Treebanks & Linguistic Theories Workshop (TLT-9)

[Dickinson, Markus]

Call for Participation

The Ninth International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories 
(TLT9) will be held in Tartu (Estonia) on 3-4 December 2010 at the 
University of Tartu.

To register, please visit the online registration and information page
http://math.ut.ee/tlt9/index.html

TLT9 will be co-located with Workshop on Annotation and Exploitation of 
Parallel Corpora (AEPC) which will be held on 2 December 2010.
See http://math.ut.ee/tlt9/aepc/

TLT9 Detailed Program:

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3

8:30-9:15 - Registration

9:15-9:30 - Opening/Welcome
9:30-10:30 - INVITED TALK: Anke Luedeling. Syntactic Misuse, Overuse 
and Underuse: A Study of a Parsed Learner Corpus and its Target 
Hypothesis

10:30-11:00 - Coffee break

11:00-12:30 - SESSION A

11:00-11:30 - Jinho Choi and Martha Palmer. Robust 
Constituent-to-Dependency Conversion for English
11:30-12:00 - Tania Avgustinova and Yi Zhang. Conversion of a Russian 
dependency treebank into HPSG derivations
12:00-12:30 - Ozlem Cetinoglu, Jennifer Foster, Joakim Nivre, Deirdre 
Hogan, Aoife Cahill and Josef van Genabith. LFG without C-structures

12:30-14:00 - Lunch

14:00-15:30 - SESSION B

14:00-14:30 - Henrik Høeg Müller. Annotation of morphology and NP 
structure in the Copenhagen Dependency Treebanks
14:30-15:00 - Cristina Bosco and Alberto Lavelli. Language-oriented 
validation for dependency parsing evaluation
15:00-15:30 - John Lee. Dependency Parsing using Prosody Markers from a 
Parallel Text

15:30-16:00 - Coffee break

16:00-17:30 - POSTER SESSION

- Claire Gardent and Christophe Cerisara. Semi-automatic semantic 
pre-annotation for French
- Katri Haverinen, Timo Viljanen, Veronika Laippala, Samuel Kohonen, 
Filip Ginter and Tapio Salakoski. Treebanking Finnish
- Niels Ott and Ramon Ziai. Evaluating Dependency Parsing Performance 
on German Learner Language
- Yu-yin Hsu. Comparing Conversions of Discontinuity in PCFG Parsing
- Sebastian Hellmann, Jörg Unbehauen, Christian Chiarcos and 
Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo. The TIGER Corpus Navigator
- Petya Osenova and Kiril Simov. Using the linguistic knowledge in 
BulTreeBank for the selection of the correct parses

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4

9:30-10:30 - INVITED TALK: Joakim Nivre, Harvest Time -- Explorations 
of the Swedish Treebank

11:00-12:30 - SESSION C

11:00-11:30 - Yannick Versley, A. Kathrin Beck, Erhard Hinrichs and 
Heike Telljohann. A Syntax-first Approach to High-quality Morphological 
Analysis and Lemma Disambiguation for the TüBa-D/Z Treebank
11:30-12:00 - Aina Peris, Maria Taulé and Horacio Rodríguez. Semantic 
Annotation f Deverbal Nominalizations in the Spanish corpus AnCora
12:00-12:30 - Sandra Kübler, Matthias Scheutz, Eric Baucom and Ross 
Israel. Adding Context Information to Part Of Speech Tagging for 
Dialogues

12:30-14:00 - Lunch

14:00-15:30 - SESSION D

14:00-14:30 - Anders Søgaard and Martin Haulrich. On the derivation 
perplexity of treebanks
14:30-15:00 - Xuchen Yao and Gosse Bouma. Mining Discourse Treebanks 
with XQuery
15:00-15:30- Christophe Cerisara, Claire Gardent and Corinna Anderson. 
Building and exploiting a dependency treebank for French radio 
broadcasts

15:30-16:00 - Coffee break

16:00-17:30 - SESSION E

16:00-16:30 - Anna Lobanova, Gosse Bouma and Erik Tjong Kim Sang. Using 
a Treebank for Finding Antonyms
16:30-17:00 - Tanja Samardzic, Lonneke van der Plas, Paola Merlo and 
Goljihan Kachaeva. The Scope and the Sources of Variation in Verbal 
Predicates in English and French
17:00-17:30 - Magda Sevcikova, Jarmila Panevova and Zdenek Zabokrtsky. 
Grammatical number of nouns in Czech: linguistic theory and treebank 
annotation

17:30-17:45 - Closing remarks

For any inquiries regarding the workshop, please send an e-mail to 
tlt9.local at gmail.com

We look forward to seeing you in Tartu!

The TLT9 Workshop Organization Committee