28.899, Calls: Comp Ling, Linguistic Theories, Syntax/Italy

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LINGUIST List: Vol-28-899. Thu Feb 16 2017. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 28.899, Calls: Comp Ling, Linguistic Theories, Syntax/Italy

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Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2017 14:09:47
From: Simonetta Montemagni [simonetta.montemagni at ilc.cnr.it]
Subject: Fourth International Conference on Dependency Linguistics

 
Full Title: Fourth International Conference on Dependency Linguistics 
Short Title: Depling 2017 

Date: 18-Sep-2017 - 20-Sep-2017
Location: Pisa, Italy 
Contact Person: Simonetta Montemagni
Meeting Email: depling2017 at depling.org
Web Site: http://depling.org/depling2017/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Linguistic Theories; Syntax 

Call Deadline: 05-May-2017 

Meeting Description:

Depling 2017 is the fourth conference in the Depling series (the previous
three conferences being held in Barcelona in 2011, Prague in 2013 and Uppsala
in 2015). The series responds to the growing need for linguistic meetings
dedicated to approaches in syntax, semantics and the lexicon that are centered
around dependency structures as a central linguistic notion.

This year the conference is organized by the University of Pisa and the
Institute for Computational Linguistics “A. Zampolli” of the Italian National
Research Council (ILC-CNR).

Conference Aims:

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.

Conference Topics:

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
- Cross-lingual dependency parser evaluation, with particular emphasis on
intrinsic evaluation metrics
- 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
- Dependency grammar and linguistic universals.


Call for Participation:

Shared Task:

This year Depling is co-located with the ''International Workshop on Parsing
Technologies'' (IWPT 2017), which will take place immediately after Depling
2017. The two conferences will have an overlapping day, September 20, in which
the results will be reported of a joint shared task playing the role of
Depling-IWPT “bridge event” and focusing on “Extrinsic Parser Evaluation”
(EPE). The goal of this shared task is to shed light on the relative ‘utility’
of different types of dependency representations for downstream applications
that depend on grammatical analysis. For background and information on
participation, see: http://epe.nlpl.eu

Paper Submission Information:

Papers should describe original work; they should emphasize completed work
rather than intended work, and should indicate clearly the state of completion
of the reported results.

Papers must be submitted in PDF format through the Depling2017 EasyChair site
(https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=depling2017).

Papers may consist of up to 10 pages of content (including references). All
submissions should follow the two-column format and the style guidelines. We
strongly recommend the use of the LaTeX style files, OpenDocument or Microsoft
Word templates created for the Depling 2017 conference.

Important Dates:

Submission deadline: May 5, 2017
Notification of acceptance: June 23, 2017
Final version of papers due: July 15, 2017
Depling conference: September 18-20, 2017

For the shared task timetable, see website.

Conference Chairs:

Simonetta Montemagni, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale “A. Zampolli” -
CNR
Joakim Nivre, Uppsala University

Local Organizing Comitee:

Giuseppe Attardi, University of Pisa
Felice Dell’Orletta, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale “A. Zampolli” -
CNR
Alessandro Lenci, University of Pisa
Simonetta Montemagni, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale “A. Zampolli” -
CNR
Maria Simi, University of Pisa

Email contact: depling2017 at depling.org




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