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Workshop on
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Grammar Engineering Across Frameworks - GEAF 2009
on August 6 at the ACL/IJCNLP 2009 Conference, Singapore
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Workshop Program
Workshop Topics
This workshop aims to bring together grammar engineers from different
frameworks to compare research and methodologies, particularly around
the themes of evaluation, modularity, maintainability, relevance to
theoretical and computational linguistics, and applications of "deep"
grammars to real-world domains and NLP tasks.
Recent years have seen the development of techniques and resources to
support robust, deep grammatical analysis of natural language in
real-world domains and applications. The demands of these types of
tasks have resulted in significant advances in areas such as parser
efficiency, hybrid statistical/symbolic approaches to disambiguation,
and the acquisition of large-scale lexicons. The effective
acquisition, development, maintenance and enhancement of grammars is a
central issue in such efforts, and the size and complexity of
realistic grammars makes these tasks extremely challenging; indeed,
these tasks are often tackled in ways that have much in common with
software engineering. This workshop aims to bring together grammar
engineers from different frameworks --- for example LFG, HPSG, TAG,
CCG, dependency grammar --- to compare their research and
methodologies.
Paper Submission (closed)
The workshop will solicit submissions for papers on the following
themes:
- Evaluation: Proposals concerning evaluation methodologies and
metrics which can capture the added benefits of deep linguistic
analysis; evaluation techniques which can compare grammars
across varieties/languages;
- Modularity: Reflections on which aspects of linguistic structure
can most easily be separated out from each other, why and how
the analyses of separate linguistic phenomena are
interconnected/interdependent, and the role of frameworks in
promoting or inhibiting modularity;
- Maintainability: Techniques for improving long-term and
multi-developer maintainability of grammars; impacts of
considerations of maintainability on choices of linguistic
analysis;
- Relevance to theoretical and computational linguistics:
Reflections on how to present grammar engineering work to other
research communities;
- Regression testing: Evaluation for internal purposes;
methodologies and techniques for test suite construction, role
of test suites in day-to-day progress on grammars.
- Multilingualism: Approaches, techniques and tools improving
development and maintainability of grammars for multiple system
languages.
All papers must be submitted via the START system at: https://www.softconf.com/acl-ijcnlp09/GEAF/submit.html.
Style files for submission are available at: http://www.acl-ijcnlp-2009.org/main/authors/stylefiles/.
Submissions are 8 pages with one extra page for references. Please submit pdf (not Word).
Demo Request Submission (closed)
The demo session is meant to allow grammar engineers to describe and demonstrate implemented grammar-based applications and tools, their design, development, functionality etc. in an interactive setting.
Demo session will comprise a "quick fire" presentation of each demo after which the workshop participants have time to check out the demos individually.
The requests should contain a one page description of the demo and they must be submitted via the START system at:
https://www.softconf.com/acl-ijcnlp09/GEAF/submit.html
Please submit pdf (not Word).
Demo session requests will not be published in the proceedings but will be listed in the program.
Important Dates
| Paper submission deadline: | 1 May, 2009 | CLOSED |
| Notification of acceptance of papers: | 1 June, 2009 |
| Camera-ready copy of papers due: | 7 June, 2009 |
| Demo session requests due: | 8 June, 2009 | CLOSED |
| ACL-IJCNLP 2009 Workshops: | Aug 6, 2009 |
Programme Committee
- Emily Bender, Washington
- Miriam Butt, Konstanz
- John Carroll, Sussex
- Stephen Clark, Cambridge
- Ann Copestake, Cambridge
- Berthold Crysmann, Bonn
- Mary Dalrymple, Oxford
- Stefanie Dipper, Bochum
- Dan Flickinger, Stanford
- Josef van Genabith, Dublin
- Julia Hockenmaier, Illinois
- Ron Kaplan, Powerset
- Montserrat Marimon, Barcelona
- Gertjan van Noord, Groningen
- Jun'ichi Tsujii, Tokyo / Manchester
Organizers and Contacts for Inquiries
Proceedings
Accepted papers will form part of the workshop proceeedings and will be available on the conference CD+hard copy.
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