FG 2018
The 23rd Conference on Formal Grammar
Sofia, Bulgaria, August 11-12, 2018
http://fg.phil.hhu.de/2018/

Co-located with the European Summer School
in Logic, Language and Information

** EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE: March 15, 2015 **

BACKGROUND

FG 2018 is the 23rd conference on Formal Grammar, to be held in
conjunction with the European Summer School in Logic, Language and
Information which, in 2018, will take place 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.


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 *March 15, 2018*. Papers must be
*anonymous* and submitted electronically at EasyChair:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fg20180.

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.

IMPORTANT DATES

+ March 15, 2018 : Extended deadline for paper submission
+ May 5, 2018: Notification of acceptance
+ May 27, 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

+ Annie Foret (IRISA - Rennes 1 University, France)
+ Greg Kobele (Universität Leipzig, Germany)
+ Sylvain Pogodalla (INRIA Nancy/LORIA, France)