Conference on Formal Grammar

Introduction

The 20th Conference on Formal Grammar will be held from August 8th to August 9th, 2015, in conjunction with the 27th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI 2015) in Barcelona, Spain.

Previous Formal Grammar meetings were held in Barcelona (1995), Prague (1996), Aix-en-Provence (1997), Saarbruecken (1998), Utrecht (1999), Helsinki (2001), Trento (2002), Vienna (2003), Nancy (2004), Edinburgh (2005), Malaga (2006), Dublin (2007), Hamburg (2008), Bordeaux (2009), Copenhagen (2010), Ljubljana (2011), Opole (2012), Düsseldorf (2013), and Tübingen (2014).

Aims and Scope

FG provides a forum for the presentation of new and original research on formal grammar, mathematical linguistics and the application of formal and mathematical methods to the study of natural language. 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

Logical aspects of linguistic structure

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 and linguistics

Mathematical foundations of statistical approaches to linguistic analysis

Previous conferences in this series have welcomed papers from a wide variety of frameworks.

Submission Details

We invite submissions of original, 16-page papers (including references and possible technical appendices). Authors are strongly encouraged to use the Springer LNCS style.

The (extended) submission deadline is

February 25, 2015

. Papers must be submitted electronically via EasyChair.

Papers should report original work which was not presented in other conferences. However, simultaneous submission is allowed, provided that the authors indicate other conferences to which the work was submitted in a footnote. Note that accepted papers can only be presented in one of the venues.

Submissions will be reviewed anonymously by at least three reviewers. Accepted papers will be published as a volume in the Springer LNCS series, under the FoLLI subline, either separately or jointly with the papers from FG 2016, depending on the number of accepted papers.

Important Dates

February 25, 2015: Extended deadline for paper submission

April 24, 2015: Notification of acceptance

July 3, 2015: Camera ready copies due (please send PDF + all source files to “fg AT phil DOT hhu DOT de”)

August 8-9, 2015: Conference dates

Invited Speakers

Robin Cooper (University of Gothenburg, Sweden)

Tim Fernando (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)

Program Committee

Alexander Clark (King's College London, UK)

Berthold Crysmann (CNRS - LLF, France)

Denys Duchier (Université d'Orleans, France)

Nissim Francez (Technion, Israel)

Philippe de Groote (Inria Nancy, France)

Laura Kallmeyer (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany)

Makoto Kanazawa (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)

Greg Kobele (University of Chicago, USA)

Robert Levine (Ohio State University, USA)

Wolfgang Maier (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany)

Stefan Müller (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)

Mark-Jan Nederhof (University of St Andrews, UK)

Gerald Penn (University of Toronto, Canada)

Christian Retoré (LIRMM - Université Montpellier 2, France)

Manfred Sailer (Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany)

Ed Stabler (UCLA, USA)

Jesse Tseng (CNRS - CLLE-ERSS, France)

Oriol Valentín (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain)

Standing Committee

Annie Foret (IRISA - Rennes 1 University, France)

Glyn Morrill (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain)

Reinhard Muskens (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)

Rainer Osswald (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany)

Accommodation

Please have a look at the accommodation information provided by ESSLLI.

Contact

fg AT phil DOT hhu DOT de