29.154, Calls: Comp Ling, Gen Ling, Lexicography, Text/Corpus Ling, Translation/USA

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Subject: 29.154, Calls: Comp Ling, Gen Ling, Lexicography, Text/Corpus Ling, Translation/USA

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Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2018 18:45:21
From: Kristina Kocijan [krkocijan at ffzg.hr]
Subject: Linguistic Resources for NLP Workshop

Full Title: Linguistic Resources for NLP Workshop 
Short Title: LR4NLP 

Date: 20-Aug-2018 - 21-Aug-2018
Location: Santa Fe, NM, USA 
Contact Person: Kristina Kocijan
Meeting Email: krkocijan at ffzg.hr
Web Site: http://www.nooj-association.org/media/k2/attachments/events/LR4NLP_coling2018.htm 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics; Lexicography; Text/Corpus Linguistics; Translation 

Call Deadline: 25-May-2018 

Meeting Description:

In conjunction with COLING 2018 in Santa Fe, we are organizing a half-day
workshop, entitled “Linguistic Resources for Natural Language Processing”
(LR4NLP).

This workshop aims to bring together linguists who are interested in
developing large-coverage linguistic resources and researchers with an
interest in developing real-world NLP software. These two communities have
been working separately for many years. NLP researchers are typically more
focused on technical issues specific to automatic text processing, where
high-quality performance (e.g. recall and precision) is crucial. On the other
hand, linguists tend to focus on problems related to the development of
exhaustive and precise resources to pursue the wide spectrum of language – 
linguistically motivated resources based on a specific theory naturally, but
which are for the most part ‘neutral’ vis-à-vis any NLP application. That is,
they might be implemented using various grammatical formalisms (HPSG, LFG,
NooJ, RG, TAG, XFST, etc.) and should be useable by a wide variety of NLP
applications, such as parsing sentences, generating texts, transformational
analysis, paraphrasing and translation, among others. 

Recent progress in both computer science and linguistics is reducing many of
these differences, with large-coverage, collaborative linguistic resources
increasingly being used by robust NLP software. For example, NLP researchers
can now use large dictionaries of multiword units and expressions, and several
linguistic experiments have shown the feasibility of using extensive
dictionaries and grammars in software applications that can parse sentences,
as well as produce paraphrases and translations of sentences.

By encouraging members of both communities to mutually discuss current
research on related topics, we hope to move towards a better understanding of
the problems involved. Furthermore, examining ideas that offer reciprocal
benefits to both communities may lead to potential  collaborative efforts.
This workshop focuses on the following questions:

- Is it possible to construct NLP applications that remove ambiguities by
using linguistic data alone, i.e. with no statistical methods?
- How does one develop ‘neutral’ linguistic resources (dictionaries,
lexicon-grammars, morphological, phrase-structure and transformational
grammars, etc.) that can be used both to parse and generate texts, in one or
multiple languages?
- What are the limitations of stochastic and neural net based systems, as
opposed to grammar and rule-based ones?

Topics should relate to linguistically-based NLP, such as:

- Assessment of grammar and rule-based vs. statistical and neural net
approaches to NLP
- Natural language disambiguation based on handcrafted grammars
- Development of large-coverage linguistic resources
- Use of linguistic resources in paraphrasing and machine translation
applications
- Linguistically-based NLP for real-world applications
- Paraphrase and translation generation
- Phraseology of specialized languages
- Processing of multiword units, discontinuous expressions, phrasal verbs,
etc.
- Surface structure realization
- Transformational analysis and generation
- Linguistically-based question-answering and summarization systems

Call for Papers:

Authors are invited to submit papers describing original, unpublished work, be
it completed or in progress. The papers should be maximally 9 pages of main
content, with additional pages allowed for references and appendices. The
COLING 2018 templates must be used; these will be provided in LaTeX and also
Microsoft Word format. All accepted papers will be presented as talks.

Submitted papers should be from any of the following categories, each of which
is associated with a distinct review form.

- Computationally-Aided Linguistic Analysis
- NLP Engineering Experiment Paper
- Reproduction Paper
- Resource Paper
- Position Paper
- Survey Paper

Paper submission will be electronic in PDF format through the SoftConf
conference management system (https://www.softconf.com/).
The link for submissions will be available on the conference web page at a
later date.
Paper submission page will close on May 25, 2018 at 23:00 Standard European
Time
For full papers, please use Text Formatting Style provided by COLING 2018.

Workshop Proceedings will be published by COLING 2018. More details will be
provided soon.

Author Responsibilities:

Papers must be of original, previously-unpublished work. The formatting
template must be strictly adhered to and deadlines met. Papers must be
anonymized to support double-blind reviewing. If the paper is available as a
preprint, this must be indicated in the submission form but not in the paper
itself.

Papers that have been or will be under consideration for other venues at the
same time must indicate this at submission time. If a paper is accepted for
publication at LR4NLP at COLING, it must be immediately withdrawn from other
venues. If a paper under review at LR4NLP at COLING is accepted elsewhere and
authors intend to proceed there, the LR4NLP at COLING committee must be notified
immediately.

Reviewing Policy:

Reviewing will be double-blind.

Important Dates:

First Call for Workshop Papers: December 12, 2017.
Workshop Papers Due Date: May 25, 2018 (11:50pm CET)
Notification of Acceptance: June 20, 2018
Camera-ready Papers Due Date: June 30, 2018
Workshop Dates: August 20-21, 2018

Workshop Organizers:

Anabela Barreiro, Post-Doctoral Researcher, INESC-ID, Lisbon (Portugal)
Kristina Kocijan, Assistant Professor of Information and Communication
Sciences, University of Zagreb (Croatia)
Peter Machonis, Professor of French and Linguistics, Florida International
University (USA)
Max Silberztein, Professor of Computer Science and Linguistics, Université de
Franche-Comté, Besançon (France)

Scientific Committee:

Program Committee Chair: Max Silberztein, Université de Franche-Comté (France)
Jorge Baptista, University of Algarve (Portugal)
Anabela Barreiro, INESC-ID Lisbon (Portugal)
Xavier Blanco, Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain)
Nicoletta Calzolari, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale (Italy)
Christiane Fellbaum, Princeton University (USA)
Héla Fehri, University of Sfax (Tunisia)
Yuras Hetsevich, National Academy of Sciences (Belarus)
Kristina Kocijan, University of Zagreb (Croatia)
Mark Liberman, University of Pennsylvania (USA)
Elena Lloret Pastor, Universidad de Alicante (Spain)
Peter Machonis, Florida International University (USA)
Slim Mesfar, Carthaga University (Tunisia)
Simon Mille, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Spain)
Mario Monteleone, University of Salerno (Italy)
Johanna Monti, University of Naples - L'Orientale (Italy)
Bernard Scott, Logos Institute (USA)

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