First Call for Papers
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The 12th International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories
(TLT12)
TLT serves as a venue for new and ongoing research on the topic of
linguistics and treebanks. The 12th edition of TLT will take place in Sofia,
Bulgaria on December 13-14, 2013, and will be hosted by the BulTreeBank Group.
TLT-12 website: http://bultreebank.org/TLT12/
This year, TLT will be accompanied by the third Workshop on Annotation of
Corpora for Research in the Humanities (ACRH-3) that takes place on December
12, 2013. More information is available at: http://www.bultreebank.org/ACRH-3/
TLT started its first edition in 2002 in Sozopol, Bulgaria. Now its 12th
edition comes back to Bulgaria! For more than 10 years now TLT has
served as a forum for high-quality works related to
syntactically-annotated corpora, i.e., treebanks; with a focus on all the
aspects of treebanking -- descriptive, theoretical, formal and computational
-- but also going beyond treebanks, including other levels of annotation such as
frame semantics, coreference, or events.
Submissions are invited for papers, posters, and demonstrations which
present research on treebanks and their intersection with linguistics,
natural language processing, and related fields.
=Workshop Motivation and Aims=
Treebanks have proven to be crucial resources for important NLP
applications, such as MT and information extraction, as well as supporting
resources for various NLP tasks, such as high-quality parsing and POS tagging. More recent trends
in treebank-related research include:
* annotating deep syntactic information
* conversion into deeper formats, often also adding information automatically
* multilingual and crosslingual treebanking
* enriching treebanks with additional layers of linguistic annotation as well as world knowledge
* dynamic treebanking involving a close connection between parsing and manual annotation
* designing web services for diverse treebanks
* mapping syntactic and semantic knowledge to Linked Open Data (LOD)
This series of workshops provides a forum for researchers and
advanced students working in these areas.
=Workshop Topics=
The workshop invites submissions that discuss relevant innovative work in
treebanking, including the relations and links between various aspects of
morphological, syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic annotation; furthermore,
we encourage 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.
=The areas of interest for this workshop include, but are not limited to, the following topics=:
* design principles and annotation schemes for treebanks
* linguistic theory and the practice of annotation
* applications of treebanks in acquiring linguistic knowledge and in NLP
* the role of linguistic theories in treebank development
* treebanks as a basis for linguistic research
* additional annotation levels for treebanks
* evaluation and quality control of treebanks
* tools for creation and management of treebanks
* treebanks for less-resourced languages
* theories, schemas, and applications for parallel treebanks
* standards for treebanks
* creation of large treebanks
* mapping of treebanks to Linked Open Data resources
* using treebanks in analysis and generation tasks
* domain-specific treebanks
* the future of treebanks and treebanking
=Invited Speakers=
* Stefanie Dipper (University of Bochum, Germany)
* Antonio Branco (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
=Important Dates=
Submission deadline: September 15 (Sunday)
Reviews due: October 20 (Sunday)
Notification: October 25 (Friday)
Final submission: November 17 (Sunday)
Workshop: December 13-14 (Friday and Saturday)
Instructions for submissions are available at: http://www.bultreebank.org/TLT12/SubmissionGuidelines.html
=Program Committee=
Sandra Kübler, Indiana University, USA (co-chair)
Petya Osenova, Sofia University, Bulgaria (co-chair)
Martin Volk, University of Zurich, Switzerland (co-chair)
Eckhard Bick, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Johan Bos, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Gosse Bouma, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Koenraad De Smedt, Bergen University, Norway
Markus Dickinson, Indiana University, USA
Dan Flickinger, Stanford University, USA
Anette Frank, Heidelberg University, Germany
Eva Hajičová, Charles University, Czech Republic
Iris Hendrickx, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Erhard Hinrichs, University of Tübingen, Germany
Valia Kordoni, Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany
Amalia Mendes, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Detmar Meurers, University of Tübingen, Germany
Yusuke Miyao, University of Tokyo, Japan
Kaili Muurisep, Tartu University, Estonia
Kemal Oflazer, Carnegie Mellon University, Qatar
Sebastian Padó, Heidelberg University, Germany
Marco Passarotti, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Italy
Kiril Simov, IICT-BAS, Bulgaria
Adam Przepiórkowski,Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Victoria Rosén, Bergen University, Norway
Caroline Sporleder, Trier University, Germany
Manfred Stede, University of Potsdam, Germany
Gertjan van Noord, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Heike Zinsmeister, Stuttgart University, Germany
=Local Organization Committee=
Petya Osenova (Sofia University)
Kiril Simov (IICT-BAS)
Stanislava Kancheva (Sofia University)
Georgi Georgiev (Ontotext AD)
Borislav Popov (Ontotext AD)
For more information or questions, please contact: petya <at> bultreebank.org
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