Coling 2008
Workshop on
Grammar Engineering Across Frameworks

Manchester, 24 August, 2008

In connection with Coling 2008, the 22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics
August 18-22

Programme including demo session

Slides from Prof. Tsujii's keynote talk [ppt]

Workshop Topics

This workshop aims to bring together grammar engineers from different frameworks to compare research and methodologies, particularly around the themes of evaluation, modularity, maintainability, relevance to theoretical and computational linguistics, and applications of "deep" grammars to real-world domains and NLP tasks.

Recent years have seen the development of techniques and resources to support robust, deep grammatical analysis of natural language in real-world domains and applications. The demands of these types of tasks have resulted in significant advances in areas such as parser efficiency, hybrid statistical/symbolic approaches to disambiguation, and the acquisition of large-scale lexicons. The effective acquisition, development, maintenance and enhancement of grammars is a central issue in such efforts, and the size and complexity of realistic grammars makes these tasks extremely challenging; indeed, these tasks are often tackled in ways that have much in common with software engineering. This workshop aims to bring together grammar engineers from different frameworks --- for example LFG, HPSG, TAG, CCG, dependency grammar --- to compare their research and methodologies.

Invited Talk: Jun'ichi Tsujii, University of Tokyo and University of Manchester [ppt]

Organizers

Programme committee

Important Dates and Submission Details

Paper submission deadline: 5 May (CLOSED)
Notification of acceptance of Papers: 6 June
Camera-ready copy of papers due: 30 June
Demo session requests due: 30 June (CLOSED)
Workshop (register via COLING): 24 August

Contact for inquiries:

Proceedings

Accepted papers will form part of the workshop proceeedings and will be available on the conference CD. Hard copies must be ordered specially via the registration form.

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