<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10.9px/normal Helvetica; ">THEORY, TYPOLOGY & TECHNOLOGY: </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10.9px/normal Helvetica; ">PARSING IN THE FACE OF DIVERSITY</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10.9px/normal Helvetica; "><span style="font: 10.0px Helvetica">WORKSHOP, MARCH 23, 2010, AMSTERDAM</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10.9px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><a href="http://www.illc.uva.nl/NewsandEvents/index.php?cat=events#item3272">http://www.illc.uva.nl/NewsandEvents/index.php?cat=events#item3272</a></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10.9px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; "><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10.9px/normal Helvetica; ">Any statistical model that automatically analyzes naturally-occurring natural language data must rely on a particular linguistic representation. Different representations and their associated theories embody different assumptions about the linguistic phenomena. Representations may be constituency-based or dependency-based, and they may employ theoretical constructs borrowed from various syntactic formal frameworks (such as GPSG, HPSG, LFG, CCG, TAG and so on). Either way, the representations are assumed to be rich enough to express the empirical facts about the data, so that the model can statistically learn linguistic phenomena, and generalize to new instances.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10.9px/normal Helvetica; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10.9px/normal Helvetica; ">When adapting statistical parsing models from one language to another, these assumptions often break down. A representation type that is sufficient for expressing empirical facts about one language is not always rich enough to express facts about a different one, or, on the other hand, it may seem unnecessarily cumbersome. The quest for a general representation formalism that is adequate for a wide range of languages is similar, in spirit, to the search for universal principles that underlie the organization of natural language grammar. Despite the differences in methodology, insights obtained in one of these strands of research may shed new light on the findings of the other.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10.9px/normal Helvetica; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10.9px/normal Helvetica; ">This workshop therefore brings together researchers working in language technology, formal grammars, linguistic typology, and theoretical morphology, in order to discuss, compare, contrast and evaluate representation formalisms that are used for modeling natural language phenomena. The idea that morphology competes with syntax is seen as a key to understanding cross-linguistic variation and nonconfigurationality; particular attention will be given to the representation of morphological information and its place in the overall syntactic representation. A desirable outcome of this meeting would also be a better understanding of how data-driven computational approaches can combine with theoretical linguistic analyses to advance our understanding of the principles underlying grammars, and contribute to finding universal tendencies.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10.9px/normal Helvetica; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10.9px/normal Helvetica; ">Confirmed Speakers:</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10.9px/normal Helvetica; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10.9px/normal Helvetica; ">• Mark Johnson (Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia) </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10.9px/normal Helvetica; ">• Joakim Nivre (Uppsala University, Sweden) </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10.9px/normal Helvetica; ">• James P. Blevins (University of Cambridge, UK) </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10.9px/normal Helvetica; ">• Owen Rambow (Columbia University, USA) </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10.9px/normal Helvetica; ">• Gregory Stump (University of Kentucky, USA) </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10.9px/normal Helvetica; ">• Yoad Winter (Utrecht University, The Netherlands) </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10.9px/normal Helvetica; ">• Reut Tsarfaty (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)</div></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10.9px/normal Helvetica; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10.9px/normal Helvetica; ">The Computational Linguistics Seminar (CLS) of the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (University of Amsterdam) is proud to host a one-day workshop on “Parsing in the face of diversity,” discussing the intersection of theoretical, typological, and technological concerns, on the occasion of the public defence of Reut Tsarfaty’s PhD dissertation, entitled “Relational-Realizational Parsing”. </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10.9px/normal Helvetica; ">The workshop will be held on March 23 at the University of Amsterdam, and is organized by Reut Tsarfaty, Stefan Frank, Khalil Sima’an and Remko Scha. Attendance is free and open for all. For planning purposes, please register by March 20. You can register using the following link <a href="http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dHBYSVd4TnRRT3ZjZ3pfMGZUNnhiaXc6MA">http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dHBYSVd4TnRRT3ZjZ3pfMGZUNnhiaXc6MA</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10.9px/normal Helvetica; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10.9px/normal Helvetica; ">Workshop Program:</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10.9px/normal Helvetica; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10.9px/normal Helvetica; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10.9px/normal Helvetica; ">— Tuesday March 23, 2010 —</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10.9px/normal Helvetica; ">Introduction 9:00–9:45<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10.9px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>Reut Tsarfaty</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10.9px/normal Helvetica; ">Session 1: Parsing/Grammars (chair: Remko Scha) </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10.9px/normal Helvetica; ">10:00–11:00<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Mark Johnson</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10.9px/normal Helvetica; ">11:00–12:00<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Joakim Nivre</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10.9px/normal Helvetica; ">Session 2: Morphology/Typology (chair: Reut Tsarfaty) </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10.9px/normal Helvetica; ">13:30–14:30<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Gregory Stump</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10.9px/normal Helvetica; ">14:30–15:30<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>James P. Blevins</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10.9px/normal Helvetica; ">Session 3: Semitic Syntax/Semantics (chair: Khalil Sima’an) </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10.9px/normal Helvetica; ">16:00–17:00<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Yoad Winter</div></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10.9px/normal Helvetica; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10.9px/normal Helvetica; ">17:00–18:00<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Owen Rambow</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10.9px/normal Helvetica; ">Concluding discussion 18:15 (everyone)</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10.9px/normal Helvetica; ">Workshop dinner 19:00</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10.9px/normal Helvetica; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10.9px/normal Helvetica; ">Workshop Venue:</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10.9px/normal Helvetica; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10.9px/normal Helvetica; ">Oost Indisch Huis AT.03 </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10.9px/normal Helvetica; ">Oude Hoogstraat 24 </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10.9px/normal Helvetica; ">1012 CE Amsterdam</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10.9px/normal Helvetica; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10.9px/normal Helvetica; ">Questions?</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10.9px/normal Helvetica; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10.9px/normal Helvetica; ">Contact Reut Tsarfaty <a href="mailto:r.tsarfaty@uva.nl">r.tsarfaty@uva.nl</a></div></div></body></html>