Formal Grammar / Mathematics of Language 2005
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.
Mathematics of Language is a bi-annual conference series, held under
the auspices of the ACL Special
Interest Group on the Mathematics of Language. In 2005, FG
and MoL collocated their meetings in Edinburgh.
Editors' note
FGMoL-05
took place with ESSLLI
2005
in Edinburgh, Scotland on August 5-7, 2005.
This year's conference included 20 contributed papers covering, as
usual, a wide range of topics in formal grammar and mathematical
linguistics. In addition to the
papers included in this volume, the conference also featured three
invited talks by
- Nicholas
Asher,
Department of Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin
- Uwe
Mönnich,Seminar fuer Sprachwissenchaft, Universität
Tübingen
- Context-Free Tree Transductions
- Mark Steedman,
USchool of Informatics, University of Edinburgh
- Issues in Formalizing an InformalNatural Language Semantics
without Existential Quantifiers
We are grateful to the members of the Program Committee for their help
in reviewing and ranking the 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 (PDF)
- Berthold Crysmann. Underspecification
and Neutrality: a Unified Approach to Syncretism (PDF)
- Sivan Sabato and Yoad Winter. From Semantic Restrictions to
Reciprocal Meanings (PDF)
- Tim Fernando. Events from Temporal Logic to Regular Languages
with Branching (PDF)
- Petra Dünges. On the Formal Semantics of Begin and End of
States in a Model Theory for Temporal DRT (PDF)
- Tamás Bíró. How to Define Simulated Annealing for Optimality
Theory? (PDF)
- Alexa H. Mater and James D. Fix. Finite Presentations of
Pregroups and the Identity Problem (PDF)
- Denis Béchet and Annie Foret. On Rigid NL Lambek Grammars
Inference from Generalized Functor-Argument Data (PDF)
- Gregory M. Kobele and Jens Michaelis. Two Type 0-variants of
Minimalist Grammars (PDF)
- Jacek Marciniec. Learnability of Some Classes of Optimal
Categorial Grammars (PDF)
- Jens Michaelis. An Additional Observation on Strict Derivational
Minimalism (PDF)
- Ralph Debusmann, Denys Duchier and Andreas Rossberg.
Modular Grammar Design with Typed Parametric Principles (PDF)
- Wiebke Petersen and James Kilbury. What Feature
Co-occurrence Restrictions Have to Do with Type Signatures (PDF)
- Ron Artstein and Massimo Poesio. Bias Decreases in
Proportion to the Number of Annotators (PDF)
- Hans Leiss. The Proper Treatment of Coordination in Peirce
Grammar (PDF)
- Alessandro Mazzei, Vincenzo Lombardo and Patrick Sturt.
Strong Connectivity Hypothesis and Generative Power in TAG (PDF)
- Hans-Jörg Tiede. Inessential Features, Ineliminable
Features, and Modal Logics for Model Theoretic Syntax (PDF)
- Manuel Bodirsky, Marco Kuhlmann and Mathias Möhl.
Well-nested Drawings as Models of Syntactic Structure (PDF)
- Rui P. Chaves. A Linearization-based Approach to Gapping (PDF)
- Carlos Martín-Vide and Victor Mitrana. Further Properties
of Path-controlled Grammars (PDF)
- Willemijn Vermaat. Scope-marking Constructions in
Type-logical Grammar (PDF)
Program Committee
- Anne Abeille (Paris VII, FR)
- Tilman Becker (DFKI, DE)
- Pierre Boullier (INRIA, FR)
- Gosse Bouma (Groningen, NL)
- Chris Brew (Ohio State, US)
- Wojciech Buszkowski (Poznan, PL)
- Miriam Butt (Manchester, UK)
- Tim Fernando (Trinity College, Dublin, IE)
- Christophe Fouquere (Paris XIII, FR)
- Nissim Francez (Haifa, IL)
- Philippe de Groote (LORIA, Nancy, FR)
- Aravind Joshi (University of Pennsylvania, US)
- Makoto Kanazawa (National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo)
- Ruth Kempson (King's College, London, UK)
- András Kornai (Metacarta, US)
- Ulrich Krieger (DFKI, DE)
- Geert-Jan Kruijff (DFKI, DE)
- Jonas Kuhn (University of Texas, Austin , US)
- Shalom Lappin (King's College, London, UK)
- Alain Lecomte (Grenoble, FR)
- Carlos Martin-Vide (Tarragona, ES)
- Jens Michaelis (Potsdam, DE)
- Guido Minnen (DaimlerChrysler, DE)
- Mehryar Mohri (AT&T, US)
- Uwe Mönnich (Tübingen, DE)
- Michael Moortgat (Utrecht, NL)
- Drew Moshier (Chapman, US)
- Larry Moss (Indiana, US)
- Stefan Müller (Bremen, DE)
- Mark-Jan Nederhof (Groningen, NL)
- Richard Oehrle (Berkeley, US)
- Owen Rambow (Columbia, US)
- Christian Retore (INRIA & LaBRI, FR)
- Robert van Rooij (Amsterdam)
- Giorgio Satta (Padua, IT)
- Ed Stabler (UCLA, US)
- Mark Steedman (Edinburgh, UK)
- Hans Joerg Tiede (Illinois Wesleyan, US)
Organizing committee
- Gerhard Jaeger, University of Potsdam
- Paola Monachesi, OTS Utrecht
- Gerald Penn, University of Toronto
- James Rogers, Earlham College
- Shuly Wintner, University of Haifa
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