ACL 2007 Workshop on Deep Linguistic Processing

June 28th, 2007

Prague, Czech Republic

Workshop Description

This workshop is aimed at bringing together the different computational linguistic sub-communities which model language predominantly by way of theoretical syntax, either in the form of a particular theory (e.g. CCG, HPSG, LFG, LTAG+ or the Prague School) or a more general framework which draws on theoretical and descriptive linguistics. We characterise this style of computational linguistic research as deep linguistic processing, due to it aspiring to model the complexity of natural language in rich linguistic representations.

Background

Deep linguistic processing has traditionally been concerned with grammar development. The linguistic precision and complexity of the grammars meant that they had to be manually developed and maintained, and were computationally expensive to run. With recent developments in computer hardware, parsing/generation algorithms and statistical learning theory, the way has been opened for deep linguistic processing to be successfully applied to an ever-growing range of languages, domains and applications.

This workshop aims to foster existing and new relationships between groups working on deep linguistic processing, highlighting the considerable linguistic, developmental and algorithmic commonalities shared by the various approaches.

Topics

Papers are invited on substantial, original, and unpublished research concerning deep linguistic processing. Possible topics include:
  • grammar engineering (e.g. frameworks for grammar evaluation, best practice in grammar engineering, cross-linguistic/formalism generalisations & comparisons, semantic representation)
  • treebanking (e.g. frameworks for treebank evaluation/normalisation, grammar extraction/induction, the interface between grammar engineering and treebanking, treebanking methodologies, cross-linguistic/formalism generalisations & comparisons)
  • system development (e.g. grammar profiling, system integration, preprocessing strategies, robustness enhancement)
  • parser/generator development (e.g. algorithm development, grammar reversibility, efficiency, evaluation)
  • machine learning for deep linguistic processing (e.g. parse selection/ranking, supertagging, deep lexical acquisition, grammar induction)
  • applications of deep linguistic processing (e.g. information extraction, question answering, machine translation, dialogue systems, CALL)

Invited Speaker

Anette Frank (University of Heidelberg) is to give an invited talk at the workshop with the provisional title Across languages and grammar paradigms — New perspectives on resource acquisition, grammar engineering and applications

Schedule

08:35—08:45 Opening Remarks
 
 Session 1: Parsing
08:45—09:15Multi-Component Tree Adjoining Grammars, Dependency Graph Models, and Linguistic Analyses
 Joan Chen-Main and Aravind Joshi
 
09:15—09:45Perceptron Training for a Wide-Coverage Lexicalized-Grammar Parser
 Stephen Clark and James Curran
 
09:45—10:15Filling Statistics with Linguistics — Property Design for the Disambiguation of German LFG Parses
 Martin Forst
 
10:15—10:45Exploiting Semantic Information for HPSG Parse Selection
 Sanae Fujita, Francis Bond, Stephan Oepen and Takaaki Tanaka
 
10:45—11:15COFFEE BREAK
 
 Session 2: Applications of Deep Linguistic Processing
11:15—11:45Deep Grammars in a Tree Labeling Approach to Syntax-based Statistical Machine Translation
 Mark Hopkins and Jonas Kuhn
 
11:45—12:15Question Answering based on Semantic Roles
 Michael Kaisser and Bonnie Webber
 
12:15—13:45LUNCH
 
13:45—14:45INVITED TALK
 Across Languages and Grammar Paradigms — New Perspectives on Resource Acquisition, Grammar Engineering and Application
 Anette Frank
 
 Session 3: Posters
14:45—15:45Deep Linguistic Processing for Spoken Dialogue Systems
 James Allen, Myroslava Dzikovska, Mehdi Manshadi and Mary Swift
 
 Self- or Pre-Tuning? Deep Linguistic Processing of Language Variants
 AntónioBranco and Costa Francisco
 
 Pruning the Search Space of a Hand-Crafted Parsing System with a Probabilistic Parser
 Aoife Cahill, Tracy Holloway King and John T. Maxwell III
 
 Semantic Composition with (Robust) Minimal Recursion Semantics
 Ann Copestake
 
 A Task-based Comparison of Information Extraction Pattern Models
 Mark Greenwood and Mark Stevenson
 
 Creating a Systemic Functional Grammar Corpus from the Penn Treebank
 Matthew Honnibal and James R. Curran
 
 Verb Valency Semantic Representation for Deep Linguistic Processing
 Aleš Horák, Karel Pala, Marie Duží and Pavel Materna
 
 The Spanish Resource Grammar: Pre-processing Strategy and Lexical Acquisition
 Montserrat Marimon, Núria Bel, Sergio Espeja and Natalia Seghezzi
 
 Extracting a Verb Lexicon for Deep Parsing from FrameNet
 Mark McConville and Myroslava O. Dzikovska
 
 Fips, A "Deep" Linguistic Multilingual Parser
 Eric Wehrli
 
 Partial Parse Selection for Robust Deep Processing
 Yi Zhang, Valia Kordoni and Erin Fitzgerald
 
15:45—16:15COFFEE BREAK
 
 Session 4: Grammar Engineering
16:15—16:45Validation and Regression Testing for a Cross-linguistic Grammar Resource
 Emily M. Bender, Laurie Poulson, Scott Drellishak and Chris Evans
 
16:45—17:15Local Ambiguity Packing and Discontinuity in German
 Berthold Crysmann
 
17:15—17:45The Corpus and the Lexicon: Standardising Deep Lexical Acquisition Evaluation
 Yi Zhang, Timothy Baldwin and Valia Kordoni
 
17:45—18:15Discussion and Closing Remarks

Important Dates

Paper Submission Deadline: CLOSED

Notification of Paper Acceptance: ALL NOTIFICATIONS SENT OUT

Camera Ready Submission Deadline: ALL SUBMISSIONS RECEIVED

Workshop date: June 28th, 2007

Workshop Organisers

Timothy Baldwin
University of Melbourne
Mark Dras
Macquarie University
Julia Hockenmaier
University of Pennsylvania
Tracy Holloway King
PARC
Gertjan van Noord
University of Groningen

Address any queries regarding the workshop to:

acl2007-deep@unimelb.edu.au

Programme Committee

Jason Baldridge (University of Texas at Austin)
Emily Bender (University of Washington)
Raffaella Bernardi (University of Bolzano)
Francis Bond (NICT)
Gosse Bouma (University of Groningen)
Ted Briscoe (University of Cambridge)
Miriam Butt (University of Konstanz)
Aoife Cahill (Stuttgart University)
David Chiang (ISI)
Stephen Clark (Oxford University)
Ann Copestake (University of Cambridge)
James Curran (University of Sydney)
Stefanie Dipper (Potsdam University)
Katrin Erk (University of Texas at Austin)
Dominique Estival (Appen Pty Ltd)
Dan Flickinger (Stanford University)
Anette Frank (University of Heidelberg)
Josef van Genabith (Dublin City University)
John Hale (Michigan State University)
Ben Hutchinson (Google)
Mark Johnson (Brown University)
Aravind Joshi (University of Pennsylvania)
Laura Kallmeyer (Tuebingen University)
Ron Kaplan (PARC)
Martin Kay (Stanford University/Saarland University)
Valia Kordoni (Saarland University)
Anna Korhonen (University of Cambridge)
Jonas Kuhn (Potsdam University)
Rob Malouf (San Diego State University)
Ryan McDonald (Google)
Yusuke Miyao (University of Tokyo)
Diego Molla (Macquarie University)
Stefan Müller (Bremen University)
Joakim Nivre (Växjö University)
Stephan Oepen (University of Oslo and Stanford University)
Anoop Sarkar (Simon Fraser University)
David Schlangen (Potsdam University)
Mark Steedman (University of Edinburgh)
Beata Trawinski (Tuebingen University)
Aline Villavicencio (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul)
Tom Wasow (Stanford University)
Michael White (Ohio State University)
Shuly Wintner (University of Haifa)
Fei Xia (University of Washington)
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