Abstracts are solicited for presentations which address linguistic, foundational, or computational issues relating to information structure and its interactions with formal syntax and semantics.
The aim of the workshop is to further current research on information structure within the HPSG community, and to encourage cross-framework discussion of information structure and its interface to syntax and semantics. Thus, we strongly encourage researchers from outside the HPSG framework to submit.
Mats Rooth (Cornell University)
There will be two sessions: a main session, with 30 minute presentations (plus 10 min discussion), and a poster session. The poster session is intended as a means of encouraging the presentation of work that is not yet fully mature.
Prospective speakers may submit either a 5 page abstract for the main session, or a 2 page abstract for the poster session. Abstracts submitted initially for the main session may be accepted, at the discretion of the program committee, for presentation in the poster session instead.
The workshop on Information Structure in Formal Grammar is part of this year's HPSG conference, which will take place in Seattle, WA on 24-25 August 2011. It will be preceded by a day of tutorials on 22 August, given by Nicholas Asher (Toulouse) and Johanna Nichols (Berkeley).
We will use an online submission system. All abstracts should be submitted via: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ifg2011
Abstracts should be in PDF format.
Please direct any questions to the Program Committee Chair:
All abstracts will be reviewed anonymously by at least two reviewers. Abstracts should not include the authors' names, and authors are asked to avoid self-references.
Abstract submission deadline (extended): 10 April 2011 17 April 2011
Notification of acceptance: 20 May 2011
Conference: 23 August 2011
The workshop proceedings will be published online by CSLI Publications. Only papers presented in the main workshop session will be included in the proceedings.
A call for contributions to the proceedings will be issued after the
conference. Proceedings of previous conferences are available at:
http://csli-publications.stanford.edu/HPSG/.
The final deadline for receipt of written versions of conference papers is 15 November 2011.
Felix Bildhauer
Daniel Büring
Berthold Crysmann (chair)
Kordula De Kuthy
Elisabet Engdahl
Claire Gardent
Jonathan Ginzburg
Tracy Holloway King
Manfred Krifka
Jean-Marie Marandin
Laura Michaelis
Stefan Müller
Irina Nikolaeva
Patrizia Paggio
Arndt Riester
Mats Rooth
Mark Steedman
Malte Zimmermann
http://depts.washington.edu/hpsg2011/workshop.php
Emily M. Bender