Formal Grammar 2003
Aims and Scope
FG is a series of conferences on Formal Grammar, held in conjunction
with the European Summer
School in Logic, Language and Information, which takes place yearly
in Europe. FG 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;
- the integration of stochastic and symbolic models of grammar;
- foundational, methodological and architectural issues in
grammar.
Editors' note
FG-2003
took place with ESSLLI 2003
in Vienna, Austria on August 16-17, 2003.
This year's conference included 11 contributed papers covering, as
usual, a wide range of topics in formal grammar. In addition to the
papers included in this volume, the conference also featured two
invited talks by
- Walter Daelemans,
University of Antwerp and Tilburg University
- Exemplar-based Language Models
- Geoffrey
Pullum,
University of California, Santa Cruz
- Issues in Formalizing an Informal Descriptive Grammar:
Supplementary Constituents in English
We are grateful to the members of the Program Committee for their help
in reviewing and ranking the twenty four submissions. We are indebted
to all the authors who submitted papers to the meeting, and to all
participants in the Conference.
Proceedings
The Proceedings are available as one PDF file
and as individual chapters:
- Front matter and index (PDF)
- Denis Béchet. k-Valued
Link Grammars are Learnable from Strings (PDF)
- David Chiang. MCSGs for Estimating Maximum Entropy Parsing
Models (PDF)
- Lionel Clément and Alexandra Kinyon. Automating the
Generation
of an LFG (PDF)
- Berthold Crysmann. An Asymmetric Theory of Peripheral Sharing in
HPSG (PDF)
- Alexander Dikovsky. Discourse Plans and Linguistic Meaning (PDF)
- Daniela Dudau-Sofronie, Isabelle Tellier, Marc Tommasi. A
Learnable Class of Classical Categorial Grammars (PDF)
- Hans-Martin Gärtner and Jens Michaelis. A Note on
Countercyclicity and Minimalist Grammars (PDF)
- Stephan Kepser and Uwe Mönnich. Graph Properties of HPSG
Feature
Structures (PDF)
- Jan-Philipp Soehn and Manfred Sailer. At First Blush on
Tenterhooks. (PDF)
- Beata Trawiński. A New Application for Raising in HPSG: Complex
Prepositions (PDF)
- Anssi Yli-Jyrä. Regular Approximations through Labeled
Bracketing (PDF)
Program Committee
- Gosse Bouma (Groningen, NL)
- Chris Brew (Ohio State, US)
- Miriam Butt (Manchester, UK)
- Philippe de Groote (Nancy, FR)
- Maarten de Rijke (Amsterdam, NL)
- Mark Hepple (Sheffield, UK)
- Ruth Kempson (London, UK)
- András Kornai (Northern Light, US)
- Geert-Jan Kruijff (Saarbrücken, DE)
- Guido Minnen (Motorola, US)
- Uwe Mönnich (Tübingen, DE)
- Michael Moortgat (Utrecht, NL)
- Mark-Jan Nederhof (Groningen, NL)
- James Rogers (Earlham, US)
- Anoop Sarkar (Simon Fraser, CA)
Organizing committee
- Gerhard Jaeger, University of Potsdam
- Paola Monachesi, OTS Utrecht
- Gerald Penn, University of Toronto
- Shuly Wintner, University of Haifa
Proceedings of Formal Grammar,
http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/FG/
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