FCP: Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories

[Petya Osenova]

=First Call for Papers=
The 12th International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories(TLT12)
TLT serves as a venue for new and ongoing research on the topic oflinguistics and treebanks. The 12th edition of TLT will take place in Sofia,Bulgaria on December 13-14, 2013, and will be hosted by the BulTreeBank Group.
TLT-12 website: http://bultreebank.org/TLT12/
This year, TLT will be accompanied by the third Workshop on Annotation ofCorpora for Research in the Humanities (ACRH-3) that takes place on December12, 2013. More information is available at: http://www.bultreebank.org/ACRH-3/
TLT started its first edition in 2002 in Sozopol, Bulgaria. Now its 12thedition comes back to Bulgaria! For more than 10 years now TLT hasserved as a forum for high-quality works related tosyntactically-annotated corpora, i.e., treebanks; with a focus on all theaspects of treebanking -- descriptive, theoretical, formal and computational -- but also  going beyond treebanks, including other levels of annotation such asframe semantics, coreference, or events. 
Submissions are invited for papers, posters, and demonstrations whichpresent research on treebanks and their intersection with linguistics,natural language processing, and related fields.
=Workshop Motivation and Aims=
Treebanks have proven to be crucial resources for important NLPapplications, such as MT and information extraction, as well as supportingresources for various NLP tasks, such as high-quality parsing and POS tagging. More recent trendsin treebank-related research include:
* annotating deep syntactic information * conversion into deeper formats, often also adding information automatically * multilingual and crosslingual treebanking* enriching treebanks with additional layers of linguistic annotation as well as world knowledge  * dynamic treebanking involving a close connection between parsing and manual annotation* designing web services for diverse treebanks* mapping syntactic and semantic knowledge to Linked Open Data (LOD)

This series of workshops provides a forum for researchers andadvanced students working in these areas.
=Workshop Topics=
The workshop invites submissions that discuss relevant innovative work intreebanking, including the relations and links between various aspects ofmorphological, syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic annotation; furthermore,we encourage submissions describing work on parallel treebanks and/or cross-languageannotation schemas, on the relation between linguistic theory and thepractice of annotation, and on applications of information in treebanks.
The areas of interest for this workshop include, but are not limited to, the following topics:
* design principles and annotation schemes for treebanks* linguistic theory and the practice of annotation* applications of treebanks in acquiring linguistic knowledge and in NLP* the role of linguistic theories in treebank development* treebanks as a basis for linguistic research* additional annotation levels for treebanks* evaluation and quality control of treebanks* tools for creation and management of treebanks* treebanks for less-resourced languages* theories, schemas, and applications for parallel treebanks* standards for treebanks* creation of large treebanks* mapping of treebanks to Linked Open Data resources* using treebanks in analysis and generation tasks* domain-specific treebanks* the future of treebanks and treebanking
=Invited Speakers=
* Stefanie Dipper (University of Bochum, Germany)* Antonio Branco (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
=Important Dates=
Submission deadline: September 15 (Sunday)Reviews due: October 20 (Sunday)Notification: October 25 (Friday)Final submission: November 17 (Sunday)Workshop: December 13-14 (Friday and Saturday)
Instructions for submissions are available at: http://www.bultreebank.org/TLT12/SubmissionGuidelines.html
=Program Committee=
Sandra Kübler, Indiana University, USA (co-chair)Petya Osenova, Sofia University, Bulgaria (co-chair)Martin Volk, University of Zurich, Switzerland (co-chair)
Eckhard Bick, University of Southern Denmark, DenmarkJohan Bos, University of Amsterdam, The NetherlandsGosse Bouma, University of Groningen, The NetherlandsKoenraad De Smedt, Bergen University, NorwayMarkus Dickinson, Indiana University, USADan Flickinger, Stanford University, USAAnette Frank, Heidelberg University, GermanyEva Hajičová, Charles University, Czech RepublicIris Hendrickx, University of Nijmegen, The NetherlandsErhard Hinrichs, University of Tübingen, GermanyValia Kordoni, Humboldt University in Berlin, GermanyAmalia Mendes, University of Lisbon, PortugalDetmar Meurers, University of Tübingen, GermanyYusuke Miyao, University of Tokyo, JapanKaili Muurisep, Tartu University, EstoniaKemal Oflazer, Carnegie Mellon University, QatarSebastian Padó, Heidelberg University, GermanyMarco Passarotti, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, ItalyKiril Simov, IICT-BAS, BulgariaAdam Przepiórkowski,Polish Academy of Sciences, PolandVictoria Rosén, Bergen University, NorwayCaroline Sporleder, Trier University, GermanyManfred Stede, University of Potsdam, GermanyGertjan van Noord, University of Groningen, The NetherlandsHeike Zinsmeister, Stuttgart University, Germany
=Local Organization Committee=
Petya Osenova (Sofia University)Kiril Simov (IICT-BAS)Stanislava Kancheva (Sofia University)Georgi Georgiev (Ontotext AD)Borislav Popov (Ontotext AD)

For more information or questions, please contact: petya at bultreebank.org
 		 	   		  
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