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JLM is looking for copy editors
by Adam Przepiórkowski 17 Feb '24

17 Feb '24

Dear All, We are looking for copy editors for the Journal of Language Modelling (JLM; http://jlm.pipan.waw.pl/). JLM has been a diamond open access periodical since before this term was coined; it is independent of publishing houses, it is community-driven, and it is free for all – readers and authors alike. We, the editors, invest our time in this enterprise and we have always relied on similarly voluntary help from the reviewers and other people involved in the production of the journal. Of these “other people”, copy editors are undoubtedly most important and most skilled: a good JLM copy editor should not only be a native speaker of English (or perhaps a near-native graduate of English Philology) with a good command of the scientific style, but should also know some basics of LaTeX, XeLaTeX and/or Overleaf, and – preferably – have interest in theoretical or computational linguistics. So far, JLM copy editors have been doing an excellent job; to cite one of the JLM authors, one that published many papers in journals run by major publishing houses: “I never got such a good copy editing in my whole scientific life...”. Being independent means that we are on a very tight budget, and in the past we have mainly relied on purely voluntary help of copy editors. However, thanks to the support of the publisher of JLM – the Institute of Computer Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences – we can currently offer some renumeration, in the form of 80 PLN (€18) per 1000 words of copy-edited text, which amounts to about 1000 PLN (over €200) for a JLM paper of average length. If you are a PhD student (PhD graduate, ambitious Masters student…) in Linguistics, Natural Language Processing, or a related field, satisfying the above copy editor profile, and you would like to become a JLM copy editor, please send us (jlm(a)nlp.ipipan.waw.pl) an email detailing how you satisfy the above requirements. If you are a professor with graduate students potentially satisfying this profile, please consider encouraging them to help us – it is in the best interest of the community to keep JLM independent and free for all. Best regards, Adam Przepiórkowski (JLM Editor-in-Chief)

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LFG24 Abstract Deadline Extension
by S.M. Jones 13 Feb '24

13 Feb '24

Dear colleagues, Due to popular demand, the LFG24 deadline for abstract submission is extended to 19 February 2024, 23:59 UTC-12. Submission link: https://openreview.net/group?id=LFG/2024/Conference Best wishes, Stephen Jones and Tina Bögel ————————————————————————— Dr Stephen Jones Assistant Professor, Modelling Language and Cognition Bernoulli Institute University of Groningen Office location: Room 332, Bernoulliborg Nijenborgh 9 9747AG Groningen —————————————————————————

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CfP: CLIRAI Computational Linguistics, Information, Reasoning, and AI
by Roussanka Loukanova 12 Feb '24

12 Feb '24

CfP: CLIRAI Computational Linguistics, Information, Reasoning, and AI ================================================ CALL FOR PAPERS ================================================ Special Session: Computational Linguistics, Information, Reasoning, and AI (CLIRAI) (previously: CompLingInfoReasAI) at 21st International Conference on Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence (DCAI) 2024 University of Salamanca (Spain) 26th-28th June, 2024 https://www.dcai-conference.net/tracks/special-sessions/clirai ==== SCOPE: Computational and technological developments that incorporate natural language and reasoning methods are proliferating. Adequate coverage encounters difficult problems related to the phenomena of partiality, underspecification, perspectives of agents, and context dependency. These phenomena are signature features of information in nature, natural languages, and reasoning. The session covers theoretical work, applications, approaches, and techniques for computational models of information, language (artificial, human, or natural in other ways), reasoning. The goal is to promote computational systems and related models of language, thought, reasoning, and other related processes. TOPICS: We invite contributions relevant to the following topics, without being limited to them, across approaches, methods, theories, implementations, and applications: - Theorem Provers and Assistants - Model Checkers - Theories of Computation - Theories of Information - Computational Methods of Inferences in Natural Language - Computational Theories and Systems of Reasoning in Natural Language - Transfer of reasoning in natural language to theorem provers, or vice versa - Transfer of reasoning between natural language, theorem provers, model checkers, and various computational assistants - Translations between natural language of mathematics and formal languages of proof and verification systems - Controlled Languages of Mathematics == - Computational approaches of Computational Linguistics, e.g., in domain specific areas - Theories for applications to language, information processing, reasoning - Type Theories for applications to language, information processing, reasoning - Computational Grammar - Computational Syntax - Computational Semantics of Natural Language - Computational Syntax-Semantics Interface - Interfaces between morphology, lexicon, syntax, semantics, speech, text, pragmatics - Parsing - Multilingual Processing - Large-Scale Grammars of Natural Languages - Models of computation and algorithms for linguistics, natural language processing, argumentation - Computational Models of Partiality, Underspecification, and Context-Dependency - Models of Situations, Contexts, and Agents, for Applications to Computational Linguistics - Information about Space and Time in Language Models and Processing == - Interdisciplinary Methods - Integration of formal, computational, model theoretic, graphical, diagrammatic, statistical, and other related methods - Logic for information extraction or expression in written, spoken, and other modes of language - Logic for information integrations of diagrams with language == - Computational Models of Argumentations - Large Language Models (LLM) - Data Science in Language Processing - Machine Learning of Language and Reasoning == - Interactive Computation, Reasoning, Argumentation - Computation with heterogeneous information - Reasoning with heterogeneous and/or inconsistent information - Dialog and other Interactions - Interdisciplinary approaches to language, computation, reasoning, memory - Computational processing of information and languages in various specific areas and domains, e.g., in forensics, medical sciences, healthcare, jurisdiction, law, etc. - Applications, e.g., to governing, education, business, economy, justice, health, medical sciences, etc. == - Computational processing language based on natural fundamentals of information and languages - Computational neuroscience of language - etc. IMPORTANT DATES Deadline 15th March, 2024 Notification of acceptance 26th April, 2024 Camera-Ready papers 17th May, 2024 Conference 26th-28th June, 2024 PAPER SUBMISSION at EasyChair of DCAI https://www.dcai-conference.net/tracks/special-sessions The papers must consist of original, relevant, and previously unpublished, sound research results related to any of the topics of the Special Session CLIRAI. SUBMITTING PAPERS and PAPER FORMAT DCAI Special Session papers must be formatted according to the Template of Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems (LNNS), Springer, with a maximum length of 10 pages in length, including figures and references. All papers must be formatted according to the Springer LNNS template, with a maximum length of 10 pages, including figures and references. All proposed papers must be submitted in electronic form (PDF format) using the Paper Submission Page: https://www.dcai-conference.net/tracks/special-sessions PUBLICATION All accepted, registered, and presented papers will be published by the series Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems (LNNS), Springer. At least one of the authors of an accepted paper will be required to register and attend the symposium to present the paper in order to include it in the conference proceedings. CHAIRS Roussanka Loukanova Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria Sara Rodríguez University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain CONTACT: Roussanka Loukanova <rloukanova(a)gmail.com> ====

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Computational Linguistic Position, Konstanz
by Miriam Butt 08 Feb '24

08 Feb '24

Dear all, we have a 50% position available at the University of Konstanz, LFG knowledge needed and preferred. https://linguistlist.org/issues/35-423/ Deadline March 1! Best, Miriam **************************************************************** Miriam Butt Department of Linguistics University of Konstanz Fach 184 Tel: +49 7531 88 5109 78457 Konstanz Fax: +49 7531 88 4865 Germany +49 7531 88 5115 miriam.butt(a)uni-konstanz.de https://www.ling.uni-konstanz.de/butt/ “Here Miss Marple contributed a singularly eloquent pause.” Agatha Christie, Murder at the Vicarage (p. 65) ****************************************************************

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Two PhD Positions
by Sascha Bargmann 08 Feb '24

08 Feb '24

Dear all, we would like to draw your attention to two open PhD positions within our project “Negation at the interfaces: Negation and existential quantification in German”, which is part of the Collaborative Research Center (CRC) 1629 “Negation in Language and Beyond (NegLaB)” at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany. The description of the two positions can be found on Linguist List: https://linguistlist.org/issues/35-442 As the application deadline is already in a week from now, we would be very grateful if you could directly forward this to candidates who you think might be interested in these positions. All the best from Frankfurt, Gert Webelhuth, Markus Bader, and Sascha Bargmann -- Dr. Sascha Bargmann Abteilung Linguistik Institut für England- und Amerikastudien Goethe-Universität Frankfurt Norbert-Wollheim-Platz 1 60629 Frankfurt a.M. bargmann(a)em.uni-frankfurt.de

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TOC: Journal of Language Modelling 11(2) (special issue on constructional approaches in formal grammar)
by Adam Przepiórkowski 05 Feb '24

05 Feb '24

It is our pleasure to announce the publication of issue 11(2) – a special issue on constructional approaches in formal grammar – of the Journal of Language Modelling (JLM), a free open-access peer-reviewed journal aiming to bridge the gap between theoretical, formal and computational linguistics: http://jlm.ipipan.waw.pl/ (see “CURRENT” or “ALL ISSUES”). The direct persistent link to this issue is: http://jlm.ipipan.waw.pl/index.php/JLM/issue/view/30. JLM is indexed by SCOPUS, ERIH PLUS, DBLP, DOAJ, etc., and it is a member of OASPA. TABLE OF CONTENTS: Editorial: “Constructional approaches in formal grammar” Nurit Melnik, Manfred Sailer 189–196 Articles: “Lexical Functional Grammar as a Construction Grammar” Jamie Y. Findlay 197–266 “The Dutch anaphoric possessive construction” Frank Van Eynde 267–296 “Copy raising reconsidered” Nurit Melnik 297–341 The current make-up of the JLM Editorial Board is enclosed below. Best regards, Adam Przepiórkowski (JLM Editor-in-Chief) ====================================================================== EDITORIAL BOARD: Steven Abney, University of Michigan, USA Ash Asudeh, University of Rochester, USA Chris Biemann, Universität Hamburg, GERMANY Igor Boguslavsky, Technical University of Madrid, SPAIN; Institute for Information Transmission Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, RUSSIA António Branco, University of Lisbon, PORTUGAL David Chiang, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA Greville Corbett, University of Surrey, UNITED KINGDOM Dan Cristea, University of Iași, ROMANIA Jan Daciuk, Gdańsk University of Technology, POLAND Mary Dalrymple, University of Oxford, UNITED KINGDOM Darja Fišer, University of Ljubljana, SLOVENIA Anette Frank, Universität Heidelberg, GERMANY Claire Gardent, CNRS/LORIA, Nancy, FRANCE Jonathan Ginzburg, Université Paris-Diderot, FRANCE Stefan Th. Gries, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Heiki-Jaan Kaalep, University of Tartu, ESTONIA Laura Kallmeyer, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, GERMANY Jong-Bok Kim, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, KOREA Kimmo Koskenniemi, University of Helsinki, FINLAND Jonas Kuhn, Universität Stuttgart, GERMANY Alessandro Lenci, University of Pisa, ITALY Ján Mačutek, Comenius University in Bratislava, SLOVAKIA Igor Mel’čuk, University of Montreal, CANADA Glyn Morrill, Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, SPAIN Stefan Müller, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, GERMANY Mark-Jan Nederhof, University of St Andrews, UNITED KINGDOM Petya Osenova, Sofia University, BULGARIA David Pesetsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Maciej Piasecki, Wrocław University of Technology, POLAND Christopher Potts, Stanford University, USA Louisa Sadler, University of Essex, UNITED KINGDOM Agata Savary, Université François Rabelais Tours, FRANCE Sabine Schulte im Walde, Universität Stuttgart, GERMANY Stuart M. Shieber, Harvard University, USA Mark Steedman, University of Edinburgh, UNITED KINGDOM Stan Szpakowicz, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Ottawa, CANADA Shravan Vasishth, Universität Potsdam, GERMANY Zygmunt Vetulani, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, POLAND Aline Villavicencio, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, BRAZIL Veronika Vincze, University of Szeged, HUNGARY Yorick Wilks†, Florida Institute of Human and Machine Cognition, USA Shuly Wintner, University of Haifa, ISRAEL Zdeněk Žabokrtský, Charles University in Prague, CZECH REPUBLIC ====================================================================== Adam Przepiórkowski ˈadam ˌpʃɛpjurˈkɔfskʲi http://clip.ipipan.waw.pl/ ____ Computational Linguistics in Poland http://jlm.ipipan.waw.pl/ ___________ Journal of Language Modelling http://zil.ipipan.waw.pl/ ____________ Linguistic Engineering Group http://nkjp.pl/ _________________________ National Corpus of Polish

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Moscow LFG Meeting, April 6 2024
by Oleg Belyaev 04 Feb '24

04 Feb '24

Dear colleagues, Since there are now quite a few people, mainly students, in Moscow working in LFG and needing feedback on their work(-in-progress), we decided to host a local meeting inspired by the annual South of England LFG Meetings (SE-LFG). The Moscow LFG meeting, or M- LFG for short, will be held on *April 6 (Saturday) *at the Institute of Linguistics RAS. We welcome preliminary and unfinished analyses and provide ample time for discussion. Since the idea is to have an informal meeting for linguists based in Moscow, only on-site talks will be allowed, but we would be delighted to have members of the LFG community based in other countries listen to our mini-conference and engage in discussions. For this reason, all talks will be broadcast online and *the working language of the meeting will be English*. We invite everyone to attend! All information can be found on the Institute of Linguistics website: https://iling-ran.ru/ web/en/conferences/240406_mlfg[1]. You can also reach us at moscow.lfg.meeting(a)gmail.com[2] . On behalf of the organizing committee, Oleg Belyaev -------- [1] https://iling-ran.ru/web/en/conferences/240406_mlfg [2] moscow.lfg.meeting(a)gmail.com

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CFP: The 31st International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar
by Rui Chaves 23 Jan '24

23 Jan '24

[Apologies for multiple postings] ================================================================ The 31st International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar ================================================================ Submission Deadline: 15-March-2024 The 31st International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar will be held on 8 July - 10 July 2024 at the Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic. Abstracts are invited that address linguistic, foundational, or computational issues relating to or in the spirit of the framework of Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar. Conference Format -------------------------- The HPSG 2024 conference will be a two-day main conference (9 July - 10 July), preceded by a one-day (8 July) workshop on "Formal Approaches to Under-resourced Languages", which will be announced separately. Invited speakers ------------------------- TBA Submissions ------------------------- We invite anonymous submissions to the main HPSG Conference: Papers should be 4 pages long, + 1 page for data, figures & references. They should be submitted in PDF format. The submissions should not include the authors’ names, and authors are asked to avoid self-references. All abstracts should be submitted in via Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hpsg2024 All abstracts will be reviewed anonymously by at least two reviewers. Accepted papers are expected to give a 30-minute presentation. Additionally, 10 minutes are reserved for discussion. A call for contributions to the proceedings will be issued after the Conference. Proceedings of previous conferences are available at: https://proceedings.hpsg.xyz/. Important Dates -------------------------- Abstract submission deadline: 15th March 2024 (anywhere on Earth) Notifications of acceptance: 19th April 2024 Conference proceedings submission: 15 October 2024 Venue ------------------------- The HPSG 2024 Conference will take place at the Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic. Online access for the sessions and asynchronous discussion will be facilitated for those who will not be able to attend in person. The conference website is at: https://bond-lab.github.io/2024-hpsg/ Local Organizing Committee Chair -------------------------------------------- Francis Bond (Palacký University Olomouc) Program Committee Chair --------------------------------------------- Rui Chaves (University at Buffalo) Contact information ---------------------------------------------- For general questions, please contact the Program Committee Rui Chaves (hpsg2024 at easychair.org). For questions about the logistics of the conference, please contact the local organizer, Francis Bond. -- Rui P. Chaves (he/him) Chair and Professor of Linguistics Director of Graduate Studies for the Computational Linguistics MS and BS Programs University at Buffalo, SUNY https://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~rchaves/

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Syntax pedagogy survey
by Asudeh, Ash 23 Jan '24

23 Jan '24

Forwarded on behalf of a colleague [Below is] a survey aimed at anyone who is teaching or has ever taught a syntax course. This is joint work between me, Kirby Conrod, Laura Bailey, and Caitl Light; we’re investigating how syntax instructors think about teaching, as well as how they are trained and what resources they have. We've contacted a lot of departments, and sent it out via (e.g.) LinguistList. Link: https://bit.ly/teachsyntax<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://bit.ly/teachsyntax__;!!CGUSO5OYRnA7CQ!f…> We also have a mailing list, if you or anyone else would like to be alerted when we have new results, papers, and future surveys. This is part of a multi-stage project on the scholarly teaching and learning of syntax; we will have a future survey aimed at students, and eventually move to interviews and focus groups. The link to sign up to the mailing list is here: https://bit.ly/synteachlist<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://bit.ly/synteachlist__;!!CGUSO5OYRnA7CQ!…> Bronwyn M. Bjorkman (she/her) Associate Professor of Linguistics and Department Head Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Queen’s University Kingston Hall, 4th Floor 103 Stuart Street Kingston, ON K7L 3N6

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LFG24 - Second call for papers
by S.M. Jones 18 Jan '24

18 Jan '24

[Apologies for cross-posting] LFG24: The 29th International Lexical-Functional Grammar Conference 21 August - 23 August 2024 University of Ghana Conference e-mail (NOT for abstract submission): lfgc2024 'at' gmail.com Abstract submission deadline: 15 February 2024, 23:59 UTC-12 (midnight anywhere on Earth) Abstract submission: https://openreview.net/group?id=LFG/2024/Conference Invited speaker: Mary Dalrymple, University of Oxford Please note: This year's LFG conference is co-located with the 16th Linguistics Association of Ghana Annual Conference (LAG 2024). LFG24 welcomes work within the formal architecture of Lexical-Functional Grammar as well as typological, formal, and computational work within the 'spirit of LFG' as a lexicalist approach to language employing a parallel, constraint-based framework. The conference aims to promote interaction and collaboration among researchers interested in non-derivational approaches to grammar, where grammar is seen as the interaction of (perhaps violable) constraints from multiple levels of structuring, including those of syntactic categories, grammatical relations, semantics and discourse. SUBMISSIONS: TALKS AND POSTERS The main conference sessions will involve 45-minute talks (30 min + 15 min discussion), and poster presentations. Contributions can focus on results from completed as well as ongoing research, with an emphasis on novel approaches, methods, ideas, and perspectives, whether descriptive, theoretical, formal or computational. Presentations should describe original, unpublished work. DISSERTATION SESSION As in previous years, we are hoping to hold a special session that will give students the chance to present recent PhD dissertations (or other student research dissertations). The dissertations must be completed by the time of the conference, and they should be made publicly accessible (e.g., on the World Wide Web). The talks in this session should provide an overview of the main original points of the dissertation; the talks will be 20 minutes, followed by a 10-minute discussion period. Students should note that the main sessions are certainly also open to student submissions. Students who present papers in either session will receive a small subvention towards their conference costs from the International LFG Association (ILFGA). TIMETABLE Deadline for abstracts: 15 February 2024, 23:59 UTC-12 (midnight anywhere on Earth) Notification of acceptance: 3 April 2024 Conference: 21 August - 23 August 2024 SUBMISSION SPECIFICATIONS The language of the conference is English, and all abstracts must be written in English. All abstracts should be submitted using the online submission system. Submissions should be in the form of abstracts only. Abstracts can be up to three A4 pages, including figures and references. Abstracts should be in 10pt or larger type, with margins of at least 2cm on all four sides, and should include a title. Omit name and affiliation (including in PDF document properties), and avoid obvious self-reference. For dissertation session submissions, please add "Dissertation" to the title of your abstract. Please submit your abstract in .pdf format (or a plain text file). The number of submissions is not restricted. However, in the interests of high participation and broad representation, each author should be involved in a maximum of two oral papers and can only be a single author of one. There are no restrictions on poster presentations. Authors may want to keep this in mind when stating their preferences concerning the mode of presentation of their submissions. All abstracts will be reviewed anonymously by at least three referees. Papers accepted to the conference can be submitted to the refereed proceedings, and will be published, subject to acceptance, online by PubliKon at the University of Konstanz. (Please note that papers submitted to the proceedings are no longer automatically accepted for publication in the proceedings.) See https://lfg-proceedings.org/lfg/index.php/main/index for recent proceedings. PRE-CONFERENCE ACTIVITIES There will be a day of pre-conference activities before the 21st of August. ORGANISERS AND THEIR CONTACT ADDRESSES If you have queries about abstract submission or have problems submitting your paper, please contact the Program Committee. Program Chairs (Email: lfg.progcom 'at' gmail.com) Tina Bögel, University of Konstanz and Goethe University Frankfurt Stephen Jones, University of Groningen Local conference organizers (Email: lfgc2024 'at' gmail.com) Adams Bodomo, University of Ghana FURTHER INFORMATION Further information about LFG as a framework for linguistic analysis is available at the following site: https://ling.sprachwiss.uni-konstanz.de/pages/home/lfg/ ————————————————————————— Dr Stephen Jones Assistant Professor, Modelling Language and Cognition Bernoulli Institute University of Groningen Office location: Room 332, Bernoulliborg Nijenborgh 9 9747AG Groningen —————————————————————————

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