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***** CALL FOR PAPERS *****

COLING 2016 Workshop: Grammar and lexicon: interactions and interfaces 
(GRAMM&LEX)

======= http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/grammlex2016 ======

Osaka, Japan, Dec. 11, 2016

A full-day workshop organized by Eva Hajicova (Charles University in 
Prague) and Igor Boguslavsky (Russian Academy of Sciences and 
Polytechnic University Madrid)

IMPORTANT DATES:

September 25: Submission deadline

October 16: Author notification

October 30: Camera ready due by Authors

November 6: Proceedings due by Workshop Organizers to Workshop & 
Publication Chairs

December 11: Workshop at COLING 2016

AIM OF THE WORKSHOP

The workshop is aimed at enhancing the linguistic dimension in the CL 
spectrum, as well as at strengthening the focus on explanatory rather 
than engineering aspects. The broader theme concerns the relations 
between GRAMMAR and LEXICON, but the workshop is supposed to be 
specifically focused on burning issues from that domain such as:

** Linguistically oriented issues: valency, and some related special 
linguistic phenomena such as diathesis; lexicon and morphology (incl. 
derivational morphology and morphosyntactic features in lexicons and 
their relation to semantics); lexicons and discourse (e.g. connectors, 
alternative connecting means);

** Lexicon/Grammar interface: types of information in lexical entries; 
linguistic vs. encyclopaedic information in the dictionary; syntax and 
phraseology (microsyntax), the grammar of idioms;

** Computationally related issues: the role of lexicons in grammar 
formalisms; lexicons and grammars vs. corpora and treebanks; annotation 
standards; valency dictionaries;

** Semantically driven issues such as semantic representation and 
lexically-supported inference;

** NLP oriented topics: use of lexicons, gazeteers and other man-made or 
machine-learnt lexical resources in NLP applications; multiword 
expressions in lexicons and grammars.

The workshop is intended as a lively forum touching upon issues that 
might be of interest (and, possibly, an inspiration for application both 
in theory and in practice) for a broader research community with 
different background: linguistic, computational or natural language 
processing.

WORKSHOP FORMAT

One-day workshop with both (a) presentations of invited statements 
focused on particular issues, (b) presentations of papers selected 
through an Open Call for papers with a regular reviewing procedure 
(presented as short talks of about 20 minutes, incl. discussion, or as 
posters). The short presentations of leading scholars are supposed to 
set the framework for the discussion in which all the participants will 
have space for their engagement. To ensure this, short abstracts of the 
invited statements are published on the workshop webpage so that the 
prospective authors of submissions from the Open Call could get 
inspiration for their own contributions. The emphasis will be put on the 
novelty of ideas, approaches and methodology. Our intention is to engage 
all the participants in discussion rather than to organize "another" 
parallel session of the conference.

PAPER SUBMISSIONS

The authors of the papers are invited to bring in novel, maybe even 
controversial ideas rather than to repeat old practice. They should 
choose one thing/topic/issue/method and organize the submission around 
answering such questions as:

1. Is the THING novel, never presented before? If not, why is the 
presenter repeating something old?

2. Is the THING being used in a computational system of any kind? Is 
such use planned or possible in principle? If not, why not?

3. What are the benefits of the THING (this is relevant even for THINGs 
that are well-known)?

4. What are the limitations of the THING (typically people don't write 
about this)?

5. Why do the benefits outweigh the limitations?

6. What are the competing approaches to the THING? What is the advantage 
of the approach proposed?

7. What are the next steps in making the THING useful?

8. If the THING is not being developed by anybody in the field at this 
time, why you think it is the case?

9. If people aren't interested in the THING, why not? Is it so fringe 
that it's actually not very interesting?

10. Why is the THING relevant? To whom? When? In what way absence of 
work on THING hampers progress of our field?

11. What new information about language functioning do we acquire by 
means of the THING?

Paper submissions for the GRAMM&LEX workshop will be handled by the 
START system. Before submitting your paper, please ensure you have read 
the instructions below and that your paper uses the prescribed style 
files. To submit your work, please use the submission page at the 
following address: https://www.softconf.com/coling2016/GramLex. For 
GRAMM&LEX 2016, there will be one category of research papers only, 
regardless of whether presented as a talk or a poster. All of the 
accepted submissions will be included in workshop proceedings, in 
electronic form only.

The maximum submission length is 8 pages (A4), plus 2 pages of references.

Authors can indicate their preference for presentation mode (i.e. oral 
or poster presentation) in the submission form, and the reviewers will 
recommend an appropriate mode of presentation to the program committee 
which will then decide. There will be no distinction in the proceedings 
between research papers presented orally vs. as posters.

Papers shall be submitted in English, anonymized with regard to the 
authors and/or their institution (no author-identifying information on 
the title page nor anywhere in the paper), including referencing style 
as usual. Authors should also ensure that identifying meta-information 
is removed from files submitted for review. Reviewing of papers will be 
blind, and each paper will be reviewed by three reviewers.

Papers must conform to official COLING 2016 style guidelines, which are 
available in http://coling2016.anlp.jp/doc/coling2016.zip. 
coling2016.zip has LATEX files, Microsoft Word template file, and sample 
PDF file. Submission and reviewing will be managed online by the START 
system. The only accepted format for submitted papers is unsigned, fully 
self-contained PDF (with fonts etc. included). Submissions must be 
uploaded on the START system 
(https://www.softconf.com/coling2016/GramLex) by the submission deadline 
(September 25th, 11:59pm GMT-12); submissions after that time will not 
be reviewed. To minimize network congestion, we request authors to 
upload their submissions as early as possible.

Submissions will be judged on several factors, including originality, 
technical strength, technical soundness, significance, relevance to the 
workshop, alignment with the workshop aims and clarity.

DUAL SUBMISSION POLICY: Papers being submitted to other conferences or 
workshops can be submitted in parallel to GRAMM&LEX, on condition that 
submissions at other conferences or workshops will be withdrawn if the 
paper is accepted for GRAMM&LEX. Authors must clearly indicate, on the 
title page during submission, the names of the other conferences or 
workshops to which the paper is being submitted and declare that they 
will withdraw these other submissions if the paper is accepted for 
GRAMM&LEX 2016.

Convenors of the GRAMM&LEX workshop

Eva Hajicova     (Charles University in Prague)

Igor Boguslavsky (Russian Academy of Sciences and

                  Polytechnic University Madrid)

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***** CALL FOR PAPERS *****


COLING 2016 Workshop: Grammar and lexicon: interactions and interfaces (GRAMM&LEX)


======= http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/grammlex2016 ======


Osaka, Japan, Dec. 11, 2016


A full-day workshop organized by Eva Hajicova (Charles University in Prague) and Igor Boguslavsky (Russian Academy of Sciences and Polytechnic University Madrid)


IMPORTANT DATES:


September 25: Submission deadline
October 16: Author notification
October 30: Camera ready due by Authors
November 6: Proceedings due by Workshop Organizers to Workshop & Publication Chairs
December 11: Workshop at COLING 2016


AIM OF THE WORKSHOP
The workshop is aimed at enhancing the linguistic dimension in the CL spectrum, as well as at strengthening the focus on explanatory rather than engineering aspects. The broader theme concerns the relations between GRAMMAR and LEXICON, but the workshop is supposed to be specifically focused on burning issues from that domain such as:
** Linguistically oriented issues: valency, and some related special linguistic phenomena such as diathesis; lexicon and morphology (incl. derivational morphology and morphosyntactic features in lexicons and their relation to semantics); lexicons and discourse (e.g. connectors, alternative connecting means);
** Lexicon/Grammar interface: types of information in lexical entries; linguistic vs. encyclopaedic information in the dictionary; syntax and phraseology (microsyntax), the grammar of idioms;
** Computationally related issues: the role of lexicons in grammar formalisms; lexicons and grammars vs. corpora and treebanks; annotation standards; valency dictionaries;
** Semantically driven issues such as semantic representation and lexically-supported inference;
** NLP oriented topics: use of lexicons, gazeteers and other man-made or machine-learnt lexical resources in NLP applications; multiword expressions in lexicons and grammars.
The workshop is intended as a lively forum touching upon issues that might be of interest (and, possibly, an inspiration for application both in theory and in practice) for a broader research community with different background: linguistic, computational or natural language processing.


      
WORKSHOP FORMAT
One-day workshop with both (a) presentations of invited statements focused on particular issues, (b) presentations of papers selected through an Open Call for papers with a regular reviewing procedure (presented as short talks of about 20 minutes, incl. discussion, or as posters). The short presentations of leading scholars are supposed to set the framework for the discussion in which all the participants will have space for their engagement. To ensure this, short abstracts of the invited statements are published on the workshop webpage so that the prospective authors of submissions from the Open Call could get inspiration for their own contributions. The emphasis will be put on the novelty of ideas, approaches and methodology. Our intention is to engage all the participants in discussion rather than to organize "another" parallel session of the conference.


PAPER SUBMISSIONS
The authors of the papers are invited to bring in novel, maybe even controversial ideas rather than to repeat old practice. They should choose one thing/topic/issue/method and organize the submission around answering such questions as:
1. Is the THING novel, never presented before? If not, why is the presenter repeating something old?
2. Is the THING being used in a computational system of any kind? Is such use planned or possible in principle? If not, why not?
3. What are the benefits of the THING (this is relevant even for THINGs that are well-known)?
4. What are the limitations of the THING (typically people don't write about this)?
5. Why do the benefits outweigh the limitations?
6. What are the competing approaches to the THING? What is the advantage of the approach proposed?
7. What are the next steps in making the THING useful?
8. If the THING is not being developed by anybody in the field at this time, why you think it is the case?
9. If people aren't interested in the THING, why not? Is it so fringe that it's actually not very interesting?
10. Why is the THING relevant? To whom? When? In what way absence of work on THING hampers progress of our field?
11. What new information about language functioning do we acquire by means of the THING?


Paper submissions for the GRAMM&LEX workshop will be handled by the START system. Before submitting your paper, please ensure you have read the instructions below and that your paper uses the prescribed style files. To submit your work, please use the submission page at the following address: https://www.softconf.com/coling2016/GramLex. For GRAMM&LEX 2016, there will be one category of research papers only, regardless of whether presented as a talk or a poster. All of the accepted submissions will be included in workshop proceedings, in electronic form only.
The maximum submission length is 8 pages (A4), plus 2 pages of references. 


Authors can indicate their preference for presentation mode (i.e. oral or poster presentation) in the submission form, and the reviewers will recommend an appropriate mode of presentation to the program committee which will then decide. There will be no distinction in the proceedings between research papers presented orally vs. as posters.


Papers shall be submitted in English, anonymized with regard to the authors and/or their institution (no author-identifying information on the title page nor anywhere in the paper), including referencing style as usual. Authors should also ensure that identifying meta-information is removed from files submitted for review. Reviewing of papers will be blind, and each paper will be reviewed by three reviewers.


Papers must conform to official COLING 2016 style guidelines, which are available in http://coling2016.anlp.jp/doc/coling2016.zip. coling2016.zip has LATEX files, Microsoft Word template file, and sample PDF file. Submission and reviewing will be managed online by the START system. The only accepted format for submitted papers is unsigned, fully self-contained PDF (with fonts etc. included). Submissions must be uploaded on the START system (https://www.softconf.com/coling2016/GramLex) by the submission deadline (September 25th, 11:59pm GMT-12); submissions after that time will not be reviewed. To minimize network congestion, we request authors to upload their submissions as early as possible.


Submissions will be judged on several factors, including originality, technical strength, technical soundness, significance, relevance to the workshop, alignment with the workshop aims and clarity.


DUAL SUBMISSION POLICY: Papers being submitted to other conferences or workshops can be submitted in parallel to GRAMM&LEX, on condition that submissions at other conferences or workshops will be withdrawn if the paper is accepted for GRAMM&LEX. Authors must clearly indicate, on the title page during submission, the names of the other conferences or workshops to which the paper is being submitted and declare that they will withdraw these other submissions if the paper is accepted for GRAMM&LEX 2016.


Convenors of the GRAMM&LEX workshop


Eva Hajicova     (Charles University in Prague)
Igor Boguslavsky (Russian Academy of Sciences and 
                  Polytechnic University Madrid)