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Journal of Language Modelling

SPECIAL ISSUE ON

High-level Methodologies for Grammar Engineering

http://jlm.ipipan.waw.pl/


Special Issue Description
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Many grammatical frameworks have been proposed over the last decades
to describe the syntax (and semantics) of natural language. Among the
most widely used, one may cite (in chronological order) Tree-Adjoining
Grammar (TAG) [Joshi et al., 1975], Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG)
[Bresnan and Kaplan, 1982], Combinatory Categorial Grammar (CCG)
[Steedman, 1987], or Head- driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG)
[Pollard and Sag, 1994]. These frameworks present theoretical and
practical interests. From a theoretical point of view, they provide a
formal device for the linguist to experiment with her/his theories.
)From a practical point of view, they make it possible to automatically
process natural language in applications such as dialog systems,
machine translation, etc. They differ in their expressivity and
complexity. Some prove more suitable for the description of a given
language than others. Still, for many of these frameworks, large
resources (e.g., grammars) have been designed, at first by hand, and
later via dedicated tools (e.g., integrated grammar environments such
as XLE for LFG [King et al., 2000]). In this Special Issue, we are
concerned with this complex task of grammar engineering, keeping in
mind the two above-mentioned theoretical and practical interests.


Topics of Interest
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This special issue welcomes contributions from the following topics
(without being limited to these):


1. New or updated work on the traditional topics of GEAF workshops

The traditional topics in the series of "Grammar Engineering Accross
Frameworks" workshops, "Formal Grammar" conferences and / or the
"High-level Methodologies for Grammar Engineering" ESSLLI 2013
workshop are appropriate. The submitted paper must clearly deal with
language modelling.

An extended version of a workshop/conference paper can be submitted,
provided that the contribution has been substantially updated. The
forums for any preliminary versions of the paper must be indicated.


2. Study of new fundamental and / or applied results in relation with
grammar development, maintenance and enhancement

- dedicated description languages for grammar engineering
- semi-automatic acquisition of grammars
- development of grammars for under-resourced languages
- cross-framework grammar engineering
- cross-language grammar engineering
- seamless construction of grammars from dynamically changing
linguistic descriptions
- designs of weighted grammars
- efficient and dynamic construction of structures from updated rules
or logical formulas


3. Study of new methods for grammar engineering and their applications

- debugging environments for grammar design
- systems based on large-scale grammars


4. In addition, the topics of interest include reports on
implementations

- new kinds of implementations of grammar compilers, libraries and
on-demand operations
- benchmarks suitable for evaluation of grammars
- methods that construct, minimize or decompose grammars


Important Dates
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- Deadline for submissions: 2 February 2014
- First decision: 12 May 2014
- Submission of revised version: 17 July 2014
- Final decision: 22 September 2014
- Submission of camera-ready versions: 19 October 2014


Submission
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Articles submitted to this special issue must adhere to the JLM
instructions for contributors and use the JLM's style files, see:

http://jlm.ipipan.waw.pl/about/submissions#authorGuidelines

Paper submissions should be made through JLM's electronic submission
system:

http://jlm.ipipan.waw.pl/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions

All submitted articles should be anonymous and any obvious
self-references should be avoided. The contribution of the paper must
be substantial. All articles will be evaluated by at least 3
reviewers, including at least one member of JLM's Editorial Board, and
at least one member of the issue's Guest Editorial Board.


Editorial Board
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Guest Editors

- Denys Duchier, Université d'Orléans, FRANCE
- Yannick Parmentier, Université d'Orléans, FRANCE

Guest Editorial Board

- Emily Bender, University of Washington, USA
- Philippe Blache, CNRS, Université d'Aix-en-Provence, FRANCE
- Eric De La Clergerie, INRIA Paris, FRANCE
- Benoît Crabbé, Université Diderot Paris 7, FRANCE
- Berthold Crysmann, CNRS Paris, FRANCE
- Denys Duchier, Université d'Orléans, FRANCE
- Claire Gardent, CNRS Nancy, FRANCE
- Joseph Le Roux, Université Paris Nord, FRANCE
- Timm Lichte, Universität Düsseldorf, GERMANY
- Montserrat Marimon, Universitat de Barcelona, SPAIN
- Yusuke Miyao, National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, JAPAN
- Stefan Müller, Freie Universität Berlin, GERMANY
- Yannick Parmentier, Université d'Orléans, FRANCE


Contact
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Yannick Parmentier
Department of Computer Science, University Institute of Technology
University of Orléans
firstname (dot) lastname (at) univ-orleans (dot) fr