IWPT 2011: Call for participation

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Call for Participation

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IWPT 2011, 12th International Conference on Parsing Technologies
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October 5-7, 2011
Dublin, Ireland

Sponsored by ACL/SIGPARSE
Organised by Dublin City University
http://www.dcu.ie/conferences/iwpt/index.shtml

Dublin City University welcomes you to the 12th biennial SIGPARSE meeting.

Invited Speakers
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Towards a Neurobiologically Plausible Model of Human Sentence
Comprehension across Languages
Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky (Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany)

Lagrangian Relaxation for Inference in Natural Language Processing
Michael Collins (Columbia University, USA)

Computing Scope in a CCG Parser
Mark Steedman (University of Edinburgh, UK)

List of Accepted Papers
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LONG PAPERS:

A GENERALIZED VIEW ON PARSING AND TRANSLATION
Alexander Koller and Marco Kuhlmann

ACTIVE LEARNING FOR DEPENDENCY PARSING USING PARTIALLY ANNOTATED SENTENCES
Seyed Abolghasem Mirroshandel and Alexis Nasr

ANALYSIS OF THE DIFFICULTIES IN CHINESE DEEP PARSING
Kun Yu, Yusuke Miyao, Takuya Matsuzaki, Xiangli Wang and Junichi Tsujii 

BAYESIAN NETWORK AUTOMATA FOR MODELLING UNBOUNDED STRUCTURES
James Henderson 

CUTEFORCE - DEEP DETERMINISTIC HPSG PARSING
Gisle Ytrestøl 

DETECTING DEPENDENCY PARSE ERRORS WITH MINIMAL RESOURCES
Markus Dickinson and Amber Smith 

EFFICIENT MATRIX-ENCODED GRAMMARS AND LOW LATENCY PARALLELIZATION
STRATEGIES FOR CYK
Aaron Dunlop, Nathan Bodenstab and Brian Roark 

EFFICIENT PARALLEL VITERBI PARSING ON GPGPUS
Youngmin Yi, Chao-Yue Lai, Slav Petrov and Kurt Keutzer 

FINDING THE MOST PROBABLE STRING AND THE CONSENSUS STRING: AN ALGORITHMIC
STUDY
Colin de la Higuera and Jose Oncina 

LARGE-SCALE CORPUS-DRIVEN PCFG APPROXIMATION OF AN HPSG
Yi Zhang and Hans-Ulrich Krieger 

LEARNING STRUCTURAL DEPENDENCIES OF WORDS IN THE ZIPFIAN TAIL
Tejaswini Deoskar, Markos Mylonakis and Khalil Sima'an 

MINIMALLY SUPERVISED DOMAIN-ADAPTIVE PARSE RERANKING FOR RELATION
EXTRACTION
Feiyu Xu, Hong Li, Yi Zhang, Hans Uszkoreit and Sebastian Krause 

ONE-STEP STATISTICAL PARSING OF HYBRID DEPENDENCY-CONSTITUENCY SYNTACTIC
REPRESENTATIONS
Kais Dukes and Nizar Habash 

PARSING OF PARTIALLY BRACKETED STRUCTURES FOR PARSE SELECTION
Mark-Jan Nederhof and Ricardo Sanchez-Saez 

PLCFRS PARSING OF ENGLISH DISCONTINUOUS CONSTITUENTS
Kilian Evang and Laura Kallmeyer 

PREFIX PROBABILITIES FOR LINEAR CONTEXT-FREE REWRITING SYSTEMS
Mark-Jan Nederhof and Giorgio Satta 

SIMPLE SEMI-SUPERVISED LEARNING FOR PREPOSITIONAL PHRASE ATTACHMENT
Gregory Coppola, Alexandra Birch, Tejaswini Deoskar and Mark Steedman 

TREE PARSING WITH SYNCHRONOUS TREE-ADJOINING GRAMMARS
Matthias Büchse, Heiko Vogler and Mark-Jan Nederhof

SHORT PAPERS:

A WORD CLUSTERING APPROACH TO DOMAIN ADAPTATION: EFFECTIVE PARSING OF
BIOMEDICAL TEXTS
Marie Candito, Enrique Henestroza Anguiano and Djamé Seddah

BEYOND CHART PARSING: A COMPARISON OF DEPENDENCY CHART PARSING ALGORITHMS
Meixun Jin, Hwidong Na and Jong-Hyeok Lee 

COMPARING THE USE OF EDITED AND UNEDITED TEXT IN PARSER SELF-TRAINING
Jennifer Foster, Ozlem Cetinoglu, Joachim Wagner and Josef van Genabith

DISCONTINUOUS DATA-ORIENTED PARSING: A MILDLY CONTEXT-SENSITIVE
ALL-FRAGMENTS GRAMMAR
Andreas van Cranenburgh, Federico Sangati and Remko Scha 

FEATURES FOR PHRASE-STRUCTURE RERANKING FROM DEPENDENCY PARSES
Richard Farkas, Bernd Bohnet and Helmut Schmid 

MODEL-THEORY OF PROPERTY GRAMMARS WITH FEATURES
Denys Duchier, Thi-Bich-Hanh Dao and Yannick Parmentier

ON THE ROLE OF EXPLICIT MORPHOLOGICAL FEATURE REPRESENTATION IN SYNTACTIC
DEPENDENCY PARSING FOR GERMAN
Wolfgang Seeker and Jonas Kuhn 

PARSER EVALUATION USING ELEMENTARY DEPENDENCY MATCHING
Rebecca Dridan and Stephan Oepen

SENTENCE-LEVEL INSTANCE-WEIGHTING FOR GRAPH-BASED AND TRANSITION-BASED
DEPENDENCY PARSING
Anders Søgaard and Martin Haulrich


Organisation
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General Chair: Harry Bunt (Tilburg University, Netherlands)
Program Chair: Joakim Nivre (Uppsala University, Sweden)
Local Arrangements Chair: Ozlem Cetinoglu (Dublin City University,
Ireland)


Local Arrangements Committee
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Ozlem Cetinoglu (Dublin City University, Ireland)
Jennifer Foster (Dublin City University, Ireland)
Lamia Tounsi (Dublin City University, Ireland)
Deirdre Hogan (Dublin City University, Ireland)
Eithne McCann (Dublin City University, Ireland)


Venue
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The Helix, Dublin City University
http://thehelix.ie/


Conference Dinner
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Johnnie Fox's
http://www.jfp.ie/

Registration
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Early standard (before September 15):	€250
Late standard:	€300
Early student (before September 15):	€150
Late student:	€200

(includes lunch and the conference dinner)

http://www.dcu.ie/conferences/iwpt/registration.shtml

Contact
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iwpt2011 at computing.dcu.ie