CONSTRAINT GRAMMAR WORKSHOP - CALL FOR PAPERS

Workshop in Constraint Grammar Applications
in conjunction with NoDaLiDa 2011, Riga, Latvia, May 11th 2011

http://giellatekno.uit.no/cg/11/



Within full-scale parsing applications, constraint grammar is the dominant
framework for parsing Nordic languages. It is used in the industry, and it
also constitutes the fundament for several academic projects aiming at
corpus tagging, treebanks and pedagogical programs.

The last years have seen extensions of CG usage along several lines: CG has
been successfully put to use in machine translation for several language
pairs, and it has been used for grammar checking and dialogue systems.


Topics
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All topics related to constraint grammar are of interest.
We will especially be interested in the following themes:
1. CG-based applications
* corpus linguistics
* grammar checking
* machine translation
* etc.
2. Evaluation
* Rule evaluation
* Technical performance (speed, e.g.)
* Linguistic performance (precision, recall) and evaluation


Format of the workshop
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The workshop will consist of two parts.
1. a tutorial on CG rule writing, including a discussion on
technological potential and perspectives
2. a main section with ordinary talks


Submission of papers
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We invite extended abstracts (approximately 1500 words) describing existing
research connected to the topics of the workshop. Submissions are
non-anonymous and should include: title; author(s); affiliation(s); and
contact author's e-mail address, postal address, telephone and fax numbers.

Abstracts should be sent to the mail address available on the workshop www
pages.


Important dates
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March, 1, 2011 - Deadline for submission of abstracts
March, 27, 2011 - Notification of acceptance
May, 11, 2011 - Constraint grammar workshop in Riga


Location
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NODALIDA 2011, Riga, Latvia.


Program committee
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* Eckhard Bick, Syddansk universitet
* Kristin Hagen, Universitetet i Oslo
* Kaili Müürisep, Tartu Ülikool
* Trond Trosterud, Universitetet i Tromsø


Constraint Grammar workshop web site: http://giellatekno.uit.no/cg/11/