LINGUIST List 10.986

Fri Jun 25 1999

Confs: Mathematics of Language

Editor for this issue: Karen Milligan <karenlinguistlist.org>

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1. Jennifer MacDougall, Program for upcoming MOL6 meeting - July 23-25, 1999

 Sixth Meeting on Mathematics of Language (MOL6) 
 July 23-25, 1999
 University of Central Florida
 Orlando, Florida

 
For more information, including information on how to register 
and all aspects of local arrangements, please visit the MOL6 local 
arrangements website at: http://www.cs.ucf.edu/~jrogers/MOL6/mol6local.html. 


THURSDAY 7/22

 6:00 pm Opening Reception, Harley Hotel 


FRIDAY 7/23

 9:00- 9:30 Generative Capacity of Multi-modal Categorial Grammars
		Gerhard Jager, Zentrum fur Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft

 9:30-10:00 Some remarks on the geometry of grammar
		Marc Dymetman, Xerox Research Center

10:00-10:30 Partial Proof-Nets and minimalist representations
	 Alain Lecomte, LORIA, Nancy, France

10:30-11:00 AM Break


11:00-11:30 A cubic Time Extension of Context-Free Grammars
		 Pierre Boullier, INRIA, France

11:30-12:00 Context Free Recognition with Weighted Automata
		 Corinna Cortes and Mehryar Mohri, AT&T Labs

12:00-12:30 Modularized Context-Free Grammars
	 Shuly Wintner, Institute for Research in
 Cognitive Science (IRCS), U. Penn

12:30- 2:00 LUNCH Break


 2:00- 2:30 Relaxing Underspecified Semantic Representations for
 Reinterpretation
		 Alexander Koller, Joachim Niehren, Kristina Striegnitz
		 Universitat des Saarlandes, Saarbrucken, Germany

 2:30- 3:00 On Conditional Information in Feature-Based Theories
		 Rainer Osswald, University of Hagen, Germany

 3:00- 3:30 A Quasi-Ring Construction for Compiling Attributed
	 Type Signatures
		 Gerald Penn, Universitat Tubingen

 3:30- 4:00 PM Break

 4:00- 4:30 Taming Complexity: Constraint-Based Dependency Parsing
		Denys Duchier, Univeristy of the Saarland

 4:30- 5:00 Tabulation of Automata for Mildly Context-Sensitive Languages
		 Miguel A. Pardo, David Cabrero Souto
 (Universidad de La Coruna, Spain) Eric de la
 Clergerie (INRIA, France) 

 5:00- 5:30 Models of tabulation for TAG parsing
 Mark-Jan Nederhof, Saarbrucken, Germany

 5:30- 7:30 Educational Session 
	 Co-Chairs: Robin Clark, UPENN and Larry Moss, Indiana University 
		
SATURDAY 7/24


 9:00- 9:30 Variables, interpretations and Quine-like combinators
		 Robin Clark, Dept. of Linguistics, U. Penn. and
 Natasha Kurtonina, IRCS

 9:30-10:00 The Algebraic Semantics of Questions
		 Rani Nelken and Nissim Francez, Dept. of Computer Science,
 The Technion, Israel Institute of Technology

10:00-10:30 A note on a certain class of quantifier denotations in
	 natural language
		 Robin Clark, Dept. of Linguistics, U. Penn. and
 Tom Morton, Computer Science, U. Penn. 

10:30-11:00 AM Break

11:00-11:30 Generalized Tree Adjoining Grammar
		 James Rogers, School of Computer Science, University
 of Central Florida

11:30-12:00 C-Command and Extraction in Tree Adjoining Grammar
		 Robert Frank (Dept. of Cognitive Science, Johns
 Hopkins) Seth Kulick (IRCS), K. Vijay-Shanker
 (U. Delaware) 

12:00-12:30 Exploring the Underspecified World of Lexicalized
	 Tree Adjoining Grammars
		 K. Vijay-Shanker (U. Del), David Weir (Univ. of
 Sussex) 

12:30- 2:00 LUNCH Break

 2:00- 2:30 Context-sensitive node admissibility revisited
		Dick Oehrle, Department of Linguistics and
 Cognitive Science program, University of Arizona

 2:30- 3:00 Synchronous Parallelism Between Different Grammar Formalisms
		Mark Dras, Dept. of Computing, Macquarie University, Australia

 3:00- 3:30 A Dynamic Event Semantics for the Analysis of Verbs and
	 Voice-Affixes in Tagalog
	 Ralf Naumann, Anja Latrouite, Seminar fur
 Algemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Germany

 3:30- 4:00 PM Break


 4:00- 4:30 Regular Description of Cross-Serial Dependencies
		Hans-Peter Kolb, Uwe Moennich, and Frank Morawietz
		 
 4:30- 5:00 Propositional Tense Logic for Trees
		Adi Palm, Dept. of General Linguistics, Univ. of Passau

 5:00- 5:30 The Horn Subset of systemic networks
		Jo Calder, HCRC, University of Edinburgh

 7:00 pm Banquet Dinner and Business Meeting, Harley Hotel 
 
SUNDAY 7/25

 9:30-10:00 Contextual Automata
		 Carlos Martin-Vide, Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics
 and Language Engineering, Spain

10:00-10:30 A Polynomial Parser for Contextual Grammars
		 Karin Harbusch, Univ. of Koblenz-Landau, Germany

10:30-11:00 Combing Contextual Grammars and Tree Adjoining Grammars
		 Martin Kappes, Fachbereich Informatik, Johann
 Wolfgang Goethe-Universitat, Germany

11:00-11:30 AM Break

11:30-12:00 Zipf's law outside the middle range
		 Andras Kornai, PPD Informatics/Belmont Research 

12:00-12:30 Language learning via Martingales
		 Charles Yang, AI Lab MIT and Sam Gutmann,
 Dept. of Mathematics, Northeastern Univ. 

12:30- 1:00 A Local Maxima method and a Fair Dispersion Normalization for
 extracting multi-word units from corpora
		 Jaoquim Ferreira de Silva and Gabriel Pereira
 Lopes, Universidade Nova de Lisboa