15th International Conference on Parsing Technologies

Event Notification Type: 
Call for Participation
Abbreviated Title: 
IWPT 2017
Location: 
Wednesday, 20 September 2017 to Friday, 22 September 2017
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Country: 
Italy
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City: 
Pisa
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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 Martínez 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