3rd International Conference on Dependency Linguistics

Event Notification Type: 
Call for Papers
Abbreviated Title: 
Depling 2015
Monday, 24 August 2015 to Wednesday, 26 August 2015
Country: 
Sweden
City: 
Uppsala
Contact: 
Eva Hajicova
Joakim Nivre
Submission Deadline: 
Friday, 10 April 2015

First Call for Papers
3rd International Conference on Dependency Linguistics (Depling 2015)
August 24-26, 2015, Uppsala, Sweden
Program co-chairs: Eva Hajicova and Joakim Nivre
Website: http://depling.org/depling2015/call.php

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Important dates:

- Submission deadline: April 10, 2015
- Notification of acceptance: May 29, 2015
- Final version of papers due: June 26, 2015
- Depling conference: August 24-26, 2015
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The Depling conference responds to the growing need for a conference dedicated
to dependency-based approaches in linguistics and natural language processing.
In the past decade, dependencies, directed labeled graph structures representing
hierarchical relations between morphemes, words or semantic units, have become
very widespread in natural language processing. However, the linguistic significance
of these structures often remains vague, and the need to discuss the theoretical and
formal foundations of dependency-based concepts is felt strongly by many people
working in these domains. Previous Depling conferences were held in Barcelona 2011
and in Prague 2013.

In general terms, the conference will investigate:

- The use of dependency structures in the description of linguistic phenomena,
especially in a cross-linguistic perspective, in particular linguistic phenomena
for which classical phrase structure models have proven to be unsatisfactory.
- The modeling of lexical phenomena and their role in dependency-based linguistic
theories.
- The application of dependency-based approaches to natural language processing,
including machine translation, parsing, generation, information extraction, etc.

Topics include but are not limited to:

- The use of dependency trees in syntactic analysis, parsing, generation, and
corpus annotation of written and spoken texts.
- The use of semantic valency-based predicate and actancy graph structures and
their link to classical logic.
- The elaboration of formal dictionaries for dependency-based syntax and semantics,
including descriptions of collocations and paradigmatic relations.
- Links to morphology and linearization of dependency structures, using, for
example, topological field theories.
- Dependency-like structures beyond the sentence, for example, to model discourse
phenomena.
- The description and formalization of semantic and pragmatic phenomena related to
information structure.
- History, epistemology, and psycholinguistic relevance of dependency grammar,
including its relation to generative approaches to language.

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Special Themes
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Depling 2015 has two special themes:

- The dependency status of function words: The status of function words can vary
significantly from one dependency model/scheme to the next and across the level
of linguistic description within one and the same linguistic model (e.g., deep vs.
surface syntax). Tesnière took many function words to be translatives, placed on
the same level as the content word with which they form a (dissociated) nucleus.
Frameworks such as Meaning-Text Theory and Word Grammar position most function
words as heads over the related content words (in surface syntax). Some
computational schemes like the Stanford Dependencies emphasize dependencies
between content words and therefore subordinate function words to content words.
Given these differences in how dependency models and schemes address function words,
we think the status of function words is an area of dependency linguistics that
deserves special attention.

- Dependency and translation: 2015 marks the 30-year anniversary of the death of
Bernard Vauquois, one of the pioneers in the field of machine translation, the
father of the famous Vauquois triangle, and one of the first proponents of the use
of dependency-based representations in machine translation. Since the use of
dependency structures is currently gaining ground also in statistical machine
translation, it seems highly relevant to highlight the connections between
dependency and translation.

Papers addressing one of the special themes will be submitted and reviewed in the same
way as other papers, but will be accepted in a separate pool and presented in special
sessions at the conference.

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Requirements
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Papers should describe original work; they should emphasize completed work rather than
intended work, and should indicate clearly the state of completion of the reported
results. Submissions will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength,
significance and relevance to the conference, and interest to the attendees.

Submissions presented at the conference should mostly contain new material that has not
been presented at any other meeting with publicly available proceedings. Papers that
are submitted in parallel to other conferences or workshops must indicate this on the
title page. Papers containing significant overlap with previously published work should
include this information in a separate text file (to be submitted alongside the paper
on the EasyChair site).

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Submissions
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The deadline for the submissions is April 10, 2015. Papers must be submitted in PDF
format through the Depling2015 EasyChair site:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=depling2015

Papers may consist of up to 10 pages of content (including references). All submissions
should follow the two-column format and the style guidelines (see below). We strongly
recommend the use of the LaTeX style files, OpenDocument or Microsoft Word templates
available from the Depling 2015 website: http://depling.org/depling2015/.

Reviewing of papers will be double-blind. Therefore, the paper must not include the
authors' names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's
identity, e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...", must be avoided. Instead, use
citations such as "Smith (1991) previously showed ...". Papers that do not conform to
these requirements will be rejected without review.

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Program Committee
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Eva Hajičová, Charles University in Prague (co-chair)
Joakim Nivre, Uppsala University (co-chair)
Margarita Alonso-Ramos, Universidade da Coruña
Miguel Ballesteros, Pompeu Fabra University
David Beck, University of Alberta
Xavier Blanco, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Igor Boguslavsky, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid and Russian Academy of Sciences
Bernd Bohnet, University Stuttgart
Marie Candito, Universtité Paris Diderot / INRIA
Jinho Choi, University of Colorado at Boulder
Benoit Crabbé, Paris 7 and INRIA
Eric De La Clergerie, INRIA
Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, The Ohio State University
Denys Duchier, Université d'Orléans
Dina El Kassas, Minya University
Gülşen Eryiğit, Istanbul Technical University
Kim Gerdes, Sorbonne Nouvelle
Filip Ginter, University of Turku
Koldo Gojenola, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU
Yoav Goldberg, Bar-Ilan University
Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez, Universidade da Coruña
Thomas Gross, Aichi University
Jan Hajič, Charles University in Prague
Hans Jürgen Heringer, University of Augsburg
Richard Hudson, University College London
Leonid Iomdin, Russian Academy of Sciences
Aravind Joshi, University of Pennsylvania
Sylvain Kahane, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre
Marco Kuhlmann, Linköping University
François Lareau, Université de Montréal
Haitao Liu, Zhejiang University
Christopher Manning, Stanford University
Ryan McDonald, Google Inc.
Igor Mel'čuk, University of Montreal
Wolfgang Menzel, Hamburg University
Jasmina Milicevic, Dalhousie University
Henrik Høeg Müller, Copenhagen Business School
Jeesun Nam, DICORA / Hankuk University of Korea
Alexis Nasr, Université de la Méditerranée
Pierre Nugues, Lund University
Kemal Oflazer, Carnegie Mellon University Qatar
Timothy Osborne, Zhejiang University
Jarmila Panevova, Charles University in Prague
Alain Polguère, Université de Lorraine ATILF CNRS
Prokopis Prokopidis, Institute for Language and Speech Processing/Athena RC, Greece
Owen Rambow, Columbia University
Ines Rehbein, Potsdam University
Dipti Sharma, IIIT, Hyderabad
Reut Tsarfaty, Open University of Israel
Gertjan Van Noord, University of Groningen
Leo Wanner, Pompeu Fabra University
Daniel Zeman, Charles University in Prague
Yue Zhang, Singapore University of Technology and Design