Bloomington

15th International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories

Bloomington, IN, January 20-21, 2017

Overview

TLT serves as a venue for new and ongoing research on the topic of linguistics and treebanks. The 15th edition of TLT will, for the first time, take place in the United States, at Indiana University, Bloomington, on 20-21 January 2017.

For 15 years now, TLT has served as a venue for new and ongoing high-quality work related to syntactically-annotated corpora, i.e., treebanks; with a focus on all the aspects of treebanking - descriptive, theoretical, formal and computational - but also going beyond treebanks, including other levels of annotation such as frame semantics, coreference or events, to name only a few.

TLT is made possible, thanks for our generous sponsors at Indiana University:

The TLT15 Proceedings are now available online!

TLT serves as a venue for new and ongoing research on the topic of linguistics and treebanks. The 15th edition of TLT will, for the first time, take place in the United States, at Indiana University, Bloomington, on 20-21 January 2017.

For 15 years now, TLT has served as a venue for new and ongoing high-quality work related to syntactically-annotated corpora, i.e., treebanks; with a focus on all the aspects of treebanking – descriptive, theoretical, formal and computational – but also going beyond treebanks, including other levels of annotation such as frame semantics, coreference or events, to name only a few.

Submissions are invited for papers, posters and demonstrations which present research on treebanks and their intersection with linguistics, natural language processing and other related fields.

Invited Speakers

  • Marie-Catherine de Marneffe (Ohio State University, USA)
  • James Pustejovsky (Brandeis University, USA)

Workshop Motivation and Aims

Treebanks have proved to be crucial resources for very important NLP applications, such as machine translation and information extraction, as well as supporting resources for various NLP tasks, such as high-quality parsing and POS tagging.

More recent trends in treebank-related research have focused on a variety of initiatives, such as annotating deep syntactic, semantic, and syntactic-semantic interface information; (semi)-automatic conversion of existing treebanks into deeper linguistic formats; multilingual and crosslingual treebanking, including 'language-universal' treebanking; enriching treebanks with additional layers of linguistic annotation as well as incorporating world knowledge; dynamic treebanking involving a close connection between grammar-based parsing and manual annotation; designing web services for observing and exploiting theoretically diverse treebanks; and mapping syntactic and semantic knowledge to Linked Open Data (LOD) information.

Workshop Topics

The workshop invites the submission of papers, posters and software demonstrations on original and unpublished research on the following topics, including, but not limited to:

  • Design principles and annotation schemes for treebanks
  • The use of treebanks in acquiring linguistic knowledge
  • The use of treebanks for NLP applications
  • The role of linguistic theories in treebank development
  • Treebanks as a knowledge source for linguistic research
  • Treebank annotation beyond syntax: semantics, pragmatics and discourse
  • Evaluation and quality control of treebanks
  • Tools for creation and management of treebanks
  • Treebanks for lesser-resourced languages
  • Theories, schemas and applications for parallel treebanks
  • Standards for treebanks
  • (Semi-)automatic methods for creating large treebanks
  • Mapping of treebanks to Linked Open Data resources
  • Domain-specific treebanks
  • The future of treebanks and treebanking
  • Multi-word expressions in treebanks
  • Language-universal annotation for treebanks and its relation to language-specific annotation

Instruction for Authors

The program for TLT15 will consist of full papers, posters and software demonstrations. Submissions must be anonymized, written in English, and conform to the TLT15 style files.

Abstracts for full papers should not exceed 5 pages in length, excluding references. Abstracts for posters and software demonstrations should not exceed 3 pages in length, excluding references. (Accepted final papers will be 6-10 pages and 4-6 pages, respectively, excluding figures, data and references.)

Please upload your submissions via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tlt15

LaTeX Style Files

Important Dates

  • 1 July 2016: Submissions and registration open (tentative)
  • 9 October 2016 EXTENDED: 16 October 2016: Deadline for submissions
  • 21 November 2016: Notification of acceptance
  • 11 December 2016: Final papers due
  • 20-21 January 2017: Workshop

Program Committee

  • Markus Dickinson (Indiana University, USA; co-chair)
  • Jan Hajič (Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic; co-chair)
  • Sandra Kübler (Indiana University, USA; co-chair)
  • Adam Przepiórkowski (Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland; co-chair)

  • Patricia Amaral (Indiana University, USA)
  • Emily Bender (University of Washington, USA)
  • Eckhard Bick (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark)
  • Ann Bies (Linguistic Data Consortium, USA)
  • Claire Bonial (University of Colorado at Boulder, USA)
  • Gosse Bouma (University of Groningen, The Netherlands)
  • Miriam Butt (University of Konstanz, Germany)
  • Jinho Choi (Emory University, USA)
  • Tomaž Erjavec (Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia)
  • Koenraad De Smedt (Bergen University, Norway)
  • Stefanie Dipper (Ruhr University Bochum, Germany)
  • Filip Ginter (University of Turku, Finland)
  • Eva Hajičová (Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic)
  • Lori Levin (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
  • Teresa Lynn (Dublin City University, Ireland)
  • Ryan McDonald (Google Research, USA)
  • Adam Meyers (New York University, USA)
  • Jiří Mírovský (Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic)
  • Kaili Müürisep (University of Tartu, Estonia)
  • Joakim Nivre (Uppsala University, Sweden)
  • Petya Osenova (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria)
  • Martha Palmer (University of Colorado, USA)
  • Marco Passarotti (Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Italy)
  • Agnieszka Patejuk (Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland)
  • Marwa Ragheb (Suez Canal University, Egypt)
  • Ines Rehbein (University of Potsdam, Germany)
  • Alexandr Rosen (Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic)
  • Djamé Seddah (Paris-Sorbonne University, France)
  • Olga Scrivner (Indiana University, USA)
  • Mike White (Ohio State University, USA)
  • Nianwen Xue (Brandeis University, USA)
  • Daniel Zeman (Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic)
  • Heike Zinsmeister (University of Hamburg, Germany)

Local Organizing Committee

  • Noor Abo-Mokh (Indiana University)
  • Yue Chen (Indiana University)
  • Daniel Dakota (Indiana University)
  • Markus Dickinson (Indiana University)
  • Sandra Kübler (Indiana University)
  • Wen Li (Indiana University)
  • Amber Smith (Indiana University)

For more information or questions, please contact tlt15@indiana.edu or, for local information, tlt15loc@indiana.edu

Important Dates

  • 1 July 2016: Submissions and registration open (tentative)
  • 9 October 2016 EXTENDED: 16 October 2016: Deadline for submissions
  • 21 November 2016: Notification of acceptance
  • 11 December 2016: Final papers due
  • 20-21 January 2017: Workshop

Instruction for Authors

The program for TLT15 will consist of full papers, posters and software demonstrations. Submissions must be anonymized, written in English, and conform to the TLT15 style files.

Abstracts for full papers should not exceed 5 pages in length, excluding references. Abstracts for posters and software demonstrations should not exceed 3 pages in length, excluding references. (Accepted final papers will be 6-10 pages and 4-6 pages, respectively, excluding figures, data and references.)

Please upload your submissions via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tlt15

LaTeX Style Files

All talks will be in the IU Social Science Research Commons, Woodburn Hall 200, 1100 E 7th St, Bloomington, IN 47406

  1. CDH (Thursday, January 19)
  2. TLT, day 1 (Friday, January 20)
  3. TLT, day 2 (Saturday, January 21)

NEW: The TLT15 Proceedings are now available online!

CDH (Thursday, January 19)

8:30 - 9:30 Registration

9:15 - 9:30 Opening/Welcome

9:30 - 10:30 Invited Talk: Arienne Dwyer

  • Upright like alef: Towards an accessible diachronic corpus of Chaghatay and modern Uyghur

10:30 - 11:00 Ryder Wishart and Prokopis Prokopidis. Topic modelling experiments on Hellenistic corpora 

11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 - 12:00 James Pustejovsky, Nancy Ide, Marc Verhagen and Keith Suderman. Enhancing Access to Media Collections and Archives Using Computational Linguistic Tools

12:00 - 12:30 Olga Scrivner and Jefferson Davis. Interactive Text Mining Suite: Data Visualization for Literary Studies

12:30 - 2:30 Lunch break

2:30 - 3:00 Laura Zweig, Can Liu, Misato Hiraga, Mandy Reed, Michael Czerniakowski, Markus Dickinson and Sandra Kübler. FunTube: Annotating Funniness in YouTube Comments

3:00 - 3:30 Gualberto Guzman, Joseph Ricard, Jacqueline Serigos, Barbara Bullock and Almeida Jacqueline Toribio. Moving code-switching research toward more empirically grounded methods

3:30 - 4:00 Coffee break

4:00 - 5:30 Demo / Poster Session / Coffee break

  • Thierry Declerck. A Set of Annotations for supporting a TTS application for Folktales
  • Corina Dima, Jianqiang Ma, Sebastian Bücking, Frauke Buscher, Johanna Herdtfelder, Julia Lukassek, Anna Prysłopska, Erhard Hinrichs, Daniël De Kok and Claudia Maienborn. A Corpus-Based Model of Semantic Plausibility for German Bracketing Paradoxes
  • Nancy Ide, Keith Suderman and James Pustejovsky.  Demonstration: The Language Application Grid as a Platform for Digital Humanities Research
  • Priyanka Suresh and Navjyoti Singh. Meta-data and Methodology: Standards in the digital archive
  • Katie Chapman. Text Mining Approaches to Volpiano-Encoded Melodies
  • Kalani Craig. Bridging the Gap: Communicating Digital Text Analysis Results On Paywalled Corpora for Digital Humanists
  • Margaret Dolinsky, Roger Hangarter. Communicative photosynthesis
  • Paige Goulding. Annotation Methods for Txtspk in Corpus Linguistics
  • Nikita Haduong. Constructing a Corpus on Mafia Forum Game Data
  • Laura Merino Hernández. Convergence in the expression of the progressive in Spanish: the case of andar 'to walk around' and estar 'to be'
  • Becca Morris. Idioms and Political Theme
  • Inas Nassar. Arabic Learners' Corpus
  • Patrick O'Brien. Marlowe v. Shakespeare: A Comparative Corpus
  • Julia Puglisi. Revealing hidden semantics: Using Corpus Linguistics to examine word-play in Egyptian religious texts

TLT, Day 1 (Friday, January 20)

8:30am: Registration

9:00-9:10am: Welcome

9:10-10:10am: Invited Talk

  • Marie-Catherine de Marneffe: Universal Dependencies: The Good, the Bad, and the Potential

10:10-10:40am: Coffee break

10:40am-12:10pm: Universal Dependencies

  • William Croft, Dawn Nordquist, Katherine Looney and Michael Regan. Linguistic Typology Meets Universal Dependencies
  • Elena Badmaeva and Francis M. Tyers. A Dependency Treebank for Buryat
  • Teresa Lynn, Jennifer Foster and Mark Dras. Morphological Features of the Irish Universal Dependencies Treebank

12:10pm-1:30pm: Lunch break

1:30-3:00pm: Parsing

  • Miryam de Lhoneux, Sara Stymne and Joakim Nivre. Old School vs. New School: Comparing Transition-Based Parsers with and without Neural Network Enhancement
  • Jinho Choi. Deep Dependency Graph Conversion in English
  • Markus Dickinson and Amber Smith. Simulating Dependencies to Improve Parse Error Detection

3:00-3:30pm: Coffee break

3:30-5:30pm: Universal Dependencies Panel

  • William Croft, Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Daniel Zeman

7:00pm: TLT dinner [Location TBA]

TLT, Day 2 (Saturday, January 21)

9:00-10:00am: Invited Talk

  • James Pustejovsky: Annotating Quantifier and Modal Scope Dependencies in Uniform Meaning Representations

10:00-11:00am: IU Showcase

  • Damir Cavar, Lwin Moe, Hai Hu. On the Free Linguistic Environment: Parsing and Corpus Annotation
  • Atreyee Mukherjee, Sandra Kübler and Matthias Scheutz. Creating POS Tagging and Dependency Parsing Experts via Topic Modeling

11:00-11:30am: Coffee break

11:30am-1:00pm: Searching

  • Alexandr Chernov, Erhard Hinrichs and Marie Hinrichs. Search Your Own Treebank
  • Daniël de Kok, Corina Dima, Jianqiang Ma and Erhard Hinrichs. Extracting a PP Attachment Data Set from a German Dependency Treebank Using Topological Fields
  • Eduard Bejček, Jan Hajič, Pavel Stranak and Zdenka Uresova. Extracting Verbal Multiword Data from Rich Treebank Annotation

1:00-1:15pm: Closing

Register by January 10 to take advantage of the Early Bird Discount! After January 10 standard fees will apply.

Registration Fee

Corpora in the Digital Humanities (CDH) Workshop and TLT:
  • IU Professional: $100 ($110 after January 10)
  • IU Students: $45 ($50 after January 10)

  • Professional: $160 ($176 after January 10)
  • Non-IU Students: $80 ($88 after January 10)
Corpora in the Digital Humanities (CDH) Workshop Only:
  • IU Professional: $40 ($44 after January 10)
  • IU Students: $20 ($22 after January 10)

  • Professional: $60 ($66 after January 10)
  • Non-IU Students: $40 ($44 after January 10)
TLT Only:
  • IU Professional: $80 ($88 after January 10)
  • IU Students: $40 ($44 after January 10)

  • Professional: $120 ($132 after January 10)
  • Non-IU Students: $80 ($88 after January 10)

How to Register:

Online: Click here to register

If paying by credit card, you can pay using our secure payment gateway. If paying by check, submit your online registration with the “pay-later” option, and send your check (made out to Indiana University and referencing on the memo, your name and event #30-17) to:

Indiana University Conferences
IU Conferences
P.O. Box 6212
Indianapolis, IN 46206-6212

Cancellation of Registration:

All cancellations must be in writing (email) to the Conference Registrar at: kkdaniel@indiana.edu. A full refund of registration fee, less $20.00, will be accepted through January 10. After January 10, no refunds will be accepted, although you may substitute another person for your registration.

Questions about Registration?

Please contact the Conference Registrar at: kkdaniel@indiana.edu or 812.855.9814 or 1.800.933.9330 (continental US only)

  • Travel
  • Lodging
  • TRAVEL

    AIR TRAVEL TO BLOOMINGTON, IN USA

    Indianapolis International Airport

    Most attendees of TLT15 will elect to fly to the Indianapolis International Airport. Direct international flights maintain substantial connecting service from all major international hub airports within the US.

    • Airport Symbol: IND
    • Location: 50 miles (93 kilometers) north of Bloomington, IN

    GROUND TRANSPORTATION FROM INDIANAPOLIS AIRPORT TO CAMPUS AND RETURN

    Most TLT15 attendees will choose to travel from the airport to Bloomington via one of the two shuttle van services. It is best to book tickets on-line in advance. Their departure location is easy to find outside the baggage claim area on the lower level of the airport.

    SHUTTLE SERVICE

    Go Express Travel

    • Service 9 times daily between the airport and Bloomington campus
    • Advance reservations: Recommended
    • Reservations on-line: www.goexpresstravel.com
    • Phone: 800.589.6004 or 812.332.6004
    • Rate: currently $18.00 one way
    • Airport pick-up location: Ground Transportation Center. Lower level, outside of airport Baggage Claim

    Shuttle: Star of America

    • Service 9 times daily between airport and Bloomington campus
    • Advance reservations: Recommended
    • Reservations on-line: www.starofamerica.com
    • Phone: 800.933.0097 or 812.876.7851
    • Rate: currently $18.00 one way
    • Airport pick-up location: Ground Transportation Center. Lower level, outside of airport Baggage Claim

    LIMOUSINE SERVICE

    Classic Touch Limousine

    • Door-to-door service from airport to any location in Bloomington
    • Advance reservations: Required
    • Rates: Currently $122.00 roundtrip per person. When making your reservations, inform Classic Touch that you are attending a conference at IU – the 15th International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories. Request an IU conference rate. Rate is for shared ride service; private car rate is not guaranteed
    • Reservations on-line: www.classictouchlimo.com
    • Phone: 800.319.0082 or 812.339.7269
    • Airport Pick-up Location: Ground Transportation Center. Lower level, outside of airport Baggage Claim
    • IMPORTANT: The limousine driver will NOT be waiting for you inside of the terminal baggage area. You must proceed to the Ground Transportation Center, locate a Classic Touch limousine and identify yourself to the driver.

    CAR RENTAL: Most major car rental companies

    DRIVING to IU BLOOMINGTON

    We suggest that you consult Mapquest or Google maps for the best directions to Bloomington and return. Driving to and from the airport to campus is simple and direct. Driving time from the airport to campus is approximately 50 minutes.

    PARKING

    For attendees staying at the Indiana Memorial Union, parking is free. Those electing to stay off campus may park in one of the two lots adjacent to the Indiana Memorial Union and pay the daily parking fee. Discounted parking passes will be available at the registration check-in desk. The approximate cost of discounted daily parking is $12.00.

    LODGING

    A block of hotel rooms on the IU Bloomington campus have been reserved for people attending the 15th International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories.

    HOST HOTEL: INDIANA MEMORIAL UNION (IMU)

    900 East 7th Street
    Bloomington, IN USA 47405
    812.856.6381

    For your convenience, if you are looking for hotel accommodations, we suggest that you reserve a guestroom at the IMU. The IMU is located in the center of campus and is in easy walking distance to many of Bloomington’s downtown shops, cafes and restaurants. You can explore many of these options through the Visit Bloomington web site:
    www.visitbloomington.com

    Rates & Reservations

    In order to secure a hotel room at the Indiana Memorial Union, contact the hotel directly or reserve your room on-line. When phoning for your reservation, you must identify that you will be attending the International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories in order to obtain a room.

    • On-line reservation: http://imu.indiana.edu/hotel/
    • Group Code: IWTBL2017
    • Phone reservations: (812) 856-6381
    • Room rates: current rooms rates vary from $129 - $194 depending on room type; rates are for the room itself and are not based on the number of people occupying the room. All rooms are currently subject to a 12% tax.
    • Reservation cut-off date: December 19, 2016
    • Parking: free to hotel guests
    • Wireless Internet: free

    OFF CAMPUS ACCOMMODATIONS

    Although we recommend that you stay at the IMU hotel, there are many hotel options outside of the IU Bloomington campus. Some hotels are located within walking distance; some are a short drive from campus. Check out the Visit Bloomington web site for off campus lodging (http://www.visitbloomington.com/visitors/hotels)

    Note: Attendees electing to stay at off campus hotels who wish to drive to campus and park their car on campus may do so in the two parking lots adjacent to the Indiana Memorial Union. There will be a fee for parking in these lots. Discount parking passes will be available at the registration check-in desk for conference participants. The approximate discounted parking fee is currently $12/day.

    Corpora in the Digital Humanities (CDH)

    Bloomington, IN, January 19, 2017

    co-sponsored by the IU Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities

    Program

    The program is now available.

    New: Proceedings

    The proceedings are now available.

    Past editions of the International Workshops on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT) have included co-located events exploring the use of linguistic annotations in Digital Humanities. This time, the co-located workshop will also focus on the creation, annotation and use of corpora in Digital Humanities. The workshop will focus on bringing together an audience from the humanities, digital humanities, linguistics, and computational linguistics to explore venues of collaboration and learning from each other. The workshop will feature 1) a rapidfire public presentation of digital interventions that showcase collaborations and DH needs and 2) presentations from all areas within digital humanities where corpora do or can play a role. The focus of this workshop lies in the description of ideas, approaches, resources, and tools that are related to text corpora, linguistic annotation in any form, and Digital Humanities. The workshop is intended to foster collaborations and to cross-fertilize knowledge and approaches across disciplines.

    WORKSHOP TOPICS

    The workshop invites the submission of papers, posters and software demonstrations on original and unpublished research on the following topics, including, but not limited to:

    • DH and text corpora
    • DH and computational linguistics
    • Linguistic annotation in DH
    • Annotations in DH that go beyond the linguistic levels
    • DH and Linked Open Data (LOD)
    • Standardization of data and annotation (cf., e.g., the Poetry Standardization project)
    • Moving DH towards more empirically grounded methods
    • Digitization of Incomplete Corpora / Redacted Archives (e.g. representing gaps, erasures)
    • Outreach efforts linking DH and corpus/computational linguistics

    INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS

    The program for the workshop will consist of full papers, posters, and software demonstrations. Submissions must be anonymized, written in English, and conform to the TLT15 style files available at cl.indiana.edu/tlt15. Abstracts for full papers should not exceed 5 pages in length, excluding references. Abstracts for posters and software demonstrations should not exceed 3 pages in length, excluding references. (Accepted final papers will be 6-10 pages and 4-6 pages, respectively.)

    Please upload your submissions via EasyChair.

    IMPORTANT DATES

    • 30 September 2016: Submissions and registration open
    • extended: 05 November 2016: Deadline for submissions
    • 30 November 2016: Notification of acceptance
    • 15 December 2016: Final papers due
    • 19 January 2017: Workshop

    PROGRAM COMMITTEE

    • Thierry Declerck (DFKI, Germany; co-chair)
    • Sandra Kübler (Indiana University, USA; co-chair)

    • Colin Allen (IU)
    • Fabian Barteld (U. Hamburg, Germany)
    • Markus Dickinson (IU)
    • Arienne Dwyer (U. Kansas, USA)
    • Elena González-Blanco (UNED, Spain)
    • Heather Froelich (U. Strathclyde, UK)
    • Wallace Hooper (IU)
    • Dimitrios Kokkinakis (Gothenburg University)
    • Gerhard Lauer (U. Goettingen, Germany)
    • Francesco Mambrini (German Archaeological Institute, Germany)
    • Karlheinz Mörth (Austrian Center for Digital Humanities, Austria)
    • Marco Passarotti (U. Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Milan, Italy)
    • Allen Riddell (IU)
    • Olga Scrivner (IU)
    • Caroline Sporleder (U. Goettingen, Germany)
    • Rachele Sprugnoli, (U. Trento, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy)
    • Stephanie Wulff (U. Florida, USA)

    For more information or questions, please contact tlt15@indiana.edu or, for local information, tlt15loc@indiana.edu

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