2nd CfP: Workshop on Extrinsic Parse Improvement (EPI) at ESSLLI-13
Dickinson, Markus
md7 at INDIANA.EDU
Fri Dec 21 16:11:26 UTC 2012
*** Second Call for Papers ***
ESSLLI-13 Workshop on Extrinsic Parse Improvement (EPI)
12-16 August 2013
Duesseldorf, Germany
http://cl.indiana.edu/epi/
The workshop on Extrinsic Parse Improvement (EPI) will provide a forum
for researchers who work on improving parsing as pre- or
post-processing steps, that is, for adapting and improving parses
without modifying the parser itself. The focus of the workshop is on
methods for modifying treebank representations, which can then be used
to train parsers; on methods for automatically extending the training
set with new examples; and on methods for improving parser output by
post-corrections, or even on detecting reliable or deviant parses.
All these methods are used regularly for adapting parsers to new types
of text, with different goals: either to adapt the syntactic annotation
scheme to improve parsing performance (Manning and Klein 2003), to
improve parser output (Hall and Novak 2011), to adapt a parser to new
domains (Candito et al. 2011), to parse the web (Le Roux et al. 2012),
to find errors in treebanks or parses (Dickinson and Smith 2011), or to
discover reliable parses (Kawahara and Uchimoto 2008). However, many of
these methods are used only in specific contexts. This workshop will
bring together researchers from different areas to foster
cross-fertilization between different areas of parsing correction and
adaptation. We are especially encouraging young researchers to submit
completed work as well as work in progress, which may profit from
discussions with other researchers.
The areas of interest for this joint workshop include, but are not
limited to, the following topics:
* domain adaptation for parsing
* parsing non-canonical language
* parse correction
* error detection
* tree transformation
* semi-supervised approaches to parsing such as self-training or co-training
* active learning for parsing
* sentence simplification
IMPORTANT DATES
1 Feb. 2013 paper submission deadline
1 April 2013 notification of acceptance
15 May 2013 camera-ready papers due
Submissions will be in form of short papers: 6 pages, including
references, in pdf, following the most recent ACL guidelines
(http://www.acl2012.org/program/introduction.asp). Submission via the
EasyChair system is open:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=epi2013
Each paper will be reviewed by at least two reviewers. Reviewing will
be blind. Thus, papers have to be anonymous. Accepted papers will be
published online at CEURS. We are also in negotiation with a journal
about a special issue on the workshop topic.
VENUE
The workshop will be held as part of ESSLLI in August 2013 in
Duesseldorf, Germany. More information about ESSLLI can be found at the
ESSLLI web pages at http://esslli2013.de/.
Program Committee
Timothy Baldwin (University of Melbourne, Australia)
Marie Candito (University of Paris 7, France)
Jinho Choi (University of Massachusetts, USA)
Jennifer Foster (Dublin City University, Ireland)
Kim Gerdes (University of Paris 3, France)
Gülsen Eryigit (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey)
Jonas Kuhn (IMS Stuttgart, Germany)
Joseph Le Roux (Université Paris-Nord, France)
David McClosky (Stanford University, USA)
Stephan Oepen (University of Oslo, Norway)
Ines Rehbein (University of Potsdam Germany)
Djamé Seddah (University of Paris 4, France)
Reut Tsarfaty (Uppsala University, Sweden)
Josef van Genabith (Dublin City University, Ireland)
Fei Xia (University of Washington, USA)
For questions, contact Sandra Kuebler (skuebler at indiana.edu) or Markus
Dickinson (md7 at indiana.edu).
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