[news.announce.conferences] Conference on Discontinuous Constituency

disco@kub.nl (08/24/89)

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	   SECOND  NOTICE  AND	CALL  FOR  PAPERS

		     APPLICATION  FORM
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	  Revised, July 31, 1989



The Institute for Language Technology and Artificial Intelligence ITK,
recently founded at Tilburg University, The Netherlands, will be fostering a



	 SYMPOSIUM ON DISCONTINUOUS CONSTITUENCY
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DATE:

    January 25-27, 1990.


PLACE:

    Tilburg University, The Netherlands.


GUESTSPEAKERS:

    David Dowty, Ohio State University;
    James McCawley, University of Chicago;
    Micael Moortgat, University of Leiden;
    Carl Pollard, Carnegie-Mellon University;
    Jan Koster, Groningen University;
    Hans Uszkoreit, University of Saarland.



THE SYMPOSIUM:

    Discontinuous constituency, a phenomenon found in many languages,
    presents problems for its description in formal grammars. Manifold
    are the syntactic solutions to the problem that have been
    suggested. These vary from transformations to metarules, and from
    crossing branches to representations in c- and f-structures. Of
    course there are also semantic problems involved; there is for
    instance the problem that discontinuous constituency raises for
    the principle of compositionality.

    In the symposium three questions will occupy a central position:

       - How can discontinuous constituency be accounted for in
	 syntactic terms;

       - Given a syntactic analysis, how can a semantic analysis be
	 formulated;

       - What are the computational implications of the answers
	 formulated to the first two questions.


INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS:

    Three copies of extended abstracts (4 to 5 pages,
    double-spaced) should be submitted before
    SEPTEMBER 15, 1989 to:


	   Wietske Sijtsma and/or Arthur van Horck
	   Tilburg University, ITK
	   P.O. Box 90153
	   5000 LE Tilburg
	   The Netherlands.



    All papers, both written and oral versions, should be
    in English. The Conference Proceedings will be distributed
    to the conference participants.



REFEREES:

    Riny Huybregts, Tilburg University;
    Reinhard Muskens, Tilburg University;
    Henk van Riemsdijk, Tilburg University
    Elias Thijsse, Tilburg University;
    Frans Zwarts, Groningen University.



OTHER IMPORTANT DATES:

    November 1, 1989 - notification of acceptance.

    December 15, 1989 - camera-ready copies due.


REGISTRATION:


    The following registration fees are due:

				     Students	Non-students
				     --------	------------
    (amounts in Dfl.)

    - Conference attendance (3 days)	 40	     140
      (incl. Conference Proceedings,
       coffee, tea)

    - Lunch (3 days)			 35	      35

    - Dinner/buffet			 35	      35





    Registration will be accepted until December 1, 1989.


MORE INFORMATION:

    For more information and/or application forms, please contact:


	Wietske Sijtsma and/or Arthur van Horck
	Tilburg University, ITK
	P.O. Box 90153
	5000 LE Tilburg
	The Netherlands.
	email: disco@kub.nl



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		     APPLICATION  FORM

	 SYMPOSIUM  ON	DISCONTINUOUS  CONSTITUENCY
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RETURN TO:
	   Institute for Language Technology and Artificial Intelligence
	   att. Wietske Sijtsma / Arthur van Horck
	   P.O. Box 90153
	   5000 LE Tilburg
	   The Netherlands
	   Email: disco@kub.nl


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Registration fees (in Dfl.):

			    Students/AIO/OIO	    Non-students
			    ----------------	    ------------

Conference attendance (3 days)		  40		     140
(incl. Conference Proceedings,
coffee, tea)

Lunch (3 days)				  35		      35

Dinner/buffet				  35		      35



Please indicate below which Conference arrangement you wish to book.

1. Conference
2. Conference + lunches
3. Conference + buffet
4. Conference + lunches + buffet


Please transfer the appropriate registration fee to:
	      KUB/ITK
	      Giro 1077496    or
	      Bank 45.50.46.042
	      stating:	951.45 Discogres


I declare that the registration fee due will be transferred to KUB/ITK no later than December 21st 1989.


Date:			     Signature:


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