[Corpora-List] CFP and Shared Task Participation: COLING Workshop on Machine Translation and Parsing in Indian Languages (MTPIL-2012) and Hindi Parsing Shared Task-2012

[prashanth at research.iiit.ac.in]

          CALL FOR PAPERS AND SHARED TASK PARTICIPATION

 Workshop on Machine Translation and Parsing in Indian Languages (MTPIL-2012)
             COLING-2012, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India; December 15-16th, 2012
                     http://ltrc.iiit.ac.in/mtpil2012

   Paper Submission deadline: 30th Sept, 2012
   *** Shared task registration Open ****

Workshop description:
Indian languages present taxing research challenges mostly attributed to their rich variation in morphology, heavy agglutination and relatively free word order. Most of the Indian languages are digitally under-resourced, and only limited linguistic analysis resources / tools exist for some languages.

The objective of the workshop is to bring together MT and parsing researchers across the globe working on Indian languages to showcase their work and exploit the synergies to interconnect state-of-the-art Indian language MT and parsing research globally.

We solicit papers on all aspects of machine translation and parsing involving Indian languages.

Topics include, but are not limited to
* Parsing of Indian languages (morphological, syntactic, semantic,
  discourse, etc.)
* Data driven and grammar driven approaches for Indian language MT and
  parsing
* Evaluation methodologies targeted to Indian languages
* Syntactically and semantically motivated MT
* MT into, out-of and between Indian Languages
* Resource creation and acquisition for Indian languages
* Practical applications of MT and parsing technology
* Domain adaptation in MT and parsing

The workshop will solicit both long and short papers for either oral or poster presentation. Papers should be anonymous and follow the COLING format described in  http://www.coling2012-iitb.org/call_for_papers.php

The workshop will host a dependency parsing shared task for Hindi. As part of the shared task, a part of the Hindi Dependency Treebank (HDT) containing gold standard morphological analyses, part-of-speech tags, chunks and dependency relations labeled in the computational paninian framework will be released. The evaluation will consider the standard dependency tree based measures over both gold standard and automatic parts of speech (also provided by us).

Our aim is to give an impetus to NLP tools development in Hindi using the Hindi dependency treebank and encourage parsing approaches that cater to the needs of relatively free word order and morphologically rich Indian languages.

Earlier shared tasks on Indian language dependency parsing held with International Conference on NLP (ICON) 2009 and 2010 had much lesser data to work with (20,000 words).

Important Dates (MTPIL-2012)
  30th September     Paper submission deadline
  31st October       Paper accept/reject notification
  15th November      Camera ready paper due
  15th-16th December MTPIL-2012 Workshop

Important Dates (Hindi Parsing Shared Task-2012)
  25th August        Shared task registration opens
  15th September     Training and development data release
    --> Extended to 17th September 
  10th October       Unannotated test data release
  13th October       System output submission on test data
  16th October       Evaluation results + annotated test data
                     release
  21st October       System description paper submission deadline
  7th November       Paper reviews
  15th November      Camera ready papers due
  15th-16th December MTPIL-2012 workshop

Organizers:
  Dipti Misra Sharma, LTRC, IIIT-Hyderabad (Workshop Chair)
  Josef van Genabith, CNGL, School of Computing, Dublin City University
  Radhika Mamidi, LTRC, IIIT-Hyderabad
  Prashanth Mannem, LTRC, IIIT-Hyderabad
  Ranjani Parthasarathi, Anna University, Chennai
  Sobha L AU-KBC Research Center, Anna University

Program Committee:
  Sivaji Bandyopadhyay, Jadavpur University, India
  Srinivas Bangalore, AT&T Labs, USA
  Rajesh Bhatt, University of Massachusetts, USA
  Pushpak Bhattacharyya, IIT Bombay, India
  Christian Boitet, University of Grenoble, France
  Ondrej Bojar, Charles University, Czech Republic
  Miriam Butt, University of Konstanz, Germany
  Niladri Chatterjee, IIT Delhi, India
  Monojit Choudhury, Microsoft Research, India
  Geetha T.V., Anna University, India
  Samar Husain, University of Potsdam, Germany
  Sarmad Hussain, National University, Pakistan
  Aravind K. Joshi, University of Pennsylvania, USA
  Adil Kak, Kashmir University, India
  Gurpreet Singh Lehal, Punjabi University Patiala, India
  Nitin Madnani, ETS, USA
  Joakim Nivre, Uppsala, Sweden
  Rajendran S, Amrita University, India
  Owen Rambow, Columbia University, USA
  Rajeev Sangal,IIIT Hyderabad, India
  Anoop Sarkar, Simon Fraser University, Canada
  Sriram Venkatapathy, XRCE, France
  Vijay Sundar Ram R, AU-KBC Research Centre, Chennai, India
  Fei Xia, University of Washington, USA

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