LINGUIST List 15.145

Fri Jan 16 2004

Calls: Discourse Analysis/Finland; Computational Ling

Editor for this issue: Marie Klopfenstein <marielinguistlist.org>

Directory

1. jan-ola.ostman, International Conference on Language, Politeness and Gender
2. shuly, FGNancy: The 9th conference on Formal Grammar

International Conference on Language, Politeness and Gender
Short Title: CLPG-2004 

Date: 02-Sep-2004 - 05-Sep-2004
Location: Helsinki, Finland
Contact: Jan-Ola �stman
Contact Email: clpg-2004helsinki.fi 
Meeting URL: http://www.nord.helsinki.fi/clpg/CLPG/ 

Linguistic Sub-field: Applied Linguistics, Discourse Analysis,
Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics, Anthropological Linguistics
Call Deadline: 15-Mar-2004

Meeting Description:

CLPG-2004. International Conference on Language, Politeness and
Gender: The Pragmatic Roots; being the joint conference of the Second
International Symposium on Linguistic Politeness, and the Fifth Nordic
Conference on Language and Gender. University of Helsinki,
Finland. The conference serves as a forum for promoting discussion and
collaboration among linguists and social scientists interested in
issues of gender and politeness in relation to language and discourse
in a variety of models and applications.

We invite 2-page abstracts of original research on any aspect relevant
to the theme of the conference. Abstract deadline: March 15,
2004. Please submit your abstract electronically to
clpg-2004helsinki.fi Abstracts will be refereed; authors will be
notified of acceptance by April 19, 2004. For more information, visit
our web page: http://www.nord.helsinki.fi/clpg/CLPG/

FGNancy: The 9th conference on Formal Grammar 
Short Title: FGNancy 

Date: 07-Aug-2004 - 08-Aug-2004
Location: Nancy, France
Contact: Shuly Wintner
Contact Email: shulycs.haifa.ac.il
Meeting URL: http://cs.haifa.ac.il/~shuly/fg04/ 

Linguistic Sub-field: Computational Linguistics, Syntax 
Call Deadline: 10-Mar-2004

Meeting Description:

FGNancy 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. FGNancy: The 9th conference on Formal Grammar

Collocated with the
European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information

Nancy, France, 7-8 August 2004
FGNancy, http://cs.haifa.ac.il/~shuly/fg04/ 

Background

FGNancy is the 9th conference on Formal Grammar held in conjunction
with the European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information,
which takes place in 2004 in Nancy. Previous meetings were held in
Barcelona (1995), Prague (1996), Aix-en-Provence (1997), Saarbruecken
(1998), Utrecht (1999), Helsinki (2001), Trento (2002) andVienna
(2003).

Invited Speakers
Two invited talks will be delivered by distinguished
researchers. Speakers and titles will be published in due course.

Submission Details

We invite e-mail submissions of original, unpublished 30-minute papers
(including questions, comments, and discussion). A submission should
consist of two parts:
an information sheet (in plain text), containing:
title,
the name of the author(s),
affiliation(s),
one e-mail address for the corresponding author,
if the same paper is under review for some other conference, the name
of that conference.

an anonymous abstract, consisting of a description of not more than 8
pages, including figures and references. Abstracts 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

Accepted abstracts will be included in the conference proceedings, to
be distributed at the conference. Full, revised versions will also be
made available after the conference as CSLI Publications Online
Proceedings.

Social Program
A conference dinner is planned for Saturday, August 7th. More details
will be published in due course.

Registration and accommodation
Registration will be handled by the ESSLLI local
organizers. Registration fee is expected to be approximately Euro
10-20 for ESSLLI participants, Euro 50-60 for others. Fees include one
copy of the Proceedings. Accommodation will be handled by the ESSLLI
organizers only for participants of ESSLLI. Other participants of
FGNancy are expected to arrange their own accommodation.

Important Dates

March 10, 2003: Deadline for submissions
May 1, 2003: Notification of acceptance
August 7-8, 2003: Conference dates

Program Committee

Chris Brew (Ohio State University) cbrewacm.org
Miriam Butt (Universit�t Konstanz) miriam.buttuni-konstanz.de
David Chiang (University of Pennsylvania) dchiangcis.upenn.edu
Tim Fernando (Trinity College, Dublin) Tim.Fernandocs.tcd.ie
Philippe de Groote (LORIA, Nancy) Philippe.de.Grooteloria.fr
Mark Hepple (University of Sheffield) M.Heppledcs.shef.ac.uk
Makoto Kanazawa (University of Tokyo) kanazawaiii.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Jonas Kuhn (University of Texas at Austin) jonaskmail.utexas.edu
Shalom Lappin (King's College, London) lappindcs.kcl.ac.uk
Jens Michaelis (Universit�t Potsdam) michaelling.uni-potsdam.de
Guido Minnen (DaimlerChrysler AG) guido.minnendaimlerchrysler.com
Uwe Moennich (Universit�t T�bingen) uwe.moennichuni-tuebingen.de
Stefan Mueller (Universit�t Bremen) Stefan.Muellercl.uni-bremen.de
Mark-Jan Nederhof (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen) markjanlet.rug.nl
James Rogers (Earlham College) jrogerscs.earlham.edu
Anoop Sarkar (Simon Fraser University) anoopcs.sfu.ca
Giorgio Satta (University of Padua) sattadei.unipd.it

Formal Grammar organizing committee

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