LREC 2012 Workshop: META-RESEARCH Workshop on Advanced Treebanking (LREC 2012) - Call for papers

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META-RESEARCH Workshop on Advanced Treebanking (LREC 2012) - Call for 
papers



*The Workshop*
Many EU and world-wide projects and research groups are creating, 
standardizing, converting and/or using treebanks, thereby often tackling 
the same issues and reinventing methods and tools. The workshop has been 
conceived by four projects, namely T4ME, META-NORD, CESAR and META4U, 
which under the META-NET umbrella project strive to make many treebanks 
and other LRT available for R&D. However, the workshop is not limited to 
participants of META-NET, but it is widely open: papers of authors of 
any origin will be welcome to share their experiences among those 
working in this area. Also, papers on using treebanks in innovative ways 
and/or analyzing issues with current treebanks (both in content and 
format) will be welcome, to provide feedback to treebank developers. The 
emphasis is not on linguistic theory or grammar, but on treebanks as 
language resources.

*The Call*
As part of the LREC'2012 Language Resources Conference, to be held in 
Istanbul, Turkey, the META-RESEARCH Workshop on Advanced Treebanking 
(http://www.meta-net.eu/meta-research/events/lrec2012-treebanking-workshop) 
invites papers on all aspects of treebanking, especially but not limited to

- Treebank annotation (manual, semi-automatic, automatic) and related 
issues such as quality control, searching large collections of 
treebanks, parallel treebanks

- Treebank conversion between different linguistic representations (e.g. 
dependency vs. phrase-based) and between different formats

- Treebank standardization and format unification across languages and 
styles

- Combinations of treebanks and other annotations -- including but not 
limited to semantic role labeling, named entity annotation, discourse 
annotation, information structure

- Tools and online web services for the management of treebanks, 
visualization, search, processing, upload and download, etc.

- Innovative use of treebanks in all areas of natural language research 
and applications

- Reuse of treebank annotation for non-traditional purposes and in 
related disciplines (cognitive science, psycholinguistics, etc.)

- Improving the use of current treebanks in linguistic and computational 
R&D.


Oral presentations will have around 20 minutes each; demonstrations and 
poster presentations will be encouraged (but optional) in addition to 
the oral presentations, during the entire workshop in the meeting room 
to stimulate discussions.


Submissions cannot be more than 8 pages long and will be reviewed using 
the START system in the usual double-blind fashion, with at least three 
reviews for each submission by the members of the Programme Committee. 
Authors will be asked to provide details about the resources used when 
preparing material for the paper (see  
http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2012/?LRE-Map-2012) and to the Language 
Library, the new initiative of LREC 2012.

*Organizers*
Jan Hajic, hajic at ufal.mff.cuni.cz, Charles Univ., Prague, Czech Rep.
Koenraad De Smedt, desmedt at uib.no, Univ. of Bergen, Norway
Marko Tadic, marko.tadic at ffzg.hr, Univ. of Zagreb, Croatia
Antonio Branco, Antonio.branco at di.fc.ul.pt, University of Lisbon, Portugal


*Deadlines*
Submission: Monday, February 20, 2012
Decision: Monday, March 19, 2012
Camera Ready in START: Wednesday, March, 28, 2012
Workshop date: Tuesday, May 22, 2012


*Programme Committee (to be extended)*
Antonio Branco, Portugal
Silvie Cinkova, Czech Rep.
Dan Cristea, Romania
Koenraad De Smedt, Norway
Rebecca Dridan, Australia
Jan Hajic, Czech Rep.
Silvia Hansen-Schirra, Germany
Nancy Ide, USA
Daisuke Kawahara, Japan
Valia Kordoni, Germany
Sandra Kuebler, USA
Krister Linden, Finland
Adam Meyers, USA
Joakim Nivre, Sweden
Stephan Oepen, Norway
Marco Passarotti, Italy
Adam Przepiorkowski, Poland
Eirikur Rognvaldsson, Iceland
Victoria Rosen, Norway
Marko Tadic, Croatia
Barbora Vidova Hladka, Czech Rep.
Juergen Wedekind, Denmark
Fei Xia, USA
Daniel Zeman, Czech Rep.

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