20.1514, Calls: Computational Ling,Syntax/Bulgaria

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Subject: 20.1514, Calls: Computational Ling,Syntax/Bulgaria

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Date: 20-Apr-2009
From: Sandra Kuebler < skuebler at indiana.edu >
Subject: Workshop on Partial Parsing 2- Between Chunking and Deep Parsing

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Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:16:21
From: Sandra Kuebler [skuebler at indiana.edu]
Subject: Workshop on Partial Parsing 2- Between Chunking and Deep Parsing

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Full Title: Workshop on Partial Parsing 2- Between Chunking and Deep Parsing 
Short Title: PaPa-2 

Date: 17-Sep-2009 - 17-Sep-2009
Location: Borovets, Bulgaria 
Contact Person: Sandra Kuebler
Meeting Email: PaPa2009 at bach.ipipan.waw.pl
Web Site: http://nlp.ipipan.waw.pl/PaPa2009/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Syntax 

Call Deadline: 05-Jun-2009 

Meeting Description:

RANLP 2009 Workshop on Partial Parsing 2: Between Chunking and Deep Parsing
Borovets, Bulgaria
17 September 2009
http://nlp.ipipan.waw.pl/PaPa2009/ 

Call for Papers

Submission deadline: 5 June 2009

Motivation
After the success of the first Workshop on Partial Parsing, we are happy to
announce Partial Parsing 2. Partial parsing has become a standard means of
integrating syntactic knowledge into high level applications such as information
retrieval, machine translation, or question answering, for which efficiency and
robustness is of importance. In comparison with chunking and deep parsing,
partial parsing consists in finding structure that is richer than chunks but
less exhaustive than full syntactico-semantic parses: partial parsing may
involve constructing nested structures (unlike simple chunking) without creating
the full parse of a sentence. However, partial parsing is not a single concept
but rather an area ranging from chunking to almost full parsing.  This workshop
will bring together  
researcher who work on partial parsing in its different interpretations.

Scope
The main areas of interest of the workshop include (but are not restricted to):
- linguistic richness of partial parsers for various applications: syntactic and
semantic headedness, the degree of hierarchical structure, semantic information
(anaphora, disambiguation);
- development methodologies for partial parsers: manual, machine learning, hybrid;
- the usability of language resources for the development of partial parsers;
- multi-lingual development of partial parsers, etc.;
- experience and utilization of existing tools for building partial parsers for
new languages;
- technical aspects of partial parsers:
robustness, scalability;
time and space complexity;
expressiveness of partial parsing formalisms (regular vs. context- free rules;
unification; type hierarchies; etc.);
- applications of partial parsers: information extraction, question answering,
machine translation, web text mining, acquisition of lexical information, etc.;
- evaluation methodologies for partial parsers: gold standards,
application-specific, reusability of evaluation resources for different partial
parsing tasks, etc.;
- ways of combining multiple partial parsers;
- comparison (classification) of partial parsers.

Submissions
Authors are invited to submit original research papers.  Papers should indicate
the state of completion of the reported results. In particular, any overlap with
previously published work should be clearly mentioned. Submissions will be
judged on correctness, novelty, technical strength, clarity of presentation, and
significance/relevance to the workshop.

Submissions should be no longer than 7 pages typeset in an 10pt font. Guidelines
are available at the RANLP 2009 web page: http://lml.bas.bg/ranlp2009.

Submission of papers will be handled using the START system, which will be
accessible from the workshop webpage.

Important Dates
Submission deadline: 5 June 2009
Notification of acceptance: 20 July 2009
Camera-ready version due: 24 August 2009
Workshop:  17 September 2009

Organisers
- Sandra Kübler (Indiana University)
- Jakub Piskorski (Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences)
- Adam Przepiórkowski (Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences)

Programme Committee
Steven Abney (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
Salah Aït-Mokhtar (Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble)
Gosse Bouma (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen)
António Branco (University of Lisbon)
Erhard Hinrichs (University of Tübingen)
Hannah Kermes (University of Stuttgart)
Sandra Kübler (Indiana University)
Vladislav Kubo? (Charles University, Prague)
Hrafn Loftsson (Reykjavik University)
Petya Osenova (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and Sofia University)
Jakub Piskorski (Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences)
Adam Przepiórkowski (Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy  
of Sciences)
Ulrich Schäfer (DFKI GmbH, Saarbrücken)
Anssi Yli Jyrä (University of Helsinki)

Contact
PaPa2009_at_bach.ipipan.waw.pl

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