LINGUIST List 12.667

Sun Mar 11 2001

Calls: Formal Grammar, Comp Ling/Host EACL

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

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1. larry moss, FG/MOL Second CFP
2. Philippe Blache, Call for bids to host EACL'03

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FGMOL'01 FGMOL'01 FGMOL'01 FGMOL'01 FGMOL'01 FGMOL'01 FGMOL'01 FGMOL'01



 	FORMAL GRAMMAR/MATHEMATICS OF LANGUAGE CONFERENCE

 		 August 10--12, 2001
 Helsinki, Finland


SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS

We are pleased to announce the joint meeting of two conferences:
the sixth conferene on Formal Grammar and the seventh on the
Mathematics of Language. The joint meeting will be held just prior
to the European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information.


AIMS and SCOPE

FGMOL'01 provides a forum for the presentation of new and original
research on formal grammar and mathematical aspects of language,
especially with regard to the application of formal methods to natural
language analysis.

Themes of interest include, but are not limited to,

* formal and computational syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and phonology;
* model-theoretic and proof-theoretic methods in linguistics;
* constraint-based and resource-sensitive approaches to grammar;
* foundational, methodological and architectural issues in grammar.
* mathematical properties of linguistic frameworks
* theories and models of natural language processing and generation
* parsing theory
* statistical and quantitative models of language

SPECIAL SESSION on MODEL-THEORETIC SYNTAX

There will be a special session of invited papers on model-theoretic
syntax. The speakers will be Geoffrey K. Pullum (keynote),
Patrick Blackburn, James Rogers, and Uwe Moennich.

ADDITIONAL INVITED SPEAKERS to be announced.

SUBMISSION DETAILS

We invite E-MAIL submissions of abstracts for 30-minute papers (including
questions, comments, and discussion).

A submission should consist of two parts:

- an information sheet (in ascii), containing the name of the author(s),
 affiliation(s), e-mail and postal address(es) and a title;

- an abstract, consisting of a description of not more than 5 pages
 (including figures and references). Abstracts may be either in plain
 ASCII or in (unix-compatible encoded) postscript, PDF, or DVI.


Abstracts can be sent to

	fgmolcs.indiana.edu

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE

April 1, 2001


NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE

May 15, 2001

PROCEEDINGS

A full version of each accepted paper will be included in the conference
proceedings, to be distributed at the conference. Full papers are due
June 30, 2001.

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

Anne Abeill'e (Paris)
Patrick Blackburn (INRIA)
Gosse Bouma (Groningen)
Mary Dalrymple (Xerox Parc)
Nissim Francez (Haifa)
Thilo Goetz (IBM)
David Johnson (IBM)
Mark Johnso (Brown)
Aravind Joshi (UPenn)
Gerhard J"ager (Utrecht)
Ruth Kempson	 (London)
Alain Lecomte (LORIA)
Uwe Moennich (T"ubingen)
Glyn Morrill (U.P. Catalunya)
Michael Moortgat (Utrecht)
Owen Rambo (Cogentex)
James Rogers (Earlham)
Giorgio Satta (Padova)
Mark Steedman (Edinburgh)

FURTHER INFORMATION

Web site for ESSLLI XIII: http://www.helsinki.fi/esslli/

Web site for FGMOL'01 :http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~ircs/mol/mol7.html


The organizers:

Geert-Jan Kruijff gjcogsci.ed.ac.uk
Larry Moss lsmcs.indiana.edu
Dick Oehrle 	 oehrlelinc.cis.upenn.edu

 Call for Bids to Host EACL'03


The European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
(http://www.eacl.org/) invites proposals to host the 11th Meeting
of the EACL (EACL'03). The EACL conferences are usually held during the
spring.

Proposal coming from any European country, but also from Middle-East
and North-Africa are eligible. The conference format will consist of
a main conference and up to 10 workshops and tutorials organized just
before or after the conference.

The proposal submission process is in two stages. First, draft proposals
are sought from prospective proposers. Based on the evaluation of the
draft proposals, selected proposers will be invited to submit full
proposals.

Draft proposals are due on 15 June 2001, and will be evaluated
at the EACL Board Meeting on 7 July 2001. Selected proposers will be
informed before end July 2001. Full proposals are due on 15 August 2001.

Draft proposals should include:

- Location (accessibility, conference venue, hotels, student dorms)
- Local CL Community
- Proposed Date
- Meeting space (space for plenary sessions, tutorials, workshops,
 posters, exhibits, demos and small meetings)
- A/V equipment
- Food/Entertainment/Banquet/Receptions
- Local Arrangements (chairs, committee, volunteer labour, registration
 handling)
- Sponsorships
- Budget estimates


Proposals will be evaluated in relation to a number of site selection
criteria (unordered):

- Experience of Local Arrangement team.
- Local CL community support.
- Local government and industry support.
- Accessibility and attractiveness of proposed site.
- Appropriateness of proposed dates.
- Adequacy of conference and exhibit facilities for the anticipated
 number of registrants
- Adequacy of residence accommodations and food services in a range of
 price categories and close to the conference facilities.
- Adequacy of budget projections and expected surplus.
- Balance with regard to the geographical distribution of previous
 conferences.


Draft proposals should be sent electronically to the EACL President:

 Prof. Donia Scott : donia.scottitri.brighton.ac.uk

Submission Dates:

Draft proposals are due on 15 June 2001;
Full proposals are due on 15 August 2001.