CfP: Grammar Engineering Across Frameworks
Tracy Holloway King
thking at parc.com
Wed Mar 21 00:05:47 UTC 2007
SECOND CALL for PAPERS
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 9, 2007
Notification of acceptance: May 4, 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.
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