Fourth workshop on Universal Dependencies

UD 2020


Artificial Intelligence



Fourth workshop on Universal Dependencies, September 14 (Barcelona, Spain)
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Website: https://www.universaldependencies.org/udw20
Submission deadline: May 15, 2020
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Universal Dependencies (UD; https://www.universaldependencies.org) is a
framework for cross-linguistically consistent treebank annotation that
has so far been applied to 90 languages.
The framework is aiming to capture similarities as well as
idiosyncracies among typologically different languages (e.g.,
morphologically rich languages, pro-drop languages, and languages
featuring clitic doubling). The goal in developping UD was not only to
support comparative evaluation and cross-lingual learning but also to
facilitate multilingual natural language processing and enable
comparative linguistic studies.
Since the release of the first guidelines in October 2014, and the
subsequent release of the first 10 treebanks, we have seen rapid growth
towards a collection of over 150 treebanks.
The Universal Dependencies workshop series was started to create a forum
for discussion of the theory and practice of UD, its use in research and
development, and its future goals and challenges. The three workshops so
far were held at NoDaLiDa in Gothenburg (2017), at EMNLP in Brussels
(2018) and at SyntaxFest in Paris (2019).
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The fourth workshop on Universal Dependencies invites papers on all
topics relevant to UD, including but not limited to:
* theoretical foundations and universal guidelines
* linguistic analysis of specific languages and/or constructions
* language typology and linguistic universals
* treebank annotation, conversion and validation
* word segmentation, morphological tagging and syntactic parsing
* downstream applications in natural language processing
* linguistic studies based on the UD data
Priority will be given to papers that adopt a cross-lingual perspective.
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SUBMISSION INFORMATION
We solicit two types of papers: regular workshop papers and
cross-submissions. Papers will be presented as oral presentations or
posters, but only regular workshop papers will be included in the
proceedings, where no distinction will be made on the basis of mode of
presentation.
The regular workshop papers can be long papers (maximum length of eight
(8) pages of content) as well as short papers (maximum length of four
(4) pages of content), and should report substantially original
research. Reviews will be double-blind.
In addition to unpublished work, in the spirit of promoting discussion
in the UD community, we also solicit papers on related topics that have
already appeared elsewhere. The selection of these papers will solely be
determined by the organizing committee.
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IMPORTANT: Submission Guidelines
Please note that UDW-20 adopts ACL's policies for submission, review,
and citation:
https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Policies_for_Submission,_Review_and_Citation
Submissions that violate any of these policies will be rejected without
review. Most importantly, the policies define an anonymity period, which
starts on April 15, 2020 for UDW-20.
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IMPORTANT DATES
* Start of anonymity period: Wednesday, April 15
* Submission deadline: Friday, May 15
* Notification of acceptance: Wednesday, June 24
* Camera-ready papers due: Friday, July 10
* Workshop: Monday, September 14
All deadlines are 11:59pm PDT (UTC-7).
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WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS
Workshop chairs & organizing committee:
* Miryam de Lhoneux, Uppsala University, Sweden
* Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, The Ohio State University, USA
* Joakim Nivre, Uppsala University, Sweden
* Sebastian Schuster, Stanford University, USA
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CONTACT
E-Mail: udw-organisers@googlegroups.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ud_workshop