Workshop: 10th International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammars and Related Formalisms (TAG+10)

在过去的二十年里，计算语言学家、理论语言学家和心理语言学家对一系列语法形式主义进行了探索，因为它们在构建自然语言界面和机器翻译系统、表征人类语言知识的性质以及构建语言处理模型方面具有实用性。 由于这些形式主义中的许多都具有重要的形式和语言属性（最突出的是，温和的上下文敏感性和词汇化），因此可以通过考虑源自特定形式主义之外的工作的想法来获得许多潜在的协同作用，包括计算，理论和心理。 此外，尽管理论家、计算学家和心理学家关注的是解决不同的问题，但来自一个群体的想法往往会对其他群体产生重大影响。 这个由美国国家科学基金会赞助的研讨会将于2010年6月10日至12日在耶鲁大学举行，其目标是促进这两种类型的联系：跨越形式主义鸿沟和理论-计算-心理学鸿沟。 树邻接语法社区有探索这些联系的历史，本次研讨会旨在进一步扩大参与这种异花授粉的研究人员社区。 该研讨会将汇集来自树邻接语法，极简主义，范畴语法，依存语法，HPSG和LFG社区的研究人员，以研究形式主义的相似性和差异，目标是开发共享的，广泛覆盖的语法，将解析和机器学习算法从一种形式主义转移到另一种形式主义。并对不同形式主义的性质及其语言学和心理语言学解释的能力有了新的认识。该奖项提供了至关重要的支持，不仅吸引了杰出的研究人员参加研讨会，他们将提供特邀演讲和辅导讲座，而且可能更重要的是，博士生。 通过向初级研究人员介绍跨框架和跨学科互动在其职业生涯的早期阶段的成果，我们希望该奖项将对他们在整个职业生涯中从事的工作产生变革性影响，可能导致整个领域更广泛，更综合的观点。

The past two decades have witnessed the exploration of a range of grammatical formalisms by computational, theoretical, and psycho linguists, for their utility in building natural language interfaces and machine translation systems, characterizing the nature of human linguistic knowledge, and constructing models of language processing. Because many of these formalisms share important formal and linguistic properties (most prominently, mild context-sensitivity and lexicalization), there are many potential synergies, computational, theoretical and psychological, that can be gotten by considering ideas that stem from work outside of particular formalism. Moreover, though theoreticians, computationalists, and psychologists are concerned with solving different problems, ideas that derive from one community often turn out to have a significant consequences for the others. The goal of this NSF-sponsored workshop, which will take place at Yale University on June 10-12, 2010, is to foster both of these types of connections: across the formalism divide and the theoretical-computational-psycho divide. The Tree-Adjoining Grammar community has a history of exploring these connections, and this workshop aims to expand the community of researchers involved in such cross-pollination even further. The workshop will bring together researchers from the Tree-Adjoining Grammar, Minimalism, Categorial Grammar, Dependency Grammar, HPSG, and LFG communities to look at the similarities and differences of the formalisms, with the goals of developing shared, broad-coverage grammars, transferring parsing and machine learning algorithms from one formalism to another. and gaining new insights into the properties of different formalisms and their capacity for linguistic and psycholinguistic explanation. This award provides support crucial to attract to the workshop not only prominent researchers, who will give invited presentations and tutorial lectures, but also, and perhaps even more importantly, PhD students. By introducing junior researchers to the fruitfulness of cross-framework and cross-disciplinary interactions at an early stage in their careers, our hope is that the award will have a transformative effect on the kind of work they will engage in during their entire careers, potentially leading to a broader, more integrated perspective in the field at large.