27.830, Calls: Comp Ling/USA

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Subject: 27.830, Calls: Comp Ling/USA

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Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2016 11:11:37
From: Sandra Kuebler [skuebler at indiana.edu]
Subject: Workshop on Discontinuous Structures in Natural Language Processing

Full Title: Workshop on Discontinuous Structures in Natural Language Processing 

Date: 16-Jun-2016 - 17-Jun-2016
Location: San Diego, CA, USA 
Contact Person: Sandra Kuebler
Meeting Email: discows2016 at gmail.com
Web Site: http://rgcl.wlv.ac.uk/disco/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 25-Feb-2016 

Meeting Description:

This workshop is concerned with modeling discontinuous structures across
different disciplines in NLP. The modeling of certain
structures in natural language requires a mechanism for discontinuity,in the
sense that we must account for two or more parts of the structure that are not
adjacent. This is true across many languages and on different description
levels. For instance, on the lexical level, this concerns discontinuous
morphological phenomena such as transfixation (templatic morphology), as well
as phrasal verbs, and noncontiguous multiword expressions. 

On the syntactic level, discontinuity is caused by phenomena such as
extraposition and topicalization, or argument scrambling. Morphologically rich
languages (MRLs) are particularly likely to exhibit such phenomena. Other
examples include disfluency and anaphora/coreference resolution with
discontinuous antecedents; modeling in both of the latter areas requires an
extended domain of locality. On a higher level, discontinuity is a relevant
factor in machine translation, as well as in complex question answering and in
topic structure modeling. 

Discontinuity has been studied intensively in a range of different areas,
including but not limited to grammar development, syntactic and semantic
parsing, morphological analysis, machine translation, anaphora resolution,
discourse modeling, automatic summarization and complex question answering.
Nevertheless, the treatment of discontinuous structures remains a challenge,
Recovering of nonlocal information is generally associated with a high
computational cost; and discontinuities are inherently a low frequency
phenomenon, i.e. statistical approaches tend to analyze them incorrectly as
local phenomena.

The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers from the different
areas to exchange ideas and problem solutions, create synergy effects, and
enable more powerful solutions. This encompasses linguistic analyses and work
on analyzing or recovering the corresponding structures, but also studies on
''use cases'', which show how information about discontinuity can be used to
enhance NLP tasks.

Program Committee:

Anne Abeille, University Paris 7
Laura Alonso Alemany, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba
Marianna Apidianaki, LIMSI
Eric de la Clergerie, INRIA
Andreas van Cranenburgh, Huygens Institute for Netherlands History
Corina Forascu, University ''Al. I. Cuza'' Iaşi
Carlos Gomez Rodriguez, University of A Coruña
Eva Hasler, University of Cambridge
Mijail Kabadjov, University of Essex
Laura Kallmeyer, University of Düsseldorf
Philipp Koehn, University of Edinburgh
Johannes Leveling, Elsevier
Timm Lichte, University of Düsseldorf
Georgiana Marsic, University of Wolverhampton
Detmar Meurers, University of Tübingen
JeanLuc Minel, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense
Sara Moze, University of Wolverhampton
Philippe Muller, University of Toulouse/IRIT
Preslav Nakov, Qatar Computing Research Institute
MarkJan Nederhof, University of St. Andrews
Yannick Parmentier, University of Orléans
Ted Pedersen, University of Minnesota
Irene Renau, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile
Lonneke van der Plas, University of Malta
Djamé Seddah, University Paris 4
Khalil Sima'an, University of Amsterdam
Yannick Versley, University of Heidelberg
Suzan Veberne, University of Nijmegen
Andy Way, Dublin City University

Final Call for Papers:

Workshop on Discontinuous Structures in Natural Language Processing
http://rgcl.wlv.ac.uk/disco/

to be held at NAACL 2016 (San Diego, California, USA), 17 June, 2016

Submission deadline: 25 February, 2016

Areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the following topics:

- Theoretical and empirical analyses of nonlocal/discontinuous phenomena
- Comparisons of different descriptions of the same type of nonlocal
information
- Use, development, and comparison, of techniques for handling
nonlocal/discontinuous within NLP tasks; examples of NLP tasks to benefit
from handling discontinuous phenomena in machine translation, complex question
answering, modeling of discourse, automatic summarization and coreference
resolution
- ''Use cases'' that show how information about discontinuity can enhance an
NLP task
- Annotation of information0 about nonlocality 

Submission Modalities:

We invite papers which present completed research including new experimental
results, resources and/or techniques. The maximum length of the papers is 8
pages plus an unlimited number of pages for references. All submissions must
be in PDF format and must follow the NAACL 2016 formatting requirements
(available at the NAACL 2016 website: http://naacl.org/naacl-pubs/). We
strongly advise the use of the provided Word or LaTeX template files.

Reviewing will be double-blind, and thus no author information should be
included in the papers; self-reference should be avoided as well. Papers that
do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review. Accepted
papers will appear in the workshop proceedings.

Papers can be submitted at https://www.softconf.com/naacl2016/DiscoNLP2016/.

Important Dates:

25 February, 2016: Workshop paper submission deadline
20 March, 2016: Notification of Acceptance
30 March, 2016: Camera-ready papers due
17 June, 2016: Workshop Date

Workshop Organizers:

Wolfgang Maier (University of Düsseldorf, Germany)
Sandra Kübler (Indiana University, USA)
Constantin Orasan (University of Wolverhampton, GB)

The workshop organizers can be contacted at
discows2016 at gmail.com

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