LINGUIST List 14.48

Wed Jan 8 2003

Calls: Formal Grammar/Japan Second Lang Association

Editor for this issue: Karolina Owczarzak <karolinalinguistlist.org>

Directory

1. shuly, Formal Grammar, Vienna Austria
2. waka, Japan Second Language Association, Japan

FGVienna: 8th conference on Formal Grammar

Short Title: Formal Grammar
Location: Vienna, Austria
Date: 16-Aug-2003 - 17-Aug-2003 
Call Deadline: 15-Mar-2003

Web Site: http://cs.haifa.ac.il/~shuly/fg03/
Contact Person: Shuly Wintner
Meeting Email: shulycs.haifa.ac.il
Linguistic Subfield(s): Computational Linguistics 


Call for Papers

Background

FGVienna is the 8th conference on Formal Grammar held in conjunction
with the European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information
(http://www.logic.at/esslli03/), which takes place in 2003 in Vienna.
Previous meetings were held in Barcelona (1995), Prague (1996),
Aix-en-Provence (1997), Saarbruecken (1998), Utrecht (1999, Helsinki
(2001) and Trento (2002).

Aims and Scope

FGVienna provides a forum for the presentation of new and original
research on formal grammar, with particular regard to the application of
formal methods to natural language analysis.
Themes of interest include, but are not limited to,
 * formal and computational phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics
 and pragmatics;
 * model-theoretic and proof-theoretic methods in linguistics;
 * constraint-based and resource-sensitive approaches to grammar;
 * learnability of formal grammar;
 * integration of stochastic and symbolic models of grammar;
 * foundational, methodological and architectural issues in grammar.
Previous conferences in this series have welcomed papers from a wide
variety of frameworks.

Submission Details

We invite *e-mail* submissions of 30-minute papers (including
questions, comments, and discussion). A submission should consist of
two parts:
 1. an information sheet (in plain text), containing:
 * title,
 * the name of the author(s),
 * affiliation(s),
 * e-mail and postal address(es).
 2. an *anonymous* paper, consisting of a description of not more than
 8 pages, including figures and references. Papers should be sent
 as email attachments in plain text (ASCII), PostScript or PDF.
 Preparation of the manuscript in LaTeX is highly recommended. 
Submissions should be sent to shulycs.haifa.ac.il (Shuly Wintner).

Proceedings

A full version of each accepted paper will be included in the
conference proceedings, to be distributed at the conference. All
papers will also be made available electronically.

Important Dates

 * March 15, 2003: Deadline for submissions
 * May 1, 2003: Notification of acceptance
 * June 15, 2003: Final version due
 * August 16-17, 2003: Conference dates

Program Committee

 * Gosse Bouma (Groningen)
 * Chris Brew (Ohio State)
 * Miriam Butt (Manchester)
 * Philippe de Groote (Nancy)
 * Maarten de Rijke (Amsterdam)
 * Mark Hepple (Sheffield)
 * Ruth Kempson (London)
 * Andras Kornai (Northern Light)
 * Geert-Jan Kruijff (Saarbruecken)
 * Guido Minnen (Motorola)
 * Uwe Moennich (Tuebingen)
 * Michael Moortgat (Utrecht)
 * Mark-Jan Nederhof (Groningen)
 * James Rogers (Earlham)
 * Anoop Sarkar (Simon Fraser)

Formal Grammar organizing committee

 * Gerhard Jaeger, ZAS Berlin/University of Potsdam
 * Paola Monachesi, OTS Utrecht
 * Gerald Penn, University of Toronto
 * Shuly Wintner, University of Haifa

3rd Annual Conference of the Japan Second Language Association

Short Title: J-SLA 2003
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Date: 24-May-2003 - 25-May-2003 
Call Deadline: 31-Jan-2003

Web Site: http://www.intsurf.ne.jp/~ykt/
Contact Person: Shigenori Wakabayashi
Meeting Email: wakagpwu.ac.jp
Linguistic Subfield(s): Language Acquisition 

Meeting Description: 

Place: Daito Bunka Meeting Center (Itabashi, Tokyo)
http://www.daito.ac.jp/access.html
Tel: 03-5399-7399

Plenary Address:
''Transfer in Hand and Mind: The Role of Typology in Second Language
Gestural Behaviour''
Eric Kellerman
Professor, University of Nijmegen
The editor of IRAL (co-editor Peter Jordens)
A member of the advisory board of J-SLA

Abstracts for papers are invited on any theoretical and empirical
studies in SLA. Abstracts for papers are invited on any theoretical
and empirical studies in SLA.

Abstracts are welcomed for 30 minute talks or poster sessions on any
aspect of second language acquisition. Individual papers will be
allotted 45 minutes (30 minutes of presentation followed by 15 minutes
of discussion).

Deadline for receipt of abstracts: January 31, 2003 (postmarked)
Notification of acceptance: February 28, 2003

For more information for abstract submission:
http://www.intsurf.ne.jp/~ykt/J-SLA2003/CallForPapers-E

Abstract Submission Procedure

By Post:

Please submit five copies of your abstract (1200 characters in
Japanese or 800 words in English printed on A4). On a separate sheet
of A4 paper, please give the title of the paper, your name,
affiliation, address, telephone number, fax number, e-mail address,
and type of proposal (paper or poster). Please note at the bottom of
the abstract whether you are willing to participate in the poster
session if your paper is not accepted. Please send the documents
(five copies of the abstract and one information sheet) to:

Shigenori Wakabayashi
Gunma Prefectural Women's University
1395-1 Kaminote, Gunma 370-1193 Japan

By E-mail:
Please paste the abstract (1200 characters or 800 words in English in
Japanese) into the message window of your e-mail client and write
''J-SLA Abstract Submission'' in the subject line. Please give the
title of the paper, your name, affiliation, address, telephone number,
fax number, e-mail address, and type of proposal (paper or poster) as
a list at the end of the message. Please note at the bottom of the
abstract (before the list) whether you are willing to participate in
the poster session if your paper is not accepted. Send the message to
following e-mail address:

wakagpwu.ac.jp (Shigenori Wakabayashi)

Notices regarding Abstract Submission:

(1) Figures and tables are not counted as part of the word limit, but
should be integrated into the abstract so that the abstract does not
exceed one page of A4 paper.
(2) Please give the title of the abstract at the top of the abstract.
(3) Please do not put the name of the presenter on the abstract.
(4) Upon acceptance of the abstract, presenters will be asked to
prepare a short version of the abstract for publication in the
program. Please prepare a short version of the abstract (no more than
300 characters in Japanese or 100 words in English) and include it
with the proposal on a separate sheet of A4 paper or at the bottom of
the e-mail message.

General Notices

(1) All presenters must be members of J-SLA at the time of the
conference. (It is not necessary for co-presenters to be members.)
(2) Information on joining J-SLA may be found at the following
website: http://www.intsurf.ne.jp/~ykt/
(3) No financial support for transportation and accommodation will be
offered.
(4) The language of presentations may be either Japanese or English.

For more information, please contact Shigenori Wakabayashi
wakagpwu.ac.jp
0270-65-8511 (extension 314)