Introduction
The 23rd Conference on Formal Grammar will be held from August
11th to August 12th, 2018, in conjunction with the 30th European
Summer School in Logic, Language and Information
(ESSLLI 2018) in
Sofia, Bulgaria.
Previous Formal Grammar meetings were held in
Barcelona (1995), Prague (1996), Aix-en-Provence (1997),
Saarbrücken (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), Tübingen (2014), Barcelona (2015), Bozen-Bolzano (2016),
and Toulouse (2017).
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.
Accepted Papers
Submission Details
We invite electronic submissions
of original, 16-page papers (including references and possible
technical appendices). Authors are encouraged to use
the Springer-Verlag
LNCS style.
The submission deadline is March 9 March 15,
2018. Papers must be anonymous and 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, jointly with the papers from FG 2018.
Important Dates
- March 9 March 15, 2018: Deadline for paper submission
- April 30 May 5, 2018: Notification of acceptance
- May 21, 2018: Camera ready copies due
- August 11—12, 2018: Conference dates
Program Committee
- Jane Chandlee (Haverford College, Haverford, PA, USA)
- Berthold Crysmann (CNRS - LLF, France)
- Philippe de Groote (LORIA—INRIA Nancy, France)
- Nissim Francez (Technion, Israel)
- Thomas Graf (Stony Brook University, USA)
- Laura Kallmeyer (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany)
- Makoto Kanazawa (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
- Stepan Kuznetsov (Steklov Mathematical Institute, Moscow, Russia)
- Robert Levine (Ohio State University, USA)
- Glyn Morrill (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain)
- Stefan Müller (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)
- Mark-Jan Nederhof (University of St Andrews, UK)
- Rainer Osswald (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany)
- Christian Retoré (LIRMM - Université Montpellier 2, France)
- Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh (Queen Mary University of London, UK)
- Manfred Sailer (Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany)
- Ed Stabler (UCLA, USA)
- Jesse Tseng (CNRS - CLLE-ERSS, France)
- Oriol Valentín (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain)
- Christian Wurm (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany)
- Ryo Yoshinaka (Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan)
Standing Committee
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