[Corpora-List] TLT05 1st Call for Papers

From: Montserrat Civit (mcivit@ub.edu)
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            ***1st Call for Papers***

    **The Fourth Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT 2005)**
    Barcelona, 9-10 December 2005

    URL: http://clic.fil.ub.es/personal/civit/tlt05cfp.html

    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,
    Catalan, 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). In addition, there are projects that go beyond
    syntactic analysis to include different kinds of semantic and pragmatic
    annotation.
    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 dependency 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 fourth workshop will be held in
    Barcelona, Spain, 9-10 December 2005. (The first was held in Sozopol,
    Bulgaria in September 2002; see http://www.bultreebank.org/Proceedings.html),
    the second one in Växjö, Sweden in November 2003
    (http://w3.msi.vxu.se/~rics/TLT2003/ and the third one in Tübingen, Germany
    in December 2004 (http://www.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de/tlt04/).

    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;
        semantically annotated treebanks;
        evaluation of treebanks;
        tools for creation and management of treebanks;
        standards for treebanks.

    IMPORTANT DATES
    Deadline for workshop abstract submission

        11 July 2005

    Notification of acceptance

        7 September 2005

    Final version of paper for workshop proceedings

        7 October 2005

    Workshop

        9-10 December 2005

    SUBMISSIONS
    We invite extended abstracts (maximum 1500 words) describing existing research
    connected to the topics of the workshop. Please note that as reviewing will
    be blind, the abstract should not include the authors' names and
    affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's identity,
    e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...", should be avoided. Instead,
    use citations such as "Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991)...". Electronic
    submission (ps or pdf) is strongly encouraged.
    Each submission should additionally include in the accompanying email: title;
    author(s); affiliation(s); and contact author's e-mail address, postal
    address, telephone and fax numbers.

        Abstracts should be sent to: mcivit@ub.edu clearly indicating in the
    subject line: "TLT05 submission"

    The presentation at the workshop will be 25 minutes long (20 minutes for
    presentation and 5 minutes for questions and discussion). The final version
    of the accepted papers may not exceed 12 A4 pages.

    INVITED SPEAKERS

    Manfred Pinkal, Professor of Computational Linguistics at the Department of
    Computational Linguistics & Phonetics of the Saarland University
    (http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~pinkal/index.html)

    2nd invited speaker to be confirmed

    PROGRAM COMMITTEE

    Emily Bender, USA
    Thorsten Brants, USA
    Montserrat Civit, Spain (co-chair)
    Koenraad de Smedt, Norway
    Tomaz Erjavec, Slovenia
    Annette Frank, Germany
    Jan Hajic, Czech Republic
    Josef van Genabith, Ireland
    Erhard Hinrichs, Germany
    Timo Järvinen, Finland
    Sandra Kübler, Germany (co-chair)
    M. Antňnia Martí, Spain (co-chair)
    Yuji Matsumoto, Japan
    Detmar Meurers, USA
    John Nerbonne, The Netherlands
    Joakim Nivre, Sweden
    Stephan Oepen, Norway, USA
    Karel Oliva, Austria, Czech Republic
    Petya Osenova, Bulgaria
    Ferran Pla, Spain
    Horacio Rodríguez, Spain
    Kiril Simov, Bulgaria
    Martin Volk, Sweden

    SPONSORING ORGANISATIONS
    Universitat de Barcelona
    SEPLN Sociedad Espańola para el Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural

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