Deep Linguistic Processing: ACL07 Workshop CfP

[Tracy Holloway King]

			    First Call for Papers

	       ACL 2007 Workshop on Deep Linguistic Processing

		       Workshop to be held at ACL 2007
			       June 28th, 2007
			    Prague, Czech Republic

	   http://www.csse.unimelb.edu.au/~tim/events/acl2007-deep/



		 Paper submission deadline: March 26th, 2007




Invited Speaker: ANETTE FRANK (DFKI)
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Background
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This workshop is aimed at bringing together the different computational 
linguistic sub-communities which model language predominantly by way of 
theoretical syntax, either in the form of a particular theory (e.g. CCG, 
HPSG, LFG, LTAG+, the Prague School) or a more general framework which 
draws on theoretical and descriptive linguistics. We characterise this 
style of computational linguistic research as "deep linguistic 
processing", due to it aspiring to model the complexity of natural 
language in rich linguistic representations.

Deep linguistic processing has traditionally been concerned with grammar 
development. The linguistic precision and complexity of the grammars 
meant that they had to be manually developed and maintained, and were 
computationally expensive to run.  With recent developments in computer 
hardware, parsing/generation algorithms and statistical learning theory, 
the way has been opened for deep linguistic processing to be 
successfully applied to an ever-growing range of languages, domains and 
applications.

This workshop aims to foster existing and new relationships between 
groups working on deep linguistic processing, highlighting the 
considerable linguistic, developmental and algorithmic commonalities 
shared by the various approaches. In the spirit of cross-comparison and 
collaboration, we will focus on:

- grammar engineering (e.g. frameworks for grammar evaluation, best 
practice in grammar engineering, cross-linguistic/formalism 
generalisations & comparisons, semantic representation)

- treebanking (e.g. frameworks for treebank evaluation/normalisation, 
grammar extraction/induction, the interface between grammar 
engineering and treebanking, treebanking methodologies, 
cross-linguistic/formalism generalisations & comparisons)

- system development (e.g. grammar profiling, system integration, 
preprocessing strategies, robustness enhancement)

- parser/generator development (e.g. algorithm development, grammar 
reversibility, efficiency, evaluation)

- machine learning for deep linguistic processing (e.g. parse 
selection/ranking, supertagging, deep lexical acquisition, grammar 
induction)

- applications of deep linguistic processing (e.g. information 
extraction, question answering, machine translation, dialogue   systems, 
CALL)


Papers are invited on substantial, original, and unpublished research 
concerning deep linguistic processing.  The submission deadline is March 
26th, 2007.


Submissions:
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Submissions should follow the two-column format of ACL proceedings and 
should not exceed eight (8) pages, including references. We strongly 
recommend the use of the LaTeX style files or Microsoft Word document 
template that will be made available on the conference Web site 
(http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/acl2007/).  We reserve the right to reject 
submissions that do not conform to these styles, including font size 
restrictions.

As reviewing will be blind, the paper should not include the authors' 
names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the 
author's identity, e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...", 
should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as "Smith previously 
showed (Smith, 1991) ...". Papers that do not conform to these 
requirements will be rejected without review.

Submission will be electronic. The only accepted format for submitted 
papers is Adobe PDF. The papers must be submitted no later than March 
26th, 2007.  Papers submitted after that time will not be reviewed. For 
details of the submission procedure, please consult the submission 
webpage reachable via the conference website.

Questions regarding the submission procedure should be directed to the 
workshop organisers at acl2007-deep at unimelb.edu.au

If a paper is being submitted to another conference or workshop, then 
the workshop organisers must be informed.  The START submission page 
will contain the possibility to enter this information.



Important Dates:
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Paper submission deadline - March 26th
Notification of acceptance - April 20th
Camera ready copies due - May 7th
Workshop - June 28th



Workshop Organisers:
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Timothy Baldwin (University of Melbourne)
Mark Dras (Macquarie University)
Julia Hockenmaier (University of Pennsylvania)
Tracy Holloway King (PARC)
Gertjan van Noord (University of Groningen)



Program Committee:
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Jason Baldridge (University of Texas at Austin)
Emily Bender (University of Washington)
Raffaella Bernardi (University of Bolzano)
Gosse Bouma (University of Groningen)
Ted Briscoe (University of Cambridge)
Miriam Butt (University of Konstanz)
Aoife Cahill (Stuttgart University)
David Chiang (ISI)
Stephen Clark (Oxford University)
Ann Copestake (University of Cambridge)
Anette Frank (DFKI)
Laura Kallmeyer (Tuebingen University)
Ron Kaplan (Powerset)
Martin Kay (Stanford University/Saarland University)
Valia Kordoni (Saarland University)
Rob Malouf (San Diego State University)
Yusuke Miyao (University of Tokyo)
Anoop Sarkar (Simon Fraser University)
Mark Steedman (University of Edinburgh)
Aline Villavicencio (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul)