22.1718, Calls: Syntax, Semantics, Computational Linguistics/Spain

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Subject: 22.1718, Calls: Syntax, Semantics, Computational Linguistics/Spain

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Date: 18-Apr-2011
From: Kim Gerdes [kim.gerdes at univ-paris3.fr]
Subject: International Conference on Dependency Linguistics

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Subject: International Conference on Dependency Linguistics

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Full Title: International Conference on Dependency Linguistics 
Short Title: Depling 2011 

Date: 05-Sep-2011 - 07-Sep-2011
Location: Barcelona, Spain 
Contact Person: Kim Gerdes
Meeting Email: depling at depling.org
Web Site: http://depling.org/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Semantics; Syntax 

Call Deadline: 01-May-2011 

Meeting Description:

International Conference on Dependency Linguistics, Depling 2011
Barcelona, September 5-7, 2011
Exploring Dependency Grammar, Semantics, and the Lexicon
http://depling.org

The Depling conference responds to the growing need for a linguistic conference dedicated to approaches in syntax, semantics and the lexicon that are centered around dependency structures as a central linguistic notion. In the past decade, dependencies, directed labeled graph structures representing hierarchical relations between morphemes, words and semantic units, with a strong reference to the lexicon, have become the near-standard representation and annotation schemes in computational linguistics, parsing, generation, and other fields of natural language processing. The linguistic significance of these structures often remains vague, and the need for the development of common notational and formal grounds is felt strongly by many people working in these domains.

In general terms, the conference will investigate:

- The use of dependency structures in the description of linguistic phenomena for which classical simple phrase-structure based models have proven to be unsatisfactory.
- The modelling of lexical phenomena and their role in the dependency view of linguistics.
- The applications of dependency analyses to natural language processing, including machine translation, parsing, generation, information extraction, etc.

Depling 2011 will take place at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, organized by Leo Wanner (UPF), Lorraine Baqué (UAB), and the teams TALN (UPF) and flexSem (UAB).

The conference is chaired by Eva Haji?ová (Charles University in Prague) and Kim Gerdes (Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris).

Invited Speakers: 

Igor Mel'?uk (University of Montreal) and Joakim Nivre (Uppsala University) 

Call for Papers:

Topics include, but are not limited to:

- The use of dependency trees in syntactic analysis, description, formalization, parsing, generation, and corpus annotation of written and spoken texts.
- The use of semantic valency-based predicate and actancy graph structures and their link to classical logic.
- The elaboration of formal dictionaries for dependency-based syntax and semantics, including descriptions of collocations and paradigmatic links.
- Links to morphology and linearization of dependency structures, using for example topological field theories
- Dependency-like structures beyond the sentence as annotation scheme for discourse phenomena.
- The description and formalization of semantic and pragmatic phenomena related to information structure.
- History, epistemology, and psycholinguistic relevance of dependency grammar, including its relation to generative approaches to language

We are also interested in work on questions such as:

- What are the differences and similarities between theta roles, valencies, f-structures, TAG derivation trees, (subcategorization) frames, semantic role labelling, etc?
- Which corpus annotations using head-daughter relations on words are formally and linguistically equivalent, which are not?
- How to describe syntax-semantic interfaces between dependency structures?

Requirements:

Papers should describe original work; they should emphasize completed work or in the case of posters ongoing research rather than intended work, and should indicate clearly the state of completion of the reported results. Submissions will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance and relevance to the conference, and interest to the attendees.

Submissions presented at the conference should mostly contain new material that has not been presented at any other meeting with publicly available proceedings. Papers that are being submitted in parallel to other conferences or workshops must indicate this on the title page. Papers containing significant overlap with previously published work should include this information in a separate text file (to be submitted alongside the paper on the easychair site).

Submissions:

The deadline for the submission of papers is 11:59pm (Pacific Standard Time (GMT-8)) May 1, 2011. Submission will be electronic in PDF format through the Depling page on EasyChair.

Papers may consist of up to 10 pages of content (including references and figures). All submissions should follow the two-column format and the style guidelines. We strongly recommend the use of the LaTeX style files, OpenDocument or Microsoft Word templates tailored for this year's conference, based on the ACL format.

Reviewing of papers will be double-blind. Therefore, 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 (1991) previously showed ..'. Papers that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review.

Important Dates:

Submission deadline: May 1
Notification of acceptance: June 10
Camera-ready copy of papers due: July 10
Depling Conference: September 5-7

Publication:

The proceedings will be published as an open access publication. A selection of articles proposing interesting connections of linguistic theories and natural language processing will appear in longer versions at Springer.

Contact: depling at depling.org

The Program Committee of the Depling 2011 conference:

Margarita Alonso Ramos, University of La Coruña	
Lorraine Baqué, Autonomous University of Barcelona	
David Beck, University of Alberta, Edmonton	
Xavier Blanco, Autonomous University of Barcelona	
Bernd Bohnet, Stuttgart University	
Igor Boguslavsky, Polytechnical University of Madrid	
Marie Candito, University Paris 7	
Éric de la Clergerie, University Paris 7	
Michael Collins, Columbia University, New York	
Benoit Crabbé, University Paris 7	
Denys Duchier, University of Orléans	
Jason Eisner, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore	
Dina El Kassas, Miniya University	
Gül?en Cebiro?lu Eryi?it, Istanbul Technical University	
Charles J. Fillmore, University of California, Berkeley	
Koldo Gojenola, University of the Basque Country, Bilbao	
Jan Haji?, Charles University in Prague	
Hans-Jürgen Heringer, University of Augsburg	
Richard Hudson, University College London	
Leonid Iomdin, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow	
Lidija Iordanskaja, University of Montreal	
Aravind Joshi, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia	
Sylvain Kahane, University Paris Ouest	
Marco Kuhlmann, Uppsala University	
François Lareau, Macquarie University, Sydney	
Alessandro Lenci, University of Pisa	
Leonardo Lesmo, University of Turin	
Haitao Liu, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou	
Henning Lobin, University of Gießen	
Chris Manning, Stanford University	
Igor Mel'?uk, University of Montreal	
Wolfgang Menzel, University of Hamburg	
Kemal Oflazer, Carnegie Mellon University, Qatar	
Ryan McDonald	, Google Research, New York	
Piet Mertens, University of Leuven	
Jasmina Mili?evi?, Dalhousie University, Halifax	
Dipti Misra Sharma, IIIT, Hyderabad	
Henrik Høeg Muller, Copenhagen Business School	
Jee-Sun Nam, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul	
Alexis Nasr, University of Marseille	
Joakim Nivre, Uppsala University	
Gertjan van Noord, University of Groningen	
Martha Palmer, University of Colorado, Boulder	
Jarmila Panevova, Charles University in Prague	
Alain Polguère, Nancy University	
Prokopis Prokopidis, ILSP, Athens	
Owen Rambow, Columbia University, New York	
Ines Rehbein, Saarland University, Saarbrücken	
Petr Sgall, Charles University in Prague	
Davy Temperley, University of Rochester	
Robert Van Valin, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf

Related Event:

The conference Depling 2011 will be held in conjunction with the Fifth International Conference on Meaning-Text Theory to take place immediately after Depling 2011.

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