[LFG] Call for Participation: 17th International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories

[Stephan Oepen]

[with apologies for cross-posting]

Dear Colleagues,

please see below an invitation to participate in the 17th International
Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories, to be held mid-December
2018 in wintery Oslo, Norway.

The organizing team has worked hard to make a visit to Oslo interesting
and affordable.  Please see the conference web site below for the list
of accepted papers and for discounted hotel rates and participant fees.

Velkommen til Norge!

Dag Haug, Stephan Oepen, and Lilja Øvrelid


17th International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT)
               (Not Limited to Morphology and Syntax)

         Thursday, December 13, and Friday, December 14, 2018
                     University of Oslo, Norway

                      http://www.uio.no/tlt17/


CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

For the 17th time in about as many years, the International Workshop on
Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT) will bring together developers
and users of linguistically annotated natural language corpora.  TLT17
will be held on Thursday and Friday, December 13 and 14, 2018, on the
campus of the University of Oslo (Norway).  Please mark your calendars!


CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS

As part of the main workshop, there will be two invited keynotes:

+ Using Weak Signal in NLP
  Malvina Nissim
  (University of Groningen)

+ Coordination in Universal Dependencies
  Adam Przepiórkowski,
  (Polish Academy of Sciences and University of Warsaw)

The scientific programme will be comprised of 15 oral presentations of
papers selected by the programme committee (from among 21 submissions).
Please see below for the list of accepted papers.

A panel discussion will reflect on the relationship between grammatical
structure in treebanks and contemporary (e.g. neural) Natural Language
Processing:

  Syntactico-Semantic Representations in Natural Language Processing:
  Vital, Venerable, or Vacuous?

Thursday evening (December 13, 2018) will feature a conference banquet
in a historic location in downtown Oslo.  Following completion of the
scientific programme on Friday afternoon, there will be opportunities
for cross-country skiing not far from the university (snow-permitting).


REGISTRATION

On-line registration is accessible via the ‘Registration’ sub-page of
the conference web site:

  http://www.uio.no/tlt17/

The ‘Location’ sub-page has suggestions for conference accommodation,
including discount agreements with two hotels in downtown Oslo.  Please
note that discounted hotel rates are only guaranteed until November 18,
so why not make travel arrangements already this week?


ACCEPTED PAPERS

+ RRGbank: A Role and Reference Grammar Corpus of Syntactic Structures
  Extracted from the Penn Treebank
  Tatiana Bladier, Andreas van Cranenburgh, Kilian Evang, Laura
  Kallmeyer, Robin Möllemann and Rainer Osswald

+ Comparing Two Methods for Adding Enhanced Dependencies to UD
  Treebanks
  Gosse Bouma

+ Potsdam Commentary Corpus 2.1 in ANNIS3 (with Demonstration)
  Peter Bourgonje and Manfred Stede

+ Parsed Annotation with Semantic Calculation
  Alastair Butler and Stephen Wright Horn

+ Data Conversion and Consistency of Monolingual Corpora: Russian UD
  Treebanks
  Kira Droganova, Olga Lyashevskaya and Daniel Zeman

+ Measuring Evolution of Implemented Grammars
  Dan Flickinger

+ Defining Verbal Synonyms: between Syntax and Semantics
  Eva Fučíková, Eva Hajičová, Jan Hajič and Zdeňka Urešová

+ Quantitative word order typology with UD
  Matías Guzmán Naranjo and Laura Becker

+ Universal Dependencies and a Non-Native Czech
  Jirka Hana and Barbora Hladka

+ On the Development of a Large-Scale Corpus for Native Language
  Identification
  Sardar Jaf and Thomas G Hudson

+ Reflexives in Universal Dependencies
  Sonja Marković and Daniel Zeman

+ Wikinflection: Massive semi-supervised generation of multilingual
  inflectional corpus from Wiktionary
  Eleni Metheniti and Günter Neumann

+ Preprocessing Does Matter: Parsing Non-Segmented Arabic
  Noor Abo Mokh and Sandra Kübler

+ Domain Adaptation in Dependency Parsing via Transformation Based
  Error Driven Learning
  Atreyee Mukherjee and Sandra Kübler

+ Sequence2Sequence or Perceptrons for Lemmatization. A thorough error
  analysis
  Tobias Pütz, Daniël de Kok, Sebastian Pütz and Erhard Hinrichs


PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

Reviewing of submissions and selection of the conference programme has
been managed by the TLT17 Programme Committee, duly co-chaired by:

+ Marie Candito, Université Paris Diderot, France
+ Jan Hajič, Charles University, Czech Republic
+ Dag Haug, University of Oslo, Norway
+ Stephan Oepen, University of Oslo, Norway
+ Lilja Øvrelid, University of Oslo, Norway

To inquire about the scientific programme or questions of logistics for
the conference more generally, please email ‘tlt-17 at ifi.uio.no’.