18th International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT)

18th International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT)

August 28-29 2019
Paris, France

https://syntaxfest.github.io/syntaxfest19/tlt2019/tlt2019.html
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=syntaxfest2019

SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS

The 18th International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories
(TLT) will bring together developers and users of linguistically
annotated natural language corpora.

The 2019 edition of TLT will take place on the 28th and 29th of August,
2019, in the center of Paris.

This year, TLT will be part of the SyntaxFest, the co-location of four
conferences around empirical syntax :

– Quasy : The Workshop on Quantitative Syntax (August 26)
– Depling : The Conference on Dependency Linguistics (August 27-28)
– TLT : The 18th International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic
Theories (August 28-29)
– UDW : The Universal Dependencies Workshop (August 29-30)

https://syntaxfest.github.io/syntaxfest19/

Long paper deadline : April 28,
Short paper deadline : June 5, 2019

SUBMISSIONS

TLT addresses all aspects of treebank design, development, and use. As
‘treebanks’ we consider any pairing of natural language data (spoken or
written) with annotations of linguistic structure at various levels of
analysis, ranging from e.g. morpho-phonology to discourse. Annotations
can take any form (including trees or general graphs), but they should
be encoded in a way that enables computational processing. Reflections
on the design of linguistic annotations, methodology studies, resource
announcements or updates, annotation or conversion tool development, or
reports on treebank usage are but some examples of the types of papers
we anticipate for TLT.

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+ regular papers on substantial, original, and unpublished research,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.

All papers accepted for presentation at the workshop will be included in
the TLT 2019 proceedings volume, which will be injected into the ACL
Anthology.

FORMATS

Long papers may consist of up to 10 pages of content (excluding
references). Short papers and demo papers may consist of up to 5 pages
of content (excluding references).

All submissions should follow the one-column format and the style
guidelines. We strongly recommend the use of the LaTeX style files,
OpenDocument, or Microsoft Word templates created for the SyntaxFest
2019
(https://github.com/syntaxfest/syntaxfest19/blob/master/SyntaxFestStyles.zip)

Submissions of full 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 (Zeng, 2018) ...", should be avoided. Instead, use
citations such as "Zeng (2018) previously showed ...".
Demonstration papers need not be anonymous. Papers must be submitted
digitally, in PDF, and uploaded through the on-line conference system :

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=syntaxfest2019

Submissions that violate either of these requirements will be returned
without review.

IMPORTANT DATES

Long paper submission deadlines : April 28, 2019
Short paper submission deadlines : June 5, 2019
Notification of acceptance : TBA
Final version of papers due : TBA
TLT conference : August 28-29, 2019.

Attendants are encouraged but not obliged to participate in the whole
SyntaxFest (August 26-30, 2019)

CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS

There will be at least 4 invited speakers during the week of the
SyntaxFest, and two social events.

Confirmed invited speakers are :
Barbara Plank - University of Copenhagen
Ramon Ferrer i Cancho - Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Adam Przepiórkowski- Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences

REVIEWING PROCESS

All submissions will be double-blind reviewed by at least three experts
in the field.

The programme committee is shared for the whole SyntaxFest 2019.
Reviewing of submissions and selection of programme for TLT will be
managed by the TLT 2019 co-chairs, in collaboration with the co-chairs
of the SyntaxFest 2019.

On the submission page, authors are to submit their paper only once for
the whole SyntaxFest, composed of 4 conferences, but they can uncheck
conferences they do not wish their paper to be considered for. If the
paper is deemed appropriate for more than one of the selected
conferences, the SyntaxFest co-chairs will decide on the final placement
of the paper, which implies the day of the presentation and the
proceedings the paper will appear in.

TLT CONFERENCE CHAIRS

– Djamé Seddah, Inria Paris
– Marie Candito, Université Paris Diderot
– Stephan Oepen, University of Oslo
– Killian Evan, HH University Düsseldorf

Contact : TreebankLT2019@gmail.com
website : https://syntaxfest.github.io/syntaxfest19/tlt2019/tlt2019.html

ENDORSEMENT

As part of the SyntaxFest19, TLT is endorsed by the ACL SIGPARSE group.