[Corpora-List] First CfP: SPMRL 2013 - EMNLP-Workshop on Statistical Parsing of Morphologically Rich Languages

Tue Mar 19 10:03:33 UTC 2013

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SPMRL 2013 - EMNLP-Workshop on Statistical
Parsing of Morphologically Rich Languages
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The 4th Workshop on Statistical Parsing of Morphologically Rich Languages
will be held in conjunction with the 2013 Conference on Empirical Methods
in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2013) which will take place in
October, 18-21, 2013 in Seattle, Washington.

SPMRL 2013 will also host the first shared task on parsing morphologically
rich languages (see section below).

Important Dates
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Jul 01, 2013    Paper submission deadline
Aug 01, 2013    Notification of acceptance
Sep 01, 2013    Camera-ready deadline
October 2013    SPMRL workshop at EMNLP 2013

Workshop Description
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Since the advent of large syntactically annotated corpora, statistical
parsing has been a cornerstone of research in NLP. While Penn Treebank
parsing performance, be it dependency-based or constituency-based,
seems to have reached a high plateau, the same cannot be said of other
languages, data sets and domains.

Statistical parsing of morphologically-rich languages (MRLs) has
repeatedly been shown to exhibit a plethora of nontrivial challenges,
including sparse lexica in the face of rich inflectional systems, parsing
deficiency in the face of free word order, and treebank annotation
idiosyncrasies in the face of morphosyntactic interactions. Recent
studies on parsing languages such as German, Arabic, Hebrew or French
using newly available treebanks contribute to our understanding of the
extent of the difficulty that such phenomena pose when reusing parsing
models initially designed to parse English. Beyond the technical and
linguistic difficulties, the lack of communication between researchers
working on different MRLs can lead to a reinventing the wheel syndrome.

Following the warm reception of the first three SPMRL workshops,
the fourth SPMRL workshop aims to build on the success of the
previous ones and offer a platform to this growing community of
interests. We solicit papers describing parsing experiments with models
and architectures for languages with morphological structure richer
than English, or studies that address lexical sparseness challenges
(for any language). In order to provide a realistic indication of the
performance of parsing systems on unstructured and unanalyzed data,
we particularly encourage contributions reporting parsing results for
non-gold as well as gold morphological analysis of the test data, before
or jointly with the parser.

Scope and Topics
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The areas of interest of the fourth SPMRL workshop include, but are not
limited to, the following list of topics:

* parsing models and architectures that explicitly integrate morphological
analysis and parsing

* parsing models and architectures that focus on lexical coverage and
the handling of OOV words either by incorporating linguistic knowledge
or through the use of unsupervised/semi-supervised learning techniques

* parsing models and architectures that focus on domain adaptation for
non-canonical text from morphologically rich languages

* cross-language and cross-model comparison of models' strength
and weaknesses in the face of particular linguistic phenomena
(e.g. morphosyntactic characteristics, degree of word-order freedom ?)

* comprehensive analyses of the strengths and weaknesses of various
parsing models on particular linguistic (e.g. morphosyntactic) phenomena
with respect to variation in tagsets, annotation schemes and additional
data transformations

Submission Details
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Authors are invited to submit long papers (up to 9 pages + references)
and short papers (up to 5 pages + references). Long papers should
describe unpublished, substantial and completed research. Short papers
should be position papers, papers describing work in progress or short,
focused contributions.

Submissions will be accepted until July, 01 , 2013, (11:59 p.m. PST) in PDF
format via the START system (details tba).

SPMRL 2013 SHARED TASK
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The fourth SPMRL workshop will also host the first shared task on parsing
morphologically rich languages:

The primary goal of the shared task on parsing morphologically rich
languages is to bring forward work on parsing morphologically ambiguous
input in both dependency and constituency parsing, and to show the state
of the art for MRLs. In the longer term,  we aim to provide streamlined
data sets and  evaluation metrics, thus improving the comparability of
cross-linguistic work on parsing MRLs.  The shared task will feature
tracks in constituency parsing and in dependency parsing, in gold as well
as in realistic scenarios (the realistic scenario will have no gold
tokenization, no gold part-of-speech tags and morphological features).

The participants will be provided with data from 10 different languages
(Arabic, Basque, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Korean, Polish,
Portugese, Swedish). The data will be available in Penn Treebank
bracketing format, CoNLL-X format and optionally in TiGerXML.  In order
to ease cross-linguistic comparisons, the data set will also be released
within a common size setting (ie, treebanks of 5000 sentences).

Participating groups are expected to submit a short paper (up to 6 pages
- incl. refs -) describing their system which will be published as part
of the SPMRL 2013 Shared Task Proceedings.  The SPMRL 2013 Shared Task
will be followed by a  special issue, either in a journal or a published
volume, which will include  extended versions of  papers presenting the
best systems.

Shared Task Provisional Schedule (2013)

Mar 29, 2013    Release of  training and development data
Jul 01, 2013    Release of test data
Jul 15, 2013    Deadline for submission of test runs
Aug 01, 2013    Submission and announcement of results
Sep 01, 2013    Shared task papers due

Website https://sites.google.com/site/spmrl2013/home/sharedtask

All participants are invited to join the mailing list at
https://sympa.inria.fr/sympa/info/mrlp-sharedtask

Workshop Organizers
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Yoav Goldberg (Bar Ilan University, Israel)
Ines Rehbein (Potsdam University, Germany)
Yannick Versley (Tübingen University, Germany)

Shared Task Organizers
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Sandra Kübler (Indiana University, US)
Djamé Seddah (Université Paris Sorbonne & INRIAs Alpage Project, France)
Reut Tsarfaty (Uppsala University, Sweden)

Program Committee
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Mohammed Attia (Dublin City University, Ireland)
Bernd Bohnet (University of Birmingham, UK)
Marie Candito (University of Paris 7, France)
Aoife Cahill (Educational Testing Service, US)
Ozlem Cetinoglu (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
Jinho Choi (University of Colorado at Boulder, US)
Grzegorz Chrupala (Saarland University, Germany)
Benoit Crabbé (University of Paris 7, France)
Gülsen Cebiroglu Eryigit (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey)
Michael Elhadad (Ben Gurion University, Israel)
Richard Farkas (University of Szeged, Hungary)
Jennifer Foster (Dublin City University, Ireland)
Josef van Genabith (Dublin City University, Ireland)
Koldo Gojenola (University of the Basque Country, Spain)
Spence Green (Stanford University, US)
Samar Husain (Potsdam University, Germany)
Sandra Kübler (Indiana University, US)
Jonas Kuhn (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
Alberto Lavelli (FBK-irst, Italy)
Joseph Le Roux (Université Paris-Nord, France)
Wolfgang Maier (University of Düsseldorf, Germany)
Yuval Marton (IBM Watson Research Center, US)
Takuya Matsuzaki (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Joakim Nivre (Uppsala University, Sweden)
Kemal Oflazer (Carnegie Mellon University, Qatar)
Adam Przepiorkowski (ICS PAS, Poland)
Owen Rambow (Columbia University, US)
Kenji Sagae (University of Southern California, US)
Benoit Sagot (Inria Rocquencourt, France)
Djamé Seddah (Inria Rocquencourt, France)
Reut Tsarfaty (Uppsala University, Sweden)
Lamia Tounsi (Dublin City University, Ireland)
Daniel Zeman (Charles University, Czechia)

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