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The 11th International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammars and Related Formalisms (TAG+11)

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

Wednesday, September 26th

9:15–9:30Opening remarks
9:30–11:00Tutorial by David Chiang
11:00–11:30Coffee
11:30–13:00Tutorial by Vera Demberg
13:00–14:30Lunch
14:30–16:00Tutorial by Laura Kallmeyer
16:00–16:30Coffee
16:30–18:00Tutorial by Andreas Maletti

Thursday, September 27th

9:00–10:00Invited Talk by Bonnie Webber
10:00–10:20Coffee
 10:20–12:20 Talk Session on Syntax/Semantics
 Delayed Tree-Locality, Set-locality, and Clitic Climbing
Joan Chen-Main, Tonia Bleam and Aravind Joshi
 Deriving syntax-semantics mappings: node linking, type shifting and scope ambiguity
Dennis Ryan Storoshenko and Robert Frank
 Tree Adjunction as Minimalist Lowering
Thomas Graf
 A Frame-Based Semantics of Locative Alternation in LTAG
Yulia Zinova and Laura Kallmeyer
12:20–13:50Lunch
 13:50–15:20 Talk Session on Formalisms
 A Logical Characterization of Extended TAGs
Uwe Mönnich
 Synchronous Tree Unification Grammar
Timm Lichte
 Synchronous Context-Free Tree Grammars
Mark-Jan Nederhof and Heiko Vogler
 15:20–15:40 Poster Quickfire Session
 Incremental Neo-Davidsonian semantic construction for TAG
Asad Sayeed and Vera Demberg
 Representing Focus in LTAG
Kata Balogh
 Describing São Tomense Using a Tree-Adjoining Meta-Grammar
Emmanuel Schang, Denys Duchier, Brunelle Magnana Ekoukou, Yannick Parmentier and Simon Petitjean
 An Attempt Towards Learning Semantics: Distributional Learning of IO Context-Free Tree Grammars
Ryo Yoshinaka
15:40–16:30Poster session and Coffee
 16:30–18:00 Talk Session on Derivation Trees and Applications
 Delayed Tree Locality and the Status of Derivation Structure
Joan Chen-Main
 A Formal Model for Plausible Dependencies in Lexicalized Tree Adjoining Grammar
Laura Kallmeyer and Marco Kuhlmann
 Using FB-LTAG Derivation Trees to Generate Transformation-Based Grammar Exercises
Claire Gardent and Laura Perez-Beltrachini

Friday, September 28th

9:00–10:00Invited Talk by Kevin Knight
10:00–10:30Coffee
 10:30–12:30 Talk Session on Parsing
 PLCFRS Parsing Revisited: Restricting the Fan-Out to Two
Wolfgang Maier, Miriam Kaeshammer and Laura Kallmeyer
 Decomposing TAG Algorithms Using Simple Algebraizations
Alexander Koller and Marco Kuhlmann
 Practical Parsing of Parallel Multiple Context-Free Grammars
Peter Ljunglöf
 Idioms and extended transducers
Gregory M. Kobele
12:30–14:00Lunch
 14:00–15:30 Talk Session on Grammar Extraction, Grammar Induction
 Creating a Tree Adjoining Grammar from a Multilayer Treebank
Rajesh Bhatt, Owen Rambow and Fei Xia
 Search Space Properties for Learning a Class of Constraint-based Grammars
Smaranda Muresan
 State-Split for Hypergraphs with an Application to Tree Adjoining Grammars
Johannes Osterholzer and Torsten Stüber
 15:30–15:50 Poster Quickfire Session
 Is Syntactic Binding Rational?
Thomas Graf and Natasha Abner
 Incremental Derivations in CCG
Vera Demberg
 On the Form-Meaning Relations Definable by CoTAGs
Gregory M. Kobele and Jens Michaelis
 A linguistically-motivated 2-stage Tree to Graph Transformation
Corentin Ribeyre, Djamé Seddah and Éric Villemonte de la Clergerie
15:50–16:30Poster session and Coffee
 16:30–17:30 Talk Session on Syntax/Semantics
 Scope Economy and TAG Locality
Michael Freedman
 The Shape of Elementary Trees and Scope Possibilities in STAG
Robert Frank and Dennis Ryan Storoshenko
17:30–17:45Closing remarks