[Corpora-List] TLT 2003: Call for papers

From: Joakim Nivre (nivre@msi.vxu.se)
Date: Wed Jun 04 2003 - 12:27:17 MET DST

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                     The Second Workshop on Treebanks and
                        Linguistic Theories (TLT 2003)
                      14-15 November 2003, Växjö, Sweden

    Workshop motivation and aims

    Treebanks are a language resource that provides annotations of natural
    languages at various levels of structure: at the word level, the
    phrase level, the sentence level, and sometimes also at the level of
    function-argument structure. 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 on-going
    projects on compilation of representative treebanks for languages that
    still lack them (Bulgarian, Danish, Portugese, Spanish, Turkish) and a
    number of on-going projects on compilation of treebanks for specific
    purposes for languages that already have them (English).

    The practices of building syntactically processed corpora have proved
    that aiming at more detailed description of the data becomes more and
    more theory-dependent (Prague Dependency Treebank and other
    dependency-based treebanks such as the Danish dependendency treebank,
    the Italian treebank (TUT), and the Turkish treebank (METU); Verbmobil
    HPSG Treebanks, Polish HPSG Treebank, Bulgarian HPSG-based Treebank,
    etc.). Therefore the development of treebanks and formal linguistic
    theories need to be more tightly connected in order to ensure the
    necessary information flow between them.

    This series of workshops aims at being a forum for researchers and advanced
    students working in these areas. The second workshop will be held in Växjö,
    Sweden, 14-15 november 2003. (The first was held in Sozopol, Bulgaria in
    September 2002; see http://www.bultreebank.org/Proceedings.html).

    Topics of interest

    We invite submission of papers on topics relevant to treebanks and
    linguistic theories, including but not limited to:

    - design principles and annotation schemes for treebanks;
    - applications of treebanks in acquiring linguistic knowledge and NLP;
    - the role of linguistic theories in treebank development;
    - treebanks as a basis for linguistic research;
    - evaluation of treebanks;
    - tools for creation and management of treebanks;
    - standards for treebanks.

    Important dates

    Deadline for workshop abstract submission
    1 August 2003

    Notification of acceptance
    15 September 2003

    Final version of paper for workshop proceedings
    15 October 2003

    Submissions

    Papers should describe existing research connected to the topics of
    the workshop. The presentation at the workshop will be 25 minutes long
    (20 minutes for presentation and 5 minutes for questions and
    discussion). Each submission should include: title; author(s);
    affiliation(s); and contact author's e-mail address, postal address,
    telephone and fax numbers. Extended abstracts (maximum 1500 words,
    plain-text format or Postscript) should be sent to:

    Name: Joakim Nivre
    Email: nivre@msi.vxu.se

    Those who wish to attend without offering a paper are asked to briefly
    motivate their interest, as the number of participants is limited.

    The final version of the accepted papers should not be longer than
    12 A4 pages. Instructions for formatting and presentation of the final
    version will be sent to authors upon notification of acceptance.

    Program committee

    Jens Allwood, Sweden
    Lars Borin, Sweden
    Helge Dyvik, Norway
    Eva Ejerhed, Sweden
    Tomaz Erjavec, Slovenia
    Erhard Hinrichs, Germany (co-chair)
    Janne Bondi Johannessen, Norway
    Sabine Kirchmeier-Andersen, Denmark
    Sandra Kübler, Germany
    Torbjørn Nordgård, Norway
    Joakim Nivre, Sweden (co-chair)
    Kemal Oflazer, Turkey
    Karel Oliva, Austria
    Petya Osenova, Bulgaria
    Vladimir Petkevic, Czech Republic
    Adam Przepi'orkowski, Poland
    Laurent Romary, France
    Eirikur Rögnvaldsson, Iceland
    Kiril Simov, Bulgaria
    Martin Volk, Sweden

    Invited speakers

    Thorsten Brants, Google Inc.
    Stephan Oepen, Stanford University

    Sponsoring organisations

    Nordic Treebank Network (Nordic Language Technology Program 020528)
    Special Resarch Program "Linguistic Data Structures" (SFB 441) at the
    University of Tübingen
    Växjö University

    Local organisation

    Joakim Nivre (joakim.nivre@msi.vxu.se)
    Johan Hall (johan.hall@msi.vxu.se)
    Jens Nilsson (jens.nilsson@msi.vxu.se)

    Växjö University
    School of Mathematics and Systems Engineering
    SE-35195 Växjö

    http://www.msi.vxu.se/~rics/TLT2003/



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