25.4816, Calls: Computational Ling, Lexicography, Morphology, Semantics, Syntax/Sweden

Sat Nov 29 09:00:03 UTC 2014

LINGUIST List: Vol-25-4816. Sat Nov 29 2014. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 25.4816, Calls: Computational Ling, Lexicography, Morphology, Semantics, Syntax/Sweden

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Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2014 03:59:42
From: Joakim Nivre [joakim.nivre at lingfil.uu.se]
Subject: 3rd International Conference on Dependency Linguistics

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Full Title: 3rd International Conference on Dependency Linguistics 
Short Title: Depling 2015 

Date: 24-Aug-2015 - 26-Aug-2015
Location: Uppsala, Sweden 
Contact Person: Joakim Nivre
Meeting Email: joakim.nivre at lingfil.uu.se

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Lexicography; Morphology; Semantics; Syntax 

Call Deadline: 10-Apr-2015 

Meeting Description:

The Depling conference responds to the growing need for a conference dedicated to dependency-based approaches in linguistics and natural language processing. In the past decade, dependencies, directed labeled graph structures representing hierarchical relations between morphemes, words or semantic units, have become very widespread in natural language processing. However, the linguistic significance of these structures often remains vague, and the need to discuss the theoretical and formal foundations of dependency-based concepts is felt strongly by many people working in these domains. Previous Depling conferences were held in Barcelona 2011 and in Prague 2013.

In general terms, the conference will investigate:

- The use of dependency structures in the description of linguistic phenomena, especially in a cross-linguistic perspective, in particular linguistic phenomena for which classical phrase structure models have proven to be unsatisfactory
- The modeling of lexical phenomena and their role in dependency-based linguistic theories
- The application of dependency-based approaches to natural language processing, including machine translation, parsing, generation, information extraction, etc.

Call for Papers:

Topics include but are not limited to:

- The use of dependency trees in syntactic analysis, parsing, generation, and corpus annotation of written and spoken texts
- The use of semantic valency-based predicate and actancy graph structures and their link to classical logic
- The elaboration of formal dictionaries for dependency-based syntax and semantics, including descriptions of collocations and paradigmatic relations
- Links to morphology and linearization of dependency structures, using, for example, topological field theories
- Dependency-like structures beyond the sentence, for example, to model discourse phenomena
- The description and formalization of semantic and pragmatic phenomena related to information structure
- History, epistemology, and psycholinguistic relevance of dependency grammar, including its relation to generative approaches to language

Special Themes:

Depling 2015 has two special themes:

- The dependency status of function words: The status of function words can vary significantly from one dependency model/scheme to the next and across the level of linguistic description within one and the same linguistic model (e.g., deep vs. surface syntax). Tesnière took many function words to be translatives, placed on the same level as the content word with which they form a (dissociated) nucleus. Frameworks such as Meaning-Text Theory and Word Grammar position most function words as heads over the related content words (in surface syntax). Some computational schemes like the Stanford Dependencies emphasize dependencies between content words and therefore subordinate function words to content words. Given these differences in how dependency models and schemes address function words, we think the status of function words is an area of dependency linguistics that deserves special attention.

- Dependency and translation: 2015 marks the 30-year anniversary of the death of Bernard Vauquois, one of the pioneers in the field of machine translation, the father of the famous Vauquois triangle, and one of the first proponents of the use of dependency-based representations in machine translation. Since the use of dependency structures is currently gaining ground also in statistical machine translation, it seems highly relevant to highlight the connections between dependency and translation.

Papers addressing one of the special themes will be submitted and reviewed in the same way as other papers, but will be accepted in a separate pool and presented in special sessions at the conference.

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