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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'><div>First Call for Papers</div><div>================</div><div><br></div><div>The 12th International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories</div><div>(TLT12)</div><div><br></div><div>TLT serves as a venue for new and ongoing research on the topic of</div><div>linguistics and treebanks. The 12th edition of TLT will take place in Sofia,</div><div>Bulgaria on December 13-14, 2013, and will be hosted by the BulTreeBank Group.</div><div><br></div><div>TLT-12 website: http://bultreebank.org/TLT12/</div><div><br></div><div>This year, TLT will be accompanied by the third Workshop on Annotation of</div><div>Corpora for Research in the Humanities (ACRH-3) that takes place on December</div><div>12, 2013. More information is available at: http://www.bultreebank.org/ACRH-3/</div><div><br></div><div>TLT started its first edition in 2002 in Sozopol, Bulgaria. Now its 12th</div><div>edition comes back to Bulgaria! For more than 10 years now TLT has</div><div>served as a forum for high-quality works related to</div><div>syntactically-annotated corpora, i.e., treebanks; with a focus on all the</div><div>aspects of treebanking -- descriptive, theoretical, formal and computational </div><div>-- but also going beyond treebanks, including other levels of annotation such as</div><div>frame semantics, coreference, or events. </div><div><br></div><div>Submissions are invited for papers, posters, and demonstrations which</div><div>present research on treebanks and their intersection with linguistics,</div><div>natural language processing, and related fields.</div><div><br></div><div>=Workshop Motivation and Aims=</div><div><br></div><div>Treebanks have proven to be crucial resources for important NLP</div><div>applications, such as MT and information extraction, as well as supporting</div><div>resources for various NLP tasks, such as high-quality parsing and POS tagging. More recent trends</div><div>in treebank-related research include:</div><div><br></div><div>* annotating deep syntactic information </div><div>* conversion into deeper formats, often also adding information automatically </div><div>* multilingual and crosslingual treebanking</div><div>* enriching treebanks with additional layers of linguistic annotation as well as world knowledge </div><div>* dynamic treebanking involving a close connection between parsing and manual annotation</div><div>* designing web services for diverse treebanks</div><div>* mapping syntactic and semantic knowledge to Linked Open Data (LOD)</div><div><br></div><div>This series of workshops provides a forum for researchers and</div><div>advanced students working in these areas.</div><div><br></div><div>=Workshop Topics=</div><div><br></div><div>The workshop invites submissions that discuss relevant innovative work in</div><div>treebanking, including the relations and links between various aspects of</div><div>morphological, syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic annotation; furthermore,</div><div>we encourage submissions describing work on parallel treebanks and/or cross-language</div><div>annotation schemas, on the relation between linguistic theory and the</div><div>practice of annotation, and on applications of information in treebanks.</div><div><br></div><div>=The areas of interest for this workshop include, but are not limited to, the following topics=:</div><div><br></div><div>* design principles and annotation schemes for treebanks</div><div>* linguistic theory and the practice of annotation</div><div>* applications of treebanks in acquiring linguistic knowledge and in NLP</div><div>* the role of linguistic theories in treebank development</div><div>* treebanks as a basis for linguistic research</div><div>* additional annotation levels for treebanks</div><div>* evaluation and quality control of treebanks</div><div>* tools for creation and management of treebanks</div><div>* treebanks for less-resourced languages</div><div>* theories, schemas, and applications for parallel treebanks</div><div>* standards for treebanks</div><div>* creation of large treebanks</div><div>* mapping of treebanks to Linked Open Data resources</div><div>* using treebanks in analysis and generation tasks</div><div>* domain-specific treebanks</div><div>* the future of treebanks and treebanking</div><div><br></div><div>=Invited Speakers=</div><div><br></div><div>* Stefanie Dipper (University of Bochum, Germany)</div><div>* Antonio Branco (University of Lisbon, Portugal)</div><div><br></div><div>=Important Dates=</div><div><br></div><div>Submission deadline: September 15 (Sunday)</div><div>Reviews due: October 20 (Sunday)</div><div>Notification: October 25 (Friday)</div><div>Final submission: November 17 (Sunday)</div><div>Workshop: December 13-14 (Friday and Saturday)</div><div><br></div><div>Instructions for submissions are available at: http://www.bultreebank.org/TLT12/SubmissionGuidelines.html</div><div><br></div><div>=Program Committee=</div><div><br></div><div>Sandra Kübler, Indiana University, USA (co-chair)</div><div>Petya Osenova, Sofia University, Bulgaria (co-chair)</div><div>Martin Volk, University of Zurich, Switzerland (co-chair)</div><div><br></div><div>Eckhard Bick, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark</div><div>Johan Bos, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands</div><div>Gosse Bouma, University of Groningen, The Netherlands</div><div>Koenraad De Smedt, Bergen University, Norway</div><div>Markus Dickinson, Indiana University, USA</div><div>Dan Flickinger, Stanford University, USA</div><div>Anette Frank, Heidelberg University, Germany</div><div>Eva Hajièová, Charles University, Czech Republic</div><div>Iris Hendrickx, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands</div><div>Erhard Hinrichs, University of Tübingen, Germany</div><div>Valia Kordoni, Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany</div><div>Amalia Mendes, University of Lisbon, Portugal</div><div>Detmar Meurers, University of Tübingen, Germany</div><div>Yusuke Miyao, University of Tokyo, Japan</div><div>Kaili Muurisep, Tartu University, Estonia</div><div>Kemal Oflazer, Carnegie Mellon University, Qatar</div><div>Sebastian Padó, Heidelberg University, Germany</div><div>Marco Passarotti, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Italy</div><div>Kiril Simov, IICT-BAS, Bulgaria</div><div>Adam Przepiórkowski,Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland</div><div>Victoria Rosén, Bergen University, Norway</div><div>Caroline Sporleder, Trier University, Germany</div><div>Manfred Stede, University of Potsdam, Germany</div><div>Gertjan van Noord, University of Groningen, The Netherlands</div><div>Heike Zinsmeister, Stuttgart University, Germany</div><div><br></div><div>=Local Organization Committee=</div><div><br></div><div>Petya Osenova (Sofia University)</div><div>Kiril Simov (IICT-BAS)</div><div>Stanislava Kancheva (Sofia University)</div><div>Georgi Georgiev (Ontotext AD)</div><div>Borislav Popov (Ontotext AD)</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>For more information or questions, please contact: petya@bultreebank.org</div><div><br></div> </div></body>
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