IWPT
2007
10th
International Conference on Parsing Technology
Sponsored by ACL/SIGPARSE
23rd-24th June, 2007
Prague, Czech Republic
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ACL/SIGPARSE will host the
10th International
Conference on Parsing Technologies (IWPT'07) on June 23rd and
24th, 2006 in conjunction with
the 2007 Annual
Meeting of the
Association for Computational
Linguistics (ACL'07; see http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/acl2007).
IWPT'07 continues the tradition
of biennial workshops on parsing
technology
organized by
SIGPARSE, the Special Interest
Group on Parsing of the Association for
Computational
Linguistics (ACL). The first workshop, in
Pittsburgh and
Hidden Valley, was followed by workshops
in Cancun
(Mexico) in 1991; Tilburg (Netherlands) and Durbuy (Belgium) in
1993; Prague and Karlovy Vary (Czech
Republic) in 1995; Boston/Cambridge (Massachusetts)
in
1997;
Trento (Italy) in 2000; Beijing
(China)
in 2001;
Nancy (France) in 2003; and
Vancouver (Canada) (2005). Topics of
interest for IWPT'07
include, but are not limited to:
theoretical and practical studies of parsing and
transduction algorithms for natural language
sentences, texts, fragments, dialogues, ill-formed
sentences, speech input,
multi-dimensional (pictorial) or
signed languages, multimedia (web) documents, and
parsing issues arising or
viewed in a multimodal and multilingual context.
Both
knowledge-based and statistical approaches are
welcome.
Invited Speaker
Stuart
Shieber
Harvard University
Synchronous Grammars and
Transducers: Good News and Bad News
Much
of the activity in linguistics, especially computational
linguistics, can be thought of as characterizing not
languages simpliciter but relations among
languages. Formal systems for characterizing
language relations have a long history with two primary
branches, based respectively on tree transducers and
synchronous grammars. Both have seen increasing use in recent
work, especially in machine translation. Indeed,
evidence from millennia of experience with bilingual
dictionaries argues for synchronous grammars as an
appropriate substrate for statistical machine translation
systems.
On the positive side, some new results have integrated the two branches
through the formal-language-theoretic construct of the
bimorphism. I will present some background on this
integration, and briefly describe two applications of
synchronous grammars: to tree-adjoining grammar semantics and
to syntax-aware statistical machine translation.
On the negative side, algorithms for making use of these
formalisms are computationally complex, perhaps
prohibitively so. I will close with a plea for
novel research by the parsing technology community in making
the systems practical.
Co-located
Events Spotlight Presentations
Data-Driven Dependency Parsing across Languages and Domains:
Perspectives from the CoNLL-07 Shared Task
Joakim Nivre
The
shared task of the Conference on Computational Natural Language
Learning (CoNLL) for 2007 has been dependency parsing, with two tracks
(see http://depparse.uvt.nl/depparse-wiki/SharedTaskWebsite). In the multilingual
track, the task was to train a parser for ten different languages. In
the domain adaptation track, the task was to adapt a parser developed
for one domain to parsing in a new domain. This presentation will
highlight some of the experiences and results that have emerged from
the CoNLL shared task that are of relevance to the main topic of IWPT,
that is, parsing technology.
The
Impact of Deep Linguistic Processing on Parsing Technology
Timothy Baldwin, Mark Dras, Julia Hockenmaier, Tracy Holloway
King, Gertjan van Noord
As
the organizers of the ACL 2007 Deep Linguistic Processing
workshop, we were asked to discuss our perspectives on the
role of current trends in deep linguistic processing for
parsing technology. We are particularly interested in the
ways in which efficient, broad coverage parsing systems for
linguistically expressive grammars can be built and
integrated into applications which require richer syntactic
structures than shallow approaches can provide. This often
requires hybrid technologies which use shallow or statistical
methods for pre- or post-processing, to extend coverage, or
to disambiguate the output. With the recent advances in deep,
and hybrid, natural language processing, we believe that
applications that require natural language understanding will
finally be able to reap the benefits from the more detailed
representations provided by expressive grammars.
Final
programme
The complete programme can be found here
Time
schedule:
Deadline for paper submission: CLOSED (was 26th March, 2007)
Notification of acceptance : 26th April, 2007
Final papers due : 7th May, 2007
Workshop : 23rd-24th June, 2007
Instruction for accepted authors
Accepted authors
must send
their camera ready electronically through
the web page of the
conference by the 7th of
May. Papers
should follow the two-column format of ACL proceedings.
Papers should not exceed 12 pages for long papers and 3 pages for short
papers, including references. We
strongly recommend the use of ACL LaTeX
style files or Microsoft Word Style files tailored for this year's
conference.
A description of the format is also available in case you are unable to
use these style files directly. Please include all fonts necessary to
view and print your paper.
Papers
must be uploaded using software accessible through
the following link.
http://www.softconf.com/acl07/IWPT07.
The only accepted format for final version of papers is Adobe
PDF.
For
all inquiries send mail to iwpt2007@lettres.unige.ch
Requirements
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. A paper
accepted for presentation at IWPT 2007 cannot be
presented or have been presented at any
other meeting with publicly available
published proceedings. Papers
that are being submitted to
other conferences or workshops must indicate this on the title page, as
must papers that contain significant
overlap with previously published work.The
reviewing of the papers
will be blind. The paper should
not include the
authors'
names and
affiliations.
Furthermore, self-citations and other references
(e.g.
to projects, corpora, or software)
that could
reveal the author's
identity should be avoided. For
example, instead of "We previously
showed (Smith, 1991)...",
write "Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...".
Submitting
Papers
Two
types of submissions are invited:
-
full papers, to be presented as such during the workshop and to be
published in the workshop proceedings (maximally 12 pages);
-
short papers, to be presented at the workshop in the form of a short
oral presentation;
three-page summaries will be published in the workshop proceedings.
Programme
Committee
All submitted papers have been reviewed by
the international IWPT'07 Programme Committee, consisting of the
following members:
Harry Bunt (Tilburg University, Netherlands)
David Chiang(USC/ISI,USA)
John Carroll (University of Sussex, Brighton, UK)
Stephen Clark (Oxford University, UK)
James Henderson(University of Edinburgh,UK)
Ulf Hermjakob (USC Information Sciences Institute, Marina del Rey, USA)
Julia Hockenmaier (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
Aravind Joshi (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA)
Ronald Kaplan (Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, USA)
Martin Kay (Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, USA)
Sadao Kurohashi (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Alon Lavie (Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA)
Rob Malouf (San Diego State University, USA)
Yuji Matsumoto (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)
Bob Moore (Microsoft, Redmond, USA)
Mark-Jan Nederhof (MPI, Groeningen, Netherlands)
Joakim Nivre (Växjö University, Sweden)
Gertjan van Noord (University of Groningen, Netherlands)
Stephan Oepen (University of Oslo, Norway)
Stefan Riezler (Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, USA)
Giorgio Satta (University of Padua, Italy)
Kenji Sagae (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Khalil Sima'an (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie (INRIA, Rocquencourt, France)
K. Vijay-Shanker (University of Delaware, USA)
Dekai Wu (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China)
Organization
General Chair: Harry Bunt (Tilburg University, Netherlands)
Programme
Chair: Paola Merlo (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
Logistic
Arrangements Chair: Alon Lavie (Carnegie-Mellon University,
Pittsburgh, USA)
Further information
Additional information about IWPT'07 is available at the URL:
http://www.latl.unige.ch/iwpt2007/index.html
At the site http://parlevink.cs.utwente.nl/sigparse/
you can also obtain information about previous IWPTs, proceedings,
books based on IWPTs, and SIGPARSE related activities.