28.3710, Confs: Comp Ling, Ling Theories, Syntax/Italy

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Subject: 28.3710, Confs: Comp Ling, Ling Theories, Syntax/Italy

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Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2017 17:30:19
From: Simonetta Montemagni [simonetta.montemagni at ilc.cnr.it]
Subject: Fourth International Conference on Dependency Linguistics

 
Fourth International Conference on Dependency Linguistics 
Short Title: Depling 2017 

Date: 18-Sep-2017 - 20-Sep-2017 
Location: Pisa, Italy 
Contact: Simonetta Montemagni 
Contact Email: depling2017 at depling.org 
Meeting URL: http://depling.org/depling2017/ 

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

Meeting Description: 

Depling 2017 is the fourth conference in the Depling series (the previous
three conferences being held in Barcelona in 2011, Prague in 2013 and Uppsala
in 2015). The series responds to the growing need for linguistic meetings
dedicated to approaches in syntax, semantics and the lexicon that are centered
around dependency structures as a central linguistic notion.

This year the conference is held in conjunction with the biennial meeting of
SIGPARSE, namely the International Conference on Parsing Technologies (IWPT
2017, http://compling.ucdavis.edu/iwpt2017), organized by the Special Interest
Group on “Natural Language Parsing” of the Association for Computational
Linguistics (ACL). IWPT 2017 will take place immediately after Depling 2017,
from the 20 to 22 of September 2017. The two conferences have an overlapping
event, held on September 20 and focusing on different aspects of dependency
parsing, in which the results of a shared task, named “Extrinsic Parser
Evaluation” (EPE, http://epe.nlpl.eu/) and jointly organized by Depling and
IWPT, are presented and discussed from different and complementary
perspectives. 

This year the conference is organized by the University of Pisa and the
Institute for Computational Linguistics “A. Zampolli” of the Italian National
Research Council (ILC-CNR).

Conference Aims:

The Depling conference responds to the growing need for a conference dedicated
to dependency-based approaches in linguistics and natural language processing.
In the past decade, dependencies, directed labeled graph structures
representing hierarchical relations between morphemes, words or semantic
units, have become very widespread in natural language processing. However,
the linguistic significance of these structures often remains vague, and the
need to discuss the theoretical and formal foundations of dependency-based
concepts is felt strongly by many people working in these domains.

The conference program also includes the contribution of two distinguished
keynote speakers: 

- Yoav Goldberg (Bar Ilan University)
- Eva Hajičová (Charles University in Prague). 

Conference Topics:

Topics include but are not limited to:

- The use of dependency trees in syntactic analysis, parsing, generation, and
corpus annotation of written and spoken texts
- Cross-lingual dependency parser evaluation, with particular emphasis on
intrinsic evaluation metrics
- 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 relations
- Links to morphology and linearization of dependency structures, using, for
example, topological field theories
- Dependency-like structures beyond the sentence, for example, to model
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
- Dependency grammar and linguistic universals.

Program Co-Chairs:

- Simonetta Montemagni, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale “A. Zampolli” -
CNR 
- Joakim Nivre, Uppsala University 

Local Organizing Committee:

- Giuseppe Attardi, Università di Pisa 
- Felice Dell’Orletta, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale “A. Zampolli” -
CNR
- Alessandro Lenci, Università di Pisa
- Simonetta Montemagni, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale “A. Zampolli” -
CNR 
- Maria Simi, Università di Pisa
 

Program: 

Depling 2017 
Fourth International Conference on Dependency Linguistics
Pisa, Italy
18-20 September 2017
http://depling.org/depling2017

The Depling 2017 conference in Pisa is the fourth meeting in the recently
established series of international conferences on Dependency Linguistics
which started in Barcelona in 2011 and continued in Prague (2013) and Uppsala
(2015). The conference responds to the growing need for a conference dedicated
to dependency-based approaches in linguistics and natural language processing.
The program of this year (http://depling.org/depling2017/program.html)
includes contributions ranging from papers advancing new theoretical models,
through empirical studies of one or more languages, as well as experimental
investigations of computational systems of dependency parsing and linguistic
knowledge extraction, to the design and construction of dependency-based
linguistic resources (both treebanks and lexicons) for a wide range of
languages.

If you have not registered already, please visit
http://depling-iwpt2017.di.unipi.it/registration  to register.

For more information on the conference, registration, venue, and program, see
http://depling-iwpt2017.di.unipi.it/





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