HPSG 2015

The 22nd International Conference on
Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar

The 22nd International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar will be taking place in August, 2015 at Nanyang Technological University, in beautiful and cosmopolitan Singapore.
This year's conference includes a workshop on affectedness and a Linguistic Analysis Design event, consisting of a set of three sessions devoted to collaborative design of linguistic analyses that are theoretically grounded, empirically justified, and amenable to implementation.

Information

• Main Conference (August 10–12)
  Program; 2015 Proceedings
  Invited Speakers:
  • I Wayan Arka
    "Affectedness and Psych Predicates in Marori and beyond"
  • Hans Uszkoreit
    "Syntax and Semantics in the Automatic Extraction of Relations from Texts"
  • Kazuko Yatsushiro
    "The Reverse Partitive Construction in Japanese"
  • Bob Borsley (cancelled, sadly)
    "Explanations and 'Engineering Solutions'? On the Relation between Minimalism and HPSG"
  
  Venue: Theatre@The Nest, NTU Innovation Center (another map)
• Workshop (August 13–14)
  • Affectedness Workshop 2015: Verb Classes and the Scale of Change in Affected ArgumentsVenue: Theatre@The Nest, NTU Innovation Center (another map)
• Registration
  • Registration is now open! REGISTER HERE!
    Registration fees will be 150 SGD (normal) and 100 SGD (student), before July 15th.
    And 180 SGD (normal) and 130 SGD (student) after that date.
    You can choose to pay onsite, for a 200 SGD flat fee (cash).
    As a CLASS supported event, registration is free for NTU students and staff.
    You can join the conference banquet for 100 SGD.
• Local Information
  • Singapore.sg (official)
  • Yoursingapore.com
  • Accommodation
    • Nanyang Executive Centre Official Hotel — closest to venue, easy commute (on foot).
      Put 'HPSG-2015' as the Event Name in the top of the form for a 10% discount.
    • Genting Hotel Jurong Official Hotel — Shiny New Hotel with short commute by bus and train.
      They have reserved 30 rooms for us until July 19th. When you book, send this form to <callcentre.mice@RWSentosa.com>, you will get a special rate (from 150 SGD (plus 17% service+tax=175.50) w/o breakfast). If you stay here, let me (Francis) know, if there are enough people I will try to run a shuttle bus direct to NTU.
• Related Events
  • DELPH-IN 2015 Summit (Aug 3–, NTU)

Schedule of dates

Please direct any questions about the local organization to the organizers: hpsg2015@gmail.com.

Program Committee

• Anne Abeillé
• Farrell Ackerman
• Doug Arnold
• Emily M. Bender (chair)
• Francis Bond
• Gosse Bouma
• George Broadwell
• Rui Chaves
• Philippa Cook
• Ann Copestake
• Kordula De Kuthy
• Elisabet Engdahl
• Dan Flickinger
• Antske Fokkens
• Danièle Godard
• Petter Haugereid
• Fabiola Henri
• Anke Holler
• Jong-Bok Kim
• Jean-Pierre Koenig
• Anna Kupsc
• Bob Levine
• Janna Lipenkova
• Rob Malouf
• Nurit Melnik
• Philip Miller
• Tsuneko Nakazawa
• Joanna Nykiel
• Gerald Penn
• Adam Przepiorkowski
• Frank Richter
• Louisa Sadler
• Pollet Samvellian
• Sanghoun Song
• Jesse Tseng
• Steve Wechsler
• Shûichi Yatabe
• Eun-Jung Yoo

Local Committee

• Francis Bond (NTU) (chair)
• Sanghoun Song (NTU)
• Michael Goodman (NTU)
• Luis Morgado da Costa (NTU)

More

More about HPSG conferences in general.

The first affectedness workshop (June 2014, NTU).

This conference is supported by the NTU Centre for Liberal Arts and Social Sciences (CLASS) and the Singapore MOE Tier 2 Grant That's what you meant: A Rich Representation for Manipulating Meaning (MOE ARC41/13).