<div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">(apologies for cross-posting)</span></div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br>
</span></div>First Joint Workshop on Statistical Parsing of Morphologically Rich Languages</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">and Syntactic Analysis of Non-Canonical Language (SPMRL-SANCL 2014)</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">ENDORSED BY SIGPARSE</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span class="" tabindex="0" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span class="">August 24, 2014</span></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> in Dublin, Ireland, co-located with COLING 2014</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><a href="http://www.spmrl.org/spmrl-sancl2014.html" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">http://www.spmrl.org/spmrl-sancl2014.html</a><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The CFP below is for the SPMRL-SANCL Main Workshop. The workshop also</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">features:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> * Second Shared Task on Semi-Supervised Parsing of Morphologically Rich</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Languages: </span><a href="http://www.spmrl.org/spmrl2014-sharedtask.html" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">http://www.spmrl.org/spmrl2014-sharedtask.html</a><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* Special Track on the Syntactic Analysis of Non-Canonical</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Language:  </span><a href="http://www.spmrl.org/sancl-posters2014.html" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">http://www.spmrl.org/sancl-posters2014.html</a><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">MOTIVATION</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Statistical parsing of morphologically-rich languages (MRLs) and syntactic</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">analysis of non-canonical languages (NCL) have shown several similar</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">properties and challenges in recent research. Therefore, this year we</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">organize a joint workshop of these two research communities, to foster</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">cross-pollination of ideas and technology for both.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Statistical parsing of morphologically-rich languages has repeatedly been</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">shown to exhibit non-trivial challenges including, among others, sparse</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">lexica in the face of rich inflectional systems, parsing deficiency in the</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">face of free word order and treebank annotation idiosyncrasies in the face</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">of morphosyntactic interactions.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Similar problems arise for parsing of non-canonical languages. Besides</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">technical issues such as lexical sparseness and ad-hoc structures, we also</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">face theoretical problems including constructions that do not occur, or</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">very seldom occur, in standard language, such as verbless sentences or</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">complex hashtags.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The first joint SPMRL-SANCL workshop addresses both the challenge of</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">parsing MRLs and NCL. It provides a forum for researchers addressing the</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">often overlapping issues of both fields with the goal of identifying</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">cross-cutting issues in the annotation and parsing methodology for such</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">languages.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">AREAS OF INTEREST</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The areas of interest of the SPMRL-SANCL workshop include, but are not</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">limited to, the following list of topics:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* applying cutting-edge parsing techniques to new languages and domains</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* identifying the strengths and weaknesses of current parsing techniques</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">when applied to morphologically-rich and/or non-canonical language</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* developing techniques that are targeted at improving parsing quality of</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">morphologically-rich and/or non-canonical language</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* developing models and architectures that explicitly integrate</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">morphological analysis and parsing</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* addressing data sparseness due to lexical variants, out-of-vocabulary</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">(OOV) words and noise, ad-hoc syntactic rules, non-canonical word order,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">ungrammatical structures, or disfluencies</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* using insights from parsing and associated processing problems to</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">motivate decisions in the creation of new syntactically annotated corpora</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">("treebanks"), especially in domains, genres, and languages that are not</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">yet, or hardly covered; tag set design</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* discussing the role of parsing in higher-level NLP applications involving</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">MRLs and NCLs, e.g. syntax-enhanced MT and semantic analysis.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> IMPORTANT DATES</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* Submission Date: </span><span class="" tabindex="0" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span class="">June 6, 2014</span></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> (</span><span class="" tabindex="0" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span class="">23:59 UTC</span></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> - 12)</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* Author Notification: </span><span class="" tabindex="0" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span class="">July 1, 2014</span></span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* Camera-ready papers due: </span><span class="" tabindex="0" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span class="">July 13, 2014</span></span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* Workshop: </span><span class="" tabindex="0" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span class="">August 24, 2014</span></span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">SUBMISSION GUIDELINES</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">We solicit the following submission categories:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* Long papers (up to 11 pages with unlimited references)</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* Short papers (up to 6 pages with unlimited references)</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* Abstracts (500 words excluding examples/references, for SANCL poster</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">topics only)</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* Shared task paper submissions (format will be disclosed separately)</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Long papers are most appropriate for presenting substantial and completed</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">research addressing a topic relevant to either SANCL or SPMRL. Short papers</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">are suited for presenting work in progress, position papers or short,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">focused contributions, relevant to either SANCL or SPMRL (including the</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">poster session topics described above and, in more detail, here). Both long</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">and short papers should present original, unpublished research. They will</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">be peer reviewed and will be presented as either an oral talk or as a</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">poster at the workshop. Abstract submissions are most appropriate for</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">presenting an idea for an analysis for one or more of the poster topics. In</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">contrast to long/short paper submissions, abstract submissions do not need</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">to back up their ideas with experimental results. Abstract submission will</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">receive a yes/no review and will not be included in the proceedings.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Submissions will be accepted in PDF format via the START system and must</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">conform to the COLING 2014 formatting instructions:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><a href="http://www.coling-2014.org/call-for-papers.php" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">http://www.coling-2014.org/call-for-papers.php</a><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">ORGANIZERS</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Yoav Goldberg (Bar Ilan University, Israel)</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Yuval</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> Marton (Microsoft Corp., US)</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Ines Rehbein (Potsdam University, Germany)</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Yannick Versley (Heidelberg University, Germany)</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Özlem Çetino?lu (University of Stuttgart, Germany)</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Joel Tetreault (Yahoo! Labs, US)</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">CONTACT</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* For up-to-date information, please visit</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><a href="http://www.spmrl.org/spmrl-sancl2014.html" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">http://www.spmrl.org/spmrl-sancl2014.html</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* For general questions about the workshop, please email</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<a href="mailto:spmrl.sancl@gmail.com" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">spmrl.sancl@gmail.com</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* For specific questions about the shared task, please email</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<a href="mailto:spmrl.sharedtask@gmail.com" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">spmrl.sharedtask@gmail.com</a><br></div>