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Model Theoretic Syntax at 1013–17 August 2007
organized as part of |
Endorsed by the
Association for Mathematics of Language
a special interest group of the
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Model Theoretic Syntax at 1013–17 August 2007
organized as part of |
Endorsed by the
Association for Mathematics of Language
a special interest group of the
Association for Computational Linguistics
In 1996 ESSLLI hosted a workshop on "The Mathematics of Syntactic Structure" that covered a range of topics in the area now known as Model-Theoretic Syntax which was then just emerging. Over the ensuing decade MTS has established itself as a subdiscipline, focusing on descriptive approaches to formalizing theories of syntax by defining classes of ordinary mathematical structures directly in terms of linguistically relevant structural properties rather than in terms of generative or automata-theoretic processes. The 2001 FG/MoL meeting, affiliated with ESSLLI'01, included a symposium on the then current state of MTS.
The purpose of this workshop at ESSLLI'07 is to survey the developments in this area over its first decade and to lay the foundations for its further development in the decades to come. The workshop will include invited talks by several participants of the previous meetings as well as current papers from the broader community.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following areas, with particular focus in each area on Formal Language Theory and applications to theories of Natural Language Syntax:
Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract describing either perspectives on the development and current state of MTS or new work providing foundations for its further development. Submissions should not exceed five A4 pages, 11pt type, including the Bibliography and all figures and tables. While PDF is preferred the following formats will be accepted: PDF, PS, Word, ASCII text. Please send your submission electronically via the submission form at https://www.cs.earlham.edu/cgi-bin/esslli07mts/submit.cgi by the deadline listed below.
Submissions will be reviewed anonymously by the workshop's program committee and additional reviewers. The submission form will isolate authors' identification from the submitted paper and this information should not appear in the paper itself. Authors are also asked to avoid first-person references in the paper.
Accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings published by ESSLLI. The format for the final versions will be LaTeX. Assistance for those unfamiliar with LaTeX will be available. Our intention is to publish a selected subset of the workshop papers in a collected volume. These plans will be discussed at the workshop.
The workshop is part of ESSLLI and is open to all ESSLLI participants. It will consist of five 90-minute sessions held over five consecutive days in the second week of ESSLLI. There will be 2 or 3 slots for paper presentation and discussion per session. One slot per day will be reserved for overview or retrospective talks. The first day of the workshop will include an integrative introduction to the topic. Submitters should keep in mind that this workshop is part of the larger ESSLLI educational program; presentations should be accessible to a broad audience from across the spectrum of ESSLLI areas.
All workshop participants including the presenters will be required to register for ESSLLI. The registration fee for authors presenting a paper will correspond to the early student/workshop speaker registration fee. Moreover, a number of additional fee waiver grants will be made available by the ESSLLI Organizing Committee on a competitive basis and workshop participants are eligible to apply for those. There will be no reimbursement for travel costs and accommodation. Workshop speakers who have difficulty in finding funding should contact the local organizing committee to ask for the possibilities for a grant.