CfP: GEAF at COLING 2008

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Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:19:40 PST
From: Tracy Holloway King <thking at parc.com>
Subject: CfP: GEAF at COLING 2008


			   Call for Papers
	    Grammar Engineering across Frameworks (GEAF08)
			      August 24
			    Manchester, UK
         http://www-csli.stanford.edu/~thking/GEAF08/GEAF08.html

This workshop is part of The 22nd International Conference on
Computational Linguistics (COLING-08).

This workshop aims to bring together grammar engineers from different
frameworks to compare research and methodologies, particularly around
the themes of evaluation, modularity, maintainability, relevance to
theoretical and computational linguistics, and applications of "deep"
grammars to real-world domains and NLP tasks.

Recent years have seen the development of techniques and resources to
support robust, deep grammatical analysis of natural language in
real-world domains and applications. The demands of these types of
tasks have resulted in significant advances in areas such as parser
efficiency, hybrid statistical/symbolic approaches to disambiguation,
and the acquisition of large-scale lexicons. The effective
acquisition, development, maintenance and enhancement of grammars is a
central issue in such efforts, and the size and complexity of
realistic grammars makes these tasks extremely challenging; indeed,
these tasks are often tackled in ways that have much in common with
software engineering. This workshop aims to bring together grammar
engineers from different frameworks --- for example LFG, HPSG, TAG,
CCG, dependency grammar --- to compare their research and
methodologies.

The workshop is a follow-up to the first GEAF workshop
(http://csli-publications.stanford.edu/GEAF/2007/geaf07.html) which
was held at Stanford in 2007.

Paper Topics:
The workshop is soliciting submissions for papers on the following
themes:

1. Evaluation: Proposals concerning evaluation methodologies and
     metrics which can capture the added benefits of deep linguistic
     analysis; evaluation techniques which can compare grammars across
     varieties/languages.

2. Modularity: Reflections on which aspects of linguistic structure
     can most easily be separated out from each other, why and how the
     analyses of separate linguistic phenomena are
     interconnected/interdependent, and the role of frameworks on
     promoting or inhibiting modularity.

3. Maintainability: Techniques for improving long-term and
     multideveloper maintainability of grammars; impacts of
     considerations of maintainability on choices of linguistic analysis.

4. Relevance to theoretical and computational linguistics: Reflections
     on how to present grammar engineering work to other research
     communities.

5. Regression testing: Evaluation for internal purposes; methodologies
     and techniques for test suite construction, role of test suites in
     day-to-day progress on grammars.

6. Applications of "deep" grammars to real-world domains and NLP
     tasks, such as parsing, machine translation, question answering,
     dialogue, generation; with a focus on how the use of deep grammars
     can lead to improved performance on such tasks.

Organizing Committee:
    Tracy Holloway King, PARC
    Stephen Clark, Oxford University

Program Committee:

    Jason Baldridge, Texas
    Emily Bender, Washington
    Miriam Butt, Konstanz
    Aoife Cahill, Stuttgart
    John Carroll, Sussex
    Ann Copestake, Cambridge
    Berthold Crysmann, Bonn
    Mary Dalrymple, Oxford
    Stefanie Dipper, Bochum
    Dan Flickinger, Stanford
    Josef van Genabith, Dublin
    Ron Kaplan, Powerset
    Montserrat Marimon, Barcelona
    Yusuke Miyao, Tokyo
    Owen Rambow, Columbia
    Jun'ichi Tsujii, Tokyo

Important Dates and Submission Details:

    Paper submission deadline:            5 May
    Notification of acceptance of Papers: 6 June
    Camera-ready copy of papers due:      1 July
    Demo session requests due:            1 July
    Workshop:                             24 August

The maximum length of submissions is 8 pages. Please use the COLING-08
style files, available from:
http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/harold.somers/coling/style.html

Please use the START system to submit a paper:
https://www.softconf.com/coling08/GEAF/submit.html

Contact for inquiries:
    Tracy Holloway King <thking "at" parc.com>
    Stephen Clark <stephen.clark "at" comlab.ox.ac.uk>

Special Demo Session:
In addition to the papers, there will be a demo session. If you wish
to give a demonstration of a system relevant to the GEAF theme, please
submit a title of the demo and a one-page description by July 1,
2008, through the START system (URL above).  You do not have to have a
paper in the workshop in order to give a demo.

Proceedings:
Accepted papers will form part of the workshop proceeedings.


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