Subject: Coling/ACL'98 worshop on Processing of Dependency-based Grammars
From: sk@ccr.jussieu.fr (Sylvain Kahane)
To: elsnet-list@cogsci.ed.ac.uk
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 17:07:34 +0100



                       COLING-ACL '98 WORKSHOP

                           CALL FOR PAPERS
                          LAST ANNOUNCEMENT

                  submission dead line: March 15, 1998
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                             PROCESSING
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                                    OF
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                                   GRAMMARS
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                                  BASED
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                             DEPENDENCY

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              + Processing of Dependency-based Grammars +
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                          August 15, 1998
                        Universite de Montreal
                       Montreal, Quebec, Canada
       http://tornade.ere.umontreal.ca/~polguera/Eng/DGworkshop.html
                 http://coling-acl98.iro.umontreal.ca


This one-day workshop will be a meeting point for researchers interested in
the implementation of Dependency-based Grammars (DGs). It will be a forum
for presenting different theoretical approaches to DGs, as well as
strategies adopted for their implementation. Although the focus of this
workshop is on DGs, it also aims at establishing connections between
different approaches to the modeling and implementation of grammatical
phenomena. Tou are invited to submit papers on the following, or related,
topics:

Theoretical aspects

- correspondence between semantic and syntactic structures;
- correspondence between syntactic structures and the surface text;
- interaction between lexical and grammatical knowledge;
- comparison between different DG approaches.

Implementations

- natural language generation with DGs;
- parsing with DGs;
- building dependency-annotated corpora.

Additional issues

- Are "pure" dependency formalisms sufficient to
  account for all syntactic phenomena or
  do they need to be augmented with phrase structures?
- Should DGs be considered as a simple notational
  variant of other types of formal grammars or are
  there deep reasons for adopting them?


Each speaker will be given 30 minutes to present a
paper followed by 15 minutes for questions/discussions.


Organizing Committee

Sylvain Kahane (TALANA, Universite Paris 7) <sk@ccr.jussieu.fr>
Alain Polguere (Universite de Montreal) <polguera@ere.umontreal.ca>

Requirement for submission

- Maximum length of 10 pages including figures and references
- A4 or US letter format; set margins so that the text lies within a
rectangle of 6.5x9 inches (16.5x23 cm).
- Classical fonts such as Times Roman or Computer Modern, 11 to 12 points
for text, 14 to 16 points for headings and title
- LateX users are encouraged to use the style file provided by ACL:
  http://coling-acl98.iro.umontreal.ca/colaclsub.sty
- Papers should be submitted as hardcopies -- five (5) are required.
- Submissions should be sent to:

        Alain Polguere
        Departement of linguistics and translation
        C.P. 6128, Succ. Centre-Ville
        Montreal (Quebec) H3C 3J7
        Canada


Deadlines

- Submissions due: March 15, 1998
- Notifications of acceptance: May 1, 1998
- Final manuscript due: June 15, 1998

Program Comittee

Anne Abeille (U. Paris 7)
Michael A. Covington (U. of Georgia)
Michel Elhadad (Ben-Gurion U.)
Sylvain Kahane (U; Paris 7)
Dick Hudson (U. College London)
Igor Mel'cuk (U. de Montreal)
Alexis Nasr (U. d'Avignon)
Alain Polguere (U. de Montreal)
Petr Sgall (Charles U.)
Jacques Vergne (U. de Caen)