FORMAL GRAMMAR CONFERENCE August 7-8, 1999, Utrecht, The Netherlands FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS FG99 is the 5th conference on Formal Grammar held in conjunction with the European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information, which takes place in 1999 in Utrecht. Previous meetings were held in Barcelona (1995), Prague (1996), Aix-en-Provence (1997), and as part of the Joint Conference on Formal Grammar, Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, and Categorial Grammar (FHCG98) held in Saarbruecken last August. AIMS and SCOPE FG99 provides a forum for the presentation of new and original research on formal grammar, especially with regard to the application of formal methods to natural language analysis. Themes of interest include, but are not limited to, * formal and computational syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and phonology; * model-theoretic and proof-theoretic methods in linguistics; * constraint-based and resource-sensitive approaches to grammar; * foundational, methodological and architectural issues in grammar. Previous conferences in this series have welcomed papers from a wide variety of frameworks. SPECIAL SESSIONS and INVITED SPEAKERS. There will be a symposium on Grammatical Resources and Grammatical Inference Invited speakers will be announced with the circulation of the second call for papers in early January. SUBMISSION DETAILS We invite E-MAIL submissions of abstracts for 30-minute papers (including questions, comments, and discussion). A submission should consist of two parts: - an information sheet (in ascii), containing the name of the author(s), affiliation(s), e-mail and postal address(es) and a title; - an abstract, consisting of a description of not more than 5 pages (including figures and references). Abstracts may be either in plain ASCII or in (unix-compatible encoded) postscript, PDF, or DVI. Abstracts can be sent to fg@ufal.mff.cuni.cz (Geert-Jan M. Kruijff) ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE March 1, 1999 NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE April 30, 1999 PROCEEDINGS A full version of each accepted paper will be included in the conference proceedings, to be distributed at the conference. Full papers are due June 30, 1999. PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Anne Abeill'e (Paris) Gosse Bouma (Groningen) John Coleman (Oxford) Mary Dalrymple (Xerox Parc) David Dowty (Ohio State) Elisabet Engdahl (Gotenborg) Daniele Godard (Lille) Jack Hoeksema (Groningen) Polly Jacobson (Brown) Mark Johnson (Brown) Ruth Kempson (London) Shalom Lappin (London) Anton Nijholt (Twente) Owen Rambow (Cogentex) Mark Steedman (Edinburgh) FURTHER INFORMATION Web site for ESSLLI XI: http://esslli.let.uu.nl Web site for FG99 : http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/fg.html The organizers: Geert-Jan Kruijff gj@ufal.mff.cuni.cz Glyn Morrill glyn@lsi.upc.es Paola Monachesi Paola.Monachesi@let.uu.nl Dick Oehrle oehrle@linc.cis.upenn.edu