Call for Papers
The 21st International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT) will bring together developers and users of linguistically annotated natural language corpora and take place during the week of March 9th-12, 2023. The workshop will be part of GURT 2023 which will take place in Washington D.C.
SUBMISSION INFORMATION
TLT addresses all aspects of treebank design, development, and use. As “treebanks” we consider any pairing of natural language data (spoken, signed, or written) with annotations of linguistic structure at various levels of analysis, including e.g., morpho-phonology, syntax, semantics, and discourse. Annotations can take any form (including trees or general graphs), but they should be encoded in a way that enables computational processing. Types of papers we anticipate include reflections on the design of linguistic annotations, methodology studies, resource announcements or updates, annotation or conversion tool development, and reports on treebank usage. The workshop invites the submission of papers, posters and software demonstrations on original and unpublished research on the following topics, including, but not limited to: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
Papers should describe original work; they should emphasize completed work rather than intended work, and should indicate clearly the state of completion of the reported results. Submissions will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance and relevance to the conference, and interest to the attendees.
We invite paper submissions in two distinct tracks:
- regular papers on substantial, original, and unpublished research, including empirical evaluation results, where appropriate
- short papers on smaller, focused contributions, work in progress, negative results, surveys, or opinion pieces
Long papers may consist of up to 8 pages of content (excluding references and appendecies). Short papers may consist of up to 4 pages of content (excluding references and appendencies).
All papers accepted for presentation at the workshop will be included in the TLT 2023 proceedings volume, which will be part of the ACL Anthology.
All submissions should follow the two-column format and the style guidelines. We strongly recommend the use of the LaTeX style files, OpenDocument, or Microsoft Word templates created for ACL: https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files
Submissions will be reviewed double-blind. All regular and short papers must be anonymous, i.e. not reveal author(s) on the title page or through self-references. So e.g., “We previously showed (Smith, 2020) …”, should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as “Smith (2020) previously showed …”. Demonstration papers need not be anonymous. Papers must be submitted digitally, in PDF, and uploaded through the on-line conference system (Link Forthcoming)
Submissions that violate either of these requirements will be rejected without review.