<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">===========================================================<br>Second International Conference on Dependency Linguistics<br> DepLing 2013<br><br> <a href="http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/project/depling13/">http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/project/depling13/</a><br>===========================================================<br> Final Call for Papers<br>===========================================================<br><br>DepLing 2013 will be held at the Faculty of Mathematics<br>and Physics, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic<br>on August 27-30, 2013.<br>The conference is organized by the Institute of Formal<br>and Applied Linguistics.<br><br>DepLing 2013 is the second conference in the DepLing series<br>(the first was held in Barcelona, Spain in 2011).<br>The series responds to the growing need for linguistic<br>meetings dedicated to syntactic, semantic and lexicographic<br>approaches that are centered around dependency as a central<br>notion.<br><br>============================================================<br> Important Dates<br>============================================================<br><br> EXTENDED Submission deadline: April 22, 2013<br> Notification of acceptance: May 31, 2013<br> Camera-ready copy of papers due: June 17, 2013<br> Depling Conference: August 27-31, 2013<br><br>============================================================<br> Proceedings Publication<br>============================================================<br><br>In addition to the electronic version, there will be a hard<br>copy version of the Proceedings published by the MATFYZPRESS<br>(with the ISBN) available to the conference participants<br>at the registration. The papers accepted for the conference<br>will be indexed by the ACL Anthology.<br><br>============================================================<br> Topics<br>============================================================<br><br>Topics include, but are not limited to:<br><br>- The use of dependency trees in syntactic analysis,<br>description, formalization, parsing, generation, and corpus<br>annotation of written and spoken texts.<br>- The use of semantic valency-based predicate and actancy<br>graph structures and their link to classical logic.<br>- The elaboration of formal dictionaries for dependency-based<br>syntax and semantics, including descriptions of collocations<br>and paradigmatic relations.<br>- Links to morphology and linearization of dependency<br>structures, using for example topological field theories<br>- Dependency-like structures beyond the sentence as annotation<br>scheme for discourse phenomena.<br>- The description and formalization of semantic and pragmatic<br>phenomena related to information structure.<br>- History, epistemology, and psycholinguistic relevance<br>of dependency grammar, including its relation to generative<br>approaches to language<br><br>We are also interested in work on issues such as:<br><br>- What are the differences and similarities between theta<br>roles, valencies, f-structures, TAG derivation trees,<br>(subcategorization) frames, semantic role labelling, etc?<br>- Which corpus annotations using head-daughter relations<br>on words are formally and linguistically equivalent,<br>which are not?<br>- How to describe syntax-semantic interfaces between<br>dependency structures?<br><br>============================================================<br> Papers format and submission<br>============================================================<br><br>The EXTENDED deadline for the submissions is April 22, 2013.<br>The submissions will be electronic in PDF format through<br>the DepLing2013 EasyChair.<br><br>Papers may consist of up to 10 pages of content (including<br>references and figures), in the ACL two-column format.<br>Please see the instructions at:<br><a href="http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/project/depling13/?page=call_for_papers">http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/project/depling13/?page=call_for_papers</a><br><br>Reviewing of papers will be double-blind.<br><br>============================================================<br> People<br>============================================================<br><br>DepLing 2013 is organized by the Institute of Formal and<br>Applied Linguistics of the Faculty of Mathematics and<br>Physics, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic.<br><br>The local committee of the conference is chaired<br>by Eva Hajicova (Charles University in Prague).<br><br>The scientific committee is chaired by Kim Gerdes<br>(Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris),<br>Leo Wanner (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) and Eva Hajicova.<br><br>Invited speakers are:<br>Aravind Joshi (IRCS and CIS, Philadelphia),<br>Richard Hudson (UCL, London).<br><br>============================================================<br> Location<br>============================================================<br><br>Location of the conference:<br>Faculty of Mathematics and Physics,<br>Charles University in Prague,<br>Malostranske nam. 25,<br>118 00 Prague 1,<br>Czech Republic<br><br>============================================================<br> Scientific Committee<br>============================================================</body></html>