Programme

Saturday, 16 May 2026 · Room EIVISSA 2 for talks and MENORCA Hall for posters · All times are local (CEST, UTC+2)

INSTRUCTIONS FOR PRESENTERS are given below ↓

Session 1 (oral) — 09:00–10:30

Chair: Joakim Nivre

• 09:00–09:10 — Welcome

• 09:10–10:00 — KEYNOTE: Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, CENTAL – UCLouvain / FNRS
  Diversity in NLP: why, what, where and how

• 10:00–10:15 — Probing the Dynamics of Syntactic Ability Acquisition Throughout LLM Pretraining
  Hiroshi Matsuda and Masayuki Asahara

• 10:15–10:30 — Which languages are “hot”, and which are “cool”? Using Universal Dependencies for large-scale comparisons of subject expression
  Natalia Levshina

10:30–11:00 · Coffee break

Session 2 (poster) — 11:00–12:00

Chair: Sara Stymne

• Clefting and beyond in Tigrinya
  Nazareth Amlesom Kifle and Michael Gasser

• Coconstructions in spoken data: UD annotation guidelines and first results
  Ludovica Pannitto, Kaja Dobrovoljc, Sylvain Kahane, Elena Battaglia, Bruno Guillaume, Caterina Mauri and Eleonora Zucchini

• Verifying the Menzerath-Altmann law in the verbal domain in 180 languages
  Pegah Faghiri, Kim Gerdes and Sylvain Kahane

• A Comparative Linguistic Analysis of Ottoman and Modern Turkish through UD Treebanks
  Enes Yılandiloğlu

• Negation of Turkic non-verbal clauses: analysis and Universal Dependencies implementation
  Furkan Akkurt, Bermet Chontaeva, Çağrı Çöltekin, Soudabeh Eslami, Sardana Ivanova, Nikolett Mus and Jonathan N. Washington

• Towards a Universal Dependency Corpus for Old Saxon (Old Low German)
  Christian Chiarcos and Janine Siewert

• CoBra: A Compound Branching Resource for Nominal Triconstituent Compounds in English and German
  Carmen Schacht, Isabell Landwehr, Diana Davidson, Konrad Grabowski, Magdalena Meiser and Sophia Wiedmann

• SE Constructions Revisited: Focus on Treebanks for Romance Languages
  Verginica Barbu Mititelu, Elena Irimia, Adriana S. Pagano, Roxana Ciolaneanu and Ioana Buhnila

• Say “No” to Missing Polarity: A Negation Enrichment of Porttinari UD Treebank
  Isaac Souza de Miranda Junior, Oto Araújo Vale and Marie-Catherine de Marneffe

• DELTA: Measuring Linguistic Diversity in Dependency-Parsed Corpora
  Louis Estève and Kaja Dobrovoljc

Session 3 (oral) — 12:00–13:00

Chair: Daniel Zeman

• 12:00–12:20 — The Grammar Does the Work: Functional vs. Lexical Dependency Length Minimization Across the UD Languages
  Kim Gerdes

• 12:20–12:40 — Greenberg’s Universal 45 in Universal Dependencies: Gender Distinctions and Annotation Challenges
  Antoni Brosa-Rodriguez and M. Dolores Jimenez Lopez

• 12:40–13:00 — A Proposal for a More Universal Annotation of Relative Clauses in Universal Dependencies
  Sylvain Kahane and Santiago Herrera

13:00–14:00 · Lunch

Session 4 (oral) — 14:00–16:00

Chair: Sylvain Kahane

• 14:00–14:50 — KEYNOTE: Stephen Mayhew, Duolingo
  Universal NER: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants

• 14:50–15:10 — MesoTree: Annotated Linguistic Resources for Quantitative Comparative Linguistic Analysis and NLP in Mesoamerica
  Robert Pugh, Francis Tyers and Robert Henderson

• 15:10–15:30 — Nonprototypical Predication and Nonpredicational Clauses in Universal Dependencies
  Joakim Nivre, William Croft and Andre Coneglian

• 15:30–15:45 — Complex Predicates in Universal Dependencies
  Andre Coneglian, Joakim Nivre and William Croft

• 15:45–16:00 — Bringing Information Structure to Universal Dependencies
  Andrew Dyer, Nikolett Mus, Claudia Corbetta and Sylvain Kahane

16:00–16:30 · Coffee break

Session 5 (poster) — 16:30–17:30

Chair: Leonie Weissweiler

• Modelling the Morphology of Verbal Paradigms: A Case Study in the Tokenization of Turkish and Hebrew
  Giuseppe Samo and Paola Merlo

• Introducing Universal Dependencies for Sardinian: the UD ContSar Treebank
  Nicoletta Puddu, Manuela Sanguinetti and Luigi Talamo

• Exploring language relations through syntactic distances and geographic proximity
  Juan De Gregorio, Raul Toral and David Sanchez

• Cross-Dialectal Transfer for Low-Resource Arabic: The Tunisian Arabic Dependency Treebank
  Amal Aissaoui

• Towards Universal Dependencies for L2 Learners of Modern Greek: Annotation and Challenges
  Christina Klironomou, Thelka Pasparaki, Arianna Masciolini, Alexandros Tantos, Despoina Ourania Touriki, Konstantinos Tsiotskas and Eleni Tsourilla

• Gathering valency frames for annotation and batch corrections
  Mathilde Regnault

• Syntax is the key to semantics: Combining Universal Dependencies and Abstract Meaning Representation
  Johannes Heinecke

• Exploiting Parallel Aligned Treebanks
  Maarten Janssen

• Speech Act Constructions in Universal Dependencies
  Joakim Nivre, William Croft and Andre Coneglian

Session 6 — 17:30–18:00

• 17:30–17:40 — Remote poster boosters
  • Extending Retag to Conversion Error Detection: A Case Study on SynTagRus Morphology - Andrei Movsesian and Daniil Timchenko
  • Comparing Dependency Distances of Esperanto and Other Languages in a Multi-Lingual Parallel Corpus - Masanori Oya
  • Word segmentation for UD: a comparison of isiZulu and Sepedi - Laurette Marais and Laurette Pretorius

• From Treebank Metadata to Sentence-Level Genre in Universal Dependencies: A Reproducible, Versioned Resource - Egon Stemle

• 17:40–18:00 — Community discussion and closing

Presenter instructions

• Format: Papers are presented as oral or poster; this does not reflect quality but PC recommendations on the optimal method of presentation given the content. All non-archival papers are presented as posters.
• Oral presentations: Each paper is allocated either 15 minutes (12 minutes presentation + 3 minutes Q&A) or 20 minutes (15 minutes presentation + 5 minutes Q&A), as indicated in the programme. Please respect timing.
• Technical setup: A laptop will be provided. Bring your slides on a USB stick (PDF, PPTX, or format compatible with the Chrome web browser) and upload them during the break before your session.
• Posters: A0 format, vertical (portrait) orientation. Please mount your poster during the coffee break before your session using the provided materials, and remove it immediately after the session ends. The exact location of the poster area is yet to be confirmed.
• Remote presentations: As per LREC policy, presentations are in person. Remote is only possible in exceptional cases and for oral presentations.