Workshop on Large-scale Grammar Development and Grammar Engineering

[Shuly Wintner]

Large-scale Grammar Development and Grammar Engineering
Research Workshop of the Israel Science Foundation
University of Haifa, Israel, 25-28 June, 2006
http://www.cl.haifa.ac.il/workshop/index.shtml


Linguistically motivated approaches to Natural Language Processing  
(NLP) in recent years have made significant advances in terms of  
linguistic coverage, wealth of analysis and efficiency of processing.  
However, large-scale grammar development still could benefit from  
improvements in grammar engineering. The Workshop is intended as a  
forum for discussing ongoing work in declarative, constraint- and  
resource-based approaches, informed by linguistic theory. It will  
cover various aspects of the computational implementation of grammars  
based on linguistic knowledge, and in particular address issues of  
grammar engineering and modularity. Relevant topics include, but are  
not limited to:

- grammar development and grammar engineering

- modularity in grammar design

- grammar debugging, validation and evaluation

- mathematical and computational foundations of grammar engineering

- scalability of grammars and grammar processing frameworks

- cross-lingual and multilingual grammar development

- parallel grammars and meta-grammars

- the utility of linguistically informed grammars for NLP applications

- the interactions between linguistic theory and NLP

- using corpora for grammar development

The Workshop welcomes works on a variety of natural languages and in  
a variety of frameworks and linguistic theories. It is intended to  
serve as a meeting where researchers working on different aspects of  
grammar development can exchange ideas, report on recent and on-going  
work and discuss future directions.

The format of the Workshop is deliberately informal: it will include  
oral presentations, both invited and contributed, but will leave  
ample time for informal discussions, demonstrations and  
brainstorming. The Workshop provides an opportunity to present the  
current state-of-the-art, as well as future needs and directions.  
Complete works as well as work in progress are equally welcome for  
presentation. To encourage interaction and collaboration, an  
extensive social program is planned, including a welcome reception, a  
banquet and a one-day guided tour.

A list of invited speakers is available on-line at:
http://cl.haifa.ac.il/workshop/program.shtml

Submission instructions: one-page abstracts, in plain text (ASCII),  
should be sent to shuly at cs.haifa.ac.il. Submissions should include  
the name(s) and affiliation(s) of the author(s), as well as the  
title. Please submit your abstract as soon as possible but no later  
than May 20th, 2006.

Registration: participation in the Workshop is free and open for all.  
However, to be able to plan rooms, refreshments, etc., we request  
that participants pre-register on-line at:
http://cl.haifa.ac.il/registration/registration.jsp

The Workshop is funded by the Israel Science Foundation, with a  
generous support from The Caesarea Edmond Benjamin de Rothschild  
Foundation Institute for Interdisciplinary Applications of Computer  
Science.

Contact:
Shuly Wintner, Department of Computer Science, University of Haifa,  
31905 Haifa, Israel
Phone: +972 (4) 8288180  Fax: +972 (4) 8249331
shuly at cs.haifa.ac.il   http://cs.haifa.ac.il/~shuly
http://cl.haifa.ac.il/workshop/index.shtml