Formal Grammar 2008

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-08 took place with ESSLLI 2008 in Hamburg, Germany on August 9-10, 2008. This year's conference included 7 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 two invited talks by

Philipp Koehn, University of Edinburgh: The Emerging Role of Grammars in Statistical Machine Translation.

Markus Egg, University of Groningen: Underspecification: from semantics to discourse.

Proceedings

The Proceedings are available as one PDF file and as individual chapters:

• Front matter and index (PDF)
• Markus Egg: Underspecification: from Semantics to Discourse —Invited Talk— (PDF)
• Philipp Koehn: The Emerging Role of Grammars in Statistical Machine Translation —Invited Talk— (PDF)
• Anne Bjerre and Tavs Bjerre: Danish There-Constructions with Intransitive Verbs (PDF)
• Stephan Kepser: A Landscape of Logics for Finite Unordered Unranked Trees (PDF)
• Alain Lecomte: Semantics in Minimalist-Categorial Grammars (PDF)
• Wolfgang Maier and Anders Søgaard: Treebanks and Mild Context-Sensitivity (PDF)
• Mehdi Hafezi Manshadi, James F. Allen, and Mary Swift: Toward a Universal Underspecified Semantic Representation (PDF)
• Geoffrey K. Pullum and Hans-Jörg Tiede: Inessential Features and Expressive Power of Descriptive Metalanguages (PDF)
• Yael Sygal and Shuly Wintner: Type Signature Modules (PDF)
• List of Contributors (PDF)
  

Program Committee

• Pierre Boullier (INRIA Paris - Rocquencourt, France)
• Wojciech Buszkowski (Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza, Poland)
• Miriam Butt (Universität Konstanz, Germany)
• Alexander Clark (Royal Halloway University of London, UK)
• Berthold Crysmann (DFKI, Germany)
• Alexander Dikovsky (Université de Nantes, France)
• Denys Duchier (Université d'Orléans, France)
• Annie Foret (Université de Rennes 1, France)
• Nissim Francez (Technion, Israel)
• Philippe de Groote (INRIA Nancy - Grand Est, France), Chair
• Gerhard Jaeger (Universität Bielefeld, Germany)
• Makoto Kanazawa (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
• Stephan Kepser (Universität Tübingen, Germany)
• Glyn Morrill (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain)
• Richard Moot (CNRS, France)
• Larry Moss (Indiana University, USA)
• Stefan Müller (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)
• Mark-Jan Nederhof (University of St. Andrews, UK)
• Joakim Nivre (Växjö Universitet, Sweden)
• Frank Richter (Universität Tübingen)
• Sylvain Salvati (INRIA Bordeaux - Sud-Ouest, France)
• Giorgio Satta (Università di Padova, Italy), Chair
• Ed Stabler (UCLA, USA)
• Hans-Jörg Tiede (Illinois Wesleyan University, USA)
• Jesse Tseng (CNRS, France)
• Shuly Wintner (University of Haifa, Israel)
  

FG standing committee

• Philippe de Groote (INRIA Nancy - Grand Est, France)
• Laura Kallmeyer (Universität Tübingen, Germany)
  
• Gerald Penn (University of Toronto, Canada)
• Giorgio Satta (Università di Padova, Italy)