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<div>*** Apologies for multiple copies ***</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>ACL 2008</font></div></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> WORKSHOP ON PARSING GERMAN</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> June 19 or 20, 2008</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> Columbus, Ohio</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div> <a href="http://www.cs.toronto.edu/acl08parsinggerman/">http://www.cs.toronto.edu/acl08parsinggerman/</a></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>German possesses an interesting set of configurational properties on</div><div>the syntactic level which make it far less flexible with respect to</div><div>word order than other free word order languages. Analyses of these</div><div>properties, which have formed a part of the traditional syntax of</div><div>German since the early 19th century, only re-entered the mainstream of</div><div>generative linguistics research within the last twenty years or so.</div><div>In computational linguistics, however, their realization has varied</div><div>quite widely: "topological fields" in HPSG-style analyses, multiple</div><div>parse trees, special constraints on liberation in constraint-based</div><div>dependency-style analyses, various hybrid "deep/shallow" approaches,</div><div>and agnostic parameter estimation over graphs. This variation can</div><div>also acutely be felt in the annotation of German treebanks. Many</div><div>corpora have historically elected to annotate only a few of the</div><div>different senses of the term "constituent" inherent to German syntax,</div><div>resulting in standards that make German appear either more like</div><div>English or more like Czech.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>The aim of this workshop is to provide a forum for theoretical</div><div>discussion as well as a shared task, based on the TIGER and TueBa-D/Z</div><div>German treebanks, for these various approaches to make their case on</div><div>empirical grounds. This combination we believe to be essential to</div><div>balancing the considerations of what structure merits learning versus</div><div>the ease with which it can be learned. Both treebanks are annotated</div><div>collections of German newspaper text on similar topics. They are</div><div>annotated with POS, morphology, phrase structure, and grammatical</div><div>functions. TueBa-D/Z additionally uses topological fields to describe</div><div>fundamental word order restrictions in German clauses. The treebanks</div><div>differ significantly in their annotation schemes, however: while TIGER</div><div>relies on crossing branches to describe long distance relationships,</div><div>TueBa-D/Z uses pure tree structures with designated labels for long</div><div>distance relationships. Additionally, the annotation is TIGER is flat</div><div>on the phrasal level while TueBa-D/Z annotates phrasal structure more</div><div>hierarchically.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>*Participation in the shared task is optional*.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>TOPICS</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>* constituent based approaches to parsing German</div><div>* dependency based approaches to parsing German</div><div>* treatment of long-distance relationships in German</div><div>* comparisons of parsing results for German to other free word order languages</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>SHARED TASK</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>The workshop will feature a shared task on parsing German. We will</div><div>provide the following data sets:</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>* TIGER in constituent structure</div><div>* TIGER in dependency structure</div><div>* TueBa-D/Z in constituent structure</div><div>* TueBa-D/Z in dependency structure</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>The task will be to parse both treebanks using one structural</div><div>encoding. The final ranking of systems will be based on averages</div><div>computed between both treebanks. The data sets will be made available</div><div>free of charge for the shared task, but they do require a license.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>In order to take part in the shared task, participants should register</div><div>their intent to participate by sending an email to</div><div><a href="mailto:skuebler@indiana.edu">skuebler@indiana.edu</a>. More information is available at </div><div><a href="http://www.cs.toronto.edu/acl08parsinggerman/sharedtask.html">http://www.cs.toronto.edu/acl08parsinggerman/sharedtask.html</a></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>IMPORTANT DATES</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Release of training data:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>February 5, 2008</div><div>Release of test data:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>March 5, 2008</div><div>Submission of test results: <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>March 10, 2008</div><div>Evaluation results available: <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>March 12, 2008</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Workshop Paper Submission deadline:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>March 17, 2008</div><div>Notifications sent to authors: <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>April 4, 2008</div><div>Camera ready due: <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>April 18, 2008</div><div>Workshop Dates: <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>June 19 or 20, 2008</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>PAPER SUBMISSION INFORMATION</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Submissions will consist of regular full papers of max. 8 pages,</div><div>formatted following the ACL 2008 main session guidelines. In addition,</div><div>shared task participants will be invited to submit short papers</div><div>(max. 4 pages) describing their systems and/or their evaluation</div><div>metrics. Both submission and review processes will be handled via the</div><div>START system:</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><a href="https://www.softconf.com/acl08/ACL08-WS11/">https://www.softconf.com/acl08/ACL08-WS11/</a></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>PROGRAM COMMITTEE</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Berthold Crysman, Bonn</div><div>Amit Dubey, Edinburgh</div><div>Anette Frank, Heidelberg</div><div>Erhard Hinrichs, Tuebingen</div><div>Julia Hockenmeier, Illinois</div><div>Laura Kallmeyer, Tuebingen</div><div>Frank Keller, Edinburgh</div><div>Sandra Kuebler (co-chair)</div><div>Wolfgang Menzel, Hamburg </div><div>Stefan Mueller, Berlin</div><div>Stefan Oepen, Oslo</div><div>Gerald Penn (co-chair)</div><div>Helmut Schmid, Stuttgart</div><div>Gerold Schneider, Zuerich</div><div>Hans Uszkoreit, Saarbruecken</div><div>Josef van Genabith, Dublin</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Sandra Kuebler<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div>Indiana University</div><div><a href="mailto:skuebler@indiana.edu">skuebler@indiana.edu</a></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Gerald Penn</div><div>University of Toronto</div><div><a href="mailto:gpenn@cs.toronto.edu">gpenn@cs.toronto.edu</a></div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div>Sandra Kuebler</div><div>Indiana University</div><div>Department of Linguistics</div><div>Memorial Hall 322</div><div>1021 E. Third Street</div><div>Bloomington IN 47405</div><div>USA</div><div>phone: (812) 855-3268</div><div>fax: (812) 855-5363</div><div>email: <a href="mailto:skuebler@indiana.edu">skuebler@indiana.edu</a></div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span> </div><br></body></html>