The 21st International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories

Event Notification Type: 
Call for Papers
Abbreviated Title: 
TLT 2023
Location: 
Georgetown University
Thursday, 9 March 2023 to Sunday, 12 March 2023
State: 
D.C.
Country: 
USA
City: 
Washington
Contact: 
Daniel Dakota
Kilian Evang
Submission Deadline: 
Tuesday, 15 November 2022

Submission
link:
https://openreview.net/group?

Submission
deadline: Nov 15th, 2022

The
21st

International
Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT) will bring
together developers and users of linguistically annotated natural
language corpora and take place during the week of March 9th
12th,
2023 in Washington D.C. on the campus of Georgetown University as
part of GURT 2023.

VENUE

The
Georgetown University Round Table on Linguistics (GURT) is a
peer-reviewed annual linguistics conference held continuously since
1949 at Georgetown University in Washington DC, with topics and
co-located events varying from year to year. Under an overarching
theme of ‘Computational and Corpus Linguistics’, GURT 2023 will
feature four events, which are workshops or conferences focused on
computational and corpus approaches to syntax but also covering
theoretical issues: Universal Dependency Workshop (UDW), Depling,
Treebanks and Linguistic Theory (TLT), and CxGs+NLP. All talks from
all events will take place in a single (non-parallel) plenary
session, with the papers from one event being presented
contiguously.  The goal of co-locating these events is to
promote cross-fertilization of ideas across subcommunities.
Proceedings will be published separately for each event, and will be
available in the ACL Anthology.

In
order to support rich discussions and networking with minimal
overhead and cost, GURT will be primarily an
in-person
event;
we will, however, accommodate a limited number of live/synchronous
remote presentations, prioritizing those with circumstances that
prevent travel. University policies regarding COVID safety will be in
force during the event.

Georgetown
University is located in a historic neighborhood in the heart of the
nation’s capital. The city is a premier tourist destination, and
the region is served by Reagan National (DCA), Dulles (IAD), and
Baltimore-Washington (BWI) airports.  

SUBMISSION
INFORMATION

TLT
addresses all aspects of treebank design, development, and use. As
‘treebanks’ we consider any pairing of natural language data
(spoken, signed, or written) with annotations of linguistic structure
at various levels of analysis, including, e.g., morpho-phonology,
syntax, semantics, and discourse. Annotations can take any form
(including trees or general graphs), but they should be encoded in a
way that enables computational processing. Reflections on the design
of linguistic annotations, methodology studies, resource
announcements or updates, annotation or conversion tool development,
or reports on treebank usage are but some examples of the types of
papers we anticipate for TLT.

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.

We
invite paper submissions in two distinct tracks:

  • long
    papers on substantial, original, and unpublished research, including
    empirical evaluation results, where appropriate;
  • short
    papers on smaller, focused contributions, work in progress, negative
    results, surveys, or opinion pieces.

All
papers accepted for presentation at the workshop will be included in
the TLT 2023 proceedings volume, which will be part of the ACL
Anthology.

Long
papers may consist of up to 8 pages of content (excluding references
and appendices). Short papers may consist of up to 4

pages
of content (excluding references and appendices). Accepted papers
will be given an additional page to address reviewer comments.

All
submissions should follow the two-column format and the ACL style
guidelines. We strongly recommend the use of the LaTeX style files,
OpenDocument, or Microsoft Word templates created for ACL:
https://github.com/acl-org/

All
papers must be anonymous, i.e., not reveal author(s) on the title
page or through self-references. So, e.g., “We previously showed
(Smith, 2020) …”, should be avoided. Instead, use citations such
as “Smith (2020) previously showed …”. Papers must be submitted
digitally, in PDF, and uploaded through the on-line conference
system:

https://openreview.net/group?

Double
submission policy: We will accept submissions that have been or will
be submitted elsewhere, but require that the authors notify us,
including information on where else they are submitting. We also
require that authors withdraw work that will be published elsewhere
(no double publication).

Submissions
that violate these requirements will be rejected without review.

All
papers will be refereed through a double-blind peer review process
with final acceptance decisions made by the workshop organizers.
Submissions may be selected for publication in a GURT venue other
than TLT at the discretion of the organizers.

IMPORTANT
DATES

Long
and short paper submission deadlines: November 1st, 2022

Reviews
Due: December 10th, 2022

Notification
of acceptance: January 9th, 2023

Final
version of papers due: January 28th, 2023

GURT2023:
March 9th-12th, 2023

TLT
WORKSHOP CHAIRS
Daniel
Dakota, Indiana University
Kilian Evang, Heinrich Heine
University Düsseldorf
Sandra Kübler, Indiana University
Lori
Levin, Carnegie Mellon University

Contact:
ddakota [at] iu.edu

Website:
https://cl.indiana.edu/tlt2023
GURT
Website:
https://gurt.georgetown.edu/