TAG+8

The Eighth International Workshop
on Tree Adjoining Grammar and Related Formalisms

endorsed by
The Association for the Mathematics of Language (ACL SigMoL)

Sydney, Australia
15 - 16 July 2006


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Saturday, June 15, 2006

9:00-9:10
Opening Remarks
9:10-9:50
The Hidden TAG Model: Synchronous Grammars for Parsing Resource-Poor Languages
David Chiang and Owen Rambow
9:50-10:30
A Constraint Driven Metagrammar
Joseph Le Roux, Benoit Crabbe and Yannick Parmentier
10:30-11:00
coffee break
11:00-11:40
The Metagrammar Goes Multilingual: A Cross-Linguistic Look at the V2-Phenomenon
Alexandra Kinyon, Owen Rambow, Tatjana Scheffler, SinWon Yoon and Aravind Joshi
11:40-12:20
The Weak Generative Capacity of Linear Tree-Adjoining Grammars
David Chiang
12:20-13:40
lunch break
13:40-14:40
poster session I
14:40-15:20
A Tree Adjoining Grammar Analysis of the Syntax and Semantics of It-Clefts
Chung-hye Han and Nancy Hedberg
15:20-15:50
coffee break
15:50-16:50
invited talk: Mark Steedman
16:50-17:30
Pied-Piping in Relative Clauses: Syntax and Compositional Semantics Based on Synchronous Tree Adjoining Grammar
Chung-hye Han
19:00
conference dinner

Sunday, June 16, 2006

9:30-10:30
invited talk: Mark Johnson
10:30-11:00
coffee break
11:00-11:40
Negative Concord and Restructuring in Palestinian Arabic: A Comparison of TAG and CCG Analyses
Frederick Hoyt
11:40-12:20
Stochastic Multiple Context-Free Grammar for RNA Pseudoknot Modeling
Yuki Kato, Hiroyuki Seki and Tadao Kasami
12:20-13:40
lunch break
13:40-14:40
poster session II
14:40-15:20
Binding of Anaphors in LTAG
Neville Ryant and Tatjana Scheffler
15:20-15:50
coffee break
15:50-16:30
Quantifier Scope in German: An MCTAG Analysis
Laura Kallmeyer and Maribel Romero
16:30-17:10
Licensing German Negative Polarity Items in LTAG
Timm Lichte and Laura Kallmeyer
17:10-17:30
closing remarks

Poster presentations

Saturday


Three Reasons to Adopt TAG-Based Surface Realisation
Claire Gardent and Eric Kow

Generating XTAG Parsers from Algebraic Specifications
Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez, Miguel A. Alonso and Manuel Vilares

SemTAG, the LORIA toolbox for TAG Parsing and Generation
Eric Kow, Yannick Parmentier and Claire Gardent

Using LTAG-Based Features for Semantic Role Labeling
Yudong Liu and Anoop Sarkar

Handling Unlike Coordinated Phrases in TAG by Mixing Syntactic Category and Grammatical Function
Carlos A. Prolo

Modeling and Analysis of Elliptic Coordination by Dynamic Exploitation of Derivation Forests in LTAG Parsing
Djamé Seddah and Benoit Sagot

'Single Cycle' Languages: Empirical Evidence for TAG-Adjoining
Arthur Stepanov

Sunday


Semantic Interpretation of Unrealized Syntactic Material in LTAG
Olga Babko-Malaya

Constraint-Based Computational Semantics: A Comparison between LTAG and LRS
Laura Kallmeyer and Frank Richter

Extended Cross-Serial Dependencies in Tree Adjoining Grammars
Marco Kuhlmann and Mathias Möhl

Extracting Syntactic Features from a Korean Treebank
Jungyeul Park

Parsing TAG with Abstract Categorial Grammar
Sylvain Salvati

Reconsidering Raising and Experiencers in English
Dennis Ryan Storoshenko

For those arriving earlier, Frederick Hoyt proposes to meet before the workshop. See his message.


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