Appel: Dependency Linguistics 2011, Deadline extension

Fri Apr 29 20:30:17 UTC 2011

Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 23:17:27 +0200
From: kim gerdes <kim.gerdes at univ-paris3.fr>
Message-ID: <BANLkTim-WYLfcWoii7Fh_45m4Kx6LG_W9w at mail.gmail.com>

Dependency Linguistics 2011, Deadline extension

 * Extended submission deadline: May 15
 * Depling Conference: September 5-7
 * Conference website: 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 interesting
   syntactic and semantic phenomena, especially in a cross-linguistic
   perspective, including 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.

 * Links to morphology and linearization of dependency structures,
   using for example topological field theories

 * 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 are also interested in work on 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 teams TALN (UPF) and flexSem (UAB).

The conference is chaired by Eva Hajičová (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 of the Depling 2011 conference:
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                 Columbia University, New York
Benoit Crabbé                   University Paris 7
Denys Duchier                   University of Orléans
Jason Eisner                    Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Dina El Kassas                  Miniya University
Gülşen Cebiroğlu Eryiğit        Istanbul Technical University
Charles J. Fillmore             University of California, Berkeley
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
Leonid 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

Related Event
The conference Depling 2011 will be held in conjunction with the Fifth
International Conference on Meaning-Text Theory to take place
immediately after Depling 2011.

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. Papers containing significant overlap with previously
published work should include this information in a seperate text file
(to be submitted alongside the paper on the easychair site).

Submissions

The deadline for the submission of papers is 11:59pm (Pacific Standard
Time (GMT-8)) May 15, 2011. Submission will be electronic in PDF
format through the Depling page on EasyChair.

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. We strongly recommend the use of the LaTeX style
files, OpenDocument or Microsoft Word templates tailored for this
year's conference, based on the ACL format.

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.

Contact
depling at depling.org

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