Date: 13-Jun-2007
From: Sandra Kuebler <skueblerindiana.edu>
Subject: Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories
Full Title: Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories Short Title: TLT 2007
Date: 07-Dec-2007 - 08-Dec-2007 Location: Bergen, Norway Contact Person: Koenraad de Smedt Meeting Email: tlt07uib.no Web Site: http://tlt07.uib.no
Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics
Call Deadline: 01-Sep-2007
Meeting Description
The Sixth International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories will be held on December 7-8, 2007 in Bergen, Norway. Submissions are invited for papers, posters and demonstrations. The workshop invites submissions that discuss relevant innovative work in treebanking, including the relations and links between, and possibly merging of, various aspects of morphological, syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic annotation; furthermore, submissions describing work on parallel treebanks and/or cross-language annotation schemas, on the relation between linguistic theory and the practice of annotation, and on applications of information in treebanks are encouraged as well.
The Sixth International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories December 7-8, 2007 in Bergen, Norway
http://tlt07.uib.no
First Call for Papers
The Sixth International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories will be held on December 7-8, 2007 in Bergen, Norway. Submissions are invited for papers, posters and demonstrations presenting high quality, previously unpublished research in the topics described below. Contributions should focus on results from completed as well as ongoing research, with an emphasis on novel approaches, methods, ideas, and perspectives, whether descriptive, theoretical, formal or computational. Papers and poster abstracts will be published in paper as well as online proceedings.
Workshop motivation and aims
Treebanks are language resources that include annotations at levels of linguistic structure beyond the word level. They typically provide syntactic constituent or dependency structures for sentences and sometimes functional and predicate-argument structures. Treebanks have become crucially important for the development of data-driven approaches to natural language processing, human language technologies, grammar extraction and linguistic research in general. There are a number of ongoing projects aiming at compiling representative treebanks for specific languages. In addition, there are projects that develop tools or explore annotation beyond syntactic structure and beyond a single language.
Experiences in building syntactically processed corpora have shown that there is a relation between formal linguistic theory and the practice of syntactic annotation. Therefore the connection between treebank development and linguistic theories and paradigms merits attention.
This series of workshops aims at being a forum for researchers and advanced students working in these areas. We encourage interested potential participants to read the proceedings of the previous workshops. See the webpage for links to previous workshops.
Workshop topics
The workshop invites submissions that discuss relevant innovative work in treebanking, including the relations and links between, and possibly merging of, various aspects of morphological, syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic annotation; furthermore, submissions describing work on parallel treebanks and/or cross-language annotation schemas, on the relation between linguistic theory and the practice of annotation, and on applications of information in treebanks are encouraged as well.
Invited speaker
An invited lecture will be presented by Julia Hockenmaier (University of Pennsylvania).
Program committee
PC chairs: Sandra Kübler (University of Tübingen), Jan Hajiç (Charles University, Prague) and Koenraad De Smedt (University of Bergen).
PC members: Thorsten Brants, Tomas Erjavec, Anthony Kroch, Eva Hajicova, Erhard Hinrichs, Timo Järvinen, Anthony Kroch, Yuji Matsumoto, Detmar Meurers, Joakim Nivre, Karel Oliva, Ferran Pla, Horacio Rodriguez, Kiril Simov, Otakar Smrz, Marin Volk, Daniel Zeman, and Heike Zinsmeister.
Important dates
- Deadline for submission: September 1, 2007 - Notification of acceptance: October 1, 2007 - Final version due: November 1, 2007
Instructions for submission, local organization and further information
For more information on the submission procedure, instructions for authors, venue and other aspects of the workshop, please see the workshop website: http://tlt07.uib.no
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