International Conference in HPSG Standing Committee

The current members are:

• Anne Abeillé (Université Paris 7, France)
• Doug Arnold (Univeristy of Essex, UK) [Chair] (2009)
• Emily Bender (University of Washington, USA)
• Francis Bond (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
• Carl Pollard (Ohio State, Columbus, USA) (permanent)
• Ivan Sag (Stanford University, USA) (permanent)
• Gert Webelhuth (Goettingen, Germany)

For previous members, see below.

The primary task of the standing committee is to see that the yearly conference is organized, preferably at accessible places and regular intervals. Principally, this involves:

• Appointing a Programme Committee Chair, and approving the membership of the Programme Committee;
• Selecting a location for the conference, and appointing a Local Organizing Committee Chair;
• Appointing an editor to oversea publication of the conference proceedings;
• Holding a business meeting at each conference; this meeting should be an open meeting, at which the Standing Committee presents a verbal report, and any concerns about the running of the conference, including the organization, activity, and membership of the Standing Committee may be raised and discussed.

The standing committee consists of two permanent members, two ex-officio memebers, and five regular members. Carl Pollard and Ivan Sag are the permanent members. In any given year, the ex-officio members are the programme chair and the chair of the local organizing committee from the previous year's conference. Since the ex-officio members may also be regular members, this gives a total membership of between seven (two plus five) and nine (two plus two plus five).

Regular members serve a term of three years, which may be extended for a second three years, but only once (this does not preclude them being ex-officio members at any time). Regular members are appointed by the existing Standing Committee itself.

Previous members may be renominated (after a break in service).

The Standing Committee chooses one of its members to act as Standing Committee chair.

Past members of the committee include:

• Daniele Godard
• Georgia Green
• Erhard Hinrichs
• Detmar Meurers
• Tsuneko Nakazawa
• John Nerbonne
• Kiril Simov

(Please let me know if you are a past member and I have missed you from this list).

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Last Updated: Oct 23 2009.