SyntaxFest 2021

Event Notification Type: 
Call for Participation
Abbreviated Title: 
SyntaxFest21
Location: 
Online (Gathertown)
Monday, 21 March 2022 to Thursday, 24 March 2022
Contact: 
Simon Mille
Kilian Evang

Four events, one fest!

Dear colleagues,

For the second time, SyntaxFest brings together four syntax-related events under one roof. We would like to invite you to participate in the fest, which will take place from 21 to 24 March on Gather. It is hosted by Sofia University.

Website and program: https://syntaxfest.github.io/syntaxfest21/
Registration (50 EUR): https://www.softconf.com/ranlp2021/ranlp2021reg (contact us for reduced fees).

Events
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* Depling: The Conference on Dependency Linguistics.
* Quasy: The Workshop on Quantitative Syntax.
* TLT: The International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories.
* UDW: The Universal Dependencies Workshop.

Invited talks
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* Jinho Choi, Emory University: Widely Interpretable Semantic Representation: Frameless Meaning Representation for Broader Applicability.
* Jennifer Foster, Dublin City University: Treebanking and Parsing for Irish.
* Richard Futrell, University of California, Irvine: An Information-Theoretic Perspective on Dependency Trees.
* Sylvain Kahane, Université Paris Nanterre: Quantitative studies on tree bank collections: Complexity, universals, and typological signature.
* Emily Pitler, Google: Incorporating Compositionality and Morphology into End-to-End Models.

We hope to see you at SyntaxFest!

Nicolas Mazziotta, Simon Mille (Depling chairs)
Radek Čech, Xinying Chen (Quasy chairs)
Daniel Dakota, Kilian Evang, Sandra Kübler (TLT chairs)
Miryam de Lhoneux, Reut Tsarfaty (UDW chairs)
Petya Osenova, Kiril Simov (Local organizers)