[Corpora-List] TLT 2003: Call for papers

[Joakim Nivre]

                 The Second Workshop on Treebanks and 
                    Linguistic Theories (TLT 2003)
                  14-15 November 2003, Växjö, Sweden


Workshop motivation and aims

Treebanks are a language resource that provides annotations of natural
languages at various levels of structure: at the word level, the
phrase level, the sentence level, and sometimes also at the level of
function-argument structure. Treebanks have become crucially
important for the development of data-driven approaches to natural
language processing, human language technologies, grammar extraction
and linguistic research in general. There are a number of on-going
projects on compilation of representative treebanks for languages that
still lack them (Bulgarian, Danish, Portugese, Spanish, Turkish) and a 
number of on-going projects on compilation of treebanks for specific
purposes for languages that already have them (English).

The practices of building syntactically processed corpora have proved
that aiming at more detailed description of the data becomes more and
more theory-dependent (Prague Dependency Treebank and other
dependency-based treebanks such as the Danish dependendency treebank,
the Italian treebank (TUT), and the Turkish treebank (METU); Verbmobil 
HPSG Treebanks, Polish HPSG Treebank, Bulgarian HPSG-based Treebank,
etc.).  Therefore the development of treebanks and formal linguistic 
theories need to be more tightly connected in order to ensure the 
necessary information flow between them.

This series of workshops aims at being a forum for researchers and advanced
students working in these areas. The second workshop will be held in Växjö, 
Sweden, 14-15 november 2003. (The first was held in Sozopol, Bulgaria in 
September 2002; see http://www.bultreebank.org/Proceedings.html). 


Topics of interest

We invite submission of papers on topics relevant to treebanks and
linguistic theories, including but not limited to:

- design principles and annotation schemes for treebanks;
- applications of treebanks in acquiring linguistic knowledge and NLP;
- the role of linguistic theories in treebank development;
- treebanks as a basis for linguistic research;
- evaluation of treebanks;
- tools for creation and management of treebanks;
- standards for treebanks.


Important dates

Deadline for workshop abstract submission
1 August 2003

Notification of acceptance
15 September 2003

Final version of paper for workshop proceedings
15 October 2003


Submissions

Papers should describe existing research connected to the topics of
the workshop. The presentation at the workshop will be 25 minutes long
(20 minutes for presentation and 5 minutes for questions and
discussion). Each submission should include: title; author(s);
affiliation(s); and contact author's e-mail address, postal address,
telephone and fax numbers. Extended abstracts (maximum 1500 words,
plain-text format or Postscript) should be sent to:

Name: Joakim Nivre
Email: nivre at msi.vxu.se

Those who wish to attend without offering a paper are asked to briefly
motivate their interest, as the number of participants is limited.

The final version of the accepted papers should not be longer than
12 A4 pages. Instructions for formatting and presentation of the final 
version will be sent to authors upon notification of acceptance.


Program committee

Jens Allwood, Sweden
Lars Borin, Sweden
Helge Dyvik, Norway
Eva Ejerhed, Sweden
Tomaz Erjavec, Slovenia
Erhard Hinrichs, Germany (co-chair)
Janne Bondi Johannessen, Norway
Sabine Kirchmeier-Andersen, Denmark
Sandra Kübler, Germany
Torbjørn Nordgård, Norway		
Joakim Nivre, Sweden (co-chair)
Kemal Oflazer, Turkey
Karel Oliva, Austria
Petya Osenova, Bulgaria	
Vladimir Petkevic, Czech Republic
Adam Przepi'orkowski, Poland
Laurent Romary, France			
Eirikur Rögnvaldsson, Iceland
Kiril Simov, Bulgaria
Martin Volk, Sweden


Invited speakers

Thorsten Brants, Google Inc.
Stephan Oepen, Stanford University


Sponsoring organisations

Nordic Treebank Network (Nordic Language Technology Program 020528)
Special Resarch Program "Linguistic Data Structures" (SFB 441) at the
University of Tübingen
Växjö University


Local organisation

Joakim Nivre (joakim.nivre at msi.vxu.se)
Johan Hall (johan.hall at msi.vxu.se)
Jens Nilsson (jens.nilsson at msi.vxu.se)

Växjö University
School of Mathematics and Systems Engineering
SE-35195 Växjö

http://www.msi.vxu.se/~rics/TLT2003/