The Yokohama National University
Chungmin Lee Seoul National University
Haizhou Li National University of Singapore
Hongyin Tao National University of Singapore
Ik-Hwan Lee Yonsei University
Jerry Seligman National Chung Cheng University
Jie Xu National University of Singapore
Kathleen Ahrens National Taiwan University
Jian Su National University of Singapore
Keh-Jiann Chen Academia Sinica
Kevin Knight University of Southern California
Kiyoshi Ishikawa Hosei University
Ling Cao National University of Singapore
Maosong Sun Tsinghua University
Masato Ishizaki ATR
Martha Palmer University of Pennsylvania
Paul Horng Jyh Wu National University of Singapore
Richard Sproat AT&T Bell Labs
Shiwen Yu Beijing University
Shuichi Yatabe University of Tokyo
Taiyi Huang Institute of Automation, Academia Sinica
Von-Wun Soo National Tsing Hua University
RELATED LINKS
PACLIC11 -- know more about the last conference.
COLIPS -- the organizer of PACLIC12.
CALL FOR PAPERS UPDATE
LANGUAGING: The Tenth Annual Conference on Linguistics and Literature
Sponsored by the University of North Texas Department of English and
GSEA
PLEASE NOTE
As of 8/18/97, the University of North Texas' email server and web
server are down for maintenance, making our conference email address
(linglit@unt.edu) and web site (http://www.unt.edu) temporarily
inaccessible. We expect both our email address and our web site to be
accessible by 9/1/97.
Please contact us before 9/1/97 at
LANGUAGING: the Tenth Annual Conference on Linguistics and Literature
University of North Texas
Department of English
P.O. Box 311307
Denton, TX 76203-1307
CONFERENCE DATES
30-31 January 1998
CONFERENCE LOCATIONS
University of North Texas and
Radisson Hotel and Conference Center, Denton TX
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Donald C. Freeman, University of Southern California
Gilles Fauconnier, University of California, San Diego and
Mark Turner, University of Maryland. Collaborative Address.
Also, "Languaging" Luncheon with
Haj Ross
Gilles Fauconnier
Mark Turner
Donald Freeman
Margaret Freeman, Los Angeles Valley College
SUBMISSION DEADLINES
U. S. mail: Postmarked by 7 October 1997
E-mail: 15 October 1997
Notification: 30 November 1997
Please note: we cannot accept submissions by fax.
SUBMISSIONS
We especially encourage submissions dealing with
- - Cognitive Linguistics
- - Conceptual Metaphor
- - Linguistic Analysis of Literature
We also welcome submissions dealing with any aspect of language,
linguistics, or literature, including
- - Literary Analysis
- - Composition Theory
- - Critical Theory
- - Composition Pedagogy
- - Minority Literature
- - Women's Studies
- - Film Theory/Popular Culture
- - Creative Writing
- - Technical Writing
- - Linguistic Analysis
- - ESL/EFL Pedagogy
- - Theoretical Linguistics
- - 1st/2nd Language Acquisition
In addition, we welcome creative submissions of
poetry
fiction
essays
as well as proposals for complete symposia.
Please find below our instructions for submitting
Paper Abstracts
Creative Submissions
Symposia Proposals
We encourage submissions from graduate students. We accept
submissions and proposals via e-mail or U.S. mail.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAPER ABSTRACTS AND CREATIVE SUBMISSIONS
Paper Abstracts should not exceed 250 words (approximately 1 page) and
should EXCLUDE name and affiliation (except on cover page see below)
Creative Submissions should include the full text of the piece and
should EXCLUDE name and affiliation (except on cover page see below)
Cover Page for All Paper Abstracts and Creative Submissions
All submissions are reviewed anonymously by selected scholars. For
all paper abstracts and creative submissions, please send a separate
cover page with the following information:
Name
Affiliation
Paper title
Postal address
E-mail address
Phone number
Audiovisual needs
Status (graduate student, faculty)
INSTRUCTIONS FOR SYMPOSIA PROPOSALS
Proposals for symposia should include an overall abstract (2 pages
maximum) outlining the nature of the symposium as a whole, a short
abstract for the overall symposium (250 words maximum), and a short
abstract from each presenter.
Cover Page for Symposia Submissions
Symposia abstracts should be submitted anonymously. On a separate
cover page, please send the following information:
Symposium title
Symposium paper title
Name of organizer(s)
Name of paper presenter
Affiliation of organizer(s)
Affiliation of presenter
Postal address of organizer(s)
Postal address of presenter
Phone number of organizer(s)
Phone number of presenter
Fax number of organizer(s)
Fax number of presenter
Audiovisual needs
CHECKLIST FOR SUBMISSIONS
When you submit your work, please include your personal data on a
separate cover sheet. (Abstracts are reviewed anonymously by selected
scholars.) Submit 3 copies of abstracts, creative pieces, or symposia
proposals limit your abstract to 250 words. Include a WordPerfect 6.x
compatible or ACSII disk copy of your work identified with your name,
affiliation, and paper title when you submit by U.S. mail. A disk
copy is especially important if your abstract includes symbols that
are difficult to transcribe.
Please direct your questions to
- - email address: linglit@unt.edu
U.S. mail address: LANGUAGING: the Tenth Annual Conference on
Linguistics and Literature
University of North Texas
Department of English
P.O. Box 311307
Denton, TX 76203-1307
or visit our web site: http://www.unt.edu/languaging
Call for Papers
International Conference on
Practical Linguistics of Japanese
In Memory of Professor Toshiko Mishima
May 3, 1998 (Sunday)
San Francisco State University (SFSU)
Sponsored by the
Center for the Advancement of
Teaching of Japanese Language and Culture (CATJL), SFSU
The Northern California Japanese Teachers Association (NCJTA)
* * * * * Keynote Speakers * * * *
Susumu Kuno (Harvard University)
Seiichi Makino (Princeton University)
Conference Chair: Midori Y. McKeon, Director , CATJL and President, NCJTA
(1) Aims and Scope
This conference is intended to bring together researchers on the
cutting edge of Japanese linguistics research and to offer a forum in
which linguistics research results can be presented in a form
applicable to those who might apply them in practical fields such as
teaching of Japanese as a foreign language and in language technology.
We are soliciting abstracts of papers on original and unpublished
research in any area of linguistics, including but not limited to:
phonetics, phonology, the lexicon, morphology, syntax, semantics, and
discourse pragmatics. Authors are urged to write for those who may
not be necessarily familiar with highly specialized technical terms of
linguistics. We expect that conference papers will be published.
(2) Conference Language: English/Japanese
(3) All Correspondence to: Yukiko Sasaki Alam
Program Chair, Mishima Conference
Dept. of Foreign Languages and Literatures
San Francisco State University
1600 Holloway Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94132
E-mail: yukiko@sfsu.edu
Fax: (415) 841 1826
(4) Abstracts
Send abstracts to the Program Chair. No faxed or e-mailed abstracts
will be accepted.
****Abstract Receipt Deadline: October 10, 1997 (Postmarked)****
Notification of Acceptance: November 10, 1997
Include: (a) Three copies of a one-two page abstract of the paper with
a title (using a typeface of at least 12 points with at least 0.75
inch (3 cm) margins on all sides). An additional page may be used for
figures, data and bibliographical citations. OMIT name and
affiliation. (b) 3"X5" card with the paper title, name(s) of the
author(s), address, e-mail address, telephone number, fax number (if
available).
(5) Registration fees:
Twenty (20) US dollars (Twenty-five (25) US dollars on site). People
who are interested in attending the conference are asked to send it
together with the following registration form to the Program Chair.
(6) Manner of the payment
The payment should be by a personal US bank check or an international
money order/bank draft payable to "NCJTA".
(7) Accommodation
Due to unfortunate circumstances, the University guest center is no
longer available to accomodate guests to the university. More
information about the conference, accommodations and transportations
will be on the World Wide Web at: http://www.sfsu.edu/ ~japanese.
SFSU is located beside Lake Mercede in the southwest end of San
Francisco, six miles from downtown and two miles from the Pacific
Ocean. You can get to the campus from downtown by bus, streetcar or
train.
(8) Registration Form
International Conference on Practical Linguistics of Japanese in
Memory of Professor Toshiko Mishima, San Francisco State University,
May 3, 1998.
Please fill out this form and return it to the Program Chair. (Please
print or type.)
Name: __________________________________________________
First (Middle) Last
Affiliation: ____________________________________________________
Address: _____________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________
Telephone: ____________________________ E-mail ________________________
Fax (if available): __________________________________
Please check:
Included with the Registration Form is/are:
0 Registration fees of twenty dollars
0 Deposit for hotel accommodation ( ________ dollars)
Please reserve a room at the University Guest Center
from the date of May _____to the date of May _____, 1998
Signature: ______________________ Date: ____________
CLIN 97 Second Announcement
Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands
Eighth CLIN Meeting
Friday, 12 December, 1997
Department for Language and Speech
University of Nijmegen
We are happy to announce the eighth CLIN meeting, which will be hosted by the
Department of Language and Speech of the University of Nijmegen.
The meeting will take place in the "Aula/Congresgebouw" of the University of
Nijmegen. The default language of the conference will be English.
The guest speaker of CLIN 97 is
Professor Yorick Wilks
University of Sheffield (UK)
The topic of his talk will be announced later.
The local organisers of this year's meeting are Peter-Arno Coppen, Hans
van Halteren and Lisanne Teunissen.
Researchers are invited to present papers on all aspects of computational
linguistics (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics,
computational lexicography, formal languages, grammar formalisms, information
retrieval, knowledge representation, corpus-oriented methods, etc.).
Authors should submit an abstract in English to the local organisers
(preferably by e-mail, in flat ASCII). The abstract should contain:
- a title
- your name, address, affiliation, and e-mail address
- a short outline of the paper (10-20 lines)
You can send your abstract to:
or, if email is not possible, to:
CLIN 97 (P.A. Coppen)
University of Nijmegen
Department for Language and Speech
P.O. Box 9103
6500 HD NIJMEGEN
Deadline for the submission is 10 October 1997. Notification of acceptance
(by e-mail): 17 October 1997
A volume with proceedings of the Seventh CLIN meeting (held 1 December
1996, in Eindhoven) will be available at this year's meeting. We intend
to produce a volume of the proceedings of CLIN 97 before CLIN 98. Papers
for these proceedings will have to be written in English; they will be
reviewed by a committee to be appointed in due time.
This and future information about CLIN 97 will be made available via the
CLIN home page:
http://www.let.rug.nl/~vannoord/clin/clin.html
CALL FOR PAPERS
FOURTH MEETING
OF THE ADL
5-6 DECEMBER 1997
UNIVERSITY OF PARIS 7 - DENIS DIDEROT
The Atelier des Doctorants de Linguistique (ADL) is an organisation created
and run by students. With the support from the University of Paris 7, it
aims at developing exchanges between students from different theoretical
backgrounds. In that respect, the fourth meeting is an opportunity for
young linguists to present their works and exchange ideas around :
* papers in miscellaneous areas of linguistics
* workshops on interdisciplinary topics
* friendly breaks allotting time for discussions
This meeting is organised by students and is student-oriented.
Papers, preferably delivered in French, should deal with the following
fields: computational linguistics, history of linguistics, morphology,
phonetics, phonology, pragmatics, psycholinguistics, semantics,
sociolinguistics, syntax and word-formation. A three-page abstract should
be sent by October 15th, accounting for the theoretical backgrounds,
hypotheses, examples and results which are to be presented at the meeting.
Abstracts should be submitted, by email if possible, at
Leglise@linguist.jussieu.fr or sent by snail mail. In that case, send three
anonymous copies along with a separate listing of name, institutional
affiliation, preferred mailing address, phone, e-mail address and paper
title to the following address:
4emes rencontres de l'ADL
Universite Paris 7 - Denis Diderot
UFR de Linguistique - Case 7003
Tour Centrale, piece 911
2, place Jussieu
75251 Paris Cedex 05
Accepted papers will be notified by the program committee in early November.
The meeting will be free of charge. Furthermore, we will try to accommodate
speakers. For further information, join us at
http:// www.linguist.jussieu.fr/~leglise/adlp7/adlp7.htm
or at Leglise@linguist.jussieu.fr.
Program committee: Valerie Amary, Nicolas Ballier, Nathalie Gasiglia,
Pierre Jalenques, Isabelle Leglise (coordination), Helene Le Guillou de
Penanros, Tobias Scheer, Kim Stroumza.
ABSTRACT DEADLINE : October 15th ,1997
________________________________________________________________________
APPEL A COMMUNICATIONS
QUATRIEMES RENCONTRES
DE L'ATELIER DES DOCTORANTS DE LINGUISTIQUE
DE L'UNIVERSITE PARIS 7
5-6 decembre 1997
Universite de Paris 7 - Denis Diderot
Structure creee et geree par des doctorants, l'Atelier des
Doctorants de Linguistique (A.D.L.) de Paris 7, avec le soutien de son
Ecole Doctorale, a pour objectif de favoriser les echanges entre etudiants
travaillant dans des domaines et dans des cadres theoriques differents.
Dans cette optique, il organise pour la quatrieme annee consecutive des
rencontres, occasion pour de jeunes linguistes de presenter leurs travaux
et de confronter leurs points de vues a travers :
* des presentations dans des domaines varies de la linguistique
* des ateliers-debats autour de themes transversaux
* des pauses conviviales laissant le temps aux discussions
La particularite de ces rencontres est leur caractere etudiant :
organisation, comite de lecture et intervenants.
Les communications se situeront dans les domaines suivants :
histoire des idees linguistiques, lexicologie, linguistique et
informatique, morphologie, phonetique, phonologie, pragmatique
linguistique, psycholinguistique, semantique, sociolinguistique et syntaxe.
Les etudiants interesses enverront un resume de 3 pages avant le 15 octobre
1997, comprenant : une explicitation de leurs presupposes theoriques, les
hypotheses, exemples et resultats exposes lors de la presentation.
Ce resume est a soumettre, si possible par email a :
ou a adresser, en 3 exemplaires anonymes accompagnes d'une fiche
personnalisee (nom, universite de rattachement, adresse personnelle et
professionnelle, telephone, email, titre de la communication) a l'adresse
suivante :
4emes rencontres de l'ADL
Universite Paris 7 - Denis Diderot
UFR de Linguistique - Case 7003
Tour Centrale, piece 911
2, place Jussieu
75251 Paris Cedex 05
L'acceptation des communications sera notifiee par le comite de lecture
debut novembre.
La participation a ces rencontres est gratuite. Nous essaierons, de plus,
de mettre en place des possibilites d'hebergement. Les personnes souhaitant
des renseignements complementaires peuvent nous contacter a la meme adresse
ou par email, ou www : http://
www.linguist.jussieu.fr/~leglise/adlp7/adlp7.htm
Organisation : Valerie Amary, Nicolas Ballier, Nathalie Gasiglia, Pierre
Jalenques, Isabelle Leglise (coordination), Helene Le Guillou de Penanros,
Tobias Scheer, Kim Stroumza.
DATE LIMITE POUR LES RESUMES : 15 octobre 1997
8th International Morphology Meeting, Budapest, 1998 June 12-14
Call for Papers
The 8th International Morphology Meeting will be held on 12-14 June
1998 in Budapest. Special topic:
Morphology By Itself
The conference is open to other morphology-related topics as
well. Abstracts should be sent to the organizers before October 15,
1997.
Prof. Ferenc Kiefer
Research Institute for Linguistics
Contact person: Kinga Gardai
Post address: 8th Morphology Meeting,
Research Institute for Linguistics of HAS
1250 Budpaest, P.O.Box 19.
Hungary
telephone: 1758285
fax: 212 2050
e-mail: kinga@nytud.hu
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION TO THE CALL FOR PAPERS OF THE
8th INTERNATIONAL MORPHOLOGY MEETING
Budapest, 1998 June 12-14
Please send by physical or email a maximally two page abstract to
Kinga Gardai by October 15.
Address:
Research Institute for Linguistics of HAS
Room 119,
1250 Budapest
P.O.Box 19
Hungary
Fax: (36 1) 212 2050
Telephone: (36 1) 175 8285
E-mail: kinga@nytud.hu
Sincerely,
Kinga Gardai
The 1998 Conference of the Texas Linguistics Society
Title: Exploring the Boundaries Between Phonetics & Phonology
The University of Texas at Austin
March 13-15, 1998
Keynote Speakers:
Abigail Cohn, Cornell University
Patricia Keating, University of California, Los Angeles
Janet Pierrehumbert, Northwestern University
Abstracts are invited for 30 minute talks (with 10 additional minutes
for discussion) on any topic related to the relationship between
phonetics and phonology. Potential topics include, but are not
limited to:
Theoretical exploration of the interplay between phonetics and
phonology
Encoding phonetic naturalness in phonological theory or
representation
Experimental data (acoustic or perceptual) pertaining to
phonological patterns and/or sound change
Phonetic and phonological realizations of specific patterns such
as tone and intonation, coarticulation, metathesis, etc.
Matches and mismatches between phonetic and phonological patterns
*Especially encouraged* are abstracts dealing with the separation
of phonetics and phonology
Abstracts must be no more than one 8 1/"2 by 11" page, single-spaced,
and in at least 12-point font (10 point for examples), with one-inch
margins on all sides. One additional page with references and
diagrams or tableaux may be appended if necessary. All submissions
must include the following items:
10 anonymous copies of the abstract
1 3x5" card with name, affiliation, address, phone number, email
address
and title of paper
Deadline for receipt of abstracts is October 17, 1997. Send abstracts
to:
TLS Abstract Committee
Calhoun 501
The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX 78712
Abstracts received after the deadline will not be considered. Fax
submissions will not be accepted. Instructions for email submissions
are available upon request. An individual may submit at most one
single and one co-authored paper. Accepted presenters will be
notified by mid-December, 1997. If presenters wish to have their
papers included in the conference proceedings, they must submit a
camera-ready copy by May 15, 1998. Proceedings will be published by
the Texas Linguistic Forum.
A poster session that will accompany the conference is currently being
organized. A call for poster abstracts will be issued soon.
Preregistration for the conference is $15.00 (US) for students, $30.00
for nonstudents.
For further information, contact
tls@uts.cc.utexas.edu
or check out our web page at http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~tls/
Tivoli Majors
University of Texas
Department of Linguistics
The First Announcement
On-line Conference
"The 40-th Anniversary of Generativism"
1-12.12.1997
Since Chomsky's "Syntactic Structures", published in 1957, the
generative view in linguistics has become widely popular. Thus, this
year is the 40-th anniversary of the publication. In past forty years
the generative linguistics has passed several stages of development
and currently it can be considered a broad and dynamically growing
theory, having multiply links both within the linguistics and with
other sciences.
We see the goal of the conference as helding an overall discussion
on generative linguistics.
The work of the conference should be organized in 4 sections:
Section 1. History & methodology.
Section 2. Current investigations in generative linguistics in
all of it's variants (GB-theory, minimalistic program, etc.).
Section 3. Development perspectives, unsolved problems.
Section 4. Interconnections with other sciences: biolinguistics,
psyholinguistics, neurolinguistics, cognitive, computational,
mathematical linguistics.
The conference organized by the electronic journal "Web Journal
of Formal, Computational & Cognitive Linguistics"
(http://www.ksu.ru/kazan/science/fccl/index.html).
Program committee chair is Noam Chomsky.
All the materials will be put on the Web site of the Journal. After
the conference the materials of the conference are to be published
in the Journal, on CD and printed as a book.
SUBMISSION & REVIEW PROCEDURES:
Paper selection and review procedures will be similar to those of
a regular conference. All text must be in ASCII. Length of the paper
is not limited. Papers must be send to <generate.list@ksu.ru>. The
first 4 lines of the message should consist of
Your name
Your email address
The title of the paper
Number of your section
Our time-frame is:
Deadline for papers: October 20, 1997
Final program announced: November 20, 1997
Participation in the on-line conference will be carried out on the
list GENERATE.LIST that has been created for that purpose. To subscribe
to this list, send the following message to <generate.list@ksu.ru>:
SUBSCRIBE GENERATE.LIST YourFirstName YourLastName
For example: SUBSCRIBE GENERATE.LIST BILL JOHNSON
Once you have received confirmation of your subscription, you may send
messages to <generate.list@ksu.ru>, and you will automatically receive
all new messages sent to the list. A record of all received message
will be maintained on a specific Web page at the conference site.
Participants may send their comments and questions by means of the
GENERATE.LIST. Everyone subscribed to the list will receive these
messages. If you wish to leave the list, send the following message to
<generate.list@ksu.ru>:
UNSUBSCRIBE GENERATE.LIST FirstName LastName
At the end of the conference participants will be automatically
removed from the GENERATE.LIST.
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Valery Solovyev
Editor "Web Journal of Formal, Computational & Cognitive Linguistics"
Kazan State University, Dep. Computer Science, Kazan, 420008, Russia
E-mail: solovyev@open.ksu.ras.ru
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WORKSHOP
RESEARCH ISSUES FOR COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS
9-10 July, 1998
As part of the
AUSTRALIAN LINGUISTICS INSTITUTE
The University of Queensland
(6-16 July, 1998)
http://www.cltr.uq.oz.au:8000/ali98/
Cognitive Linguistics, as a theoretically motivated approach to linguistic
and behavioural science, encompasses research on a wide variety of
linguistic and cognitive phenomena (including: syntax, semantics,
discourse, ASL/Auslan (sign language), gesture, psycholinguistic and
neurolinguistic data), and also has points of research contact with
various other linguistics sub-fields -- cf., socio- (cultural) and applied
linguistics research, as well as computation research. It is the
convenor's aim that this workshop will attract as many papers as possible
from around Australasia and beyond that investigate cognitive linguistic
processes, to illustrate the diversity of research interests encompassed
by the cognitive linguistics enterprise as well as cognitive linguistics
research in this region.
The Institute ("ALI'98") will be held over 10 days during the first two
weeks of July 1998, with classes being held on Monday through Thursday and
workshops being held during the intervening weekend. A number of eminent
scholars have already shown their support for this workshop by agreeing to
give papers at this forum (as well as give courses during the Institute):
- Prof. Wallace Chafe (U.C. Santa Barbara)
- Cognitive constraints on discourse
- Assoc. Prof. Eve Sweetser (U.C. Berkeley)
- Gesture & Metaphor
- Assoc. Prof. Arie Verhagen (Utrecht Univ.)
- Cognitive Grammar
This workshop will be opened with a Plenary paper by Prof. Wallace Chafe
on Thursday evening (9th July), after classes. All other papers will be
given on Friday (10th July). At this point, a max. of 14 speakers
(including the other two invited speakers) have been scheduled for that
day. Each paper will be 15 minutes + 10 minutes for questions/discussion
and change-over.
The final selection of papers to be included in the program will be based
on the best possible mix of research efforts to reflect the diversity of
research interest within the broader area of Cognitive Linguistics.
Papers that deal with languages of the Pacific Rim are especially
encouraged.
ABSTRACTS NEED TO BE SUBMITTED BY 1 NOVEMBER 1997.
Please send abstracts to the convenor
(email submission are preferred): junel@cltr.uq.edu.au
Convenor:
Dr June Luchjenbroers,
Centre for Language Teaching & Research,
University of Queensland,
ST LUCIA, Q. 4072, Australia.
For administrative and funding purposes, expressions of interest are
esspecially encouraged.
Notification of acceptance will sent in (or before) the first week of
December 1997. All persons who are interested in updates about this
workshop should contact the convenor and an email list will be compiled.
Further information about ALI'98 and associated workshops can be found at
our web-site: http://www.cltr.uq.oz.au:8000/ali98/
THE BERKELEY LINGUISTICS SOCIETY
BLS 24
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Berkeley Linguistics Society is pleased to announce its Twenty-Fourth
Annual Meeting, to be held February 14-16, 1998. The conference will
consist of a General Session and a Parasession on Saturday and Sunday,
followed by a Special Session on Monday.
General Session: The main session will cover areas of general linguistic
interest.
Invited speakers:
STEPHEN PINKER, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
LEN TALMY, University at Buffalo
ANNA WIERZBICKA, Australian National University
Parasession: Phonological Universals and Phonetics.
The parasession will accept papers bearing on all aspects of the
relationship between Phonological Universals and Phonetics, where
"universals" can be interpreted broadly. To what extent are phonological
universals predicted or motivated by phonetic factors including, but not
restricted to; articulatory constraints, aerodynamic properties of sound,
or storage mechanisms of phonetic information? Conversely, what do
phonological universals predict about synchronic and diachronic phonetics?
What might the difference be between phonological and phonetic universals?
Invited speakers:
PATRICE BEDDOR, University of Michigan
BJORN LINDBLOM, University of Stockholm and University of Texas,
Austin
IAN MADDIESON, University of California at Los Angeles
JOHN OHALA, University of California, Berkeley
MARIA-JOSEP SOLE, University of Barcelona</ul>
Special Session: Indo-European Subgrouping and Internal Relations.
The Special Session will feature research on Indo-European subgrouping and
internal relations from any framework, including formal, functional,
cognitive, sociolinguistic, and historical approaches. In the last twenty
years we have come to understand the internal diachrony of Hittite, which
has begun to make clear some of the desiderata Anatolian imposes on any
theory of PIE. But new archaeological evidence has also been very
prominent both for Italic and Celtic, which has generated a lot of new
work on the very early (reconstructed) histories of both branches and on
their internal linguistic relations, their relation to each other, and
their relation to their neighbors (e.g. Germanic). Additionally, there has
been an immense amount of work on the prehistory of Tocharian, which has
in turn led to some reconsideration of its position in the family tree.
All in all, most especially in the analysis of the IE verbal system, but
also in other areas, there is a fair amount of recent work which
assumes/implies highly divergent subgroupings of the IE family.
Invited speakers:
JAY JASANOFF, Cornell University
CRAIG MELCHERT, University of North Carolina
DON RINGE, University of Pennsylvania
We encourage proposals from diverse theoretical frameworks and welcome
papers from related disciplines, such as Anthropology, Cognitive Science,
Computer Science, Literature, Philosophy, and Psychology.
Papers presented at the conference will be published in the Society's
Proceedings, and authors who present papers agree to provide camera-ready
copy (not to exceed 12 pages) by May 15, 1998. Presentations will be
allotted 20 minutes with 10 minutes for questions. We ask that you make
your abstract as specific as possible, including a statement of your topic
or problem, your approach, and your conclusions.
An author may submit at most one single and one joint abstract. In case
of joint authorship, one address should be designated for communication
with BLS. Send abstracts to: BLS 24 Abstract Committees, 2337 Dwinelle
Hall, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-2650. Abstracts for the
general session, special session, and parasession must be received by 4:00
p.m., November 7, 1997. We may be contacted by e-mail at
bls@socrates.berkeley.edu.
Registration Fees: Before February 7, 1998; $15 for students, $30 for
non-students; after February 7, 1998; $20 for students, $35 for
non-students.
For more specific information about submission procedures, please visit
the BLS web site at
http://www.linguistics.berkeley.edu/lingdept/research/BLS/BLS.html, email
us at bls@socrates.berkeley.edu, or call us at 510/642-5808.
Berkeley Linguistics Society
2337 Dwinelle Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720
http://www.linguistics.berkeley.edu/lingdept/research/BLS/BLS.html
PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT AND
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
11th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing
Hosted by Rutgers University
March 19-21, 1998
Featuring a Special Session on
The Lexical Basis of Syntactic Processing:
Formal and Computational Issues
INVITED SPEAKERS:
Joan Bresnan, Stanford University
Beth Levin, Northwestern University
Mitch Marcus, University of Pennsylvania
Jerry Fodor, Rutgers University
DISCUSSANTS:
Mark Johnson, Brown University
Amy Weinberg, University of Maryland
Maryellen MacDonald, University of Southern California
ABSTRACT DEADLINE: November 7, 1997
The 11th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing is
soliciting abstracts for papers and posters presenting theoretical,
experimental, and/or computational research on human sentence
processing. Abstracts will be reviewed anonymously and will be
considered for both the general conference sessions and for a special
session on The Lexical Basis of Syntactic Processing: Formal and
Computational Issues.
SPECIAL SESSION:
Lexical influences on processing are currently a major focus of
attention in research on sentence comprehension, yet much of the work
remains isolated from investigations of the lexicon in other
disciplines. The special session, The Lexical Basis of Syntactic
Processing: Formal and Computational Issues, will examine current
theories of lexical representation from a multidisciplinary
perspective, relating the issues raised to current work on sentence
comprehension. The focus of the session will be presentations by
invited speakers from linguistics, computer science, and philosophy,
with critical commentary and discussion from researchers within the
sentence processing community.
The special session will also include submitted papers and posters on
the topic of the role of the lexicon in sentence processing.
Abstracts that are considered for the special session will be
evaluated both for the quality of the research and for the fit between
the submitted abstract and the invited papers.
SUBMISSION DEADLINES:
For consideration in the spoken paper sessions: November 7, 1997.
For consideration as a poster only: January 12, 1998
WHAT TO SUBMIT:
Abstracts must be no more than 400 words in length, excluding
references. At the top of the abstract, please include your name,
email address, and indicate whether your abstract is to be considered
for PAPER ONLY, POSTER ONLY, or PAPER OR POSTER. The last category
means that you would be willing to present a poster if your abstract
is not included in the spoken sessions but is accepted for one of the
poster sessions. Please leave several blank lines between this
information and your title and abstract, so that we may remove this
information for anonymous abstract review.
Abstracts submitted but not accepted for the paper sessions will
automatically be included in the submissions for poster sessions,
unless the abstract is marked PAPER ONLY.
WHERE TO SUBMIT:
We will accept email submissions only. Email your submissions to
cuny@ruccs.rutgers.edu
Please use "Abstract" as your subject header. If you are submitting
more than one abstract, each must be separately emailed. You will
receive an email acknowledgment for each abstract you submit.
If you are unable to use email to submit your abstract, you must
contact the organizers for instructions on submitting a PC-readable
disk with the required information and abstract.
CONFERENCE DATES AND LOCATION:
The conference will be held on March 19-21, 1998, at the Hyatt
Regency, New Brunswick, New Jersey, adjacent to the Rutgers University
campus. The conference site is easily accessible by shuttle from the
Newark and New York airports (Newark is preferable), and by train from
New York or Philadelphia. Detailed hotel reservation and travel
information will soon be available on the conference web site.
For more information, see: http://ruccs.rutgers.edu/cuny98
E-mail questions to: cuny@ruccs.rutgers.edu
WCCFL XVII
West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics
University of British Columbia
February 20-22, 1998
CALL FOR PAPERS
Abstracts are invited for 20-minute talks in all areas of linguistics
from any theoretical perspective. There will be two special sessions
in addition to the main program. Abstracts may be submitted to the
main program or either of the special sessions.
*Special Sessions: Interfaces*
Invited speakers will be presenting at the following 2 special
sessions:
Lisa Selkirk, UMass: Phonology/Syntax Interface
Angelika Kratzer, UMass: Syntax/Semantics Interface
Abstract Requirements
Abstracts should be no more than one standard size page in length with
the option of including an additional page for data and references.
Abstracts should be in at least 11-point type with 1-inch margins,
single-spaced. Please mail ten anonymous copies as well as a 3" x 5"
index card with the following information:
title
name of author(s)
mailing address
affiliation(s)
area (phonology, syntax, semantics...)
phone number (optional)
e-mail address (optional)
Please specify on your index card if you are submitting your abstract
to either of the special sessions. Submissions are limited to 1
individual and 1 joint abstract per author. Please do not send
abstracts by e-mail.
*ABSTRACTS MUST BE RECEIVED BY NOVEMBER 14, 1997*
Abstracts should be sent to:
WCCFL XVII COMMITTEE
Department of Linguistics
University of British Columbia
E270-1866 Main Mall
Vancouver, British Columbia
CANADA V6T 1Z1
Information will be made available at the WCCFL web site:
http://www.interchange.ubc.ca/msr/WCCFL.html/
FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
Third International Conference on
Information-Theoretic Approaches to Logic,
Language, and Computation
Hsi-tou, Taiwan
16-19 June, 1998
This conference aims to bring together researchers who use
information-theoretic tools to address issues in the cognitive
sciences, broadly conceived to include Computer Science, Linguistics,
Logic, Philosophy, Psychology, and Sociology. It will be the third of
a series of conferences on information-theoretic approaches, and the
sixth of a series of conferences on situation theory and its
applications.
1998 is the 50th anniversary of Shannon's pioneering work. The
intervening years have seen classical information theory become a
mature subject, and the birth of other approaches to the study of
information, such as situation theory and dynamic logic. This
conference welcomes submissions from all traditions in the study of
information.
The conference will take place in a lodge in Hsi-tou, a bamboo forest
in the central mountains of Taiwan. The location offers both excellent
facilities and relative isolation. It is one of the most beautiful
parts of Taiwan, close to Sun-Moon lake, one of Taiwan's aboriginal
villages, and the peaks of the Central Mountain Range, which at 14,000
feet are some of the highest mountains in Asia outside the Himalayas.
INVITED SPEAKERS:
David Beaver (Linguistics, Stanford)
David Chalmers (Philosophy, Santa Cruz) (Unconfirmed)
Nick Chater (Psychology, Warwick)
David Israel (AI Center, SRI and CSLI, Stanford)
Michiel van Lambalgen (Mathematics and Computer Science, Amsterdam)
(Further invited speakers are expected to be announced.)
TOPICS:
We solicit papers on the following topics:
* Foundations and applications of various approaches
to the study of information, for example:
-Shannon-Weaver communication theory
-Barwise-Seligman Channel theory
-Situation Theory
-Dynamic Semantics
-Dretske's semantic theory of information
* Information-based approaches to the syntax, semantics and
pragmatics of natural language
* Information-based approaches to philosophy of mind, consciousness
studies, and epistemology
* Information-theoretic approaches to cognitive psychology
* Information-theoretic approaches to induction and learning
* Probabilistic methods in epistemology and logic
* Theory change, including Belief Revision and Bayesian approaches
Papers on related subjects will also be considered. Papers of
interest to an interdisciplinary audience are particularly welcome.
SUBMISSIONS:
Authors are invited to submit a detailed abstract of a full paper of
at most 10 pages by e-mail to
(using `ITALLC98 Submission' as the subject line). The cover page
should include title, authors and contact details of the corresponding
author. Submission of postscript files is strongly encouraged.
Although we prefer email submissions, we will also accept abstracts
sent by regular mail. Please send such submissions to:
Patrick Blackburn
Computerlinguistik
University of Saarland
D-66041 Saarbrücken
Germany
The DEADLINE for submissions is
November 15, 1997.
The date of NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE is
February 15, 1998.
The accepted abstracts will appear on a World Wide Web server. The
revised proceedings of previous meetings have been published as
volumes in CSLI's Lecture Notes series. We anticipate publishing a
similar volume from the proceedings of this conference.
The ITALLC98 website is
http://www.phil.ccu.edu.tw/~itallc98/home.html
PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Patrick Blackburn (Chair), Nick Braisby,
Lawrence Cavedon, Sheila Glasbey, Atsushi Shimojima.
ORGANISING COMMITTEE: Jerry Seligman (Chair), Allen Houng, Kuo-Wei Lee,
Cheng-Houng Lin, Jim Tai, Ovid Zheng,
Patrick Blackburn (Program Liaison)
16th AESLA CONFERENCE
UNIVERSITY OF LA RIOJA, SPAIN
22-25 April, 1998
CALL FOR PAPERS
1- The University of La Rioja will host the 16th AESLA (Spanish
Association of Applied Linguistics) Conference. The Conference topic
is Applied Perspectives on Knowledge Organization and Language
Processing and Language Use. It will consist of nine Theme Sections,
which are listed below. There is an organizer for each section.
2- DEADLINES. Hard copies of communication proposals should be
submitted before 30 November, 1997. Authors are expected to provide
three copies of the full text of their contributions. The author's
name, address, phone number, FAX number, e-mail, and professional
information should appear only in one of the copies. Please omit all
this information from the other two copies. The full text, including
bibliographical references, notes, figures, and appendixes, should not
exceed 10 A4 or US letter size pages, typed double-spaced and with
reasonably wide margins. Authors should ascribe their contributions to
a Theme Section and submit them to the corresponding Section
Organizer. Submissions will be refereed. All submittors will be
notified of the committee's decision before the end of February
1998. A style sheet for publication in book format will then be
provided to all participants. Submitters should be members of
AESLA. To become a member, contact the following address:
Secretaria de AESLA
Universitat Jaume I
Department de Filologia Anglesa i Romanica
Campus de la Carretera de Borriol
Apartat de Correus 224
12080 Castella, Spain.
3- CONFERENCE EVENTS
1. The Conference will feature at least four PLENARY LECTURES:
-Arthur Graesser. University of Memphis.
Lecture Title: The Construction of Multiple Agents during the
Comprehension of Discourse and Literary Short Stories.
Workshop Title: How to Improve Expository Text to Facilitate
Comprehension and Memory.
-Joaquin Garrido. Complutense University. Madrid.
Lecture title: El analisis del uso: Desde la pragmatica y la
sociolinguistica hacia una nueva concepcion de la gramatica. (The
analysis of usage: from pragmatics and sociolinguistics to a new
conception of grammar)
-Nanda Poulisse. University of Amsterdam.
Lecture title: Slips of the Tongue and Second Language Processing.
-Fourth invited lecturer to be determined.
2. The Conference shall host seven WORKSHOPS and several ROUND TABLES,
which will be simultaneous with other conference events.
3. COMMUNICATIONS. Presentation of communications will be restricted to
twenty minutes plus ten minutes' discussion.
4. POSTERS. Abstracts of approximately 150 words should be submitted
to the corresponding Theme Section organizer. As in the case of
communications, authors should include their personal and professional
data (author's name, address, phone number, fax number, and e-mail.).
4- THEME SECTION ORGANIZERS (plus submittal address):
LANGUAGE ACQUISITION & LEARNING
Rosa Maria Manchan Ruiz
Universidad de Murcia
Departamento de Filologia Inglesa
Plaza de la Universidad
30071- Murcia
Tel: (34) (68) 363187
Fax: (34) (68) 363185/363417
E-mail: manchon@fcu.um.es
SYLLABUS DESIGN & LANGUAGE TEACHING
Aquilino Sanchez Perez
Universidad de Murcia
Departamento de Filologia Inglesa
Plaza de la Universidad
30071- Murcia
Tel: (34) (68) 363175/191
Fax: (34) (68) 363185
E-mail: asanchez@fcu.um.es
LANGUAGE FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES
Guadalupe Aguado de Cea
Universidad Politocnica de Madrid
Facultad de Informatica
Campus de Montegancedo
Boadilla del Monte
28660- Madrid
Tel: (34) (1) 715 84 11
Fax: (34) (1) 336 74 12
E-mail: lupe@fi.upm.es
LANGUAGE PSYCHOLOGY, CHILD LANGUAGE AND PSYCHOLINGUISTICS
Mercedes Belinchon Carmona
Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
Departamento de Psicologia Basica
Facultad de Psicologia
28049-Madrid
Tel: 91-3975201
Fax: 91-3975215
E-mail: mercedes.belinchon@uam.es
SOCIOLINGUISTICS
Francisco Moreno Fernandez
Universidad de Alcala
Departamento de Filologia
Edificio de San Jose de Caracciolos
c/Trinidad 5
28801- Alcala de Henares, Madrid.
Tel: 91-8854481 (despacho)
91-8855037 (laboratorio)
Fax: 91- 8854413
E-mail: fmoreno@filo.alcala.es
PRAGMATICS, DISCOURSE ANALYSIS & COMMUNICATION
Juana Marin Arrese
UNED
Departamento de Filologias Extranjeras
Facultad de Filologia
c/Senda del Rey s/n
28040 Madrid
Tel. 3986842
Fax:: 3986830
E-mail: jmarin@sr.uned.es
CORPUS LINGUISTICS & COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS
Maria Antonia Marti Antonin
Universidad de Barcelona
Departamento de Filologia Romanica
Seccion de Linguistica General
Gran Via 585
08007-Barcelona
Tel.: 93-4035671
Fax: 93-3189822
E-mail: amarti@lingua.fil.ub.es
LEXICOLOGY & LEXICOGRAPHY
Jesus M. Sanchez Garcia
Universidad de Cordoba
Departamento de Filologia Francesa e Inglesa
Facultad de Filosofia y Letras
Plaza del Cardenal Salazar, 3
14071-Cordoba
Tel: (957) 218135
Fax: (957) 218789
E-mail: ff1sagaj@lucano.uco.es
TRANSLATION
Pamela Faber
Universidad de Granada
Departamento de Traduccion e Interpretacion
Facultad de Traduccion e Interpretacion
c/Puentezuelas 55
18002-Granada
Tel: (958) 246261
Fax.: (958) 244104
E-mail: pfaber@REDESTB.ES
5- REGISTRATION
The registration form will be provided, together with Hotel and Excursion
Reservation information, in September.
Registration before March, 23rd, 1998
Members............................ 15.000 pts.
Non-members....................... 20.000 pts.
Students.............................6.000 pts.
Registration after March, 23rd, 1998:
Members............................. 17.000 pts.
Non-members..................... 22.000 pts.
Students............................ 7.000 pts.
6- For any inquiries concerning the Conference, contact:
XVI CONGRESO DE AESLA
Javier Martin Arista (Secretary)
Departamento de Filologias Modernas
Edificio Quintiliano
c/ Cigea 60
26004, r1o (La Rioja)
Tel.: (941) 299425/299433
Fax: (941) 299419
e-mail: javier.martin@dfm.unirioja.es
7- Information about La Rioja
La Rioja is located in Northern Spain. This region is known for its
wine production and its natural richness (cultivated valleys and
almost untouched oak and beechwood forests in the mountains). Several
of its towns are part of the pilgrimage route to Santiago de
Compostela and the monastery of San Millin de la Cogolla is home to
the first written documents in the Spanish language. The University of
La Rioja's interest in language studies has given rise to the
organization of several International Conferences on Historical
Linguistics. For more information on the area and on the University of
La Rioja visit the following webpages:
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/iperez/rioja.htm and
http://www.unirioja.es.
Lorena Perez Hernandez
Universidad de La Rioja
Departamento de Filologias Modernas
Edificio Quintiliano
c/Cigea, 60
26004, Logroo, La Rioja, Spain
tel. (41) 299430
FAX.: (41) 299419
e-mail: loperez@dfm.unirioja.es
GLOW (Generative Linguistics in the Old World) will hold its twentieth
annual conference on April 15-17, 1998, at the University of Tilburg in the
Netherlands. The theme of the main session is "Features". In addition there
will be workshops on April 18 in syntax (Agreement Systems) and phonology
(Opacity). Abstracts are solicited (in hard copy only!) from both the Old
and New Worlds; the deadline for submitting abstracts is
December 1, 1997.
More details about the conference, the conference themes, and submission of
abstracts can be found on our web-site,
http://cwis.kub.nl/~fdl/research/gm/glow/glow98/
by E-mail: GLOW@KUB.NL, or by writing to
GLOW
c/o Conchita Zerrouk-Barb'e
Department of Linguistics
P.O. Box 90153
NL-5000-LE Tilburg, The Netherlands
*PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT*
FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION
GRANADA, SPAIN, 28-30 MAY 1998
The First International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation has
been initiated by ELRA and is organized in cooperation with other
associations and consortia, including EAFT, EAGLES, EDR, ELSNET, ESCA,
FRANCIL, LDC, PAROLE, TELRI, etc., and with the sponsorship of major
national and international organizations, including ARPA, the European
Commission - DG XIII and the NSF. Cooperation and co-sponsorship with other
institutions is currently being sought.
CONFERENCE TOPIC
In the framework of the Information Society, the pervasive character of
language technologies and their relevance to practically all the fields of
Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) has been widely recognized.
Two issues are currently considered particularly relevant for promoting
international cooperation: the availability of language resources and the
methods for the evaluation of resources, technologies and products.
The term language resources (LR) refers to sets of language data and
descriptions in machine readable form, used specifically for building,
improving or evaluating natural language and speech algorithms or systems,
and in general, as core resources for the software localization and language
services industries, for language studies, electronic publishing,
international transactions, subject-area specialists and end users.
Examples of linguistic resources are written and spoken corpora,
computational lexicons, grammars, terminology databases, basic software
tools for the acquisition, preparation, collection, management,
customization and use of these and other resources.
The relevance of evaluation in Language Engineering is increasingly
recognized. This involves assessment of the state-of-the-art for a given
technology, measuring the progress achieved within a program, comparing
different approaches to a given problem and choosing the best solution,
knowing its advantages and drawbacks, assessment of the availability of
technologies for a given application, and finally product benchmarking. It
accompanies research and development in Human Language Technologies, and has
driven important advances in the recent past in various aspects of both
written and spoken language processing. Although the evaluation paradigm
has been studied and used in large national and international programs,
including the US ARPA HLT program, EU Language Engineering projects, the
Francophone Aupelf-Uref program and others, particularly in the localization
industry (LISA and LRC), it is still subject to substantial unresolved basic
research problems.
The aim of this Conference is to provide an overview of the
state-of-the-art, discuss problems and opportunities, exchange information
on ongoing and planned activities, present language resources and their
applications, discuss evaluation methodologies and demonstrate evaluation
tools, explore possibilities and promote initiatives for international
cooperation in the areas mentioned above.
CONFERENCE TOPICS
The following non-exhaustive list gives some examples of topics which could
be addressed by papers submitted to the Conference:
- Issues in the design, construction and use of LR (theoretical & best
practice)
- Guidelines, standards, specifications, models for LR.
- Organizational issues in the construction, distribution and use of LR.
- Methods, tools, procedures for the acquisition, creation, management,
access, distribution, use of LR
- Legal aspects and problems in the construction, access and use of LR
- Availability and use of generic vs. task/domain-specific LR
- Methods for the extraction and acquisition of knowledge (e.g., terms,
lexical information, language modeling) from LR
- Monolingual vs. multilingual LR
- National and international activities and projects
- LR and the needs/opportunities of the emerging multimedia cultural industry.
- Industrial production of LR
- Integration of various modalities in LR (speech, vision, language)
- Exploitation of LRs in different types of applications (language
technology, information retrieval, vocal interfaces, electronic commerce, etc.)
- Industrial LR requirements and the community's response
- Analysis of user needs for LR
- Evaluation, validation, quality assurance of LR
- Benchmarking of systems and products; resources for benchmarking and
evaluation
- Priorities, perspectives, strategies in the field of LR - national and
international policies
- Needs, possibilities, forms, initiatives of/for international cooperation
- Evaluation in written language processing (text retrieval, terminology
extraction, message understanding, text alignment, machine translation,
morphosyntactic tagging, parsing, text understanding, summarization,
localization, etc)
- Evaluation in spoken language processing (speech recognition and
understanding, voice dictation, oral dialog, speech synthesis, speech
coding, speaker and language recognition, etc)
- Evaluation of document processing (document recognition, on-line and
off-line machine and handwritten character recognition, etc)
- Evaluation of (multimedia) document retrieval and search systems
- Qualitative and perceptive evaluation
- Evaluation of products and applications
- Blackbox, glassbox and diagnostic evaluation of systems
- Situated evaluation of applications
- Evaluation methodologies, protocols and measures
- Mechanisms of LR distribution and marketing
- Economics of LRs
IMPORTANT DATES
1. Submission of summaries for proposed papers: (approximately 800 words):
1 December 1997
E-mail submission in ASCII form is encouraged. Otherwise, five hard copies
should be submitted.
- E-mail submissions should be sent to
- Postal submissions should be sent to
Antonio Zampolli - LREC
Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale del CNR
via della Faggiola, 32
56100, Pisa, ITALY
2. Notification of acceptance: 15 February 1998
3. Final version of the paper: 20 April 1998
The papers accepted will be included in the Conference Proceedings.
PROGRAM
The program will include both papers and poster sessions. In addition, the
Program will also include invited speakers, and a number of panels on the
major themes of the Conference.
In particular, it is planned to organize a panel on various aspects and
perspectives of international cooperation, with the participation of
representatives of the major European, North American and Asian sponsoring
agencies.
WORKSHOPS
Half-day pre- and post-conference Workshops can be organized, at the request
of a presenter, to permit the discussion and debate of topics of current
interest.
The format of each Workshop will be determined by the Workshop organizer,
who will set any necessary deadlines for the participants. The next
announcement, to be circulated in September, will provide guidelines on how
to submit a proposal for a Workshop to the Program Committee.
SYSTEMS AND LR DEMONSTRATIONS
Various platforms will be available for language resources and tools
presentations and unreferenced systems demonstrations. Organizations
interested in presenting systems should contact the local demonstration
organizers, whose address will be provided in the next announcement.
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
The full composition of the Scientific Committee will be listed in the next
announcement.
The Conference Chair is Antonio Zampolli (Istituto di Linguistica
Computazionale del CNR and President of ELRA, via della Faggiola, 32, Pisa
56100, Italy).
The Secretariat of the Conference is provided by Khalid Choukri (ELRA, 87,
Avenue d'Italie, F-75013, Paris, FRANCE).
The conference organizing committee consists of: Harald Hoege (Siemens,
Munich, Germany). Bente Maegaard (CST, Copenhagen, Denmark), Joseph Mariani
(LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay, France), Angel Martin-Municio (President of the Real
Academia de Ciencias, Madrid, Spain), Antonio Zampolli (Istituto di
Linguistica Computazionale, Pisa, Italy).
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SALA XIX
The Department of Language & Linguistic Science
at the University of York, York, UK
is pleased to announce that it will host the
NINETEENTH SOUTH ASIAN LANGUAGES ANALYSIS ROUNDTABLE
18-20 July 1998
The theme of the conference will be
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SOUTH ASIAN LANGUAGES : FOCUS ON RESEARCH
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Proposals for 25 minute papers are invited on any aspect of Research in
South Asian Languages (including English) covering the following areas:
Bilingualism & The Mixed Code Syntax
Semantics & Pragmatics ( including Indian Theories of Meaning)
Phonestics &Phonology Socio-Historical Linguistics
Language Variation & Change Sociolinguistics of Society
First & Second Language Acquisition Applied Linguistics.
ABSTRACTS will be considered for early acceptance starting October 1997.
Final deadline for submission of abstracts and the Pre-Registration Form
is 1st December 1997, and for submission of paper is 15 March 1998.
Abstracts (200 words) together with the Pre-registration Form should be
sent to the Local Organizing Committee:
Mahendra K. Verma
Kalika Bali
Dept. of Language & Linguistic Science
University of York
YORK, YO1 5DD, UK.
Your proposal should consist of the following : (1) the title of the
abstract, along with up to 5 keywords; (2) the panel heading of the
proposal; (3) Two copies of the abstract with (ON ONE COPY ONLY) the
author's name, postal address, telephone & fax numbers, and e-mail
address where available, and your status - research student, academic
staff, researcher.
Please send any request for information to the above address or to the
following e-mail addresses: lang16@york.ac.uk OR mkv1@york.ac.uk OR
kb107@york.ac.uk
Fax: 01904 432673.
The National Organizing Committee welcomes you to SALA's first visit to
Europe:
Mahendra K. Verma ( University of York)
Kalika Bali ( University of York)
Mukul Saxena ( University College of Ripon & St. John, York)
Dierdre Martin (University of Birmingham)
Gillian Ramchand ( University of Oxford)
Jane Stuart-Smith (University of Glasgow)
More information will soon be available on
http://www.york.ac.uk/~kb107
SALA XIX
Department of Language & Linguistic Science
University of York, York, UK
NINETEENTH SOUTH ASIAN LANGUAGES ANALYSIS ROUNDTABLE
18-20 July 1998
SOUTH ASIAN LANGUAGES : FOCUS ON RESEARCH
CONFERENCE PRE- REGISTRATION FORM
Please complete the following as you would like it to appear on the
participants' list :
Your title: ................
Your family
name....................................................................
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name(s).................................................................
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Your address
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*LabPhon 6* First Notice
Sixth Conference on Laboratory Phonology
July 2 - 4 1998
University of York, UK
Themes:
Constraints on phonetic interpretation
Phonetic interpretation and its relation to linguistic systems
Invited speakers to date:
Mary Beckman Ohio State
Terrance Neary University of Alberta
John Harris University College London
Important dates -
Dealine for receipt of abstracts: December 1, 1997
Notification of acceptance: February 16, 1998
Submission of draft papers: May 4, 1998
Further information available soon
Enquiries/queries: labphon6@york.ac.uk
AFLA V: PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
The fifth annual meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association
(AFLA V) will take place on March 27-29, 1998, at the University of Hawai'i
in Honolulu. Invited speakers include Sandra Chung, UC-Santa Cruz, Diane
Massam, U of Toronto, and Stanley Starosta, U of Hawai'i. Abstracts are now
being accepted.
Deadline to submit abstracts: December 1, 1997
Please see the conference website,
http://www2.hawaii.edu/ling/afla/
for the latest information, instructions for submitting abstracts, and so
forth. The conference organizers may be reached by e-mail at
or by surface mail at
AFLA
Department of Linguistics, UH-Manoa
1890 East-West Rd, Moore Hall 569
Honolulu, HI 96822
USA
To receive current announcements by e-mail, send a message to
with the text
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SALT 8 - First Call for Papers
Semantics and Linguistic Theory
Eighth Annual Meeting
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
May 8-10, 1998
SALT 8 welcomes submissions for 30-minute presentations (with 10
additional minutes for discussion) on any topic in the semantic
analysis of natural language emphasizing the connection to linguistic
theory. Authors should submit 10 copies of abstracts, no more than 2
pages (1000 words) long. Authors' names, address, affiliation, status
(faculty/student), phone number and e-mail address, paper title, and
list of prior or planned presentations at other conferences should
accompany the abstracts on a 3x5 card. Fax or E-mail submissions will
not be accepted.
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Guidelines:
SALT does not accept papers that by the time of the conference have
appeared or have been accepted for publication in a peer-reviewed
journal.
Preference will be given to presentations not duplicated at other
major conferences (including LSA, NELS, WCCFL, etc.). Authors are
asked to indicate prior or planned presentations of their papers on
the abstract submission card.
Any person can submit at most one abstract as sole author and a second
abstract as co-author or two abstracts as co-author.
Choose a title that clearly indicates the topic of the paper. State
the problem or research question raised by prior work, with specific
references to relevant prior work. State the main point or argument of
the proposed presentation. Give at least one critical example, with
explanation of why and how it supports the main point or
argument. When examples are in languages other than English, provide
word by word glosses. State the relevance of your ideas to past work
or to the future development of the field. Describe analyses in as
much detail as possible. Avoid merely saying "a solution to this
problem will be presented". [adapted from the LSA guidelines for
abstract submissions]
Deadline for submission of abstracts is Tuesday December 2, 1997. The
program will be announced in February 1998.
Send abstracts to:
SALT 8 Organizing Committee
Department of Linguistics & Philosophy
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
E39-245, 77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139
U.S.A.
Further announcements will be made as the conference approaches.
In conjunction with SALT, there will be a one day workshop on French
syntax & semantics. Details will be announced soon.
Inquiries are welcome to the address above, or e-mail to
salt8@mit.edu.
The Conference Web Site is accessible at
http://web.mit.edu/linguistics/www/salt8.html
The web sites for two previous SALT meetings are still accessible:
SALT 7 at Stanford (http://www-csli.stanford.edu/Linguistics/salt7/)
and SALT 6 at Rutgers (http://ruccs.rutgers.edu/ling/evnt/salt6.html).
Proceedings of SALT are in general available from
books@plab.dmll.cornell.edu. For the Proceedings of SALT 2, write to
lingadm@ling.ohio-state.edu.
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Semantics & Linguistic Theory (SALT 8)
Organizing Committee: Kai von Fintel, Irene Heim, Sabine Iatridou
Department of Linguistics & Philosophy E39-245
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA 02139
77 Massachusetts Avenue U.S.A.
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e-mail: salt8@mit.edu
World Wide Web: http://web.mit.edu/linguistics/www/salt8.html
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ALS-98
Australian Linguistics Society Conference
The University of Queensland
Brisbane, Australia, July 3-5, 1998
To be held in conjunction with the Australian Linguistics
Institute(ALI-98) July 6-16, 1998 Brisbane, Australia.
The Conference Organizers invite submissions on any area
of contemporary Linguistic research. Proposals for oral
presentations (30 minutes, including 5 minutes for questions)
and poster sessions are welcomed. Abstracts should be 300-500
words (single page) and will be competitively reviewed.
ALS-98 will directly precede ALI-98, a symposium of research
and course work by leading scholars, including:
*Cynthia Allen,
*Adriana Belletti,
*Mary Beckman,
*Anthony Blackhouse,
*Joan Bresnan,
*Wallace Chafe,
*Anna Uhl Chamot,
*Jenny Cheshire,
*Stephen Crain,
*Terry Crowley,
*Domimique Estival,
*Robert Dale,
*Tony Diller,
*Michael Harrington,
*Janet Holmes,
*Maya Honda,
*Rodney Huddleston,
*Richard Hudson,
*Harold Koch,
*Wilaiwan Khanittanan,
*Diane Larson-Freeman,
*Claire Lefebvre,
*Beth Levin,
*K.P. Mohanan,
*Tara Mohanan,
*Wayne O'Niel,
*Anne Pauwels,
*Luigi Rizzi,
*Eva Sweetser,
*Arie Verhagen,
*Michael Walsh.
Email submission of abstracts is preferred to:
Otherwise, mail abstracts to:
The Organizers, ALS-98
Department of English
University of Queensland
Brisbane, 4072, AUSTRALIA
FAX: +61 7 3365 2799
For further information and updates, the ALS 98 Web site will be available
shortly at: http://www.cltr.uq.edu.au:8000/als98
Important dates:
Deadline for receipt of abstracts: December 30, 1997
Notification of acceptance and preliminary program: March, 1998.
INTERNATIONAL LINGUISTIC ASSOCIATION
43RD ANNUAL CONFERENCE
April 17-19, 1998, New York University
CALL FOR PAPERS
The major theme of the conference will be 'Bilingualism' Abstracts related
to that theme will be given priority, but papers from any area of
theoretical or applied linguistics will be considered.
One page, single-spaced, anonymous abstracts should clearly state the
problem addressed or the research questions previously raised by others,
and some indication of the results or conclusions should be given.
Preferably, abstracts should be sent via e-mail. Simultaneously, 3 hard,
camera-ready copies, together with a 3x5 card bearing name, title of paper,
addresses, affiliation, audio-visual equipment needed and time desired
(maximum, 20 minutes plus discussion). For those unable to submit via
e-mail, 8 hard copies
(together with the 3x5 card) should be sent snail mail. Proposals for
panels, special sessions, etc., including the names of the proposed
participants, are also welcome. Direct all to the conference chair:
Prof. John Costello, Dept. of Linguistics, New York University, 719
Broadway, Room 504, New York, NY 10003; e-mail costellj@is2.nyu.edu;
telephone 212-9098-7948 Abstracts must be received by January3, 1998.
THE TWENTY-FIFTH LACUS FORUM
CLAREMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY, CA.
JULY 28-AUGUST 1, 1998
CALL FOR PAPERS
The 25th LACUS Forum--with 4 days of refereed papers and panels, will be
held at the Claremont Graduate University (Professor John Regan, local
host).
Featured lecturers:
Ronald Langacker (Linguistics), UCSD
Elizabeth Bates (Psychology), UCSD
Abstracts are invited on one or more of the following topics (but abstracts
on other related topics will also be considered):
Conceptual Categories Cognitive Linguistics
Grammatical Categories Functional Linguistics
Syntax & Pragmatics Syntax & Semantics
Foundations of Linguistics Discourse Analysis
Speech vs. Non-Spoken Expression Neurolinguistics
Diachronic/Synchronic Phonology Language & Thought
Abstracts:
Abstracts should be anonymous (no indication of the author) and should:
l. Have an informative, but brief title
2. Clearly state the problem to be addressed or the research
questions raised by prior studies.
3. State the main point(s) or argument(s) of the proposed
presentation, with, relevant data if possible. If the paper is
empirically based, state specific hypotheses and at least an
outline of results obtained.
4. Show relevance to other work or to linguistic research.
5. Give references to literature cited in the abstract.
Submit abstracts via e-mail with 3 camera-ready copies simultaneously sent
via snail mail to the addresses below . Those without e-mail available
should send 16 hard copies via snail mail. Each author should also send
snail mail a 3x5" card bearing name, addresses (especially e-mail)
affiliation, phone, title of paper, audio-visual equipment required (an
overhead projector will regularly be available), eligibility for prizes,
time desired (normally 15 or 25 minutes plus discussion time), and
identification of one or more topics under which the paper falls (from
above list, or specify if another). Proposals for panels, discussion
sessions, etc.--identifying proposed participants for --are also welcome.
The annual Presidents' Predoctoral Prize ($100.00) and Postdoctoral Prize
($500.00--for young untenured scholars) will be awarded to the best papers
in each category (only single-authored presentations considered).
Limited funds to assist scholars coming from countries with weak currencies
may be available. For information contact the Conference Committee Chair.
Submit abstracts & proposals to: Ruth Brend, Chair, LACUS Conference
Committee, 3363 Burbank Dr., Ann Arbor, MI 48105, USA (tel. 313-6652787;
fax 313-6659743; e-mail, rbrend@umich.edu).
Deadline January 15, 1998.
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AUGUST 23-28 1998 BRIGHTON UK ( `-'
CALL FOR PAPERS
http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/call.html
The ECAI-98 Programme Committee invites submission of papers for the
Technical Programme of the 13th biennial European Conference on Artificial
Intelligence (ECAI-98).
IMPORTANT DATES
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23 Jan 1998 Deadline for papers
15 Apr 1998 Notification of acceptance
15 May1998 Camera-ready copies of papers
26-28 Aug 1998 Technical programme at ECAI-98
Submissions are invited on substantial, original and previously unpublished
research in all aspects of AI, including, but not limited to:
Abduction, Temporal, Causal Reasoning, and Diagnosis; Automated
Reasoning; Application and Enabling Technologies; Belief Revision and
Nonmonotonic Reasoning; Case-Based Reasoning; Cognitive Modelling and
Philosophical Foundations; Computational Linguistics; Constraint-Based
Reasoning and Constraint Programming; Distributed AI and Multiagent
Systems; Fuzzy Logic; Knowledge Acquisition; Knowledge Representation;
Logic Programming, and Theorem Proving; Machine Learning, Knowledge
Discovery and Data Mining; Natural Language and Intelligent User
Interfaces; Neural Networks in AI; Planning, Scheduling, and Reasoning
about Actions; Probabilistic Networks; Qualitative Preferences and
Decision in AI; Qualitative and Spatial Reasoning; Reasoning under
Uncertainty; Robotics, Vision, and Signal Understanding; Search and
Meta-Heuristics for AI; Verification, Validation and Testing of
Knowledge-Based Systems.
Submission procedure
Detailed formatting guidance will be published on the ECAI-98 website in due
course. Accepted papers will have 5 A4 pages in 2-column format in the
proceedings. 6 copies (hard copy only) of papers should be submitted by post
to the ECAI-98 Programme Chair, Henri Prade at the following address:
ADDRESS FOR SUBMISSION
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Henri Prade, ECAI-98 Programme Chair
IRIT
Universiti Paul Sabatier
118 route de Narbonne
31062 TOULOUSE Cedex 4
France
Email: Henri.Prade@irit.fr
Tel: +33(0)561 55 65 79
Fax: +33(0)561 55 62 39
The deadline for receipt of proposals is 23 January 1998 . For other
important dates, see the table above.
Other information
All submissions will be subject to academic peer review by the ECAI-98
Programme Committee under the chairmanship of the ECAI-98 Programme Chair.
The ECAI-98 Programme Chair has final authority over the review process and
all decisions relating to acceptance of papers.
The conference proceedings will be published and distributed by John Wiley
and Sons Ltd. Note that at least one author of each accepted paper is
required to attend the conference to present the paper.
ECAI-98 Secretariat Tel: +44(0)1273 678448
Centre for Advanced Software Applications Fax: +44(0)1273 671320
University of Sussex Email: ecai98@cogs.susx.ac.uk
Brighton, BN1 9QH, UK URL: http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/ecai98
ECAI-98 is organised by the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial
Intelligence (ECCAI) and hosted by the Universities of Brighton and Sussex
on behalf of AISB.
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9th International Workshop on
NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION
5-7 August 1998
Prince of Wales Hotel
Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada
CALL FOR PAPERS
(For more information, visit http://logos.uwaterloo.ca/~inlg98 )
The 9th biennial Workshop on Natural Language Generation will be held
in the scenic town of Niagara-on-the-Lake, near Niagara Falls, in
Ontario, Canada, on 5-7 August 1998.
The INLG workshop is the principal gathering for researchers in natural
language generation, providing a pleasant atmosphere for stimulating
and informative talks on all aspects of the topic. The workshop
attracts a healthy mixture of researchers from both universities and
research institutes, graduate students, and visitors from related
fields such as machine translation, multimedia presentation planning,
and parsing. About 65 people are expected to attend the workshop,
which traditionally has had a very diverse international
representation.
The town of Niagara-on-the-Lake is in the heart of one of Canada's
major fruit-growing and wine regions, and is 30 minutes' drive from
Niagara Falls. It is one of the oldest settlements in Canada, with
many fine examples of Victorian architecture. Niagara-on-the-Lake
bills itself as the prettiest town in Canada, and many would agree: its
main streets are quaint and picturesque, with many interesting shops,
cafes, and restaurants. It is also the home of the Shaw Festival, one
of the top North American repertory theatre companies.
The workshop is sponsored by the Association for Computational
Linguistics and ACL SIGGEN (Special Interest Group on Natural Language
Generation).
The workshop is in the week immediately prior to the joint conference
of COLING and ACL, in Montreal, Canada (10-14 August 1998). After the
workshop, a bus will take participants who wish to attend COLING / ACL
directly to the Toronto train station, for an express train to Montreal
(approximately 4 hours).
TOPICS OF INTEREST
Of interest are papers on all topics relating to the automated
production of natural language, including but not limited to: discourse
structure; grammar; lexis and lexical choice; text planning and schemas
(macroplanning); sentence planning (microplanning); semantics and
knowledge representation; register, genre, and pragmatics; generator
architecture; realization; generator applications; system descriptions;
generator evaluation; planning of text formatting; generation in
multimedia planning and presentation systems; speech synthesis.
Also welcomed are demonstrations of generation systems, or modules of
systems, running either via the Web or on a Sun computer to be provided
at the workshop.
REQUIREMENTS FOR SUBMISSION
Papers should describe unique work not published before. They should
emphasize the creative and interesting aspects of the work, but should
also describe empirical validation and testing as much as possible.
Papers that are being submitted to other conferences must state this
fact on the first page.
FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION
Theoretical papers must not exceed 10 pages, including title,
references, figures, etc. Please use no smaller than 11pt font, with
margins of 1 inch / 2.5 cm all around. Papers not satisfying the
specified length and formatting requirements will be rejected without
review.
System demonstrations will be reviewed as well. Please send an
outline, clearly marked as a system demonstration in the heading, that
describes the demonstration, including if possible screen shots.
Outlines may not exceed 4 pages, all included, using font no smaller
than 11pt and margins of 1 in / 2.5 cm all around. Outlines not
satisfying the specified length and formatting requirements will be
rejected without review.
ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION
Electronic submissions should be in the form of a PostScript file.
This file should be sent to hovy@isi.edu, with the subject field "INLG
submission".
SUBMISSION IN HARD COPY
Hardcopy submission is possible too. Five copies of the paper or
demonstration outline should be sent to:
Eduard Hovy, INLG-98
Information Sciences Institute
4676 Admiralty Way
Marina del Rey, CA 90292-6695
U.S.A.
DEADLINES
Electronic submissions must be received by 28 January 1998, so that
they can be printed and checked for completeness. Electronic
submissions will be accepted only if they can be printed at ISI.
Hardcopy submissions must be received by 1 February 1998. Late papers
will be returned unreviewed.
Notification of receipt will be e-mailed to the first author (or
designated author) soon after receipt. Authors will be notified of
acceptance before 10 March 1998. Camera-ready copies of final papers
prepared in a format to be specified, preferably using a laser printer,
must be received by 15 June 1998, along with a signed copyright release
statement.
WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS
The workshop is being organized by Chrysanne DiMarco of the University
of Waterloo, with the assistance of Graeme Hirst of the University of
Toronto. The Program Chair is Eduard Hovy of USC/ISI.
General workshop questions:
Chrysanne DiMarco, cdimarco@logos.uwaterloo.ca, phone +1 519 888 4443
General paper-submission questions:
Eduard Hovy, hovy@isi.edu, phone +1 310 822 1510 x731
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Eduard Hovy, USC/ISI, Marina del Rey (chair)
Stephan Busemann, DFKI, Saarbrücken
Susan Haller, University of Wisconsin-Parkside
Helmut Horacek, University of the Saarland
Xiaorong Huang, Formal Systems, Toronto
Kristiina Jokinen, ATR, Kyoto
Guy Lapalme, University of Montreal
Elisabeth Maier, DFKI, Saarbrücken
Chris Mellish, University of Edinburgh
Marie Meteer, BBN
Jon Oberlander, University of Edinburgh
Cecile Paris, CSIRO, Sydney
Owen Rambow, CoGenTex Inc., Ithaca
Ehud Reiter, University of Aberdeen
Elke Teich, Macquarie University, Sydney
Marilyn Walker, AT&T Labs Research, Florham Park
For more information, visit the INLG-98 Website:
http://logos.uwaterloo.ca/~inlg98
COLING-ACL'98
FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS
17th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING'98)
and
36th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'98)
Universite de Montreal
Montreal (Quebec), Canada
August 10-14, 1998
Deadline for submissions: January 30, 1998
For details, see:
http://www-rali.iro.umontreal.ca/COLING-ACL98/
or send an e-mail request to:
coling-acl98@iro.umontreal.ca
or send a hardcopy request to:
COLING-ACL'98
Dr. Pierre Isabelle
RALI, DIRO, Universite de Montreal
CP 6128, Succ. Centre-ville
Montreal (Quebec), Canada H3C 3J7
Preliminary Call for Papers
http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~honavar/icgi98.html
Fourth International Colloquium on Grammatical Inference (ICGI-98)
Program Co-Chairs: Vasant Honavar and Giora Slutzki Iowa State University
July 12-14, 1998
Iowa State University
Ames, Iowa, USA.
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In cooperation with
IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society
ACL Special Interest Group on Natural Language Learning
(and possibly other organizations)
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Index
* Introduction
* Conference Format
* Topics of Interest
* Program Committee
* Local Arrangements Committee
* Submission of Papers
* Submission of Tutorial Proposals
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Introduction
Grammatical Inference, variously refered to as automata induction, grammar
induction, and automatic language acquisition, refers to the process of
learning of grammars and languages from data. Machine learning of grammars
finds a variety of applications in syntactic pattern recognition, adaptive
intelligent agents, diagnosis, computational biology, systems modelling,
prediction, natural language acquisition, data mining and knowledge
discovery.
Traditionally, grammatical inference has been studied by researchers in
several research communities including: Information Theory, Formal
Languages, Automata Theory, Language Acquisition, Computational Linguistics,
Machine Learning, Pattern Recognition, Computational Learning Theory, Neural
Networks, etc.
Perhaps one of the first attempts to bring together researchers working on
grammatical inference for an interdisciplinary exchange of research results
took place under the aegis of the First Colloquium on Grammatical Inference
held at the University of Essex in United Kingdom in April 1993. This was
followed by the (second) International Colloquium on Grammatical Inference,
held at Alicante in Spain, the proceedings of which were published by
Springer-Verlag as volume 862 of the Lectures Notes in Artificial
Intelligence, and the Third International Colloquium on Grammatical
Inference, held at Montpellier in France, the proceedings of which were
published by Springer-Verlag as volume 1147 of the Lecture Notes in
Artificial Intelligence. Following the success of these events and the
Workshop on Automata Induction, Grammatical Inference, and Language
Acquisition, held in conjunction with the International Conference on
Machine Learning at Nashville in United States in July 1997, the Fourth
International Colloquium on Grammatical Inference will be held from July 12
through July 14, 1998, at Iowa State University in United States.
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Topics of Interest
The conference seeks to provide a forum for presentation and discussion of
original research papers on all aspects of grammatical inference including,
but not limited to:
* Different models of grammar induction: e.g., learning from examples,
learning using examples and queries, incremental versus non-incremental
learning, distribution-free models of learning, learning under various
distributional assumptions (e.g., simple distributions), impossibility
results, complexity results, characterizations of representational and
search biases of grammar induction algorithms.
* Algorithms for induction of different classes of languages and
automata: e.g., regular, context-free, and context-sensitive languages,
interesting subsets of the above under additional syntactic
constraints, tree and graph grammars, picture grammars,
multi-dimensional grammars, attributed grammars, parameterized models,
etc.
* Theoretical and experimental analysis of different approaches to
grammar induction including artificial neural networks, statistical
methods, symbolic methods, information-theoretic approaches, minimum
description length, and complexity-theoretic approaches, heuristic
methods, etc.
* Broader perspectives on grammar induction -- e.g., acquisition of
grammar in conjunction with language semantics, semantic constraints on
grammars, language acquisition by situated agents and robots,
acquisition of language constructs that describe objects and events in
space and time, developmental and evolutionary constraints on language
acquisition, etc.
* Demonstrated or potential applications of grammar induction in natural
language acquisition, computational biology, structural pattern
recognition, information retrieval, text processing, adaptive
intelligent agents, systems modelling and control, and other domains.
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Program Committee (Tentative)
The following people have agreed to serve on the program committee. Several
other individuals are yet to confirm their participation.
R. Berwick, MIT, USA
M. Brent, Johns Hopkins University, USA
C. Cardie, Cornell University, USA
W. Daelemans, Tilburg University, Netherlands
D. Dowe, Monash University, Australia
D. Estival, University of Melbourne, Australia
J. Feldman, International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley, USA
L. Giles, NEC Research Institute, Princeton, USA
J. Gregor, University of Tennessee, USA
C. de la Higuera, LIRMM, France
T. Knuutila, University of Turku, Finland
E. Makinen, University of Tampere, Finland
L. Miclet, ENSSAT, Lannion, France.
G. Nagaraja, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India
H. Ney, University of Technology, Aachen, Germany
J. Nicolas, IRISA, France
R. Parekh, Iowa State University, USA
L. Pitt, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
D. Powers, Flinders University, Australia
L. Reeker, National Science Foundation, USA
C. Samuelsson, Lucent Technologies, USA
A. Sharma, University of New South Wales, Australia.
E. Vidal, U. Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
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Local Arrangements Committee
Dale Grosvenor, Iowa State University, USA.
K. Balakrishnan, Iowa State University, USA.
R. Parekh, Iowa State University, USA
J. Yang, Iowa State University, USA.
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Conference Format and Proceedings
The conference will include oral and possibly poster presentations of
accepted papers, a small number of tutorials and invited talks. All accepted
papers will appear in the conference proceedings to be published by a major
publisher. (Negotiations are underway with Springer-Verlag regarding the
publication of ICGI-98 proceedings as a volume in their Lecture Notes in
Artificial Intelligence a subseries of the Lecture Notes in Computer
Science).
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Submission of Papers
Postscript versions of the papers no more than 12 pages long, (including
figures, tables, and references), prepared according to the formatting
guidelines should be submitted electronically to
icgi98-submissions@cs.iastate.edu. The formatting guidelines (including
commonly used word-processor macros and templates) will be placed online
shortly.
In those rare instances where authors might be unable to submit postscript
versions of their papers electronically, we will try to accomodate them.
Each paper will be rigorously refereed by at least 2 reviewers for technical
soundness, originality, and clarity of presentation.
Deadlines
The relevant schedule for paper submissions is as follows:
* March 1, 1998. Deadline for receipt of manuscripts
* April 21, 1998. Notification of acceptance
* May 15, 1998. Camera ready copies due
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Submission of Proposals for Tutorials
The conference will include a small number of short (2-hour) tutorials on
selected topics in grammatical inference. Some examples of possible tutorial
topics are: Hidden Markov Models, Grammatical Inference Applications in
Computational Biology and PAC learnability of Grammars. This list is meant
only to be suggestive and not exhaustive. Those interested in presenting a a
tutorial should submit a proposal (in plain text format) to
icgi-submissions@cs.iastate.edu by electronic mail:
* A brief abstract (300 words or less) describing the topics to be
covered
* A brief description of the target audience and their expected
background
* A brief curriculum vitae including the proposer's relevant
qualifications and publications
The relevant schedule for tutorials is as follows:
* March 1, 1998. Deadline for receipt of tutorial proposals
* April 1, 1998. Notification of acceptance
* May 15, 1998. Tutorial notes due
Date: 15.-20. September 1997
Place: Tbilisi, Georgia
Info: http://www.wins.uva.nl/research/illc/ege/sts.html
Second Tbilisi Symposium
on
Language, Logic and Computation
Tbilisi, Georgia
September 15-20, 1997
The Georgian Centre for Language, Logic and Speech, based at Tbilisi
State University will host the SECOND TBILISI SYMPOSIUM on Language, Logic
and Computation as a means of foresting contacts and sharing of scientific
experience in mentioned fields between scholars from West and C&EE including
NIS.
PROGRAMMME COMMITTEE
Co-chairs: R. Cooper (Gothenburg University, Gothenburg),
T. Gamkrelidze (Oriental Institure, Georgian Academy of Sciences, Tbilisi).
A. Anisimov (Kiev State University, Kiev),
J. Antidze (Institute of Applied Mathematics of Tbilisi State
University, Tbilisi).
E. Engdahl (Gothenburg University, Gothenburg)
G. Erbach ( German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI),
Saarbrucken),
J. Ginzburg ( The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem),
S. Jablonski (Moscow State University, Moscow),
N. Leontjeva (Institute of USA&Canada, Russian Academy of Sciences,
Moscow),
I. Melchuk (Montreal University, Montreal),
R. Omanadze (Institute of Applied Mathematics at Tbilisi State
University, Tbilisi),
M. Ratsa (Institute of Mathematics at the Centre of Computation,
Moldavian Academy of Sciences, Kishinev),
E. Vallduvi ( Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona).
INVITED SPEAKERS
Ju. Apresjan ( Institute for Information Transsmision Problems,
Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow),
Ju. Ershov (Institute of Mathematics, Siberian Dpt. of Russian
Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk),
J. Gippert ( University of Frankfurt, Frankfurt a/M),
D. de Jongh (Institute of Logic, Language, Information,Amsterdam),
A. Voronkov ( Uppsala Universirty, Uppsala).
PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME
Monday, September 15 - arrival
Tuesday, September 16
First Session
10 - 10.45 Invited lecture
Dick de Jongh (Amsterdam, Netherlands).
Propositional theories in intuitionistic and modal logics.
10.45 - 11.15
Barbara Partee (UMass, Amherst, USA) and Vladimir Borschev (VINITI,
Moscow, Russia) -- Integrating Lexical and Formal Semantics: Genitives,
Relational Nouns, and Type-Shifting
11.15 - 11.45
T.N. Macharashvili (National Health Management Center, Tbilisi, Georgia) and
I.V. Gagoidze (Medical Institute "Sakartvelo", Tbilisi, Georgia) -- Text as a
chaotic Time Series
11.45 -- 12.15 Coffee break
12.15 - 12.45
Beata Gyuris (Lorand Eotvos University, Budapest, Hungary) -- Analysis of
Hungarian Adverbial Quantifiers in a Generalized Quantifier Framework
12.45 - 13.15
R. Asatiani (Oriental Institute of Georgian Academy of Sciences),
W. Gonet (Institute of Inglish, Dublin, Poland) -- Semantics
and Typology of Yes/No Particles (A Cross-Linguistic Study)
13.15 - 13.45
Jan van Kuppevelt (Amsterdam, Netherlands) -- Discourse structure and
semantic versus pragmatic inference
13.45 - 15.30 Lunch Break
Second Session
15.30 -- 16.00 N. Chanishvili (Tbilisi State University) -- Semantics of
Passivisation in Georgian
16.00 -- 16.30
T. D. Grigorashvili (Oriental Institute of Georgian Academy of Sciences) --
Co-ordinating conjunction in Georgian
16.30 -- 17.00
J. Antidze (Institute of Applied Mathematics of Tbilisi State University,
Tbilisi) -- Montague Grammar for enlarged Fragment of Georgian Language
17.00 -- 17.30 Coffee break
17.30 -- 18.00
M. Ivanishvili (Oriental Institute of Georgian Academy of Sciences) --
Cultural and Logical bases for duplicate forms in Proto-Languages
18.15 -- 18.45
M. Sakhokia (Oriental Institute of Georgian Academy of Sciences) --
Deep Reconstructions in Morpho-Syntax: - Logic of Language
18.45 -- 19.15
N. Shengelaia (Tbilisi State University) -- Approaches to the General
Theory of Minor Words
Wednesday, September 17
First Session
9.30 -- 10.15 Invited lecture
Voronkov, Andrej (Lund, Sweden)
Automated reasoning with equality.
10.15 - 10.45
Teimuraz Kutsia (Tbilisi State University, Georgia) --
Semantics and Proof Theory of Disjunctive Logic Programs
with Implicative Goals
10.45 - 11.15
Philippe Schlenker (MIT, USA -- Fondation Thiers, France) -- Syntax =
Parsing? The insertion of adjectives in German DP
Coffee break 11.15 - 11.45
11.45 -- 12.15
Stephan Oepen (Saarbr"ucken University, Germany) and
Daniel Flickinger (Stanford University, USA) -- Competence and Performance
Profiling for HPSG Grammars; A Grammar Engineering Experiment.
12.15 -- 12.45
Gregor Erbach (DFKI, Saarbr"ucken, Germany) -- Mulinex: Multilingual
Indexing, Navigation and Editing Extension for the World-Wide Web
12.45 -- 13.15
Nina Leontieva (Institute of the USA and Canada, Russian Academy of
Sciences, Russia) -- Logic Possibilities of one Semantic Dictionary
13.15 -- 13.30
M. Tandashvili (Institute of Linguistics, Georgian Academy of Sciences) --
Concerning the Structure of the Electronic Databank of Caucasian Languages
13.30 -- 13.45
N. Tsuleiskiri (Department of General Linguistics, Kutaisi State
University) -- Linguistic Correlations of Speech Behaviour as
Socio-semantic Units
13.45 - 15.30 Lunch Break
Second Session
15.30 -16.15 Invited lecture
Apresjan, Ju. D. (Moscow, Russia)
About new explanatory dictionary of Russian synonyms.
16.15 - 16.45
Levan Chkhaidze, Tsitsino Kvantaliani, T. Kvinikadze (Georgian
Academy of Sciences, Georgia) -- Electronic Dictionary of Georgian
Verb Stems
16.45 - 17.15
George Chikoidze (Academy of Sciences, Georgia) -- Net
representation of reversible Morphologic Processor
17.15 - 17.45 Coffee break
17.45 - 18.15
L. Margvelani, L. Samsonadze, N. Javashvili (Georgian Academy of
Sciences, Georgia) -- Computer Aid for Georgian Morphology Teaching
18.15 - 18.45
E. Soselia (Oriental Institute of Georgian Academy of Sciences) --
For the typology of the Kartvelian Color Term Systems
18.45 -- 19.00
K Datukishvili (Institute of Linguistics, Georgian Academy of Sciences) --
Some Questions of Computer Synthesis of Verbs in Georgian (Computer
Processing of Natural Language)
19.00 -- 19.15
R. Kurdadze (Tbilisi State University) -- The ablaut grade role in
classification of Georgian vowel alternating verbs in the Computer
analysis of the text.
20.00 -- Party
Thursday, September 18
Morning Session
9.30 -- 10.15 Invited lecture
Yu. Ershov (Novosibirsk) -- Dynamic logic on admissible sets
10.15 -- 10.45 Konstantin Pkhakadze (Vekua Institute of Applied
Mathematics, Georgia)
(MG)MG= -Resolution and Its Soundness and Completeness in a Theory (T)T=
10.45 - 11.45
Paul Dekker (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) and Robert van Rooy
(Universit"at Stuttgart) -- Intentional Identity and Information Exchange
11.15 - 11.45
Rob Koeling (Groningen, Netherlands) -- Moving on the Dialogue
Game Board
11.45 - 12.15 Coffee break
12.15 - 12.45
Robin Cooper (Gothenburg, Sweden) Information states, attitudes and
dialogue
12.45 - 13.15
G. Kantaria (Tbilisi State University) -- The Problem of References in
Informatics
13.15 - 14.00 Invited lecture
Gippert, Jost (Frankfurt a/M)
Multilingual text retrieval - requirements and solutions
14.00 - 15.45 Lunch Break
15.45 -- half day trip
(for example Mtskheta);
Friday, September 19
one day trip (supposedly Kakheti);
Saturday, September 20
departure
LOCATION AND SIGHTSEEING TOURS
Georgia is the ancient country situated between Black and Kaspian
seas, Caucasus Mountains and Turkey. This is the country of Golden Fleece,
myth of Argonauts, Jason and Medea, Promethee, chained to the Caucasus
mountains. Tbilisi - capital of Georgia - has more than 1 million in habitants.
It is situated some 100-150 km to the South of main Caucasus ridge, in the
beautiful valley of the river Mtkvari, surrounded by the green slopes of the
Caucasus spurs. The city has a long (1500 year) history and
abounds in historical and cultural memorials. Georgia is famous for its
high quality wines, exquisite cuisine and cordial hospitality.
The main site of the Symposium, Tbilisi State University, is the chief
centre of education in the country, and has several outstanding scholars
in science, art and politics among its graduates.
The aim site of first trip, Mtskheta, is the ancient capital of
Georgia, situated some 20 kilometres from Tbilisi and abounds in
architectural and historical monuments, some of them are witnesses of
the first steps of Christianity in Georgia (IV century).
The area of the other tour is Kakheti, which apart from besides its
cultural memorials is distinguished by excellent grapes and wines produced
in this most vineal region of Georgia.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
GENERAL: I. van Loon (chair, co-coordinator of Project "Elsnet goes East",
(Amsterdam)
H. Melin (KTH, Stockholm),
M. Butskhrikidze (Lorand Eotvos University, Budapest).
LOCAL: T. Khurodze (chair, pro-rector of Tbilisi State University)
N. Chanishvili, G. Chankvetadze, L. Mchedlishvili, K.Pkhakadze,
T. Kutsia, Kh. Rukhaia, N. Shengelaja (all - Tbilisi State University);
R. Asatiani, G. Chikoidze, L. Chkhaidze, N. Javashvili, E. Soselia,
M. Tandashvili, E. Tavadze (Georgian Academy of Sciences).
SOME DETAILS OF ORGANIZATION
PROCEEDINGS OF SYMPOSIUM
Besides of the collection volume of 3 pages abstracts, publication
of Proceedings of Symposium is planned. Therefore it will be very convenient
for that end, if participants bring here with them the complete vershions of
their papers (8-12 p.p.) ready for print.
REGISTRATION FEE
Registration fee - 180 ECU (not obligatory for guests from C&EE
including NIS); it will be paid in US dollars or DM after arrival in Tbilisi.
The registration fees cover:
* the collection volume of the 3 pages abstracts,
* the breaks (coffee, tea, cakes),
* sight-seeing tours (Mtskheta, Kakheti),
* banquet
TRAVEL INFORMATION
Practically the only way of arrival in Tbilisi is by air.
If direct flight from your departure point does not exist, the preferable
ways are via Istambul or Frankfurt (for Western guests) and via Moscow
(for C&EE including NIS).
Dr. Gregor Erbach is arranging a group flight for the Western
European participants from Frankfurt. You can contact him for more
information:
e-mail: gor@dfki.de
ACCOMMODATION
The guests can choose to stay in hotels ("Muza"," Lia's Guest House")
or at Georgian families. Accommodation costs are approximately the following;
* one-place room - $ 60 per day (with breakfast)
* one-place room - $ 80 (including breakfast and dinner)
* two-place room - $ 70 per day (with breakfast and dinner)
* families - $ 45 (including breakfast and dinner)
For reservation, please, send by e-mail as soon as possible the
information including
* your name
* your affiliation, professional address, e-mail, phone and fax number
* your dates of arrival and departure
* the type of accommodation you need (single/double room in hotel, family).
* the name of the acompanying person (if any).
For this purpose and for additional information, please, use the
following addresses:
George Chikoidze
Inst. of Control Systems
34, K. Gamsakhurdia Av.
380060 Tbilisi
Georgia
Phone: (+995 32) 38 21 36
E-mail: chiko@contsys.acnet.ge
Ingrid van Loon
Faculty of Mathematics, Computer
Science, Physics & Astronomy
University of Amsterdam
Plantage Muidergracht 24
NL-1018 TV Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Phone: +31 20 525 5200
Fax: +31 20 525 5101
E-mail: ingrid@wins.uva.nl
*** This information is also avialable via
*** http://www.wins.uva.nl/research/illc/ege/sts.html
Date: 17.-19. September 1997
Place: Kassel, Germany
Info: http://www.uni-kassel.de/fb9/sprachw/lk/welcome.htm
32nd Colloquium of Linguistics
All Fields of Linguistics
September 17-19, 1997
University of Kassel
Germany
Ab sofort koennen Sie die neuesten Informationen, darunter das
aktuelle Programm, Termin- und Adressenuebersichten sowie eine
Formularmaske zur Anmeldung als passiver Teilnehmer am Kongress im WWW
abrufen:
http://www.uni-kassel.de/fb9/sprachw/lk/welcome.htm
Date: 17.-20. September 1997
Place: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Info: http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/berwick/parse.html
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION AND REGISTRATION
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1997 INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON PARSING TECHNOLOGIES
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
September 17-20, 1997
sponsored by
SIGPARSE
Special Interest Group on Parsing Technologies
(A Special Interest Group of the
Association for Computational Linguistics)
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IWPT'97 is the fifth workshop in a series of parsing technologies
workshops organized by ACL/SIGPARSE. This series of workshops was
initiated by Masaru Tomita (CMU) in 1989. This first workshop
(Pittsburgh & Hidden Valley) was followed by workshops in Cancun
(Mexico), Tilburg & Durbuy (Netherlands/Belgium) and Prague & Karlovy
Vary (Czech Republic). IWPT'97 will be held in and near MIT in
Cambridge, MA, USA.
TOPICS OF INTEREST for IWPT'97 include:
Theoretical and practical studies of parsing algorithms for natural
language sentences, texts, fragments, dialogues, ill-formed sentences,
speech input, multi-dimensional (pictorial) languages, and parsing
issues arising or viewed in a multimodal context.
REGISTRATION:
This year's meeting will take place at MIT, in Cambridge, Massachusetts,
USA, September 17-20.
All talks will be held in the Wong Auditorium, located in the Jack C.
Tang Center.
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LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS: Robert C. Berwick (MIT), Charles Yang (MIT)
Send queries about local arrangements to pbp@ai.mit.edu, or via the
conference home page.
CONFERENCE HOME PAGE: http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/berwick/parse.html
REGISTRATION:
Participants must pre-register with MIT Conference Services. The
simplest way to register is online, via the conference web page. Note
that due to security reasons (i.e., until Rivest can really prove that
Micali cannot crack RSA :-), we cannot accept credit cards via the web.
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Alternatively, please send the following information by August 1, 1997,
to the address below:
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fax: 1-617-253-7002
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Registration fee: (includes copy of proceedings)
General: $ 60.00
Student rate: $ 30.00
Gala Banquet: $ 30.00
All amounts are in US dollars.
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Onsite registration will be available 7:30 am to 5:00 pm, September 17
and 18.
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HOTEL ACCOMODATIONS
The Conference Services Office has reserved 75 rooms at the Hyatt
Regency Hotel. The Hyatt is located on the west border of MIT, within
walking distance to the meeting. The Hotel has two restaurants, a
health club facility with indoor pool, and parking is available. The
conference rate will be $186 single or double per night plus local
applicable taxes.
Guests should contact the Hotel DIRECTLY to secure their reservations,
1-617-492-1234; fax: 1-617-441-6906. The conference rate is only
guaranteed until three weeks prior to the start of the meeting. For a
list of alternative housing arrangements,please see the conference web
page section, http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/berwick/local.html
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TRAVEL
The nearest airport is Boston, Logan Airport.
Further travel information may be found on the conference web page.
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SCHEDULE:
Paper presentations will begin Wednesday, September 17.
A gala banquet will be held Friday evening, 7pm, at the Boston Computer
Museum.
Guests will be able to tour the entire musuem, including the giant
walk-through computer,
and there will be other special activities.
The workshop ends Saturday at noon, September 20, but arrangements have
been made for people to stay until Sunday, to take advantage of airline
fares.
Organization IWPT'97
General chair:
Harry C. Bunt, ITK, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
Local chair:
Robert C. Berwick, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Program committee:
Anton Nijholt, University of Twente, The Netherlands (chair)
Masaru Tomita, Stanford University, USA
Bernard Lang, INRIA, Paris, France
Mats Wir=C8n, Telia Research AB, Sweden
Alon Lavie, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
K. Vijay-Shanker, University of Delaware, USA
Aravind Joshi, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Bob Carpenter, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Robert C. Berwick, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Ken Church, AT&T Laboratories, USA
Makoto Nagao, Kyoto University, Japan
David Weir, University of Sussex, UK
Harry C. Bunt, ITK, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
Mark Johnson, Brown University, USA
Eva Hajicov=B7, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
Martin Kay, Rank Xerox, Palo Alto, USA
Mark Steedman, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Ronald Kaplan, Rank Xerox, Palo Alto, USA
Kent Wittenburg, Bellcore, USA
Date: 22.-24. September 1997
Place: Nancy, France
Info: http://www.loria.fr/~bechet/LACL.html
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Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics 1997
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SEPTEMBER 22-24, 1997 NANCY FRANCE
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http://www.loria.fr/~bechet/LACL.html
e-mail:lamarche@loria.fr
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The LACL conferences
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The first edition of the LACL conference, which was held in Nancy in September
1996, was very successful.This proves that there is a growing interest
in the use of logic in natural language processing, both for syntactic and
semantic models. LACL'97 will continue to bring together linguists, logicians,
philosophers and computer scientists around this theme in order to present the
latest results and to discuss the different approaches.
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Programme Committee
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Chairman: A. Lecomte (U. Grenoble 2)
B. Carpenter (Bell Labs)
M. Dymetman (Rank-Xerox, Grenoble)
C. Gardent (U. Saarbrucken)
Ph. de Groote (INRIA & CRIN, Nancy)
S. Kulick (U. Pennsylvania)
F. Lamarche (INRIA & CRIN, Nancy)
M. Moortgat (OTS, Utrecht)
G. Morrill (UPC, Barcelone)
A. Ranta. (U. Helsinki & U. Tampere)
P. Saint-Dizier (IRIT, Toulouse)
E. Stabler (UCLA, Los Angeles)
E. Villemonte de la Clergerie (INRIA, Rocquencourt)
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Organising Committee
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Chairman: G. Perrier
V. Antoine, D. Bechet, A.-L. Charbonnier, F. Lamarche and A. Savary.
INRIA-Lorraine & CRIN-CNRS, Nancy.
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Monday, September 22
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8:45-9:30: Welcome
9:30-10:20: Invited Talk I JOACHIM LAMBEK (McGill University, Montreal)
Some mathematical approaches to natural language
10:20-10:35: Break
10:35-11:35: Session 1
M. KANDULSKI Strong equivalence of generalized Ajduckiewicz
and Lambek grammars
S. SHAUMYAN, P.HUDAK & M.JONES Type-Directed Natural Language
Parsing
11:35-11:50: Break
11:50-12:40: Discussion I Logic-Mathematical formalisms and Grammars
12:40-14:00: Lunch
14:00-14:50: Invited Talk II DENIS BOUCHARD (Universite du Quebec, Montreal)
Ellipsis of the Noun and of the Determiner: recoverability,
number and partitivity
14:50-15:05: Break
15:05-16:35: Session 2
T. CORNELL Derivational and Representational Views of
Minimalist Syntactic Calculi
F. MORAWIETZ & T. CORNELL Approximating Principles and
Parameters Grammars with MSO Tree Logics
J. HODAS A Linear Logic Treatment of Phrase Structure
Grammars For Unbounded Dependencies
16:35-16:45: Break
16:45-17:35: Discussion II What formalisms for Minimalism?
Tuesday, September 23
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9:30-10:20: Invited Talk III YVES LAFONT (C.N.R.S., Marseille)
Applications of Phase Semantics
10:20-10:35: Break
10:35-11:35: Session 3
E. KRAAK Italian Object Cliticization: a deductive approach
H. HENDRIKS A Proof-Theoretic Analysis of Intonation
11:35-11:50: Break
11:50-12:40: Discussion III Advantages of the Proof-Theoretic Approach
12:40-14:00: Lunch
14:00-14:50: Invited Talk IV MARK JOHNSON (Brown University, Providence)
Features and Resources
14:50-15:05: Break
15:05-16:35: Session 4
P. BLACKBURN Feature Logics in Hybrid Languages
D. HEYLEN Underspecification in Subsumption-based Type-Logical
Grammars
N. FRANCEZ On the direction of fibring feature logics with
concatenation logics
16:35-16:45: Break
16:45-17:35: Discussion IV Comparing Feature Logics
20:00: Conference Dinner
Wednesday, September 24
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9:30-10:30: Session 5
M. VILARES FERRO, M. ALONSO PARDO & D. CABRERO SOUTO
An Operational Model for Parsing Fixed-Mode DCGs
D. TATAR & D. ZAIU Unification-based and object-oriented based
approaches to grammars
10:30-10:45: Break
10:45-11:45: Session 6
Z. LUO & P.C. CALLAGHAN Linguistic categories in mathematical
vernacular and their type-theoretic semantics
M. KINNUNEN Natural language interface to regular expressions
11:45-12:00: Break
12:00-12:50: Final Discussion
12:50-14:00: Lunch
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Nancy, which is the capital of the French department Meurthe et Moselle, is
easily accessible from Paris (Gare de l'Est) by train in about three hours.
There are also direct trains from Strasbourg, Luxembourg and Dijon.
The nearest international airports are the ones of Paris, Strasbourg
and Luxembourg.
The LACL conference will take place in the LORIA building at the address:
INRIA-Lorraine & CRIN-CNRS
Batiment LORIA
Technopole de Nancy Brabois
Campus Scientifique
615 rue du jardin botanique, B.P. 101
F 54602 Villers-les-Nancy Cedex
FRANCE
For more information about the location, please take a look at the WWW
server or send a mail to Francois Lamarche.
http://www.loria.fr/~bechet/LACL.html
e-mail:lamarche@loria.fr
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The registration fees for the conference are the following:
Before August 15 After August 15
Regular 700 FRF 900 FRF
Student 500 FRF 700 FRF
Both regular and student fees include the conference proceedings, the coffee
breaks, the lunches, and the conference dinner (September 23). Tickets for
additional conference dinners (for accompanying persons) can be purchased at
150 FRF.
You may register by surface mail, fax, or e-mail. Please fill in the enclosed
registration form and send it to:
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615 rue du jardin botanique, B.P. 101
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Fax (internat.): + 33 3 83 27 83 19
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Date: 8.-10. October 1997
Place: Heidelberg, Germany
Info: http://www.linguistics.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/~kiss/dgfs_prog.html
Dear linguists,
The program of the sixth meeting of the special interest group on
computationallinguistics of the German Linguistics Society (DGfS/CL
97) is now available at the following URL:
Das Programm der 6. Fachtagung der Sektion CL der DGfS ist unter
folgender URL verf|gbar:
http://www.linguistics.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/~kiss/dgfs_prog.html
Date: 16.-18. October 1997
Place: Paris, France
Info: http//www.linguist.jussieu.fr/~cssp97
COLLOQUE DE SYNTAXE ET SEMANTIQUE DE PARIS
CSSP 1997
THE PARIS SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS CONFERENCE
16-18 Octobre 1997
Universite Paris 7 Denis Diderot, Campus Jussieu,
2, place Jussieu, 75005 Paris.
CONFERENCIERS INVITES / INVITED SPEAKERS : Guglielmo Cinque, Donka
Farkas, Hans Kamp, Ruth Kempson, Ivan A. Sag
1. PROGRAMME
Programme provisoire / Provisional program
Jeudi 16 octobre
9h-9h10 : Ouverture du colloque
9h10-10h10 : Conferencier invite, H. Kamp (Stuttgart) (titre
preciser)
Semantique / Semantics
10h30-11h: C. Condoravdi (CYCORP), Presuppositional Underspecification:
The Case of 'Ksana'
11h-11h30 : L. Dekydtspotter (Indiana), Futur Proche et Futur Simple:
Reference et Quantification
11h30-12h : S. Gennari (Brown U.), Tense, Aktionsart and Sequence of
Tenses
12h-12h30 : J. Lecarme (CNRS-2LC), Nominal tense and tense theory
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Syntaxe / Syntax
14h-14h30 : D. Pesetsky (MIT), The Interpretation of Immovability
14h30-15h : J. Aoun (U. of South California), J. Nunes (Unicamp),
Vehicle change and Move F
15h30-16h : J.-P. Koenig (SUNY), K. Lambrecht (U. of Texas), French
relative clauses as secondary predicates: A case study in Construction
Theory
16h-16h30 : L. Sadler (Essex), Lexical integrity, small constructions
and the morpho-syntax of Welsh Clitics
16h30-17h : S. Kahane (TALANA), I. Melc'uk (College de France),
Synthese des phrases extraction : aspects semantiques et
syntaxiques
17h-17h30 : D. Kolliakou (Groningen), Towards an Inflectional Theory
of Definiteness
17h30-19h30 : Reception
19h30-20h30 : Conferencier invite : Ivan A Sag (Stanford)
Satisfying Constraints on Extraction and Adjunction
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Vendredi 17 octobre
9h-10h : Conferencier invite : Cinque (Venise), On the Positions
of Negative Phrases
Syntaxe-semantique / Syntax-semantics
10h30-11h : M. Honcoop (HIL Leiden), Reconstruction in and of itself
11h-11h30 : J. Kuhn (IMS Stuttgart), The syntax and semantics of split
NPs and floating quantifiers in Lexical Functional Grammar
11h30-12h : B. Crysmann (Saarbrucken), (Im)proper Quantifiers and
Clitic Placement in European Portuguese
12h-12h30 : D. Hardt (Villanova), A Dynamic identity Theory of
Ellipsis
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Semantique / Semantics
14h-14h30 : F. Newmeyer (U. of Washington), The perceptual deictic
construction in English
14h30-15h : H. Demirdache (U. of British Columbia), On descriptions in
(Lilloet) Salish
15h-15h30 : C. Pinon (Dusseldorf), On a distributive marker in
Polish
16h-16h30 : I. Derzhanski (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences),
Monotonicity and interrogation
16h30-17h : A. Franck (Rank Xerox), Deontic conditionals and
conterfactual asymmetry
17h-17h30 : R. Van Valin (SUNY), Generalized Semantic Roles and the
Syntax-Semantics Interface
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Samedi 18 octobre : Les indefinis / Indefinites
9h-10h : Conferencier invite : R. Kempson (Londres) On Concepts of
Scope - A Dynamic Perspective
10h30-11h : A. Giannakidou (Groningen), Free-choice indefinites in
Greek
11h-11h30 : L.M. Tovena (Geneve), J. Jayez (EHESS), Irreference vs.
non-veridicality : the case of any
11h30-12h : M. Becker (UCLA), The Some Indefinites
12h-12h30 : I. Comorovski (Nancy), Functional indefinites and the
proportion problem
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14h-14h30 : A. Cohen, N. Erteschik-Shir (Ben-Gurion U)., Are bare
plurals indefinites?
14h30-15h : L. McNally (Barcelone), V. van Geenhoven (Nimegue),
Redefining the weak/strong distinction
15h30-16h : T. Reinhart (OTS/Tel Aviv), Y. Winter (OTS), The
quantificational origins of 'referential' indefinites
16h30-17h30: Conferencier invite : D. Farkas (Santa-Cruz) (titre
preciser)
Reserve / Alternates
Syntaxe / Syntax :
C. Kennedy (Northwestern U), J. Merchant, (UCSC), Comparatives and
bound ellipsis
Syntaxe-semantique / Syntax-semantics :
M. Butt (Xerox PARC), T. Holloway King (Stanford), Focus, Adjacency
and Nonspecificity
M.-H. Cote (MIT), Variables situationnelles et individuelles dans
la quantification existentielle: vers une solution la restriction
sur les SN definis
Semantique / Semantics
T. Kurafuji (Rutgers), Definiteness of Koto in Japanese and its
nullification
Les indefinis / Indefinites:
M. Romero (UMass), Intensional Functional Readings and Transparency
E. Villalta (UMass), G. Boye (Paris 7), Combien de N...? Combien
... de N?, quelle est la question?
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For further information, contact:
Daniele Godard, Universite Paris 7, Linguistique.
email: cssp97@linguist.jussieu.fr
WWW: http//www.linguist.jussieu.fr/~cssp97
Date: 23.-25. October 1997
Place: Rome, Italy
Dipartimento di Linguistica
Universitý degli Studi di Roma Tre
EUROPEAN COLLOQUIUM
on
THE BOUNDARIES OF MORPHOLOGY AND SYNTAX
October 23 - 25
PROGRAMME
October 23th, 15.00
Sala Capizucchi
Piazza Campitelli 3
15.00 The Magnifico Rettore, Biancamaria Bosco Tedeschini
Lalli and Raffaele Simone, the Director of the
Department of Linguistics, open the proceedings
I Session
Syntax and pragmatics
15.20 Elisabet Engdahl (Gothenburg University): Integrating
pragmatics into a constraint-based grammar
16.05 Mara Frascarelli (Universitý degli Studi di Roma Tre):
Subject, nominative case,agreement and focus
16.50-17.05 Break
17.05 E'. Katalin Kiss (Hungarian Academy of Sciences,
Budapest): The English cleft construction: the
17.35 realization of an FP projection
Rosanna Sornicola (Universitý degli Studi di Napoli
18.05-18.20 "Federico II"): The interplay of pragmatics and syntax
in the grammaticalization of topic and focus
General discussion
October 24th, 9.30 a.m.
Aula riunioni, IVth floor
Via del Castro Pretorio 20
II Session
Morphological phenomena and their boundaries
9.30 Paola Benincý (Universitý degli Studi di Padova):
Fenomeni al confine fra morfologia e sintassi nella
morfologia verbale di alcuni dialetti italiani
10.00 settentrionali
Antonietta Bisetto e Sergio Scalise (Universitý di
10.30-10.45 Ferrara): Compounding: syntax and /or morphology?
Break
10.45
Marianne Mithun (University of California, Santa
Barbara) e Greville G. Corbett (University of Surrey):
ore 11.30 Incorporation and derivation: issues in word-internal
syntax
ore 12.15 Annarita Puglielli e Marco Svolacchia (Universitý
degli Studi di Roma Tre): the so-called verbal complex
in some Cushitic languages
Lorenzo Renzi (Universitý degli Studi di Padova):
Clitic or affix? The case of the Roumanian article
October 24th, 14.30
Aula riunioni, IVth piano
Via del Castro Pretorio 20
14.30 Christoph Schwarze (Universität Konstanz): Problemi
connessi con il trattamento della morfologia in LFG
15.15 Maria Zaleska (Uniwersytet Waeszawski): The irrealis
in the Polish language: a question of verbal moods,
15.45-16 conjunctions or the modal particle 'by'?
16.00 Break
16.30-16.45 Johan van der Auwera (University of Antwerp):
Morphology and syntax in German and Dutch verbal
prefixes
General discussion
III Session
Constituent order and other syntactic matters
16.45 Claire Blanche-Benveniste (UniversitÈ de Provence,
Aix-Marseille I): L'ordre des constituants en
17.15 franÁais parlÈ contemporain
Lunella Mereu (Universitý degli Studi di Roma Tre):
Agreement, pronominalization and word order in
20 pragmatically-oriented languages
Colloquium Dinner
October 25th, 9.30
Aula riunioni, IVth piano
Via del Castro Pretorio 20
9.30 Nigel Vincent (University of Manchester): Lexical and
10.00-10.15 historical syntax
General discussion
IV Session
Word classes
10.15
Annibale Elia (Universitý degli Studi di Salerno):
10.45-11 Verbi supporto e morfosintassi delle lingue romanze
Break
11
Vincenzo Lo Cascio e Elisabetta Jezek (Universiteit
van Amsterdam): Thematic-roles assignment and aspect
11.45-12.15 in Italian pronominal verbs: a lexicological study
Stella Markantonatou (National Technical University
of Athens): Verb
alternations without lexical rules: the case of
English motion verbs
12.15-12.30 General discussion
PRACTICAL INFORMATION
Location of the colloquium
The afternoon session on October 23th will take place in
the Sala Capizucchi of the Centro Studi Italo-francesi of
the University of Roma Tre (tel. 6797104) at Piazza
Campitelli 3. This is in the historical old centre of
Rome, between Piazza Venezia and Largo Argentina (buses
from Termini station: nos. 75, 57 (go past the station);
64, 65 (start in station square, but watch out for
skilled pickpockets!); it takes about 20 - 30 minutes
including waiting and walking times.).
The colloquium will continue in the Dipartimento di
Linguistica, in Via del Castro Pretorio 20 (tel.
4959354), near the Termini station (coming out of the
station, turn right on Via Marsala, then take the third
turning on the left (Via del Castro Pretorio); the
department is located about 50 metres down, on the left
hand side, in a courtyard.
If you arrive by airplane, there's a direct train for
Termini station every hour from "Leonardo da Vinci"
Airport (alias Fiumicino); it takes 30 minutes and costs
Lit. 13.000. As well as in 'Arrivals', you can buy
tickets from a machine or a small tobacconist/newspaper
shop on the right before going through the platform
barrier. The other, more frequent trains, showing
destination Fara Sabina, only cost Lit.7000, but don't go
to Termini. Along this route, the most convenient
stations would be Ostiense or Trastevere (15-20 mins.),
from where there are buses or taxis to the centre. A taxi
from the airport (fare: Lit. 60.000 - 70.000) takes about
40 minutes for the same journey, depending on the
traffic.
Hotel Information
Here is a list of hotels located in the two areas in
which the colloquium will take place. As October is still
high season in Rome, we suggest you make your
reservations as soon as possible by calling or sending a
fax to the hotels directly.
Fares (breakfast included) for some of the hotels are
reduced; when calling the hotel, you should make
reference to your taking part in the colloquium organized
by the Universitý di Roma Tre and ask for the fares which
our secretary, Mrs. G. Pagliai, has obtained for
participants at the Colloquium.
We suggest you choose one of the hotels in the old centre
of Rome, as they are located in a quieter area than the
Termini station.
The area code for all phone and fax numbers is +39-6.
Hotels in the old centre of Rome
SR DR
Cesari *** Lit. 200.000 Lit. 250.000
Via di Pietra, 89/a
tel. 6792386
fax 6790882
email:
Cesari@venere.it
(ask for Mrs. Cinzia ___ Lit. 250.000 (double
Farias) used as single)
Hotel Fontana *** Lit. 270.000
P.zza di Trevi, 96
tel. 6786113-6791056 Lit. 200.000
fax 6790024 Lit. 280.000
Hotel della Torre
Argentina ***
Corso Vittorio Lit. 130.000
Emanuele, 102 Lit. 180.000
tel. 6833886
fax 68801641
Hotel Erdarelli **
Via Due Macelli, 28
tel. 6791265-6784010-
6790705
fax 6790705
(ask for Mrs. Katia
(mornings) and for
Mr. Franco
(afternoon)
Hotels near the Termini station
SR DR
Massimo D'Azeglio Lit. 236.000 Lit. 315.000
****
Via Cavour, 18
tel./fax 4827386 Lit. 198.000 Lit. 298.000
Hotel Quirinale ****
Via Nazionale, 7
tel. 4707
fax 4820099
(ask for Mr. D. Lit. 165.000 Lit. 221.000
Miloni)
Nord ***
Via G. Amendola, 3
tel./fax 4885441
SR = single room with bathroom
DR = double room with bathroom
For further information please contact me by mail (Dip.
di Linguistica, Via del Castro Pretorio 20, 00185, Roma,
Italia), by e-mail (mereu@uniroma3.it) or by fax (+39 6
4957333).
Mara Frascarelli will try to solve any practical problems
you may have. She is on the organizing committee, and
will be available to answer your queries from July 1st -
31st and from September 1st onwards, every Tuesday and
Thursday from 10 to 12 a.m., by mail (at the Department
address), by telephone (+39-6-4959354), by fax (+39-6-
4957333), or via e-mail (frascare@uniroma3.it).
Best regards
Date: 29. October - 1. November 1997
Place: San Diego, California
Info: http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/mtsummit.html
MT Summit VI:
"Machine Translation: Past, Present, Future"
Catamaran Resort Hotel
San Diego, 29 October-1 November 1997
http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/mtsummit.html
A Once-in-a-Lifetime Opportunity:
No serious MT-ite can afford to miss MT Summit VI in San Diego
next October. Hosted by the Association for Machine Translation
in the Americas (AMTA) on behalf of the International Association
for Machine Translation (IAMT), this year's Summit coincides with
the 50th anniversary of machine translation. The celebration will
be truly memorable. AMTA and its cooperating host institution,
the Information Sciences Institute/University of Southern
California, take great pleasure in inviting you to join us in
commemorating this event.
Schedule:
The following schedule gives an overview of the events that have
been planned:
Tuesday, 28 October: 12-hour excursion to Ensenada;
all-day workshops on Interlinguas/Standards
Wednesday, 29 October: 3-hour tutorials in morning and afternoon;
registration;
opening of exhibits/reception, 6:30 p.m.
Thursday, 30 October: Plenary and parallel sessions, 9:00 a.m.-5:30
p.m.;
exhibits, 10:30-5:30 p.m.;
boat cruise, 6:00-7:30 p.m.;
beach luau, 7:30 p.m.
Friday, 31 October: Plenary and parallel sessions, 9:00 a.m.-5:30
p.m.;
exhibits, 10:30-5:30 p.m.;
banquet, boat leaves at 6:30 p.m.
Saturday, 1 November: Plenary and parallel sessions, 9:00a.m.-5:30
p.m.;
exhibits, 10:30-3:00 p.m.
The Program:
A rich menu of invited talks, submitted papers, and theater-style
system presentations, together with a panel that will reunite
early MT pioneers, will give special meaning to the conference's
theme, "Machine Translation: Past, Present, and Future." In a
format combining both plenary and parallel sessions, the three-
day program, including all day Saturday, covers the trajectory of
MT across the decades from the perspective of researchers,
developers, and users. The session topics, to be addressed by
experts from around the world, include:
Early MT history
Current state of MT
MT R&D around the world
The shape of commercial MT systems
Production MT
The market perspective
What do users need?
Whither MT?
Parallel to these main topics will be a second track of sessions
that will include submitted papers and live system presentations
in a theater-style setting. All sessions will be audiotaped, and
copies of the tapes will be available for purchase on-site
shortly after each session ends.
Tutorials and Workshops
On Wednesday, 29 October, participants are offered a selection of
four 3-hour tutorials:
Morning, 9-12 a.m.
"A Gentle Introduction to MT: Theory and Current
Practice"-Eduard Hovy
"Making MT Work for You"-Marjorie Leo'n
Afternoon, 2-5 p.m.
"MT Evaluation: Old, New, and Recycled"-John White
"Postediting MT: Strategies and Methods"-Karin Spalink
In addition, two workshops-one on the subject of interlinguas and
the other on standardization-are being offered on Tuesday, 28
October, outside the framework of the conference for attendees
who wish to come a day earlier. There will be a nominal charge.
Those interested should contact the organizers directly. Steve
Helmreich (shelmrei@crl.nmsu.edu) is coordinating the workshop on
interlinguas, and Alan Melby (melbya@byu.edu) is responsible for
the one on standards.
Exhibits:
In addition to the theater-style system presentations in the
regular program, throughout the conference MT developers will
also be showcasing their latest breakthroughs in the Exhibit
Hall. Exhibits Coordinator Kim Belvin (kbelvin@ucsd.edu) has put
out a call for exhibitors and is expecting a record-breaking
array of products and systems. This will be "one-stop shopping"
at its best for all MT-ites, whether their interest is in
purchasing or licensing MT systems or in viewing, understanding,
and comparing them. There will also be tabletop exhibit space,
available at a lower fee, for publishers and nonprofit research
groups. Anyone interested in exhibiting should contact Kim at the
e-mail address above as soon as possible because booths will be
assigned on a first-come, first-served basis and there may not be
enough room for all who want to exhibit.
Related Events:
Because of the celebratory nature of this year's Summit, a number
of other exciting activities will be rounding out the rest of the
conference schedule.
An all-day excursion to Ensenada, a major Mexican seaport and
tourist center, is planned for Tuesday, 28 October. This
spectacular 50-mile ride down the Baja California coast will
include a stop at Rosarito Beach; a typical Mexican lunch at a
restaurant with breathtaking views; a tour of Ensenada followed
by time for shopping, wine-tasting, museum-going, or strolling;
and an elegant gourmet dinner by the ocean at sunset-all this for
US$ 65.00.
Tutorials and registration will take place all day Wednesday,
29 October, and the conference proper will open with the 50th
Anniversary Reception at 6:30 p.m. in the exhibit area. The
reception is complimentary, sponsored in part by Logos
Corporation.
Box lunches will be available during the three days of the
conference. Tickets for the three lunches may be purchased for a
total of US$ 18.00.
On the morning of Thursday, 30 October, there will be a welcome
breakfast for participants' spouses or other traveling
companions, at which time they will be given suggestions of
various things to do in the San Diego area.
Thursday evening will be a double-header. At 6:00 p.m. the
hotel's magnificently detailed triple-deck sternwheeler, the "Wm.
D. Evans," will take participants and their companions on a
complimentary cruise of Mission Bay, sponsored in part by Systran
Software. During the cruise the entertainment will include
drawings for our exciting MT-oriented raffle (see separate
story), to be emceed by Bill Fry. On disembarkation at 7:30 p.m.
there will be a Hawaiian luau on the beach (US$ 20.00 per
person).
Finally, the banquet (US$ 50.00 per person) will be held on
Friday, 31 October, on the top floor of the Bahia Hotel, a sister
property of the Catamaran, also on Mission Bay. This site was
chosen for its spectacular nighttime views stretching to Mexico
in the south and La Jolla in the north. Transportation will be
provided on the "Bahia Belle," the hotel's smaller sternwheeler.
Later in the evening the "Bahia Belle" opens to the public with a
live band and dancing; those returning from the banquet may
choose to remain on board at no extra cost and continue to cruise
around the Bay.
Site and Accommodations:
The Catamaran Resort Hotel is a tropical paradise wedged between
its own beach on Mission Bay and the public boardwalk and Pacific
Ocean just a few steps away. Its conference center is perfect for
MT Summit VI, with bright airy rooms open to terraces, gardens,
patios, and the beach on the Bay.
The hotel has a pool, jacuzzi, fitness center, and business
center. Bicycles, skates, and various types of boats are
available for rent.
The immediate vicinity offers many shops and restaurants as
well as grocery stores and carry-outs.
Hotel parking passes are available at a special conference rate
of US$ 10 for three nights.
The guest rooms are luxuriously appointed, all with doors
opening onto either a terrace or a balcony. The special
conference rates are US$ 99.00 for an interior garden view and
US$ 109.00 for a view of the bay or ocean. Rooms in the Tower
have kitchenettes and sweeping views.
Participants should make their reservations directly with the
Catamaran-in the U.S.: +1 800/288-0770; from Canada: 800/233-
8172; from elsewhere: +1 619/488-1081; fax: +1 619/488-1619.
Neither space nor rates can be guaranteed after 28 September, so
make your reservation early!
Get There for Less!
Conventions in America, the Summit's official travel agency,
offers discounts on American Airlines and Alamo Rent A Car and
lowest available fares on any airline. Call +1 800/929-4242 in
the United States and Canada or +1 619/453-3686 from elsewhere;
fax +1 619/453-7976; or e-mail flycia@scitravel.com. Be sure to
mention Group #547.
Additional Information:
Complete registration packets were mailed at the beginning of
June to members of AAMT, AMTA, and EAMT, including the
preliminary program flier, hotel registration form, and assorted
other fliers. If you are not a member of one of the regional
associations, you may obtain this packet by contacting the MT
Summit VI Registrar: phone/fax: +1 703/716-0912; e-mail:
AMTA@clark.net. You may also register on-line at this Website.
Coordinates:
General Chair
Muriel Vasconcellos
President, IAMT
Phone: +1 619/272-3360
Fax: +1 619/272-3361
E-mail: MurielVasconcellos@
compuserve.com
Program Chair
Winfield Scott Bennett
Logos Corporation
Phone: +1 201/398-8710 x 104
Fax: +1 201/398-6102
E-mail: wsben@ibm.net
Local Arrangements Chair
Laurie Gerber
Systran Software
Phone: +1 619/459-6700 x 119
Fax: +1 619/459-8487
E-mail: lgerber@systransoft.com
Exhibits Coordinator
Kim Belvin
Phone: +1 619/481-8446
Fax: +1 619/350-8613
E-mail: kbelvin@ucsd.edu
Registrar
Deborah Becker
AMTA/IAMT Focal Point
Phone/fax: +703/716-0912
E-mail: AMTA@clark.net
Date: 13.-14. November 1997
Place: London, UK
Info: http://www.aslib.co.uk/
TRANSLATING AND THE COMPUTER 19
CONFERENCE AND EXHIBITION
13-14 November 1997 at One Great George Street London, SW1
This well established annual event will include papers on the latest
developments and products; how organisations are adapting current
products and systems; networking opportunities and the possible ways
forward for the MT industry.
Further details from:
Nicole Adamides, Events Manager
ASLIB, The Association for Information Management,
20-24 Old Street, London, EC1V 9AP
Tel: +44 (0)171 294 3740 Fax: +44 (0)171 430 0514
WWW: http://www.aslib.co.uk/
Email: nicole@aslib.co.uk
Date: 30. June - 2. July 1998
Place: Australia
Info: http://www.sultry.arts.usyd.edu.au/LFG98/
LFG98
1998 Lexical-Functional Grammar Conference
Emmanuel College, The University of Queensland
June 30 - July 2, 1998
LFG98, the third in a series of international conferences, will be
held next year in Australia, just before the Australian Linguistic
Society Meeting and the two week Australian Linguistics Institute.
The conference welcomes work both within the formal architecture of
Lexical-Functional Grammar and typological, formal, and computational
work within the `spirit of LFG', as a lexicalist approach to language
employing a parallel, constraint-based framework.
Call for papers: September 1997
Abstracts and papers due: January 31, 1998
More information: http://www.sultry.arts.usyd.edu.au/LFG98/
Local organizers: Christopher Manning <cmanning@mail.usyd.edu.au>
Jane Simpson <jhs@mail.usyd.edu.au>
Date: 6.-9. July 1998
Place: Amsterdam, the Netherlands
EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR, JULY 6TH-9TH,
1998
The biennial series on conferences on Functional Grammar will be
continued in 1998 at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Netherlands),
where a four-day conference will be held from 6th to 9th July
1998. The conference will be held on the campus of the Vrije
Universiteit and will comprise a number of plenary lectures, parallel
sessions, poster sessions and workshops, as well as a range of social
activities.
All the papers at the conference will address issues arising within
the theory of Functional Grammar, as presented in Simon C. Dik, *The
Theory of Functional Grammar* (2 parts), which is to be published
(posthumously) by Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin in the autumn of 1997. A
thematically based selection of the papers will, it is hoped, be
prepared for publication in book form.
The first call for papers will be sent out in August 1997. Those not
already on the Functional Grammar mailing list and interested in
receiving the first call or other information regarding the
conference, should contact:
Prof. J.L. Mackenzie
Department of English
Faculty of Letters
Vrije Universiteit
De Boelelaan 1105
1081 HV Amsterdam
The Netherlands
e-mail: mackenzi@let.vu.nl
fax: +31-20-444 6500
Date: 6.-16. July 1998
Place: Brisbane, Australia
Info: http://www.cltr.uq.edu.au:8000/ali98
The 1998 Australian Linguistics Institute will be held at The University of
Queensland, Brisbane Australia between 6-16 July 1998. The courses
currently available are:
Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Languages
---- The Grammar of Kinship in Central Australia: Gavan Breen
---- Languages of Queensland and the Torres Strait: Bruce Rigsby
---- Morphology-Syntax Interactions in Australian languages: Joan
Bresnan & Rachel Nordlinger
Asian Languages
---- Chinese Classifiers - a Cognitive Interpretation: Kit-Ken Loke
---- Topics in Japanese Linguistics: Anthony Backhouse
---- Morphosyntactic Typology and Grammaticalization in Sino-Tibetan:
Randy LaPolla
---- The Tai and Lao languages: Anthony Diller & Wilaiwan Khanittanan
Austronesian Languages
---- Aspects of Eastern Polynesian Grammar (Maori): Ray Harlow
---- Serialising and non-serialising verbs in Oceanic: Terry Crowley
English Language
---- Descriptive Grammar of English - the Verb: Rodney Huddleston
---- Historical Syntax in an English Context: Cynthia Allen
---- Variation and Change in present-day British English grammar:
Jennifer Cheshire
Romance Languages
---- Romance Syntax & Linguistic Theory: Luigi Rizzi & Adriana
Belletti
Languages in Contact
---- Language Contact Phenomena with Special Reference to
Codeswitching: Carol Myers-Scotton
---- Pidgins, creoles and other language contact varieties: Claire
Lefebvre & Jeff Siegel
---- The Interplay of Internal & External Factors in Code-switching -
the Case of Linguistic Minority Groups in Spain: Teresa Turell
Anthropological Linguistics
---- Topics in Anthropological Linguistics: William Foley
Cognitive Linguistics
---- Approaches to Grammar in Cognitive Linguistics: Arie Verhagen
---- Chinese Classifiers - a Cognitive Interpretation: Kit-Ken Loke
---- Discourse of the Mind: Shi-Xu
---- Metaphor, Mental Spaces and Discourse: Eve Sweetser
---- Speaking & Thinking: Wallace Chafe
Comparative Historical Linguistics
---- Language Change & Linguistic Reconstruction: Harold Koch
---- Computational Linguistics Corpus Linguistics: Chris Manning
---- Generating Natural Language: Robert Dale
---- Grammatical Formalisms and Grammar Engineering: Dominique Estival
Discourse Analysis
---- Discourse of the Mind: Shi-Xu
---- Speaking & Thinking: Wallace Chafe
Language Acquisition
---- Investigations in Universal Grammar: Research Methods in the
Study of the Acquisition of Syntax and Semantics: Stephen Crain
---- Second Language Acquisition: Michael Harrington
Language in Education
---- Assessment of bilingual/bicultural school age students for
possible language disorders: Alejandro Brice & Judy Montgomery
---- Cognitive Academic Language Learning Approach (CALLA):Anna Uhl
Chamot
---- Focusing on Form in Communicative Language Teaching: Diane
Larsen-Freeman
---- Grammar as Science - from curiosity to science through linguistic
inquiry: Wayne O'Neil & Maya Honda
Phonetics & Phonology
---- Practical speechwave and spectrogram reading for
non-phoneticians: Helen Fraser
---- The phonology and phonetics of prosodic structure: Mary Beckman
Semantics
---- Event Conceptualization and Verb Meanings: Beth Levin
---- Metaphor, Mental Spaces and Discourse: Eve Sweetser
Socio-linguistics
---- Language & Gender: Janet Holmes, Anne Pauwels & Jennifer Coates
Syntax and Morphology
---- Advanced Morphology: K.P. Mohanan & Tara Mohanan
---- Approaches to Grammar in Cognitive Linguistics: Arie Verhagen
---- Morphological Productivity: Laurie Bauer
---- Morphology-Syntax Interactions in Australian languages: Joan
Bresnan & Rachel Nordlinger
---- Romance Syntax & Linguistic Theory: Luigi Rizzi & Adriana
Belletti
Workshops
----Ethnosyntax (Convenor: Nick Enfield) July 11
----Language & Gender (Convenors: Janet Holmes, Anne Pauwels &
Jennifer Coates) July 11
----Language & the Law (Convenors: Diana Eades & Michael Cook) July 10
----Machine Translation (Convenor: Francis Bond) July 11
----Research Issues for Cognitive Linguistics (Convenor: June
Luchjenbroers) July 10
----Symposium on Language Contact and Language Contact Induced
Linguistic Change Convenors:
Patrick McConvell & Jeff Siegel) July 10-11
Details of the courses and the presenters, plus information about:
* Brisbane and Queensland
* Some other linguistics gatherings in Brisbane in 1998
* Details on fees for ALI 98 and
* a registration form for ALI 98, ALAA 98, ALS 98, Australex 98
and Lexical Functional Grammar 98
are all available at the Web site http://www.cltr.uq.edu.au:8000/ali98
Please contact the relevant people mentioned in the Web site for further
details, and not me.
Regards
Peter White
peterw@lingua.cltr.uq.edu.au
Date: 4.-8. August 1998
Place: Liege, Belgium
Info: http://engdep1.philo.ulg.ac.be/euralex.htm
Dear Colleagues,
I have pleasure in informing you that the 8th International Congress of the
European Association for Lexicography (EURALEX'98) will take place at the
University of Liège (Belgium) from 4 to 8 August 1998. The first circular and
call for papers are available from the following URL:
http://engdep1.philo.ulg.ac.be/euralex.htm
I would be grateful if you could update your list of NL-related events to inform
you members about this congress.
I thank you in advance,
Best wishes
Thierry Fontenelle
European Commission
Translation Service
Development of multilingual tools
Sdt AGL04
Jean Monnet Building (JMO B2/14)
L-2920 Luxembourg
Email: Thierry.Fontenelle@sdt.cec.be
Two classes on French in HPSG were held this summer:
Anne Abeille' (Univ Paris 7), Danie`le Godard (CNRS, Paris), and Ivan A. Sag (Stanford)
Syllabus:
7/7: Overview of HPSG. Some differences between English and French. Reading: Pollard and Sag, 1997
7/10: Overview of lexical types. Phrases and clauses. Clitics as pronominal affixes. The morphology of 'cliticization' Reading: Sag, 1997, section 3; Sag and Miller, 1997, sections 1-3. Background reading: Kayne, 1975: chapter 2; Miller, 1992: chapter 4
7/14: Tense auxiliaries. Auxiliary selection. Clitic Climbing without movement. Reading: Abeille' & Godard, 1994 (WCCFL), Sag & Miller, 1997 section 4.1, Abeille' & Godard, 1996 (Langages, section 1-2 ) Background reading: Davies and Rosen, 1988.
7/17: The copula. Lexical alternations: passives, reflexives, impersonals. Reading: Abeille' & Godard, 1996 (Langages, section 3); Abeille, Godard, Sag, Two kinds, 1997 section 5. Background reading: Ruwet, 1972, chapter 3 ; Alsina,1996, chapter 3-4
7/21: Causatives. Perception verbs. Clitic climbing and clitic trapping. Reading: Two Kinds, sections 4, 5.4; Abeille, Godard, Sag, 1997 French Relative Clauses, section 6. Abeille', Godard, Miller, 1997, Langue francaise. Background reading: Kayne, 1975, chapters 3-5; Rouveret & Vergnaud, 1980; Alsina, 1996, chapter 6; Koenig, 1996, chapter 6
7/24: Extraction: the basics. Relative Clause Constructions. 'Stylistic' Inversion. Reading: Abeille', Godard, Sag, 1997 French Relative Clauses. Background reading: Kayne and Pollock, 1978: Sag and Fodor, 1994; Sag, 1997, English relative Clause Constructions
7/28: Negation without head movement. Adverbs: modifiers vs arguments. Reading: Kim and Sag, WCCFL 1995; Abeille' & Godard, 1996 The Syntax of French Negative Adverbs Background reading: Pollock, 1989
7/31: Word Order and Weight Reading: Abeille' & Godard, 1997 French Word order and lexical Weight
Anne Abeille' (Univ Paris 7), Danie`le Godard (CNRS, Paris), and Philip Miller (Univ Lille)
Syllabus:
11/8: Overview of HPSG. Some differences between English and French. Reading: Pollard and Sag, 1997 Background reading: Pollard and Sag 1987, 1994, Abeille 1993 chap 3
12/10: Overview of lexical types. Phrases and clauses. Reading: Sag, 1997, section 3
13/8 Clitics as pronominal affixes. The morphology of 'cliticization' Reading: Sag & Miller, 1997, sections 1-3. Background reading: Kayne, 1975: chapter 2; Miller, 1992: chapter 4
14/8: Tense auxiliaries. Auxiliary selection. Clitic Climbing without movement. Reading: Abeille' & Godard, 1994 (WCCFL), Sag & Miller, 1997 section 4.1, Abeille' & Godard, 1996 (Langages, section 1-2 ) Background reading: Davies and Rosen, 1988.
15/8 The copula. Reading: Abeille' & Godard, 1996 (Langages, section 3)
18/8: Lexical alternations: passives, reflexives, impersonals. Reading: Abeille' & Godard, 1996 (Langages, section 3); Abeille, Godard, Sag, Two kinds, 1997 section 5. Background reading: Ruwet, 1972, chapter 3 ; Alsina,1996, chapter 3-4
19/8: Causatives. Perception verbs. Clitic climbing and clitic trapping. Reading: Two Kinds, sections 4, 5.4; Abeille, Godard, Sag, 1997 French Relative Clauses, section 6. Abeille', Godard, Miller, 1997, Langue francaise. Background reading: Kayne, 1975, chapters 3-5; Rouveret & Vergnaud, 1980; Alsina, 1996, chapter 6; Koenig, 1996, chapter 6
20/8: Extraction: the basics. Relative Clause Constructions. Reading: Abeille', Godard, Sag, 1997 French Relative Clauses. Background reading: Kayne and Pollock, 1978: Sag and Fodor, 1994; Sag, 1997, English relative Clause Constructions
21/8: Negation and Adverbs: modifiers vs arguments. Reading: Abeille' & Godard, 1996 The Syntax of French Negative Adverbs Background reading: Pollock, 1989
22/8: Word Order and Weight
Reading: Abeille' & Godard, 1997 French Word order and lexical Weight
REFERENCES
(* in the reader and the ESSLI CD-ROM)
Abeille' A. 1993. Les Nouvelles syntaxes : grammaires d'unification et analyse du francais. Paris : Armand Colin.
* Abeille', A & D Godard. 1994. "The Complementation of Tense Auxiliaries in French". WCCFL 13.157-172. Stanford: CSLI Publications.
* Abeille', A & D Godard. 1996a. "La Comple'mentation des auxiliaires francais". Langages 122.32-61.
*Abeille' A. & Godard D., 1996b. The syntax of French negative adverbs, in P. Hirschbuhler, F. Martineau (eds) Negation, J Benjamins.
Abeille' A., Godard D., Miller P. & Sag I., 1996. Bounded Dependencies in French, in Balari S. & Dini L. (eds) HPSG in Romance, CSLI Lecture Notes. to appear
* Abeille', A, D Godard, P Miller . 1997. "Les causatives en francais: un cas de compe'tition syntaxique". Langue francaise, to appear.
* Abeille' A. & Godard D., 1997. French Word Order and Lexical Weight. to appear in R. Borsley (ed) Syntatic categories, Syntax and semantics, New-York: Academic Press.
* Abeille' A., Godard D., & Sag I., 1997. Two Kinds of Composition in French complex predicates. A. Kathol, E. Hinrichs et T. Nakasawa (eds). Complex Predicates in non derivational syntax. New York: Academic press (to appear). (ftp://csli-ftp.stanford.edu/linguistics/sag/two-kinds.ps.gz)
Abeille' A., Godard D., & Sag I., 1997. French relative clauses, Univeristy Paris 7 & Stanford, ms. (ask sag@csli.stanford.edu)
Alsina, A. 1996. The Role of Argument-structure in Grammar: Evidence from Romance. Stanford: CSLI Publications.
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Kayne R. & Pollock J-Y 1978. Stylistic inversion, successive cyclicity, and move NP in French, Linguistic Inquiry, 9 (4): 595-621.
Kim, J-B & I. A. Sag. 1995a. "The Parametric Variation of French and English Negation". WCCFL 14, 303-317. Stanford: CSLI Publications. (revised 96: ftp://csli-ftp.stanford.edu/linguistics/sag/kim-sag.ps.gz)
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*Pollard, C. & I. A. Sag. 1997. HPSG: background and basics, ms.
Pollock, J-Y. 1989. Verb Movement, Universal Grammar and the Structure of IP. Linguistic Inquiry: 365--424.
Rouveret, A. & J-R Vergnaud. 1980. Specifying reference to the subject: French causatives and conditions on representations. Linguistic Inquiry: 97--202.
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Sag, I. A. & D. Godard 1993. Extraction of de-phrases from the French NP, Proceedings of 11th NELS, 519-539.
Sag, I. A. & Janet Fodor. 1994. Extraction without traces. WCCFL 13. 365--384. (ftp://csli-ftp.stanford.edu/linguistics/sag/sag-fodor-wccfl.ps.gz)
* Sag, I. A. & Miller P. 1997. French clitic movement without clitic or movement, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. (ftp://csli-ftp.stanford.edu/linguistics/sag/french-clitics.ps.gz)
Sag, I. A. 1997. English Relative Clause Constructions. Journal of Linguistics. ftp://csli-ftp.stanford.edu/linguistics/sag/rel-pap.ps.gz
The Conference on Formal Grammar 1997
took place from August 9-10 preceding the ESSLLI'97 Summer School in Aix-en-Provence, France.
The program included the following two HPSG-related presentations. The papers are published in the Proceedings of the Formal Grammar 1997 Conference, edited by Geert-Jan M. Kruijff, Glyn V. Morrill and Richard T. Oehrle.
The talk proposed a procedure for the syntactic reconstruction of ellipsis that covers (i) antecedent contained ellipsis, (ii) intersentential VP ellipsis, (iii) bare constituent ellipsis, and (iv) gapping. The procedure is head-driven, and it is implemented in a typed feature structure grammar which is a version of HPSG. It differs from most of the current approaches to ellipsis in that it does not require an abstract level of logical form as the input to the reconstruction procedure, and it reconstructs all elided elements in situ, rather than after extraction from an antecedent VP or clause. The procedure generates an AVM which specifies the reconstructed feature structure of the ellipsis site. This representation captures the primary syntactic and semantic properties of the elided elements.
Starting out from recent HPSG work which focuses on the lexical specification of exemplary lexical entries belonging to an intuitively understood classes of verbs, this talk provided a set of answers to the following three questions:
Furthermore, with the advent of the ARG-S attribute in addition to the three valence attributes an additional question arises that was discussed in the talk:
It is shown that commonly used abbreviation mechanisms fail to capture theoretical generalizations. Instead, it is discussed how implicational principles with complex antecedent of type word can be used to express the lexical generalizations. Regarding the status of the antecedent, it is argued that there are no formal reasons for preferring type antecedents and that complex descriptions as antecedents of constraints should be preferred since they can make reference to the relevant class-distinguishing information without requiring their duplication at the sign level.
available from: http://www.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de/~dm/papers/using-lexical-principles.html
Erhard Hinrichs and Detmar Meurers (Universität Tübingen) taught a two week introductory course at ESSLLI'97 on
"Grammar Development in Constraint-Based Formalisms"
The course introduced the theoretical concepts and implementational realization of the main ingredients of HPSG grammars: highly structured lexical representations and the encoding of universal well-formedness constraints on grammatical representations.
The course combined lectures with hands-on lab sessions in a computer pool of 20 Linux PCs. The lectures introduced the necessary formal, computational, and linguistic background, such as:
As computational basis of the course, the ConTroll system developed in Tübingen was used, which is now freely available from:
The system is based on the formal setup for HPSG developed by Paul King and offers both universal constraints to encode the principles (incl. complex antecedents) and relational constraints. HPSG theories can therefore often be directly implemented in ConTroll without having to recode them as phrase structure grammars or logic programs.
The Second ESSLLI Student Session
Chair: Alice Drewery
Among the 20 papers presented at the second ESSLLI student session in Aix-en Provence were the following three dealing with HPSG:
In current linguistic theory, subject-object asymmetries in German are a much discussed issue. One of the relevant test cases is the possibility of extraction from subjects. The traditional assumption is that German in this respect behaves parallel to English in the sense that extraction from subjects should be ungrammatical. In this talk it was shown that one can account for all those cases where extraction from subjects is ungrammatical without having to postulate subject-object asymmetries for German. Instead, it was argued that mainly lexical properties of the governing head determine the possibility of extraction from its arguments. It was presented how lexical constraints in HPSG can capture the observed generalizations.
In this talk an account of the subject-orientedness of Danish pronouns
based on HPSG control theory was presented.
Like many languages, Danish exhibits a distinction between reflexive and
non-reflexive possessive pronouns, a distinction which is not covered by
standard HPSG binding theory. Also, in Danish, pronouns may be divided into
subject-oriented and non-subject-oriented pronouns. Once subject-orientedness
is accounted for, the proposed analysis for possessives treating them as
control predicates lends itself to a natural account of their binding
constraints within HPSG binding theory without further extensions.
In this talk intra-sentential resolution of Turkish dropped pronouns in a phrase structure grammar was presented. Turkish is pro-drop and free constituent order language. The resolution scheme fro dropped pronouns depends on the constituent order. Resolution rules for different surface orders were introduced and an implementation for an HPSG based parser was presented. The implementation is based on incremental processing of non-local referential index sets during parsing.
All three papers are published in:
Proceedings of the Second ESSLLI Student Session edited by
Alice Drewery, Geert-Jan M. Kruijff and Richard Zuber
> From Andreas Kathol:
This is to announce that the HPSG list is back on-line, but at a different location:
Accordingly, the address for the listserver (for (un)subscriptionetc.) is now located at:
The setup is still somewhat provisional, so for instance, postings to the list are not currently archived.
Shuly Wintner completed his PhD in the computer science department of the Technion, Haifa on February 1997 and started a MINERVA post-doc fellowship at the Seminar für Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Tübingen, on April. The thesis abstract is included below; the complete version is available at http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~shuly/publications/phd.ps
Paola Monachesi has moved to Utrecht University (OTS) where she will be working with Michael Moortgat on the project "Complex predicates in Romance. Principles of lexical organization and grammatical deduction."
Office address (as of September 1, 1997):
Paola Monachesi
Utrecht University
Utrecht Institute of Linguistics (OTS)
Trans 10,
NL-3512 JK Utrecht
The Netherlands
Tel:+31-(0)30-2536653
Fax:+31-(0)30-2536000
> From Ivan Sag:
As of October 1, 1997, Bob Borsley has been awarded a Personal Chair in the School of English and Linguistics at the University of Wales, Bangor. Congratulations, Bob.
Valia Kordoni has moved to the University of Tübingen (SFS), where she will be working in the VERBMOBIL project on the construction of a treebank for the English VERBMOBIL corpus as well as manual and automatic alignment of German/English bilingual corpora.
Office address:
Valia Kordoni
Seminar für Sprachwissenschaft
Universität Tübingen
Kleine Wilhelmstr. 113
72074 Tübingen
Germany
tel. 07071-2977473
fax: 07071-550520
email: korder@sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de
Bob Borsley of University of Wales Bangor and Kersti Borjars of the University of Manchester have just signed a contract with Blackwell for an edited volume on `Non-transformational Syntax: A Guide to Current Models'. This will be essentially a non-transformational counterpart of Gert Webelhuth's GB volume. Contributors will probably include Georgia Green, Carl Pollard, Bob Levine, Gert Webelhuth, Jim Blevins, Joan Bresnan, Annie Zaenen, Dick Oehrle, Mark Steedman and Mark Johnson.
The ConTroll System, developed at the University of Tübingen (SFB 340), is now available for public distribution at:
ConTroll is a typed-feature based system, which was specifically designed for the logic of HPSG. The system is based on implicational constraints, including constraints with complex antecedents like the HPSG Principles of Pollard and Sag (1994). Relational constraints are also supported and can be freely interleaved with the principles. The system comes with a sophisticated graphical interface, debugger and general grammar development environment.
The following HPSG-related courses will be offered at ESSLLI-98, to be held from 17.-28. August 1998 at Saarbrücken, Germany.
The implementation of linguistically based grammars for natural languages draws on a combination of engineering skills, sound grammatical theory, and software development tools. This course provides a hands-on introduction to the techniques and tools needed for building the precise, extensible grammars required both in research and in applications. Through a combination of lectures and in-class exercises, students will investigate the implementation of constraints in morphology, syntax, and semantics, working within the unification-based lexicalist framework of Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar. Topics to be addressed in the course include the use of types and features, monotonic vs. default inheritance, usability for both parsing and generation, efficiency, and the use of test suites for evaluating progress. The daily implementation exercises will include experience with adding and repairing lexical types, lexical entries, lexical rules, phrase structure schemata, compositional semantic constraints, and testing data.
This course reviews a number of developments in HPSG that are
convergent with recent work in such other traditions as Fillmore and
Kay's Construction Grammar. This new perspective on phrases uses
multiple inheritance hierarchies to express cross-cutting
generalizations about syntactic phrases, in the process providing
coverage of a broader range of phenomena than has previously been
treated in HPSG grammars.
The primary focus of this course will be English clausal (declarative,
interrogative, relative and imperative) constructions, as analyzed by
Sag, Ginzburg, Malouf and others. There will also be a secondary focus
on issues raised by Kathol's related work on German clausal
constructions and also on the comparative perspective provided by work
on French by Abeille et al. and other studies that might be available
by the time of ESSLLI.
The theoretical framework presented in this course has been the basis
for the grammar implementation effort of CSLI's ERGO project. The
implementation-oriented course proposed by Oepen, Flickinger and
Copestake will be coordinated with this more theoretically oriented
course. The intention is to use our work in HPSG to provide an example
of the relation between linguistic theory and computational practice.
This course will presuppose some background in syntax and some
background in logic, but will not presuppose an in depth background in
HPSG.
The workshop is intended as a forum for presenting constraint-based approaches exploring empirical and formal issues of the syntax of Germanic languages (excluding English). A call for papers will be distributed by November 1.
The course aims at introducing some of the major formalisms used in computational linguistics nowadays, providing both the necessary mathematical background and the linguistic motivation.
A revised (Sept. 97) version of the textbook:
is now available on-line at http://hpsg.stanford.edu/
Comments are welcome.
Also now available:
This thesis is concerned with Bulgarian word-order phenomena involving clitics. It grew out of an interest in the way considerable word-order variance is achieved in a language exhibiting an impoverished declension system in combination with a well-developed mechanism for clitic replication. Across the languages, clitics' behaviour varies from that of word affixes to the autonomy of independent syntactic forms; in this respect, the intermediate status of Bulgarian clitics is particularly interesting.
As theoretical framework, the Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) is chosen, due to its essential property of offering a multidimensional, but nevertheless integral, sign-based representation of linguistic objects. The complexity of structural relations within the Bulgarian verb complex questions the adequacy and universal validity of lexicalist approaches to the treatment of clitics. The proposed analysis is based on a variant of HPSG that provides an additional morphosyntactic dimension for modelling analytic verb morphology and cliticisation. Once the step towards admitting the existence of morphosyntactic constituency is made, the language description gains in explanatory power and transparency with respect to a number of phenomena belonging to the vague "interface" area between the lexicon and syntax proper. The morphosyntactic grammar module distinguishes the Bulgarian language in the Slavic family, which illustrates that in HPSG the parametrisation of linguistic and cross-linguistic variation can occur in the grammar.
As a prerequisite for interpreting clitic replication on the clausal level, a typology of Bulgarian articled and non-articled NPs is developed, which provides criteria for determining the replication potential of nominal material. Clitic replication of full-fledged NP-complements has a communicatively-driven syntactic dimension and deserves special attention as a factor influencing the constituent order variation in the Bulgarian sentence. The proposed model of accusative clitic replication in the S-V-O sentence type, and accusative and dative clitic replication in the S-V-O1-O2 sentence type is capable of predicting when clitic replication is impossible, when it is obligatory, and when it is only optional.
Even though the linguistic research carried out in this work is strongly motivated by the need for an explicit formal description of Bulgarian constituent structure and word order for computer implementation, the formal issues have been moved to the second plan, with the intention of making the analysis comprehensible for the broadest possible circles of readers with a background in Slavistics. The lack of stress on formalisation, however, does not imply that the theory presented cannot be formalised. The fact that it has been successfully implemented in the form of a parser underlying an experimental grammar-checker for Bulgarian shows that a rigorous formalisation is indeed possible.
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Dr. Tania Avgustinova
Computational Linguistics, Universität des Saarlandes
Postfach 151150, 66041 Saarbrücken, Germany
tania@coli.uni-sb.de, http://coli.uni-sb.de/~tania/
phone: (+49) (681) 302.4504, fax: (+49) (681) 302.4700
In German, the scope determination of quantifiers and quantifying adverbials depends on word order variations. Variable binding, on the other hand, seems to be mostly constrained by configurational properties. We will present an analysis of scope determination and variable binding in German which does not rely on quantifier raising to determine scope. Here, scope is determined by considering both configurational and relational properties of a quantifier, i.e. by considering the grammatical function of the quantifier in relation to the grammatical functions of other quantifiers. It turns out then that the empirical observations about quantifier scope in German can be derived from the assumption that the nuclear scope of a quantifier can either be the semantic contri-bution of its syntactic sister or a more oblique grammatical function. Moreover, the analysis predicts that a quantifier may take wide scope over another quantifier but still is not able to bind a variable depending on the lower quantifier. The analysis is settled within Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar, but assumes an alternative event-based theory of semantics.
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PD Dr. Tibor Kiss, IBM Germany WT, Vangerowstr. 18
D-69115 Heidelberg, +49-6221-594483 -3400 (fax)
Alles was man sagen kann, kann man klar sagen.
This thesis is an investigation of phenomena at the interface between syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, with the aim of arguing for a view of semantic interpretation as lexically-driven yet contextually dependent. I examine regular, generative processes which operate over the lexicon to induce verbal sense shifts, and discuss the interaction of these processes with the linguistic or discourse context. I concentrate on phenomena where only an interaction between all three linguistic knowledge sources can explain the constraints on verb use: conventionalized lexical semantic knowledge constrains productive syntactic processes, while pragmatic reasoning is both constrained by and constrains the potential interpretations given to certain verbs. The phenomena which are closely examined are the behavior of PP sentential modifiers (specifically dative and directional PPs) with respect to the lexical semantic representation of the verb phrases they modify, resultative constructions, and logical metonymy.
The analysis is couched in terms of a lexical semantic representation drawing on Davis (1995), Jackendoff (1983, 1990), and Pustejovsky (1991, 1995) which aims to capture "linguistically relevant" components of meaning. The representation is shown to have utility for modelling of the interaction between the syntactic form of an utterance and its meaning. I introduce a formalization of the representation within the framework of Head Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (Pollard and Sag 1994), and rely on the model of discourse coherence proposed by Lascarides and Asher (1992), Discourse in Commonsense Entailment. I furthermore discuss the implications of the contextual dependency of semantic interpretation for lexicon design and computational processing in Natural Language Understanding systems.
The dissertation is available from
ftp://ftp.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/pub/kversp/thesis.ps.gz
Supervisor: Prof. Nissim Francez
Contemporary linguistic formalisms have become so rigorous that it is now possible to view them as very high level declarative programming languages. Consequently, grammars for natural languages can be viewed as programs; this view enables the application of various methods and techniques that were proved useful for programming languages to the study of natural languages.
One of the most successful implementation techniques for logic programming languages involves the use of an abstract machine. In this approach one defines an abstract machine with the following properties: it is close enough to the high-level language, thus allowing efficient compilation to the abstract machine language; and it is sufficiently low-level to allow efficient interpretation of the machine instructions on a variety of host architectures. Abstract machines were used for processing procedural and functional languages, but they gained much popularity for logic programming languages since the introduction of the Warren Abstract Machine (WAM). Most current implementations of Prolog, as well as other logic languages, are based on abstract machines. The incorporation of such techniques usually leads to very efficient compilers in terms of both space and time requirements.
In this work we have designed and implemented an abstract machine, Amalia, for the linguistic formalism ALE, which is based on typed feature structures. This formalism is one of the most widely accepted in computational linguistics and has been used for designing grammars in various linguistic theories, most notably HPSG. Amalia is composed of data structures and a set of instructions, augmented by a compiler from the grammatical formalism to the abstract instructions, and a (portable) interpreter of the abstract instructions. The effect of each instruction is defined using a low-level language that can be executed on ordinary hardware.
The advantages of the abstract machine approach are twofold. From a theoretical point of view, the abstract machine gives a well-defined operational semantics to the grammatical formalism. This ensures that grammars specified using our system are endowed with well defined meaning. It enables, for example, to formally verify the correctness of a compiler for HPSG, given an independent definition. From a practical point of view, Amalia is the first system that employs a direct compilation scheme for unification grammars that are based on typed feature structures. The use of Amalia results in a much improved performance over existing systems.
In order to test the machine on a realistic application, we have developed a small-scale, HPSG-based grammar for a fragment of the Hebrew language, using Amalia as the development platform. This is the first application of HPSG to a Semitic language.
The principal novel points of the dissertation are as follows:
First, it addresses the issue of how to formulate DRS's for the Japanese predicates with and without the aspectual marker TE IRU. First I give reasons why a cross-classification of aspect meanings is adopted, and then apply this to formalization of the aspect meanings of the TE IRU-form and Aktionsarten of verbs. Since this way of semantic specification produces ambiguous DRS's very frequently, I take up the problem of their disambiguation on the hypothesis that each verb follows a strong tendency to take either a progressive or resultative reading. It is demonstrated that actual linguistic data evidence this tendency, and I explore a way to apply this idea to ambiguity resolution.
Second, tense in complex sentences is dealt with. Japanese lacks in CONSECUTIO TEMPORUM (sequence of tense) which is found in English; its subordinate clause tense has a minimal specification which must be interpreted in relation to the tense in the matrix sentence. Minami's (1974) subordinate clause classification is applied to understanding of tense embedded in this type of syntactic structure. I also show that topic and focus, which behave under the strong influence of Minami's hierarchical classification, can be explained convincingly by using the same framework.
Third, the paper addresses the issues of transfer rules in Japanese- English machine translation. I propose rules for transfer of tense and aspect information in DRS's produced by input Japanese sentence analysis to DRS's corresponding to English sentences to be generated.
Lastly, I exhibit the result of an implementation of the rules proposed in the preceding chapters using Typed Feature System developed at the University of Stuttgart (Emele and Zajac 1990, Zajac 1992).
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Kei YOSHIMOTO
Graduate School of International Cultural Studies
Tohoku University
Kawauchi, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-77, Japan
E-mail address: kei@intcul.tohoku.ac.jp
Supervisors: Ileana Comorovski & Stephen Wechsler
In this dissertation I examine the internal syntax of noun phrases in Serbian. Based on headedness tests and word order patterns, I show that noun phrases in Serbian, a language with no articles, are headed by a Noun and not by a functional category, Determiner. I claim that headedness is a language specific property, related to the presence/absence of definite/indefinite articles in a given language.
I show that the semantic class of determiners employed in Serbian corresponds to a syntactic category, Adjective. I further show that the semantic notion of a quantifier corresponds to two syntactic categories in Serbian, an adjective or a noun, and not to a functional category, Q(uantifier). I point out that there is no empirical evidence that Serbian inflectional affixes, marking number, gender and case form their own functional projections. Thus, the functional categories used by many researchers working in a derivational framework to account for word order variation, cannot be used to account for word order in the Serbian noun phrase. Rather, I show that a non-derivational theory, such as Head Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, is more suitable for explaining both the word order and agreement facts pertaining to the Serbian noun phrase.
I also discuss in this dissertation the argument structure and case-assigning properties of nouns. I illustrate how the semantic distinction between process and result nominals is reflected morphologically and syntactically in Serbian. I show that binding relations are sensitive to this semantic distinction, whereby only subjects of process nominals count as obligatory binders of reflexives, paralleling the obligatory binding of reflexives by clausal subjects. An argument-structure based binding theory is proposed that accounts for these facts. With respect to case, I distinguish between structural and inherent case. In particular, I show that genitive case, assigned by nouns, is structural in Serbian; all other cases assigned by nouns are inherent. Nominalization and word order facts provide the evidence for this distinction.
This thesis concerns an analysis of the structure of Chinese NPs with respect to the Demonstrative (Dem), the Classifier Phrase (CLP) and the head noun (N) using Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG). We argue that a single schema - the Specifier-Head Schema - suffices to account for these aspects of the Chinese NP.
Through the analysis of the English those three books, we postulate a double-specifier hypothesis of X-bar theory and are able to predict a number of interesting results. For example, we can explain why three only selects books but not book. Using the hypothesis as a springboard, we demonstrate that the Chinese Dem-CLP-N structure can be accounted for singly by the Specifier-Head Schema. We also counter the claim that the numeral-classifier sequence is an inseparable unit. By typing classifiers, we can predict in a consistent manner whether an item can intervene in the numeral-classifier sequence. We also argue that Chinese noun phrases encode number via the numerals and certain classifiers, not via the noun since the nouns themselves are invariant with respect to the number distinction.
Finally, the analysis has been tested computationally through an implementation in ALE. Results consistent with the analysis are obtained, suggesting that it is both practical and accurate.
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Say Kiat Ng
Department of Linguistics
University of Edinburgh
Adam Ferguson Building
George Square
Edinburgh EH8 9LL, UK
E-mail address: nskiat@ling.ed.ac.uk
The following is the alphabetical list of the bibliographical information
submitted to Stefan Müller's HPSG Bibliography page at
since the previous issue of the Gazette. The full HPSG bibliography
can be found at the above address.
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@techreport{Avgustinova:Oliva:96, author = "Tania Avgustinova and Karel Oliva", institution = "Universit{\"a}t Saarbr{\"u}cken", number = "{Nr. 70}", title = "Unbounded Dependencies in {HPSG} without Traces or Lexical Rules", type = "CLAUS-Report", url = "http://coli.uni-sb.de/claus/claus70.html", year = "1996" } ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
@unpublished{Copestake:Flickinger:ea:97, author = "Ann Copestake and Dan Flickinger and Ivan A. Sag", title = "Minimal Recursion Semantics: an introduction", url = "ftp://csli-ftp.stanford.edu/linguistics/sag/mrs.ps.gz", url_checked = "06.22.97", year = "1997" } ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
@techreport{Flickinger:Nerbonne:91, address = "Saarbr{\"u}cken", author = "Daniel Flickinger and John Nerbonne", institution = "DFKI", month = "September", number = "RR-91-30", title = "Inheritance and Complementation: A Case Study of Easy Adjectives and Related Nouns", type = "Research Report", url = "http://www.dfki.de/lt/papers/cl-abstracts.html#RR-91-30.abstract", year = "1991" } ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
@mastersthesis{Fouvry:95, address = "Leuven, Belgium", author = "Frederik Fouvry", email = "fouvry@essex.ac.uk", homepage = "http://clwww.essex.ac.uk/~fouvry/", month = "June", school = "Faculteit Wetenschappen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven", title = "Een {H}ead-{D}riven {P}hrase {S}tructure {G}rammar voor het {N}ederlands in de {A}ttribute {L}ogic {E}ngine", year = "1995" } ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
@article{Gao:94, author = "Qian Gao", journal = "Linguistics", pages = "475--510", title = "{Chinese NP} Structure", volume = "32", year = "1994" } ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
@inproceedings{Gao:96, author = "Qian Gao", booktitle = "Proceedings of NACCL 7", title = "A Lexical Ruleless Approach to {Chinese} Grammar", year = "1996" } ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
@unpublished{Gao:In-progress, author = "Qian Gao", title = "Argument Structure, {HPSG}, and {Chinese} Grammar", year = "In progress" } ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
@inproceedings{Goetz:Meurers:97, address = "Madrid, Spain", author = "Thilo G\"otz and Walt Detmar Meurers", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 8th Conference of the EACL", email = "dm@sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de", homepage = "http://www.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de/~dm", title = "Interleaving universal principles and relational constraints over typed feature logic", url = "http://www.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de/~dm/papers/acl97.html", year = "1997" } ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
@inproceedings{Goetz:Meurers:97b, address = "Madrid, Spain", author = "Thilo G\"otz and Walt Detmar Meurers", booktitle = "Proceedings of the Workshop ``Computational Environments for Grammar Development and Linguistic Engineering (ENVGRAM)'' held in conjunction with the 35th Annual Meeting of the ACL and 8th Conference of the EACL", email = "dm@sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de", homepage = "http://www.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de/~dm/", title = "The {ConTroll} System as Large Grammar Development Platform", url = "http://www.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de/~dm/papers/envgram.html", year = "1997" } ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
@book{Grover:Vallduv:96, address = "Scotland", editor = "Claire Grover and Enric Vallduv{\'\i}", month = "May", publisher = "Centre for Cognitive Science, University of Edinburgh", title = "Edinburgh Working Papers in Cognitive Science, Vol.~12: Studies in {HPSG}", url = "http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/ccs/CCS-WPs/wp-12.ps.gz", url_checked = "08.30.97", year = "1996" } ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
@techreport{Hinrichs:Meurers:ea:97, address = "T\"ubingen, Germany", author = "Erhard Hinrichs and Walt Detmar Meurers and Frank Richter and Manfred Sailer and Heike Winhart", email = "dm@sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de", homepage = "http://www.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de/~dm/", institution = "SFB 340, Universit\"at T\"ubingen", month = "April", number = "95", title = "Ein HPSG-Fragment des Deutschen. Teil 1: Theorie", url = "http://www.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de/~dm/papers/sfb-report-nr-95.html", year = "1997" } ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
@unpublished{Kiss:97, author = "Tibor Kiss", email = "tibor@heidelbg.ibm.com", homepage = "http://www.linguistics.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/~kiss", month = "July", title = "Notes from the border: Scope and Variable Binding in German", url = "http://www.linguistics.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/~kiss/scientific.html", year = "1997" }
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@inproceedings{Li:96, address = "Singapore", author = "Wei Li", booktitle = "Proceedings of International Conference on Chinese Computing (ICCC'96)", title = "Interaction of Syntax and Semantics in Parsing {Chinese} Transitive Patterns", year = "1996" } ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
@inproceedings{Li:To-appear, address = "Vancouver, Canada", author = "Wei Li", booktitle = "Proceedings of North West Linguistics Conference 1997", title = "Outline of an {HPSG}-style reversible {Chinese} grammar", year = "To appear" } ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
@inproceedings{Li:McFetridge:95, address = "Brisbane, Australia", author = "Wei Li and Paul McFetridge", booktitle = "Proceedings of PACLING-II", title = "Handling {Chinese NP} predicate in {HPSG}", year = "1995" } ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
@inproceedings{Liu:96, address = "Singapore", author = "Gang Liu", booktitle = "Proceedings of International Conference on Chinese Computing (ICCC'96)", title = "On Serial Verbs in {Chinese} and Their Representation in {HPSG}", year = "1996" } ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
@incollection{Manning:Sag:ea:To-appear, address = "Cambridge", author = "Christopher Manning and Ivan A. Sag and Masayo Iida", booktitle = "Readings in Modern Phrase Structure Grammar", editor = "Robert Levine and Georgia Green", publisher = "Cambridge University Press", title = "The Lexical Integrity of Japanese Causatives", url = "ftp://csli-ftp.stanford.edu/linguistics/sag/jcaus.ps.gz", url_checked = "06.22.97", year = "To appear" } ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
@inproceedings{Meurers:97, author = "Walt Detmar Meurers", title = "Statusrektion und Wortstellung in koh\"arenten Infinitkonstruktionen des Deutschen", editor = "Erhard Hinrichs and Walt Detmar Meurers and Frank Richter and Manfred Sailer and Heike Winhart", homepage = "http://www.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de/~dm/", number = "95", pages = "189--248", url = "http://www.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de/~dm/papers/sfb-report-nr-95/kapitel3-meurers.html", url_checked = "05.24.97", year = "1997" } ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
@inproceedings{Meurers:97b, address = "Aix-en-Provence, France", author = "Walt Detmar Meurers", booktitle = "Proceedings of the Third Conference on Formal Grammar", email = "dm@sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de", homepage = "http://www.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de/~dm/", title = "Using lexical principles in {HPSG} to generalize over valence properties", url = "http://www.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de/~dm/papers/using-lexical-principles.html", year = "1997" } ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
@inproceedings{Mueller:To-appear, author = "Stefan M{\"u}ller", booktitle = "Proceedings of Formal Grammar, Aix-en-Provence", email = "Stefan.Mueller@dfki.de", homepage = "http://www.dfki.de/~stefan/", title = "An {HPSG}-Analysis for Free Relative Clauses in {German}", url = "http://www.dfki.de/~stefan/Pub/e_freeRel.html", year = "To appear" } ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
@techreport{Netter:91, address = "Saarbr{\"u}cken", author = "Klaus Netter", homepage = "http://www.dfki.de/~netter/", institution = "DFKI GmbH", number = "RR-91-21", title = "Clause Union and Verb Raising Phenomena in German", type = "Research Report", url = "http://www.dfki.de/lt/papers/cl-abstracts.html#kn91dyana.abstract", year = "1991" }
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@inproceedings{Netter:Kasper:ea:94, address = "Paris", author = "Netter, Klaus and Kasper, Robert and Kiefer, Bernd and Vijay-Shanker, Krishnamurti", booktitle = "In: 3$^e$ Colloque International sur les Grammaires d'Arbres Adjoints.~(TAG+\,3). Rapport Technique TALANA-RT-94-01", pages = "77-82", title = "HPSG and TAG", url = "http://www.dfki.de/lt/papers/cl-abstracts.html#knh2tparis.abstract", year = "1994" } ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
@incollection{Richter:97, address = "T\"ubingen, Germany", author = "Frank Richter", booktitle = "Ein HPSG-Fragment des Deutschen. Teil 1: Theorie", chapter = "2", email = "fr@sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de", editor = "Erhard Hinrichs and Walt Detmar Meurers and Frank Richter and Manfred Sailer and Heike Winhart", homepage = "http://www.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de/~fr/", month = "April", pages = "13--188", publisher = "SFB 340, Universit\"at T\"ubingen", title = "Die Satzstruktur des Deutschen und die Behandlung langer Abhängigkeiten in einer Linearisierungsgrammatik. Formale Grundlagen und Implementierung in einem HPSG-Fragment", url = "http://www.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de/~dm/papers/sfb-report-nr-95/kapitel2-richter.html", volume = "95", year = "1997" } ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
@techreport{Riezler:95, author = "Stefan Riezler", homepage = "http://www.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de/~riezler/", institution = "Universit\"a{}t Saarbr\"u{}cken", number = "{Nr. 50}", title = "Binding without Hierarchies", type = "CLAUS-Report", url = "http://coli.uni-sb.de/claus/claus50.html", year = "1995" }
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@article{Sag:Miller:To-appear, author = "Ivan A. Sag and Philip H. Miller", email = "sag@csli.stanford.edu", journal = "Natural Language and Linguistic Theory", title = "French Clitic Movement without Clitics or Movement", url = "ftp://csli-ftp.stanford.edu/linguistics/sag/french-clitic.ps.gz", url_checked = "04.13.97", year = "To appear" }
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@incollection{Sailer:97, address = "T\"ubingen, Germany", author = "Manfred Sailer", booktitle = "Ein HPSG-Fragment des Deutschen. Teil 1: Theorie", chapter = "4", email = "mf@sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de", editor = "Erhard Hinrichs and Walt Detmar Meurers and Frank Richter and Manfred Sailer and Heike Winhart", homepage = "http://www.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de/~mf/", month = "April", pages = "249--318", publisher = "SFB 340, Universit\"at T\"ubingen", title = "Adjunkte in einer Linearisierungsgrammatik: Syntax, Semantik und Wortstellung", url = "http://www.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de/~dm/papers/sfb-report-nr-95/kapitel4-sailer.html", volume = "95", year = "1997" } ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
@incollection{Winhart:97, address = "T\"ubingen, Germany", author = "Heike Winhart", booktitle = "Ein HPSG-Fragment des Deutschen. Teil 1: Theorie", chapter = "5", email = "winhart@sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de", editor = "Erhard Hinrichs and Walt Detmar Meurers and Frank Richter and Manfred Sailer and Heike Winhart", month = "April", pages = "319--384", publisher = "SFB 340, Universit\"at T\"ubingen", title = "Die Nominalphrase in einem HPSG-Fragment des Deutschen", url = "http://www.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de/~dm/papers/sfb-report-nr-95/kapitel5-winhart.html", volume = "95", year = "1997" }
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@inproceedings{Xue:McFetridge:95, author = "Ping Xue and Paul McFetridge", booktitle = "Proceedings of the Annual Conference of Canadian Linguistics Association", publisher = "University of Toronto Press", title = "{DP} Structure, {HPSG}, and the {Chinese NP}", year = "1995" } ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
@inproceedings{Xue:McFetridge:96, author = "Ping Xue and Paul McFetridge", booktitle = "Proceedings of the Conference of Chicago Lingusitic Society", title = "Complement Structure in Chinese", year = "1996" } ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
@unpublished{Xue:McFetridge:96b, author = "Ping Xue and Paul McFetridge", note = "Presented at Canadian Linguistics Conference 1996", title = "The Structure of {Chinese NP}", year = "1996" } ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
@inproceedings{Xue:McFetridge:To-appear, author = "Ping Xue and Paul McFetridge", booktitle = "Proceedings of the West Coast Conference on Formal Lingusitics", title = "Verb Complementation, Null Pronominals and Binding", year = "To appear" }
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