MOL
Association for Mathematics of Language

MOL is a special interest group of the Association for Computational Linguistics ACL Logo

Eighth Meeting on Mathematics of Language

Bloomington, Indiana, USA
June 20-22, 2003

Sponsored by
The Association for Mathematics of Language
(A Special Interest Group of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL))

MoL8, the eighth Mathematics of Language meeting was held June 20-22, 2003, in conjunction with the second North American Summer School in Logic, Language and Information, at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.

Call for Papers

Program

On-line program (includes links to individual papers)

Aims And Scope

MoL8 provides a platform for presentation of new and original research on all mathematical linguistics and the mathematical study of natural languages. Themes of interest include, but are not limited to,
  • formal language theory;
  • formal and computational syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and phonology;
  • model-theoretic and proof-theoretic methods in linguistics;
  • constraint-based and resource-sensitive approaches to grammar;
  • foundational, methodological and architectural issues in grammar;
  • logical aspects of linguistic structure;
  • mathematical foundations of statistical approaches to linguistic analysis.

Special Events

Symposia Language and Game Theory June 20
Statistical and Symbolic Aspects of Natural Language Learnability June 22
Invited Speakers Aravind Joshi (Penn), Ed Keenan & Ed Stabler (UCLA) June 21

Proceedings

The preprinted version of the MoL8 Conference Proceedings is available at:
http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~ircs/mol/mol8/mol8prcd.pdf (1049 KB)
or at
http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~ircs/mol/mol8/mol8prcd.ps.gz (408 KB)

Programme Committee

  • Anne Abeillé (Paris 7)
  • Tilman Becker (DFKI)
  • Patrick Blackburn (LORIA)
  • Pierre Boullier (INRIA)
  • Gosse Bouma (Groningen)
  • Wojciech Buszkowski (Poznań)
  • Christophe Fouquere (Paris 13)
  • Nissim Francez (Haifa)
  • Thilo Goetz (IBM)
  • Gerhard Jaeger (Potsdam)
  • David Johnson (IBM)
  • Mark Johnson (Brown)
  • Aravind Joshi (UPenn)
  • Ruth Kempson (London)
  • Andras Kornai (Metacarta)
  • Marcus Kracht (UCLA)
  • Uli Krieger (DFKI)
  • Geert-Jan Kruijff (Saarbrücken)
  • Natasha Kurtonina (Fitchburg)
  • Alain Lecomte (Grenoble)
  • Carlos Martin-Vide (Tarragona)
  • Jens Michaelis (Potsdam)
  • Mehryar Mohri (AT&T)
  • Uwe Mönnich (Tübingen)
  • Michael Moortgat (Utrecht)
  • Drew Moshier (Chapman)
  • Larry Moss (Indiana)
  • Mark-Jan Nederhof (Groningen)
  • Gertjan van Noord (Groningen)
  • Richard Oehrle (Berkeley, CA)
  • Gerald Penn (Toronto)
  • Stanley Peters (Stanford)
  • Geoffrey Pullum (Santa Cruz)
  • Owen Rambow (Columbia)
  • Christian Retore (INRIA & LaBRI, Bordeaux)
  • James Rogers (Earlham)
  • Robert van Rooy (Amsterdam)
  • Giorgio Satta (Padua)
  • Vijay K. Shanker (Delaware)
  • Ed Stabler (UCLA)
  • Mark Steedman (Edinburgh)
  • Hans Joerg Tiede (Illinois Wesleyan)
  • Christian Wartena (Potsdam)