The 24th Conference on Formal Grammar will be held on August 11th, 2019, in conjunction with the 31st European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI 2019) at University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia.
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), Toulouse (2017), and Sofia (2018).
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:
Previous conferences in this series have welcomed papers from a wide variety of frameworks.
At University of Latvia, Raiņa bulvāris 19, Riga
Room 13.
| Time | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00-10:00 | Registration | |
| 10:00-11:00 | Tal Linzen | What Inductive Biases Enable Human-Like Syntactic Generalization? |
| 11:00-11:30 | Break | |
| 11:30-12:00 | Max Kanovich, Stepan Kuznetsov and Andre Scedrov | Undecidability of a Newly Proposed Calculus for CatLog3 |
| 12:00-12:30 | Richard Moot and Symon Jory Stevens-Guille | Proof-Theoretic Aspects of Hybrid Type-Logical Grammars |
| 12:30--13:00 | Matthew Gotham | Quantificational Subordination as Anaphora to a Function |
| 13:00-14:30 | Lunch break | |
| 14:30-15:00 | Yousuf Aboamer and Marcus Kracht | A Purely Surface-oriented Approach to Handling Arabic Morphology |
| 15:00-15:30 | William Babonnaud | A Topos-Based Approach to Building Language Ontologies |
| 15:30-16:00 | Break | |
| 16:00-16:30 | Miloš Stanojević | On the Computational Complexity of Head Movement and Affix Hopping |
| 16:30-17:00 | Aniello De Santo and Thomas Graf | Structure Sensitive Tier Projection: Applications and Formal Properties |
Registration (to FG only or ESSLLI+FG) information is available on ESSLLI web site.
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 8, 2019. 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 Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series, under the FoLLI subline.
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