ESSLLI'2000 Workshop on
Linguistic Theory and Grammar Implementation
August 14 - 18, 2000
A workshop held as part of the
Twelfth European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information
(ESSLLI-2000)
August 6-18, 2000, Birmingham, Great Britain
Description
Partially in response to data-oriented methods, grammar-based
approaches to Natural Language Processing in recent years have made
significant advances in terms of linguistic coverage, wealth of
analysis, efficiency of processing and grammar engineering
techniques. The workshop is intended as a forum for this ongoing work
in declarative, constraint- and resource-based approaches, informed by
linguistic theory. It will cover various aspects of the computational
implementation of grammars based on linguistic knowledge, and in
particular address:
- grammar coverage as a major emphasis in practical projects
- efficiency of processing (e.g., grammar compilation techniques,
abstract machine implementations)
- implementations of novel grammar architectures and mechanisms
(e.g., glue languages, defaults, optimality-theoretic constraint
ranking, underspecification)
- hybrid architectures combining shallow parsing and deep analysis
(e.g., finite state pre-processors for deep analysis)
- grammar development tools (e.g., test methodology, profiling,
visualization tools, grammar debugging and validation)
- modularity in grammar design (e.g., definition of modules in
grammars, separate and incremental compilation of grammars,
architectures for grammar organization)
- mathematical, logical and computational aspects of linguistic
formalisms (e.g., semantics of linguistic formalisms, adaptation of
techniques from programming languages to linguistic formalisms)
Submission
All researchers in the area, but especially Ph.D. students and young
researchers, are invited to submit a paper. Electronic submissions are
highly encouraged (preferably as plain ASCII or Postscript).
Submissions should not exceed 10 (A4 or letter) pages, typeset in
10-12 points, with at least 2.5 cm / 1 inch margins. Submitted papers
should be anonymous and be accompanied by an e-mail listing the
following details:
- Title
- Authors' names and affiliation
- Address
- E-mail addresses
All submissions will be reviewed by an international program committee:
- Philippe Blache
- Miriam Butt
- Jo Calder
- Ann Copestake
- Nissim Francez
- Erhard Hinrichs
- Suresh Manandhar
- Detmar Meurers, co-chair
- Stefan Müller
- Tsuneko Nakazawa
- Louisa Sadler
- Shuly Wintner, co-chair
The accepted papers will be made available in a summer school reader.
If sufficiently many high-quality papers are submitted, we intend to
publish them in an edited volume.
Submissions should be sent before April 15, 2000 to one of the following
two organizers:
If electronic submission is impossible, please send four copies of
the paper to one of these two organizers.
Informal enquiries by e-mail to the organizers are welcome.
Important dates
- Apr 15, 2000: Deadline for submissions
- May 15, 2000: Notification of acceptance
- Jun 15, 2000: Final version due
- Aug 14, 2000: Start of workshop
Funding
Some funding is available to reimburse the ESSLLI registration fees
for PhD students presenting in the workshop. We are grateful to the Institute for Research in
Cognitive Science (IRCS) of the University of Pennsylvania for the
financial support.
Further information
All information concerning this workshop is made available at:
http://purl.org/net/dm/events/esslli00/
To obtain further information about ESSLLI'2000 please visit
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~esslli/
In case of problems or for comments, please contact: dm@sfs.uni-tuebingen.de
Last modified: Wed May 17 14:44:26 MEST 2000