[MoL] TAG+9 Call for participation (fwd)

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Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:59:51 +0200
From: "Laura Kallmeyer" <lk at sfs.uni-tuebingen.de>
To: formalgrammar at cs.haifa.ac.il

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

The Ninth International Workshop on
Tree Adjoining Grammar and Related Formalisms (TAG+9)

6-8 June 2008
Tuebingen, Germany

http://tagplus9.cs.sfu.ca/

EARLY REGISTRATION DEADLINE: MAY 5th

An important subfield of computational linguistics and natural
language processing is research on the formal machinery for describing
language. This covers a wide range of interdisciplinary work in the
cognitive science of language, including the mathematical and
algorithmic properties of this machinery, the grammatical description
of natural language, and the mechanisms of parsing and human language
use. This research is also applied to empirical areas leading to novel
algorithms and models for machine learning.

Tree Adjoining Grammar (TAG) is a prominent formalism in the study of
natural language because of its attractive formal properties and its
extended domain of locality. TAG has been studied extensively in the
last three decades with respect to mathematical properties and
computational applications, as well as its role in constructing
grammatical theories, new models of language processing and
applications.

This workshop, the latest in a series that has been running
successfully since 1990, aims at bringing together researchers
interested in various aspects of the TAG formalism including relations
to other grammar formalisms -- this is the reason for the "+" in the
workshop's name. In the past, interaction between such formalisms has
been productive, leading for example to the shared development of
broad-coverage grammars, transfer of parsing and machine learning
algorithms from one formalism to another and to new insights into
properties of different formalisms. Such related formalisms would
include minimalist syntax, categorial grammar, dependency grammars,
HPSG, LFG, and others which share with TAG general properties such as
lexicalization of syntactic structure, a simple notion of local
grammatical dependency, and a formal system strictly more powerful
than context-free but not fully context-sensitive.

Invited speakers:

    * Uwe Moennich, Universit=E4t T=FCbingen
    * Stuart Shieber, Harvard University

The workshop program is available at http://tagplus9.cs.sfu.ca/program.html

The workshop, taking place on Saturday 7th and Sunday 8th of June, is
preceded by tutorials on Friday June 6. Tutorials are given by

    * Eric de la Clergerie, INRIA
    * Denys Duchier, Universit=E9 d'Orl=E9ans
    * Bob Frank, Johns Hopkins University
    * Maribel Romero, Universit=E4t Konstanz



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Laura Kallmeyer
http://www.sfb441.uni-tuebingen.de/~lk/
SFB 441, Universitaet Tuebingen
Nauklerstr. 35, 72074 Tuebingen, Germany
Phone +49 (0)7071 2977513, Fax +49 (0)7071 295830

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