[with apologies for cross-posting]
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
15th International Conference on Parsing Technologies (IWPT 2017)
September 20-22, 2017
Pisa, Italy
http://compling.ucdavis.edu/iwpt2017
CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS
* PROGRAM: See the conference program attached below.
* INVITED TALKS: There will be two invited talks.
Vera Demberg (Saarland University)
Syntactic processing in humans: time course, shallow processing and processing failure
David Hall (Semantic Machines)
What good is a grammar anyway?
* JOINT DEPLING & IWPT DAY: July 20 is dedicated for the joint events
of Depling and IWPT. The events include:
- Shared Task on Extrinsic Parser Evaluation (EPE 2017)
- Joing Depling & IWPT Panel Discussion
REGISTRATION FEES
* IWPT only
- Early Regular (before August 31): €275
- Late Regular: €325
- Early Student (before August 31): €175
- Late Student: €200
* Depling + IWPT
- Early Regular (before August 31): €450
- Late Regular: €550
- Early Student (before August 31): €250
- Late Student: €300
GENERAL CHAIR
Kenji Sagae, University of California, Davis (United States)
PROGRAMME CHAIR
Yusuke Miyao, National Institute of Informatics (Japan)
LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Giuseppe Attardi, University of Pisa (Italy)
Felice Dell’Orletta, ILC-CNR, Pisa (Italy)
Alessandro Lenci, University of Pisa (Italy)
Simonetta Montemagni, ILC-CNR, Pisa (Italy)
Maria Simi, University of Pisa (Italy)
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CONFERENCE PROGRAM
September 20 (Depling + IWPT Day)
8:30-9:30 Registration
9:30-11:00 Depling Long Talk Session
11:00-11:30 Break
11:30-12:00 Report on the CoNLL 2017 Shared Task on "Multilingual Parsing from Raw Text to Universal Dependencies"
12:00-13:00 First Shared Task on Extrinsic Parser Evaluation (EPE 2017): Overview
13:00-14:30 Lunch
14:30-16:00 First Shared Task on Extrinsic Parser Evaluation (EPE 2017): Applications and Systems (details announced later)
16:00-16:30 Break
16:30-18:00 Joing Depling & IWPT Panel Discussion
September 21
8:30-9:30 Registration
9:30-10:00 Opening
10:00-11:00 Invited Talk 1
Syntactic processing in humans: time course, shallow processing and processing failure
Vera Demberg (Saarland University)
11:00-11:30 Break
11:30-13:00 Long & Short Talks
- Automatically Acquired Lexical Knowledge Improves Japanese Joint Morphological and Dependency Analysis
Daisuke Kawahara, Yuta Hayashibe, Hajime Morita and Sadao Kurohashi
- Dependency Language Models for Transition-based Dependency Parsing
Juntao Yu and Bernd Bohnet
- Lexicalized vs. Delexicalized Parsing in Low-Resource Scenarios
Agnieszka Falenska and Özlem Çetinoğlu
- Improving neural tagging with lexical information
Benoît Sagot and Héctor MartÃnez Alonso
- 13:00-14:30 Lunch
- 14:30-16:00 Long & Short Talks
- Prepositional Phrase Attachment over Word Embedding Products
Pranava Swaroop Madhyastha, Xavier Carreras and Ariadna Quattoni
- L1-L2 Parallel Dependency Treebank as Learner Corpus
John Lee
- Splitting Complex English Sentences
John Lee
- Hierarchical Word Structure-based Parsing: A Feasibility Study on UD-style Dependency Parsing in Japanese
Takaaki Tanaka, Katsuhiko Hayashi and Masaaki Nagata
- 16:00-16:30 Break
- 16:30-18:00 Short Talks
- Leveraging Newswire Treebanks for Parsing Conversational Data with Argument Scrambling
Riyaz A. Bhat, Irshad Bhat and Dipti Sharma
- Using hyperlinks to improve partial parsers
Anders Søgaard
- Correcting prepositional phrase attachments using multimodal corpora
Sebastien Delecraz, Alexis Nasr, Frederic Bechet and Benoit Favre
- Segment-Level Neural Conditional Random Fields for Named Entity Recognition
Motoki Sato, Hiroyuki Shindo, Ikuya Yamada and Yuji Matsumoto
- 20:00 Social dinner
September 22
- 8:30-9:30 Registration
- 9:30-10:00 IWPT Business meeting
- 10:00-11:00 Invited Talk 2
What good is a grammar anyway?
David Hall (Semantic Machines)
- 11:00-11:30 Break
- 11:30-13:00 Long & Short Talks
- Exploiting Structure in Parsing to 1-Endpoint-Crossing Graphs
Robin Kurtz and Marco Kuhlmann
- Effective Online Reordering with Arc-Eager Transitions
Ryosuke Kohita, Hiroshi Noji and Yuji Matsumoto
- Arc-Hybrid Non-Projective Dependency Parsing with a Static-Dynamic Oracle
Miryam de Lhoneux, Sara Stymne and Joakim Nivre
- 13:00-14:30 Lunch
- 14:30-16:00 Long & Short Talks
- Encoder-Decoder Shift-Reduce Syntactic Parsing
Jiangming Liu and Yue Zhang
- Arc-Standard Spinal Parsing with Stack-LSTMs
Miguel Ballesteros and Xavier Carreras
- Coarse-To-Fine Parsing for Expressive Grammar Formalisms
Jonas Groschwitz, Alexander Koller and Christoph Teichmann
- Evaluating LSTM models for grammatical function labelling
Bich-Ngoc Do and Ines Rehbein
- 16:00-16:30 Closing