COLING-ACL Workshop

Main COLING-ACL Conference site : http://www.acl2006.mq.edu.au/

Registration: http://www.acl2006.mq.edu.au/

The CSLP-06 workshop addresses the question of the role of constraints in the representation and the implementation of language processing. The workshop topic is intended to be interpreted inclusively: contributions from linguistics, computer science, psycholinguistics, and related areas will be presented.

Motivation

Constraints are widely used in linguistics, computer science, and psychology.  How they are used, however, varies widely according to the research domain: knowledge representation, cognitive modelling, problem solving mechanisms, etc. These different perspectives are complementary, each one adding a piece to the puzzle. For example, linguistics proposes in-depth descriptions implementing constraints in order to filter out structures by means of description languages, constraint ranking, etc. The constraint programming paradigm, on the other hand, shows that constraints have to be taken as a systematic whole and can thus play a role in building the structures (or can even replace structures). Finally, psycholinguistics experiment the role of constraint systems for cognitive processes in comprehension and production as well as addressing how they can be acquired.

The purpose of this workshop is to address the question of constraints and language processing, taking these different points of view into consideration. The idea is to see whether a paradigm can be found, unifying the different perspectives into a common framework capable of explaining how constraints play a role in representing, processing and acquiring linguistic information, and this from a formal, technical, and cognitive perspective.

Location

The CSLP-06 workshop is a part of COLING-ACL; it will be held in Sydney after the main conference.  

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Important dates

•   Paper submission deadline:      April 21

•   Notification of review result:  May 22

•   Camera-ready papers due:        June 6

Program Committee

• Timothy Baldwin (University of Melbourne, Australia)

• Philippe Blache (Provence University, France), Chair

• Henning Christiansen (Roskilde University, Denmark)

• Veronica Dahl (Simon Fraser University, Canada)

• Rina Dechter (University of California, USA)

• Mark Dras (Macquarie University, Australia)

• Denys Duchier (INRIA, France)

• John Gallagher (Roskilde University, Denmark)

• Claire Gardent (University of Nancy, France)

• Ted Gibson (MIT, USA)

• Mary Harper (Purdue University, USA)

• Barbara Hemforth (Provence University, France)

• Erhard Hinrichs (University of Tübingen, Germany)

• Jerry Hobbs (University of Southern California, USA)

• Michael Johnston (ATT, USA)

• Tibor Kiss (Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany)

• Lars Konieczny (Freiburg university, Germany)

• Shalom Lappin (King’s College, UK)

• Detmar Meurers (Ohio State University, USA)

• Joachim Niehren (INRIA, France)

• Gerald Penn (University of Toronto, Canada)

• Geoffrey Pullum (UCSC, USA)

• Ivan Sag (Stanford University, USA)

• Kiril Simov (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria)

• Peter Skadhauge (Copenhagen Business School, Denmark)

• Gert Smolka (Saarland University, Germany)

• Jorgen Villadsen (Technical University of Denmark)

• Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie (INRIA, France)

Workshop Organization

•  Chair:  Philippe Blache

            LPL - CNRS

            Université de Provence

            29, Avenue Robert Schuman

            13621 Aix-en-Provence

            FRANCE

            Email: pb@lpl.univ-aix.fr

            Phone: +33-442-953-625

            Fax: +33-442-953-744

•  Organizing committee:

              Philippe Blache (Université de Provence, France)

              Henning Christiansen (Roskilde University, Denmark)

              Veronica Dahl (Simon Fraser University, Canada)

              Jean-Philippe Prost (Macquarie University, Australia & Université de Provence, France )