28.2252, Calls: Comp Ling, Ling Theories, Syntax/Italy

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Subject: 28.2252, Calls: Comp Ling, Ling Theories, Syntax/Italy

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Date: Thu, 18 May 2017 13:35:04
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: 19-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.

Invited Speakers: 
- Yoav Goldberg - Bar Ilan University
- Eva Hajičová - Charles University in Prague 

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.

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

Local Organising Committee: 
- 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

Final call for Papers: 

News:
Invited Speakers announced
Publication of Depling 2017 Proceedings in the ACL Anthology

Reminder:
Submission deadline extended to MAY 19

Shared Task: 

This year Depling is co-located with the ''International Workshop on Parsing
Technologies'' (IWPT 2017, http://compling.ucdavis.edu/iwpt2017/), which will
take place immediately after Depling 2017. The two conferences will have an
overlapping day, September 20th, 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 try
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. Submissions will be judged on correctness,
originality, technical strength, significance and relevance to the conference,
and interest to the attendees. 

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. 
Reviewing of papers will be double-blind. Therefore, the paper must not
include the authors' names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that
reveal the author's identity, e.g., ''We previously showed (Smith, 1991)
...'', must be avoided. Instead, use citations such as ''Smith (1991)
previously showed ...''. Papers that do not conform to these requirements will
be rejected without review.

Conference Proceedings: 
Depling 2017 Proceedings will be published in the ACL Anthology 

Important Dates:
Submission deadline: May 19, 2017 (extended) 
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 Web sites: 

http://depling.org/depling2017/ (Depling 2017)
http://depling-iwpt2017.di.unipi.it/ (Information on the conference venue,
registration, accommodation, transportation and travel) 

Email contact: depling2017 at depling.org

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