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META-RESEARCH Workshop on Advanced Treebanking (LREC 2012) - Call
for papers <br>
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<b>The Workshop</b><br>
Many EU and world-wide projects and research groups are creating,
standardizing, converting and/or using treebanks, thereby often
tackling the same issues and reinventing methods and tools. The
workshop has been conceived by four projects, namely T4ME,
META-NORD, CESAR and META4U, which under the META-NET umbrella
project strive to make many treebanks and other LRT available for
R&D. However, the workshop is not limited to participants of
META-NET, but it is widely open: papers of authors of any origin
will be welcome to share their experiences among those working in
this area. Also, papers on using treebanks in innovative ways and/or
analyzing issues with current treebanks (both in content and format)
will be welcome, to provide feedback to treebank developers. The
emphasis is not on linguistic theory or grammar, but on treebanks as
language resources.<br>
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<b>The Call</b><br>
As part of the LREC’2012 Language Resources Conference, to be held
in Istanbul, Turkey, the META-RESEARCH Workshop on Advanced
Treebanking
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.meta-net.eu/meta-research/events/lrec2012-treebanking-workshop">http://www.meta-net.eu/meta-research/events/lrec2012-treebanking-workshop</a>)
invites papers on all aspects of treebanking, especially but not
limited to <br>
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- Treebank annotation (manual, semi-automatic, automatic) and
related issues such as quality control, searching large collections
of treebanks, parallel treebanks<br>
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- Treebank conversion between different linguistic representations
(e.g. dependency vs. phrase-based) and between different formats<br>
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- Treebank standardization and format unification across languages
and styles<br>
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- Combinations of treebanks and other annotations – including but
not limited to semantic role labeling, named entity annotation,
discourse annotation, information structure<br>
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- Tools and online web services for the management of treebanks,
visualization, search, processing, upload and download, etc.<br>
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- Innovative use of treebanks in all areas of natural language
research and applications<br>
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- Reuse of treebank annotation for non-traditional purposes and in
related disciplines (cognitive science, psycholinguistics, etc.)<br>
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- Improving the use of current treebanks in linguistic and
computational R&D.<br>
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Oral presentations will have around 20 minutes each; demonstrations
and poster presentations will be encouraged (but optional) in
addition to the oral presentations, during the entire workshop in
the meeting room to stimulate discussions.<br>
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Submissions cannot be more than 8 pages long and will be reviewed
using the START system in the usual double-blind fashion, with at
least three reviews for each submission by the members of the
Programme Committee. Authors will be asked to provide details about
the resources used when preparing material for the paper (see
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2012/?LRE-Map-2012">http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2012/?LRE-Map-2012</a>) and to the Language
Library, the new initiative of LREC 2012. <br>
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<b>Organizers</b><br>
Jan Hajic, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:hajic@ufal.mff.cuni.cz">hajic@ufal.mff.cuni.cz</a>, Charles Univ., Prague, Czech Rep.<br>
Koenraad De Smedt, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:desmedt@uib.no">desmedt@uib.no</a>, Univ. of Bergen, Norway<br>
Marko Tadic, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:marko.tadic@ffzg.hr">marko.tadic@ffzg.hr</a>, Univ. of Zagreb, Croatia<br>
Antonio Branco, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Antonio.branco@di.fc.ul.pt">Antonio.branco@di.fc.ul.pt</a>, University of Lisbon,
Portugal<br>
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<b>Deadlines</b><br>
Submission: Monday, February 20, 2012<br>
Decision: Monday, March 19, 2012<br>
Camera Ready in START: Wednesday, March, 28, 2012<br>
Workshop date: Tuesday, May 22, 2012<br>
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<b>Programme Committee (to be extended)</b><br>
Antonio Branco, Portugal<br>
Silvie Cinkova, Czech Rep.<br>
Dan Cristea, Romania<br>
Koenraad De Smedt, Norway<br>
Rebecca Dridan, Australia<br>
Jan Hajic, Czech Rep.<br>
Silvia Hansen-Schirra, Germany<br>
Nancy Ide, USA<br>
Daisuke Kawahara, Japan<br>
Valia Kordoni, Germany<br>
Sandra Kuebler, USA<br>
Krister Linden, Finland<br>
Adam Meyers, USA<br>
Joakim Nivre, Sweden<br>
Stephan Oepen, Norway<br>
Marco Passarotti, Italy<br>
Adam Przepiorkowski, Poland<br>
Eirikur Rognvaldsson, Iceland<br>
Victoria Rosen, Norway<br>
Marko Tadic, Croatia<br>
Barbora Vidova Hladka, Czech Rep.<br>
Juergen Wedekind, Denmark<br>
Fei Xia, USA<br>
Daniel Zeman, Czech Rep.<br>
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