Announcing a new journal for 1997

GRAMMARS

Announcement and Call for Papers

Aims and Scope:

GRAMMARS is an international forum for the dissemination of high-level original research in the intersection between mathematical/computational linguistics and formal language theory.

The journal is based on the fact that a certain gap exists between linguists (trying to find adequate formal tools for natural language description) and computer scientists (often unworried about the descriptive applicability of the generative devices they design). Not all linguists are acquainted with the new developments in pure formal language theory, as well as not all computer scientists know the concrete problems linguists deal with and the real needs they have. The aim of the journal is to bring both communities together and to provide a platform for discussion.

Examples of papers fitting the scope of the journal are: those developing new generative devices potentially useful for natural language description, and those clarifying empirical linguistic facts in such a way that they become acceptable for formal language treatment.

We are planning to publish 3 issues, appr. 300 pages, yearly, in March, July and November. The first issue will be available in March, 1997. The journal will be published by the Rovira i Virgili University (Tarragona, Spain).

Editor:

Carlos Martin-Vide (Tarragona, Spain)

Editorial board:

         Robert Berwick (Cambridge, USA)
         Julio Collado-Vides (Cuernavaca, Mexico)
         Erzsebet Csuhaj-Varju (Budapest, Hungary)
         Jurgen Dassow (Magdeburg, Germany)
         Rudolf Freund (Wien, Austria)
         Juraj Hromkovic (Kiel, Germany)
         Masami Ito (Kyoto, Japan)
         David Johnson (Yorktown Heights, USA)
         Aravind Joshi (Philadelphia, USA)
         Andras Kornai (Almaden, USA)
         Alexis Manaster Ramer (Detroit, USA)
         Solomon Marcus (Bucharest, Romania)
         Philip Miller (Lille, France)
         Anton Nijholt (Enschede, The Netherlands)
         Maurice Nivat (Paris, France)
         Gheorghe Paun (Bucharest, Romania)
         Lech Polkowski (Warsaw, Poland)
         Carl Pollard (Columbus, USA)
         Geoffrey Pullum (Santa Cruz, USA)
         Grzegorz Rozenberg (Leiden, The Netherlands)
         Arto Salomaa (Turku, Finland)
         Walter Savitch (San Diego, USA)
         Masaru Tomita (Fujisawa, Japan)
         Robert Wall (Austin, USA)
         Sheng Yu (London, Canada)

Submissions:

For the purpose of refereeing, papers should be initially submitted in hardcopy. They should be written in English and typed on single sided A4. They should include a up to 200-words abstract and a up to 50-words biographical statement. Since contributions will be blindly refereed, all identifying information should be removed from the body of the paper. 5 blind copies of the manuscript, accompanied by a cover letter including author(s)' name, affiliation, address, phone and fax number, and e-mail should be submitted to:
Carlos Martin-Vide Research Group in Mathematical Linguistics and Language Engineering (GRLMC) Rovira i Virgili University Pl. Imperial Tarraco, 1 43005 Tarragona Spain E-mails: cmv@astor.urv.es, cmv@tinet.fut.es
Electronic initial submissions are also acceptable if one hardcopy of the paper is sent by surface mail.

Instructions for typesetting camera-ready final manuscripts after being successfully refereed can be obtained from the editor.

Submission deadlines:

      1st issue: December 15, 1996
      2nd issue: April 15, 1997
      3rd issue: August 15, 1997

Subscription prices for 1997 (including postage and handling):

      3 issues: institutional, USA $ 102
                personal, USA $ 51
      1 issue:  institutional, USA $ 46
                personal, USA $ 23

Please, send your orders to the editor.

Information:

All correspondence should be sent to the editor.