FYI: Final CFP: : SANCL 2012 - Workshop on Syntactic Analysis of Non-Canonical Language

[Antske Fokkens]

> FYI
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>> SANCL 2012 - NAACL-HLT Workshop on Syntactic Analysis of Non-Canonical
>> Language
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>> The first Workshop on Syntactic Analysis of Non-Canonical Language will be
>> held in conjunction with the 2012 Conference of the North American Chapter
>> of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language
>> Technologies (NAACL-HLT 2012) which will take place in June, 3-8, 2012 in
>> Montreal, Canada.
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>>
>> Important Dates
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>> Apr 04, 2012    Paper submission deadline
>> Apr 27, 2012    Notification of acceptance
>> May 07, 2012    Camera-ready deadline
>> Jun 08, 2012    SANCL workshop at NAACL-HLT 2012
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>> Workshop Description
>> --------------------
>> The SANCL workshop aims to provide a forum for all researchers interested
>> in syntactic analysis and parsing of language that is “non-canonical”. By
>> that term we mean structures with characteristics deviating from the
>> standard written form of the language. A case in point is spoken language,
>> but also the language of social media, computer-mediated communication in
>> general, the interlanguage produced by language learners, or historical
>> data. All of these pose challenges for parsing models trained on edited
>> newspaper text as well as for the theoretical analysis of these
>> structures.
>>
>>
>> Scope and Topics
>> ----------------
>> We aim to encourage a cross-fertilisation of ideas amongst researchers
>> working on different but related problems, such as
>>   - What is the best strategy for parsing non-canonical language?
>>   - Should we treat parsing of non-canonical language as a problem of
>> robustness or domain adaptation?
>>   - Or would it be better to develop new training data sets addressing
>> the particular properties of the data?
>>   - What are the pros and cons of a one-size-fits-all annotation approach
>> and of applying annotation schemes developed for standard written text
>> to non-canonical data?
>>   - Can insights gained from parsing one type of non-canonical text help
>> in parsing another?
>>   - What are the challenges of handling the often heterogeneous nature of
>> the data (e.g. code-switching)?
>>   - What role does pre-processing play in the parsing of non-canonical
>> data?
>>   - To what extent is it necessary or desirable to perform full parsing
>> for some kinds of non-canonical text?
>>   - From a theoretical perspective, what are the appropriate analyses for
>> non-canonical structures?
>>   - How should new linguistic forms emerging from social media be
>> analysed, e.g. the use of hashtags in Twitter?
>>   - What is the optimal unit of analysis?
>>   - For non-sentential units (frequent in spoken language) and especially
>> for elliptical utterances: what kind of information is necessary for a
>> meaningful analysis? Depending on the application, categories like "NP"
>> or "PP" might not sufficient.
>>
>> Contributions to the workshop should address the adequate syntactic
>> representation as well as the unit of analysis for the task at hand. We
>> welcome both theoretical and practical contributions for any grammatical
>> framework, any parsing approach and any language.
>>
>>
>> Submission Details
>> ------------------
>> Authors are invited to submit long or short papers on original,
>> unpublished work addressing these (or related) topics. Long papers may
>> consist of up to 8 pages of content plus two extra pages for references;
>> short papers may consist of 4 pages of content including references.
>> Papers should be formatted according to the NAACL 2012 guidelines (for
>> more information please visit
>> http://www.naaclhlt2012.org/conference/conference.php).
>>
>> As the reviewing will be blind, the paper must not include the authors'
>> names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the
>> author's identity, e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ..." must be
>> avoided. Instead, use citations such as "Smith previously showed (Smith,
>> 1991) ..." Papers that do not conform to these requirements will be
>> rejected without review. In addition, please do not post your submissions
>> on the web until after the review process is complete.
>>
>> Papers that have been or will be submitted to other meetings or
>> publications must indicate this at submission time. Please visit the
>> workshop web page (https://sites.google.com/site/sancl2012) for more
>> details.
>>
>> Papers will be accepted until Apr 04, 2012, 11:59pm (PDT, GMT-8) in PDF
>> format via the START system
>> (https://www.softconf.com/naaclhlt2012/SANCL2012).
>>
>>
>> Shared Task
>> -----------
>> The SANCL 2012 workshop will host the *first shared task on parsing
>> English web text* organised by Google. A session in the workshop will be
>> devoted to presenting and discussing the results of this shared task. For
>> more details, please visit
>> https://sites.google.com/site/sancl2012/home/shared-task
>>
>>
>> Workshop Organizers
>> -------------------
>> Ozlem Cetinoglu (IMS Stuttgart, Germany)
>> Jennifer Foster (NCLT, DCU, Ireland)
>> Ines Rehbein (Potsdam University, Germany)
>>
>>
>> Shared Task Organizers
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>> Slav Petrov (Google Research, USA)
>> Ryan McDonald (Google Research, USA)
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>>
>> Program Committee
>> -----------------
>> Bernd Bohnet (IMS Stuttgart, Germany)
>> Aoife Cahill (Educational Testing Service, USA)
>> Marie Candito (University of Paris 7, France)
>> John Carroll (University of Sussex, UK)
>> Jinho Choi (University of Colorado at Boulder, USA)
>> Eric de la Clergerie (INRIA, France)
>> Markus Dickinson (Indiana University, USA)
>> Steffi Dipper (University of Bochum, Germany)
>> Gulsen Eryigit (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey)
>> Stefan Evert (University of Darmstadt, Germany)
>> Kim Gerdes (University of Paris 3, France)
>> Masato Hagiwara (Rakuten Institute of Technology, USA)
>> Ron Kaplan (Microsoft, USA)
>> Jonas Kuhn (IMS Stuttgart, Germany)
>> Sandra Kübler (Indiana University, USA)
>> Joseph Le Roux (Université Paris-Nord, France)
>> Anke Lüdeling (Humboldt-University of Berlin, Germany)
>> David McClosky (Stanford University, USA)
>> Detmar Meurers (University of Tübingen, Germany)
>> Joakim Nivre (Uppsala University, Sweden)
>> Lilja Øvrelid (University of Oslo, Norway)
>> Brian Roark (Oregon Health & Science University, USA)
>> Kenji Sagae (University of Southern California, USA)
>> Djamé Seddah (University of Paris 4, France)
>> Reut Tsarfaty (Uppsala University, Sweden)
>> Josef van Genabith (Dublin City University, Ireland)
>> Heike Zinsmeister (University of Konstanz, Germany)
>>
>>
>> Contact Information
>> -------------------
>> For general questions about the workshop, please email
>> sancl2012contact at gmail.com. For specific questions about the shared task,
>> please email the shared task organizers (parsingtheweb at gmail.com).
>> Additional information about SANCL 2012 can be found at
>> https://sites.google.com/site/sancl2012.
>>
>>
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