[Corpora-List] Dependency Linguistics 2011, Deadline extension

Thu Apr 28 21:15:16 UTC 2011

Dependency Linguistics 2011, Deadline extension

  * Extended submission deadline: May 15
  * Depling Conference: September 5-7
  * Conference website: depling.org

The Depling conference responds to the growing need for a linguistic
conference dedicated to approaches in syntax, semantics and the
lexicon that are centered around dependency structures as a central
linguistic notion.

In the past decade, dependencies, directed labeled graph structures
representing hierarchical relations between morphemes, words and
semantic units, with a strong reference to the lexicon, have become
the near-standard representation and annotation schemes in
computational linguistics, parsing, generation, and other fields of
natural language processing. The linguistic significance of these
structures often remains vague, and the need for the development of
common notational and formal grounds is felt strongly by many people
working in these domains.

In general terms, the conference will investigate:

  * The use of dependency structures in the description of
interesting syntactic and semantic phenomena, especially in a
cross-linguistic perspective, including linguistic phenomena for which
classical simple phrase-structure based models have proven to be
unsatisfactory.
  * The modelling of lexical phenomena and their role in the
dependency view of linguistics.
  * The applications of dependency analyses to natural language
processing, including machine translation, parsing, generation,
information extraction, etc.

Topics include, but are not limited to:

  * The use of dependency trees in syntactic analysis, description,
formalization, parsing, generation, and corpus annotation of written
and spoken texts.
  * 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 links.
  * Links to morphology and linearization of dependency structures,
using for example topological field theories
  * Dependency-like structures beyond the sentence as annotation
scheme for 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

We are also interested in work on questions such as:

  * What are the differences and similarities between theta roles,
valencies, f-structures, TAG derivation trees, (subcategorization)
frames, semantic role labelling, etc?
  * Which corpus annotations using head-daughter relations on words
are formally and linguistically equivalent, which are not?
  * How to describe syntax-semantic interfaces between dependency structures?

People

Depling 2011 will take place at the Pompeu Fabra University in
Barcelona, organized by Leo Wanner (UPF), Lorraine Baqué (UAB), and
the teams TALN (UPF) and flexSem (UAB).

The conference is chaired by Eva Hajičová (Charles University in
Prague) and Kim Gerdes (Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris).

Invited speakers: Igor Mel'čuk (University of Montreal) and Joakim
Nivre (Uppsala University).

The program committee of the Depling 2011 conference:
Margarita Alonso Ramos	University of La Coruña
Lorraine Baqué			Autonomous University of Barcelona
David Beck			University of Alberta, Edmonton
Xavier Blanco			Autonomous University of Barcelona
Bernd Bohnet			Stuttgart University
Igor Boguslavsky		Polytechnical University of Madrid
Marie Candito			University Paris 7
Éric de la Clergerie		University Paris 7
Michael Collins 			Columbia University, New York
Benoit Crabbé			University Paris 7
Denys Duchier			University of Orléans
Jason Eisner			Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Dina El Kassas			Miniya University
Gülşen Cebiroğlu Eryiğit	Istanbul Technical University
Charles J. Fillmore	 	University of California, Berkeley
Koldo Gojenola			University of the Basque Country, Bilbao
Jan Hajič	 			Charles University in Prague
Hans-Jürgen Heringer		University of Augsburg
Richard Hudson			University College London
Leonid Iomdin	 		Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
Lidija Iordanskaja		University of Montreal
Aravind Joshi			University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Sylvain Kahane			University Paris Ouest
Marco Kuhlmann		Uppsala University
François Lareau 		Macquarie University, Sydney
Alessandro Lenci		University of Pisa
Leonardo Lesmo		University of Turin
Haitao Liu				Zhejiang University, Hangzhou
Henning Lobin			University of Gießen
Chris Manning			Stanford University
Igor Mel'čuk			University of Montreal
Wolfgang Menzel		University of Hamburg
Kemal Oflazer			Carnegie Mellon University, Qatar
Ryan McDonald			Google Research, New York
Piet Mertens			University of Leuven
Jasmina Milićević		Dalhousie University, Halifax
Dipti Misra Sharma		IIIT, Hyderabad
Henrik Høeg Muller		Copenhagen Business School
Jee-Sun Nam			Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul
Alexis Nasr			University of Marseille
Joakim Nivre			Uppsala University
Gertjan van Noord		University of Groningen
Martha Palmer			University of Colorado, Boulder
Jarmila Panevova		Charles University in Prague
Alain Polguère			Nancy University
Prokopis Prokopidis		ILSP, Athens
Owen Rambow			Columbia University, New York
Ines Rehbein			Saarland University, Saarbrücken
Petr Sgall				Charles University in Prague
Davy Temperley			University of Rochester
Robert Van Valin		Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf

Related Event
The conference Depling 2011 will be held in conjunction with the Fifth
International Conference on Meaning-Text Theory to take place
immediately after Depling 2011.

Publication
The proceedings will be published as an open access publication. A
selection of articles proposing interesting connections of linguistic
theories and natural language processing will appear in longer
versions at Springer.

Requirements
Papers should describe original work; they should emphasize completed
work or in the case of posters ongoing research rather than intended
work, and should indicate clearly the state of completion of the
reported results. Submissions will be judged on correctness,
originality, technical strength, significance and relevance to the
conference, and interest to the attendees.

Submissions presented at the conference should mostly contain new
material that has not been presented at any other meeting with
publicly available proceedings. Papers that are being submitted in
parallel to other conferences or workshops must indicate this on the
title page. Papers containing significant overlap with previously
published work should include this information in a seperate text file
(to be submitted alongside the paper on the easychair site).

Submissions

The deadline for the submission of papers is 11:59pm (Pacific Standard
Time (GMT-8)) May 15, 2011. Submission will be electronic in PDF format
through the Depling page on EasyChair.

Papers may consist of up to 10 pages of content (including references
and figures). All submissions should follow the two-column format and
the style guidelines. We strongly recommend the use of the LaTeX style
files, OpenDocument or Microsoft Word templates tailored for this
year's conference, based on the ACL format.

Reviewing of papers will be double-blind. Therefore, the paper must
not include the authors' names and affiliations. Furthermore,
self-references that reveal the author's identity, e.g., "We
previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...", must be avoided. Instead, use
citations such as "Smith (1991) previously showed ...". Papers that do
not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review.

Contact
depling at depling.org

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