Programme

16 May 2026 · All times are local (CEST, UTC+2)
Presenter instructions ↓

Session 1 (oral) — 09:00–10:30

  • 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

  • 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

  • Comparing Dependency Distances of Esperanto and Other Languages in a Multi-Lingual Parallel Corpus
    Masanori Oya

  • 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

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

  • Word segmentation for UD: a comparison of isiZulu and Sepedi
    Laurette Marais and Laurette Pretorius

  • 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

Session 3 (oral) — 12:00–13:00

  • 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

  • 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

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

  • 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

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

  • 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

  • Extending Retag to Conversion Error Detection: A Case Study on SynTagRus Morphology
    Andrei Movsesian and Daniil Timchenko

  • Exploiting Parallel Aligned Treebanks
    Maarten Janssen

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

17:30–18:00 — 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.
  • Posters: A0 format, portrait orientation.
  • Remote presentations: As per LREC policy, presentations are in person. Remote is only possible in exceptional cases and for oral presentations.
  • Technical setup: A laptop will be provided. Bring your slides on a USB stick (PDF recommended) and upload them during the break before your session.