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itc.it>*Please post* *Please post* *Please post* *Please post* CALL FOR REGISTRATION _____________________________________________________________________ ACL'97 / EACL'97 Workshop 12 July, 1997 Madrid, Spain COMPUTATIONAL ENVIRONMENTS FOR GRAMMAR DEVELOPMENT AND LINGUISTIC ENGINEERING _____________________________________________________________________ With a growing number of NLP applications going beyond the status of simple research systems, there is also a more evident need for better methods, tools and environments to support the development and reuse of large scale linguistic resources and efficient processors. Some of the most prominent examples of development environments within this new area of research, often referred to as Linguistic Engineering, are ALEP, GATE, GWB, PAGE, and many others. However, while these platforms and components typically provide fairly clean formalisms, processing components and data, it is not yet clear to which extent current results and approaches fit the requirements for scale development and deployment of real NLP applications. In this connection, a number of pending issues need be addressed, the relevance of which becomes particularly clear when the focus is shifted from linguistic formalism to usability and user/application requirements. The workshop will be the occasion to discuss the results achieved and the most promising directions and to highlight pending problems. PROGRAMME ========== The reviewing process, given the many workshop submissions, was highly competitive (each paper was evaluated by 3 referees) and the following 15 papers were selected: REGULAR PAPERS: Axel Theofilidis (IAI, Saarbruecken), Paul Schmidt (University of Mainz) - "ALEP-based Distributed Grammar Engineering" John Bateman (University of Sterling) - "Some Apparently Disjoint Amis and Requirements for Grammar Development Environments: The Case of Natural Language Generation" David Carter (SRI International, Cambridge) - "The TreeBanker: A Tool for Supervised Training of Parsed Corpora" Fabio Ciravegna, Alberto Lavelli, Daniela Petrelli, Fabio Pianesi (IRST, Trento) - "Participatory Design for Linguistic Engineering: the Case of the Geppetto Development Environment" Luca Dini, Giampaolo Mazzini (CELI, Torino) - "Hypertextual Grammar Development" Christine Doran, Beth Ann Hockey, Philip Hopely, Joseph Rosenzewieg, Anoop Sarkar, B. Srinivas, Fei Xia (University of Pennsylvania), Owen Rambow and Alexis Nasr (Cogentex) - "Maintaining the Forest and Burning out the Underbrush in XTAG" Thilo Goetz, Detmar Meurers (University of Tuebingen) - "The ConTroll System as Large Grammar Development Platform" Renate Henschel (University of Edinburgh) - John Bateman (University of Sterling), "Application-driven Automatic Subgrammar Extraction" Thanaruk Theeramunkong, Yasunobu Kawaguchi, Manabu Okumura (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) - "Exploiting Contextual Information in Hypothesis Selection for Grammar Refinement" Martin Volk (University of Zurich), Dirk Richarz (University of Koblenz-Landau) - "Experiences with the GTU Grammar Development Environment" Ronald M. Kaplan, Paula S. Newman (Xerox PARC) - "Lexical Resource Reconciliation in the Xerox Linguistic Environment" POSTERS Jerome Vapillon, Xavier Briffault, Gerard Sabah, Karim Chibout (LIMSI-CNRS) - "An Object-Oriented Linguistic Engineering Environment using LFG and CG" Gertjan van Noord, Gosse Bouma (University of Groningen) - "Hdrug. A Flexible and Extendable Environment for Natural Language Processing" Gerald Penn (University of Tuebingen), Octav Popescu (Carnegie Mellon University) - "Head-Driven Generation and Indexing in ALE" Lena Stromback (Linkoping University) - "EFLUF - an Implementation of a FLexible Unification Formalism" In addition, the workshop programme will feature an invited talk by Hans Uszkoreit: "Reference Data and Grammar Development Environments"; and a final plenary discussion. REGISTRATION ============= The registration fee for the workshop is 60 US dollars and includes a copy of the proceedings, lunch and refreshments. Participants can pre-register (please use the registration form below) or register on site. Given the limit on the number of workshop participants, pre-registration is recommended. (Pre-registration will proceed on a first-come, first-served basis). Please note that according to the ACL rules, workshop participants must register for the main conference as well. Please send a hard copy of your registration form (with an enclosed cheque if you pay by cheque; do not forget to sign if you choose to pay by credit card) to ACL phone +1-908-873-3898 Priscilla Rasmussen fax +1-908-873-0014 P.O. Box 6090 aclMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
nias.knaw.nl>WORKSHOP What is the Empirical Contribution of Generative Linguistics? Research in generative syntax, which has seen an explosive growth over the past thirty years, is in urgent need of being systematized. For several reasons it has become the rule rather than the exception that relevant existing research results are not adequately taken into consideration in current work. Similarly, there is no guarantee that students, even those graduating from the best programs, will share a reasonable amount of knowledge about standard syntactic analyses. In short, it is obvious that a survey of results, a 'standard', is needed in syntax. By doing so it will become clear what the empirical contribution of generative linguistics is. This idea is the basis for the currently active group of researchers at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences working on a Syntactician's Companion (SynCom). This group, together with a balanced international forum of researchers, will try to create a responsible consensus about the main empirical and conceptual achievements results of syntactic theorizing. The SynCom should provide the reader with a complete and coherent description of what may be considered to be the core results of syntactic research during the last thirty years. It will contain a collection of cases which are recognized as valuable in the scientific community, and which might well serve as points of reference in the development of theories, and in scientific education. As such it will serve as an adequate research tools for theoretical linguists, psycholinguists, computational linguists, sociolinguists, etc. As part of this enterprise, the workshop "What is the Empirical Contribution of Generative Linguistics?" is organized on June 27&28 1997 at Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Wassenaar, the Netherlands Organizers: Henk van Riemsdijk & Martin Everaert Contributors: Josep Bayer (Jena) Reineke Bok-Bennema (Groningen) Hagit Borer (UMass Amherst) Norbert Corver (Tilburg) Denis Delfitto (Utrecht) Carmen Sorin (Paris) Martin Everaert (Utrecht) Joseph Emonds (Durham) Gisbert Fanselow (Potsdam) Hubert Haider (Salzburg) Hilda Koopman (UCLA) Itziar Laka (Bilbao) James McCloskey (UCSC) Hans Georg Obenauer (Paris) Eric Reuland (Utrecht) Henk van Riemsdijk (Tilburg) Ian Roberts (Stuttgart) Ken Safir (Rutgers) Tim Stowell (UCLA) Anna Szabolsci (UCLA) Sten Vikner (Stuttgart) A final programme will soon be available. For further information about registration, lodging, etc, write/mail to: Anneke Vrins/Martin Everaert NIAS Meijboomlaan 1 2242 PR Wassenaar The Netherlands tel: 31-70-5122700 fax: 31-705117162 e-mail: syncomMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue