Appel: Dependency Linguistics, Depling, Barcelone, 5-7 Septembre 2011

[Thierry Hamon]

Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 16:27:42 +0100
From: kim gerdes <kim.gerdes at univ-paris3.fr>
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Call for Papers
Depling 2011 http://depling.org
International Conference on Dependency Linguistics, Depling 2011

Barcelona, September 5-7, 2011
exploring dependency grammar, semantics, and the lexicon

http://depling.org

The Depling conference responds to the growing need for a linguistic
conference dedicated to approaches in syntax, semantics and the
lexicon that are centered around dependency structures as a central
linguistic notion.

In the past decade, dependencies, directed labeled graph structures
representing hierarchical relations between morphemes, words and
semantic units, with a strong reference to the lexicon, have become
the near-standard representation and annotation schemes in
computational linguistics, parsing, generation, and other fields of
natural language processing. The linguistic significance of these
structures often remains vague, and the need for the development of
common notational and formal grounds is felt strongly by many people
working in these domains.

 In *general terms*, the conference will investigate:

   - The use of dependency structures in the description of linguistic
      phenomena for which classical simple phrase-structure based
      models have proven to be unsatisfactory.

   - The modelling of lexical phenomena and their role in the
     dependency view of linguistics.

   - The applications of dependency analyses to natural language
     processing, including machine translation, parsing, generation,
     information extraction, etc.

*Topics* include, but are not limited to:

   - The use of dependency trees in syntactic analysis, description,
     formalization, 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 links.

   - Word order descriptions using topological field theories and the
     dependency-morphology interface.

   - Dependency-like structures beyond the sentence as annotation
     scheme for 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

 We would also like to work on answers to *questions* such as:

   - What are the differences and similarities between theta roles,
     valencies, f-structures, TAG derivation trees,
     (subcategorization) frames, semantic role labelling, etc?

   - Which corpus annotations using head-daughter relations on words
     are formally and linguistically equivalent, which are not?

   - How to describe syntax-semantic interfaces between dependency
     structures?

 People

Depling 2011 will take place at the Pompeu Fabra University in
Barcelona, organized by Leo Wanner (UPF), Lorraine Baqué (UAB) and the
TALN group<http://www.taln.upf.edu/>

The conference is chaired by Eva Hajicová (Charles University in
Prague) and Kim Gerdes (Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris)

Invited speakers: Igor Mel'čuk (University of Montreal) and Joakim
Nivre (Uppsala University)

 *The program committee:*

Margarita Alonso Ramos (University of La Coruña), Lorraine Baqué
(Autonomous University of Barcelona), David Beck (University of
Alberta, Edmonton), Xavier Blanco (Autonomous University of
Barcelona), Bernd Bohnet (Stuttgart University), Igor Boguslavsky
(Polytechnical University of Madrid), Marie Candito (University Paris
7), Éric de la Clergerie (University Paris 7), Michael Collins (MIT,
Cambridge), Benoit Crabbé (University Paris 7), Denys Duchier
(University of Orléans), Jason Eisner (Johns Hopkins University,
Baltimore), Dina El Kassas (Miniya University), Charles J. Fillmore
(University of California, Berkeley), Gülşen Cebiroğlu Eryiğit
(Istanbul Technical University), Koldo Gojenola (University of the
Basque Country, Bilbao), Jan Hajič (Charles University in Prague),
Hans-Jürgen Heringer (University of Augsburg), Richard Hudson
(University College London), Leonin Iomdin (Russian Academy of
Sciences, Moscow), Lidija Iordanskaja (University of Montreal),
Aravind Joshi (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia), Sylvain
Kahane (University Paris Ouest), Marco Kuhlmann (Uppsala University),
François Lareau (Macquarie University, Sydney), Alessandro Lenci
(University of Pisa), Leonardo Lesmo (University of Turin), Haitao Liu
(Zhejiang University, Hangzhou), Henning Lobin (University of Gießen),
Chris Manning (Stanford University), Igor Mel'čuk (University of
Montreal), Wolfgang Menzel (University of Hamburg), Kemal Oflazer
(Carnegie Mellon University, Qatar), Ryan McDonald (Google Research,
New York), Piet Mertens (University of Leuven), Jasmina Milićević
(Dalhousie University Halifax), Dipti Misra Sharma (IIIT, Hyderabad),
Henrik Høeg Muller (Copenhagen Business School), Jee-Sun Nam (Hankuk
University of Foreign Studies, Seoul), Alexis Nasr (University of
Marseille), Joakim Nivre (Uppsala University), Gertjan van Noord
(University of Groningen), Martha Palmer (University of Colorado,
Boulder), Jarmila Panevova (Charles University in Prague), Alain
Polguère (Nancy University), Prokopis Prokopidis (ILSP, Athens), Owen
Rambow (Columbia University, New York), Ines Rehbein (Saarland
University, Saarbrücken), Petr Sgall (Charles University in Prague),
Davy Temperley (University of Rochester), Robert Van Valin (Heinrich
Heine University, Düsseldorf)

Publication

The proceedings will be published as an open access publication. A
selection of articles proposing interesting connections of linguistic
theories and Natural Language Processing will appear in longer
versions at Springer.

Requirements Papers should describe original work; they should
emphasize completed work or in the case of posters ongoing research
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.

Submissions presented at the conference should mostly contain new
material that has not been presented at any other meeting with
publicly available proceedings. Papers that are being submitted in
parallel to other conferences or workshops must indicate this on the
title page, as must papers that contain significant overlap with
previously published work.  Submissions The *deadline* for the
submission of papers is 11:59pm (Pacific Standard Time (GMT-8)) *May
1, 2011*. Submission will be electronic in PDF format through the
conference website.

Papers may consist of up to *10 pages* of content (including
references and figures). All submissions should follow the two-column
format and the style guidelines of the ACL proceedings. We strongly
recommend the use of ACL LaTeX style files or Microsoft Word Style
files tailored for this year's conference, which will be available on
the conference website.

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.
Important Dates


   - First call for papers: December 2010
   - Submission deadline: *May 1*
   - Notification of acceptance: June 10
   - Camera-ready copy of papers due: July 10
   - Depling Conference: *September 5-7*

Contact depling at depling.org

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