[Corpora-List] second call for papers: Workshop on Partial Parsing 2, Bulgaria

[Kuebler, Sandra Claudia]

Call for Papers

Submission deadline: 5 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: 5 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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