Corpora: LINC-2000 Call for participation

[Thorsten Brants]

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                LINGUISTICALLY INTERPRETED CORPORA (LINC-2000)

                     A workshop to be held at Coling 2000
        the 18th International Conference on Computational Linguistics

                           Luxembourg, 6 August 2000

                     http://www.coling.org/workshops.html
                      http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/linc2000


             ** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION AND PRELIMINARY PROGRAM **


The aim of the workshop is to exchange and propagate research results
in the field of corpus annotation, taking into account various types
of information. The Workshop on Linguistically Interpreted Corpora
focues on
- tools & techniques for syntactic annotation,
- tagging and parsing methods that aim at semi-automatic annotation,
- error detection and correction,
- inter-annotator-agreement,
- representation formats and standards,
- browsing corpora and searching for instances of linguistic phenomena,


PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:

Anne Abeille (co-chair), Paris
Thorsten Brants (co-chair), Saarbruecken
John Carroll , Sussex
Lionel Clement, Paris
Tomaz Erjavec, Ljubljana
Frank Keller, Edinburgh
Laurent Romary, Nancy
Geoffrey Sampson, Sussex
Hans Uszkoreit (co-chair), Saarbruecken
Jean Veronis, Aix-en-Provence
Atro Voutilainen, Helsinki
Jakub Zavrel, Antwerp


PROGRAM:

  Comparing Linguistic Interpretation Schemes for English Corpora
    Eric Atwell, George Demetriou, John Hughes, Amanda Schiffrin
    Clive Souter, Sean Wilcock

  Dependency-based Syntactic Annotation of a Chinese Corpus
    Tom B. Y. Lai, Huang Changning

  The Italian Syntactic-Semantic Treebank: Architecture, Annotation,
  Tools and Evaluation
    S. Montemagni, F. Barsotti, M. Battista, N. Calzolari,  O. Corazzari,
    A. Zampolli, F. Fanciulli, M. Massetani, R. Raffaelli, R. Basili,
    M. T. Pazienza, D. Saracino, F. Zanzotto, N. Mana, F. Pianesi, R. Delmonte

  Where Should Annotation Stop?
    Geoffrey Sampson

  A Statistical Account on Word Order Variation in German
    Daniela Kurz

  Bottom-Up Tagset Design from Maximally Reduced Tagset
    Peter Dienes, Csaba Oravecz

  The Detection of Inconsistency in Manually Tagged Text
    Hans van Halteren

  Grammar-Based Corpus Annotation
    Stefanie Dipper

  Automatic Procedures in Tectogrammatical Tagging
    Alena Bohmova, Petr Sgall

  Considering Automatic Aids to Corpus Annotation
    David Day, Benjamin Wellner


CONTACT:
    Thorsten Brants
    email: thorsten at coli.uni-sb.de

REGISTRATION:
    URL: http://www.coling.org/reg.html
    select ``Workshops'' (or secure form for workshops)