Deadline Extension: Grammar Engineering Across Frameworks

[Tracy Holloway King]

			   CALL for PAPERS
		 *** Deadline extended to 4/30/07 ***


		GRAMMAR ENGINEERING ACROSS FRAMEWORKS
			   July 13-15, 2007
		      Stanford, California, USA
	   http://www-csli.stanford.edu/~thking/GEAF07.html

This workshop is part of the 2007 LSA Summer Institute.  (But note
that workshop attendees do not have to register for the Institute.)

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
development, maintenance and enhancement of grammars is a central
issue in such efforts, and the size and complexity of realistic
grammars forces these processes to be tackled in ways that have much
in common with software engineering.  This workshop aims to bring
together grammar engineers from different frameworks to compare their
research and methodologies.


PANEL DISCUSSION ON EVALUATION: How can we develop evaluation
methodologies and metrics which can capture the added benefits of deep
linguistic analysis?

     Mary Dalrymple, Oxford University (moderator)
     Roger Levy, University of California, San Diego
     Stephan Oepen, University of Oslo
     Martha Palmer, University of Colorado, Boulder


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


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Emily M. Bender, University of Washington
                       Tracy Holloway King, PARC

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
   Jason Baldridge
   Srinivas Bangalore
   John Bateman
   Miriam Butt
   Aoife Cahill
   Stephen Clark
   Berthold Crysmann
   Steffi Dipper
   Dan Flickinger
   Ron Kaplan
   Montserrat Marimon
   Owen Rambow
   Jesse Tseng


IMPORTANT DATES and SUBMISSION DETAILS:

*Abstracts due*: April 30, 2007
Notification of acceptance: May 11, 2007
Demo session requests due: June 1, 2007
Workshop: 13-15 July, 2007

Submissions are to take the form of 4 (four) page extended abstracts,
in PDF format, with 12 point font.

Please submit your papers directly to:

   http://www.easychair.org/GEAF2007

Contact for inquiries:

   geaf-organizers at u dot washington dot edu


SPECIAL DEMO SESSION

In addition to the panel and papers, there will be a demo session.  If
you wish to give a demonstration of a system relevant to the "Grammar
Engineering Across Frameworks" theme, please submit a title of the
demo and a one-paragraph description through Easy Chair, by June 1,
2007.  You do not have to have a paper in the workshop in order to
give a demo.


PROCEEDINGS

We plan to publish the proceedings (full papers) as an online volume
through CSLI publications after the workshop.