8-9 Aug 2015
Barcelona, Spain
FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
FG-2015
The 20th Conference on Formal Grammar
Barcelona, Spain, August 8-9, 2015
http://fg.phil.hhu.de/2015/
Collocated with the European Summer School
in Logic, Language and Information
** SUBMISSION DEADLINE: February 22, 2015 **
BACKGROUND
FG-2015 is the 20th conference on Formal Grammar, to be held in conjunction
with the European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information, which takes
place in 2015 in Barcelona, Spain.
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) 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 **electronic** submissions of original, 16-page papers (including
references and possible technical appendices). Authors are encouraged to use
the Springer-Verlag LNCS style:
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0
The submission deadline is **February 22, 2015**. Papers must be submitted
electronically at EasyChair:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fg2015.
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 22, 2015: Deadline for paper submission
* April 19, 2015: Notification of acceptance
* May 31, 2015: Camera ready copies due
* August 8-9, 2015: Conference dates
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 (University of Düsseldorf, Germany)
* Makoto Kanazawa (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
* Gregory Kobele (University of Chicago, USA)
* Robert Levine (Ohio State University, USA)
* Wolfgang Maier (University of 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)
* Edward 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)