CALL FOR PAPERS
The 2019 edition of UDW will be organised as part of the SyntaxFest 2019 (https://syntaxfest.github.io/syntaxfest19/), which includes the Depling, the Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT), and a new Workshop on Quantitative Syntax (Quasy, sponsored by The International Quantitative Linguistics Association). Proceedings will be part of the ACL Anthology (http://aclanthology.info/).
WORKSHOP AIMS
Universal Dependencies (UD) is a framework for cross-linguistically consistent treebank annotation that has so far been applied to over 50 languages.
The framework is aiming to capture similarities as well as idiosyncracies among typologically different languages (e.g., morphologically rich languages, pro-drop languages, and languages featuring clitic doubling). The goal in developing UD was not only to support comparative evaluation and cross-lingual learning but also to facilitate multilingual natural language processing and enable comparative linguistic studies.
The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers working on Universal Dependencies
to share best practices and discuss issues.
WORKSHOP TOPICS
The Universal Dependencies Workshop invites papers on all topics relevant to UD, including but not limited to:
- theoretical foundations and universal guidelines
- linguistic analysis of specific languages and/or constructions
- language typology and linguistic universals
- treebank annotation, conversion and validation
- word segmentation, morphological tagging and syntactic parsing
- downstream applications in natural language processing
- linguistic studies based on the UD data
Priority will be given to papers that adopt a cross-lingual perspective.
PAPER SUBMISSION INFORMATION
IMPORTANT DATES
- Submission deadline:
- Long papers: 28th April, 2019
- Short papers: 12th June, 2019
- Notification of acceptance: TBA
- Final version of papers due: TBA
- Conference: 26th-30th August, 2019
WORKSHOP CHAIRS
- Alexandre Rademaker (IBM Research)
- Francis M. Tyers (Indiana University Bloomington)
LOCAL ORGANISING COMMITTEE
- Marie Candito, Université Paris-Diderot (co-chair)
- Kim Gerdes, Sorbonne Nouvelle (co-chair)
- Sylvain Kahane, Université Paris Nanterre (co-chair)
- Djamé Seddah, University Paris-Sorbonne (co-chair)
- Marine Courtin, Sorbonne Nouvelle
- Yixuan Li, Sorbonne Nouvelle
- Luigi (Yu-Cheng) Liu, Université Paris Nanterre
- Chunxiao Yan, Université Paris Nanterre
SHARED REVIEW COMMITTEE
See the SyntaxFest 2019 website
Email: udw-organisers@googlegroups.com