Introduction

The 24th Conference on Formal Grammar will be held from August 10th to August 11th, 2019, in conjunction with the 31st European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI 2019) at University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia.

Previous Formal Grammar meetings were held in Barcelona (1995), Prague (1996), Aix-en-Provence (1997), Saarbrücken (1998), Utrecht (1999), Helsinki (2001), Trento (2002), Vienna (2003), Nancy (2004), Edinburgh (2005), Malaga (2006), Dublin (2007), Hamburg (2008), Bordeaux (2009), Copenhagen (2010), Ljubljana (2011), Opole (2012), Düsseldorf (2013), Tübingen (2014), Barcelona (2015), Bozen-Bolzano (2016), Toulouse (2017), and Sofia (2018).

Aims and Scope

FG provides a forum for the presentation of new and original research on formal grammar, mathematical linguistics and the application of formal and mathematical methods to the study of natural language. Themes of interest include, but are not limited to:

    Formal and computational phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics
    Model-theoretic and proof-theoretic methods in linguistics
    Logical aspects of linguistic structure
    Constraint-based and resource-sensitive approaches to grammar
    Learnability of formal grammar
    Integration of stochastic and symbolic models of grammar
    Foundational, methodological and architectural issues in grammar and linguistics
    Mathematical foundations of statistical approaches to linguistic analysis

Previous conferences in this series have welcomed papers from a wide variety of frameworks.

Submission Details

We invite electronic submissions of original, 16-page papers (including references and possible technical appendices). Authors are encouraged to use the Springer-Verlag LNCS style.

The submission deadline is March 8, 2019. Papers must be anonymous and submitted electronically via EasyChair.

Papers should report original work which was not presented in other conferences. However, simultaneous submission is allowed, provided that the authors indicate other conferences to which the work was submitted in a footnote. Note that accepted papers can only be presented in one of the venues.

Submissions will be reviewed anonymously by at least three reviewers.

Accepted papers will be published as a volume in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series, under the FoLLI subline.