TAG+7

Seventh International Workshop
on Tree Adjoining Grammar and Related Formalisms

20-22 May 2004
Simon Fraser University
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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Thursday May 20

8.30 - 9.00	Registration, Coffee, and Welcome
9.00 - 10.00	Tutorial: TAG: Introduction and Formalism (Aravind Joshi)
10.00 - 11.00	Tutorial: TAG and Linguistics (Anthony Kroch)
11.15 - 12.15	Tutorial: Parsing with TAG (Giorgio Satta)
2.00 - 3.00	Tutorial: Natural Language Generation with TAG (Owen Rambow & Matthew Stone)
3.00 - 4.00	Tutorial: TAG and Minimalism (Robert Frank)
4.30 - 6.00	Paper Session: Supertagging N-Best Hidden Markov Model Supertagging to Improve Typing on an Ambiguous Keyboard Saša Hasan, RWTH Aachen University and Karin Harbusch, University of Koblenz-Landau Why SuperTagging is Hard François Toussenel, University of Paris 7 SuperTagging and Full Parsing Alexis Nasr, University of Paris 7 and Owen Rambow, Columbia University
6.00 - 7.30	Reception

Friday May 21

8.30 - 9.00	Coffee
9.00 - 10.00	Invited Talk 1: Barbara Partee The Russian Genitive of Negation and Diathesis Alternation: Interaction of Lexical and Compositional Semantics
10.15 - 11.15	Paper Session: Semantics 1 LTAG Analysis for Pied-Piping and Stranding of wh-Phrases Laura Kallmeyer, University of Paris 7 and Tatjana Scheffler, University of Pennsylvania Semantic Reconstruction for how many-Questions in LTAG Tatjana Scheffler, University of Pennsylvania
11.30 - 12.30	Paper Session: Formal Issues in Bioinformatics Uses and Abuses of Intersected Languages David Chiang, University of Pennsylvania Subclasses of Tree Adjoining Grammar for RNA Secondary Structure Yuki Kato, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Hiroyuki Seki, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, and Tadao Kasami, Nara Institute of Science and Technology
2.30 - 4.00	Poster Session 1 The following contributed research will be presented as posters at TAG+7: Verification of Lexicalized Tree Adjoining Grammars Valerie Barr, Hofstra University and Ellen Siefring, Hofstra University LTAG Semantics with Semantic Unification Laura Kallmeyer, University of Paris 7 and Maribel Romero, University of Pennsylvania Expanding Tree Adjoining Grammar to Create Junction Grammar Trees Ron Millett, Brigham Young University and Deryle Lonsdale, Brigham Young University Assigning XTAG Trees to VerbNet Neville Ryant, University of Pennsylvania and Karin Kipper, University of Pennsylvania Context-free Approximation of LTAG towards CFG Filtering Kenta Oouchida, University of Tokyo, Naoki Yoshinaga, University of Tokyo, and Jun'ichi Tsujii, JST LTAG Semantics for Questions Maribel Romero, University of Pennsylvania, Laura Kallmeyer, University of Paris 7, and Olga Babko-Malaya, University of Pennsylvania Nondeterministic LTAG Derivation Tree Extraction Libin Shen, University of Pennsylvania Deriving Syntactic Structure in Ellipsis Will Thompson, Northwestern University and Motorola Labs
4.00 - 5.00	Paper Session: Semantics 2 LTAG Semantics of Focus Olga Babko-Malaya, University of Pennsylvania Computing Semantic Representation: Towards ACG Abstract Terms as Derivation Trees Sylvain Pogodalla, LORIA
5.15 - 6.15	Invited Talk 2: Giorgio Satta Local Parallel Rewriting: Theory and Applications
7.30 - 11.30	Banquet

Saturday May 22

9.00 -9 .30	Coffee
9.30 -10 .30	Invited Talk 3: Jeff Pelletier Some Issues Concerning Semantic Compositionality and Semantic Holism
10.45 - 12.15	Paper Session: Syntax Tree-adjoining Grammars for Optimality Theory Syntax Virginia Savova, Johns Hopkins University and Robert Frank, Johns Hopkins University Tree-local MCTAG with Shared Nodes: Word Order Variation in German and Korean Laura Kallmeyer, University of Paris 7 and SinWon Yoon, University of Paris 7 Generalizing Subcategorization Frames Acquired from Corpora Using Lexicalized Grammars Naoki Yoshinaga, University of Tokyo and Jun'ichi Tsujii, JST
2.00 - 3.30	Poster Session 2 Semantics of VP Coordination in LTAG Eva Banik, University of Pennsylvania LTAG Semantics for NP-Coordination Olga Babko-Malaya, University of Pennsylvania Metagrammars: A New Implementation for FTAG Sébastien Barrier, University of Paris 7 and Nicolas Barrier, University of Paris 7 Sentences with Two Subordinate Clauses: Syntactic and Semantic Analyses, Underspecified Semantic Representation Laurence Danlos, University of Paris 7 TAG Parsing as Model Elimination Ralph Debusmann, University of the Saarland, Denys Duchier, LORIA, Marco Kuhlmann, University of the Saarland, and Stefan Thater, University of the Saarland On Scrambling, Another Perspective James Rogers, Earlham College Using a Meta-Grammar for LTAG Korean Grammar SinWon Yoon, University of Paris 7
3.30 - 4.30	Paper Session: Formal Issues Synchronous Grammars as Tree Transducers Stuart M. Shieber, Harvard University Epsilon-Free Grammars and Lexicalized Grammars that Generate the Class of the Mildly Context-Sensitive Languages Akio Fujiyoshi, Ibaraki University
4.45 - 5.45	Wrap-up Panel: TAG and Semantics
5.45 - 6.00	Adieux