ESSLLI-13 Workshop on Extrinsic Parse Improvement (EPI)

[Dickinson, Markus]

First Call for Papers

ESSLLI-13 Workshop on Extrinsic Parse Improvement (EPI)

The workshop in extrinsic parsing 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 will be 
via the EasyChair system. 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  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

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)