7.589, Calls: Robust parsing workshop, Generative Germanic syntax

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-7-589. Sat Apr 20 1996. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines:  225

Subject: 7.589, Calls: Robust parsing workshop, Generative Germanic syntax

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Date:  Fri, 19 Apr 1996 10:46:00 -0000
From:  johnca at cogs.susx.ac.uk (John Carroll)
Subject:  Robust Parsing Workshop at ESSLLI'96 - Call for Papers

2)
Date:  Fri, 19 Apr 1996 13:34:55 EDT
From:  webelhut at gibbs.oit.unc.edu (Gert Webelhuth)
Subject:  Email Problems at Generative Germanic Syntax Newsletter

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Date:  Fri, 19 Apr 1996 10:46:00 -0000
From:  johnca at cogs.susx.ac.uk (John Carroll)
Subject:  Robust Parsing Workshop at ESSLLI'96 - Call for Papers

                WORKSHOP ON ROBUST PARSING - CALL FOR PAPERS
                           August 12 - 16, 1996

                              at ESSLLI'96
          European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information
                         Prague, Czech Republic

BACKGROUND:
Parsing systems able to analyse natural language text robustly and
accurately at an appropriate level of detail would be of great value
in computer applications ranging from speech synthesis and document
style checking to message understanding and automatic translation. A
number of research groups worldwide are currently developing such
systems, varying in the depth of analysis from lexical parsing or
tagging (identifying syntactic features just of individual words),
through shallow or phrasal parsing (forming hierarchical syntactic
structure but not exploiting subcategorisation), to full parsers
(which deal with unbounded dependencies etc., and are able to recover
predicate-argument structure).

To bring researchers in this area together to present and compare
state-of-the-art systems for robust parsing, a workshop will be held
August 12-16, 1996, during the first week of ESSLLI'96, the European
Summer School in Logic, Language and Information.

We invite the submission of papers describing implemented robust
parsing systems; also evaluations, comparisons, and critiques of
different parsing systems or technologies. The main aim of the
workshop is to identify the strengths and weaknesses in the diverse
set of approaches currently being investigated, and to discuss areas
that require further work.

To facilitate comparison between systems, authors of accepted papers
will be supplied with a small corpus of 30 sentences and encouraged to
run these through their systems, using simple (supplied) criteria to
evaluate the results.

WORKSHOP STRUCTURE:
The workshop will consist of 5 90-minute sessions, with two papers in
each session. Please note that speakers will be expected to register
for ESSLLI (thus being eligible to attend all other workshops, as well
as the many courses and symposia). There is a small amount of money
available to go towards the expenses of those who have no other source
of funding.

ORGANISERS:
John Carroll, University of Sussex
and Ted Briscoe, University of Cambridge

SUBMISSION DETAILS:
Authors should submit an extended abstract (2000-3000 words) either
electronically or as hard-copy. Electronic submissions must be either
plain ascii text or a single latex file. Your e-mail address should
appear on your paper, and unless requested otherwise, all further
correspondence will be conducted via e-mail.

SCHEDULE:
Submission Deadline: May 31
Notification of Acceptance: June 21
Final Papers for Inclusion in Proceedings: July 19
Workshop Dates: August 12-16, 1996

WORKSHOP SUBMISSIONS TO:
John Carroll
Cognitive and Computing Sciences,
University of Sussex,
Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QH, UK
E-mail:    john.carroll at cogs.susx.ac.uk

SUMMER SCHOOL CONTACT:
ESSLLI'96,
UFAL MFF UK,
Malostranske' na'm. 25,
118 00 Praha 1,
Czech Republic
Fax:       +42-2-2191-4-309
Phone:     +42-2-2191-4-255
E-mail:    esslli at ufal.mff.cuni.cz
WWW:       http://ufal.ms.mff.cuni.cz
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2)
Date:  Fri, 19 Apr 1996 13:34:55 EDT
From:  webelhut at gibbs.oit.unc.edu (Gert Webelhuth)
Subject:  Email Problems at Generative Germanic Syntax Newsletter

Due to some unfortunate email problems, I did not receive ANY email
for two days recently.  This happened after I had sent out the call
for submission of material to the Spring edition of the Generative
Germanic Syntax Newsletter which is repeated below. If you sent me
email concerning the newsletter (or, in fact, any other matter), then
please resend it to make sure that your submission will be included in
the upcoming newsletter. The deadline of submission has been extended
to

		FRIDAY, APRIL 26.

Please feel free to submit material before this deadline even if you
did not send an earlier message.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Sincerely,

Gert Webelhuth

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Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1996 12:09:08 -0500
From: webelhut at gibbs.oit.unc.edu (Gert Webelhuth)
To: hpsg at ling.ohio-state.edu, linguist at tamvm1.tamu.edu,
    lfg at lists.stanford.edu
Subject: Call for Generative Germanic Syntax Newsletter

The editors of the Germanic Generative Syntax Newsletter are getting
ready to compile the Spring edition of 1996. This newsletter is
published twice a year and contains information of relevance to
linguists working on the syntax of the Germanic languages (old and
new, EXCEPT Modern English). The newsletter includes:

Bibliographical references to unpublished manuscripts;
Half-page abstracts of unpublished manuscripts or papers published
within the last six months;
1-page abstracts of book manuscripts, dissertations, and books
published within the last six months;
Conference announcements;
Conference descriptions;
Half-page abstracts of conference talks;
Special bibliographies on a topic of general interest.

Please send any information that you would like to be included in the
next newsletter to:

                         webelhuth at unc.edu  .

Please be sure:

- to send your material by FRIDAY, APRIL 26.
- to send only material in ASCII;
- to check that what you are sending is complete and error-free;
- not to exceed the length limits specified above.

Professors, students, and everybody else whose writings fall within
the limits of the title of the newsletter are encouraged to submit
information. Choice of theoretical framework is not criterial
either. We always have a hard time receiving information about
conferences. Few people come forward and submit information about
them. It would be great to have descriptions about who spoke where
about what, etc. Thus, if you recently went to a conference mostly on
Germanic, you might want to write a half-page or one-page description
of what went on. Please understand, however, that we cannot spend our
resources on conference schedules that only have a couple or so papers
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