[Corpora-List] Deadline extension: Workshop on Partial Parsing 2: Between Chunking and Deep Parsing

[Sandra Kuebler]

Workshop on Partial Parsing 2: Between Chunking and Deep Parsing


**** Extended Deadline: 21 June 2009 ****

Motivation

After the success of the first Workshop on Partial Parsing, we are  
happy to
announce Partial Parsing 2. Partial parsing has become a standard  
means of
integrating syntactic knowledge into high level applications such as
information retrieval, machine translation, or question answering,  
for which
efficiency and robustness is of importance. In comparison with  
chunking and
deep parsing, partial parsing consists in finding structure that is  
richer than
chunks but less exhaustive than full syntactico-semantic parses: partial
parsing may involve constructing nested structures (unlike simple  
chunking)
without creating the full parse of a sentence. However, partial  
parsing is not
a single concept but rather an area ranging from chunking to almost full
parsing. This workshop will bring together researcher who work on  
partial
parsing in its different interpretations.

Scope

The main areas of interest of the workshop include (but are not  
restricted to):
- Linguistic richness of partial parsers for various applications:  
syntactic
and semantic headedness, the degree of hierarchical structure, semantic
information (anaphora, disambiguation);
- Development methodologies for partial parsers: manual, machine  
learning,
hybrid;
- The usability of language resources for the development of partial  
parsers;
- Multi-lingual development of partial parsers, etc.;
- Experience and utilization of existing tools for building partial  
parsers for
new languages;
- Technical aspects of partial parsers: robustness, scalability; time  
and space
complexity; expressiveness of partial parsing formalisms (regular vs.  
context-
free rules; unification; type hierarchies; etc.);
- Applications of partial parsers: information extraction, question  
answering,
machine translation, web text mining, acquisition of lexical  
information, etc.;
- Evaluation methodologies for partial parsers: gold standards,  
application-
specific, reusability of evaluation resources for different partial  
parsing
tasks, etc.;
- Ways of combining multiple partial parsers;
- Comparison (classification) of partial parsers.

Submissions

Authors are invited to submit original research papers. Papers should  
indicate
the state of completion of the reported results. In particular, any  
overlap
with previously published work should be clearly mentioned.  
Submissions will be
judged on correctness, novelty, technical strength, clarity of  
presentation,
and significance/relevance to the workshop.

Submissions should be no longer than 7 pages typeset in an 10pt font.
Guidelines are available at the RANLP 2009 web page:
http://lml.bas.bg/ranlp2009.

Submission of papers will be handled using the START system, at
https://www.softconf.com/ranlp09/PaPa2009/.

Important Dates

Submission deadline: 21 June 2009
Notification of acceptance: 20 July 2009
Camera-ready version due: 24 August 2009
Workshop: 17 September 2009

Organisers

- Sandra Kübler (Indiana University)
- Jakub Piskorski (Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of  
Sciences)
- Adam Przepiórkowski (Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of
Sciences)

Programme Committee

Steven Abney (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
Salah Aït-Mokhtar (Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble)
Gosse Bouma (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen)
António Branco (University of Lisbon)
Erhard Hinrichs (University of Tübingen)
Hannah Kermes (University of Stuttgart)
Sandra Kübler (Indiana University)
Vladislav Kuboň (Charles University, Prague)
Hrafn Loftsson (Reykjavik University)
Petya Osenova (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and Sofia University)
Jakub Piskorski (Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of  
Sciences)
Adam Przepiórkowski (Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy
of Sciences)
Ulrich Schäfer (DFKI GmbH, Saarbrücken)
Anssi Yli Jyrä (University of Helsinki)

Contact

PaPa2009_at_bach.ipipan.waw.pl


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