coling / acl ' 98 worshop on processing of dependency - based grammars coling-acl ' 98 workshop call for papers + - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - + + processing of dependency - based grammars + + - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - + august 15 , 1998 universite de montreal montreal , quebec , canada http : / / tornade . ere . umontreal . ca / ~ polguera / eng / dgworkshop . html http : / / coling-acl 98 . iro . umontreal . ca this one-day workshop will be a meeting point for researchers interested in the implementation of dependency - based grammars ( dgs ) . it will be a forum for presenting different theoretical approaches to dgs , as well as strategies adopted for their implementation . although the focus of this workshop is on dgs , it also aims at establishing connections between different approaches to the modeling and implementation of grammatical phenomena . tou are invited to submit papers on the following , or related , topics : theoretical aspects - correspondence between semantic and syntactic structures ; - correspondence between syntactic structures and the surface text ; - interaction between lexical and grammatical knowledge ; - comparison between different dg approaches . implementations - natural language generation with dgs ; - parsing with dgs ; - building dependency-annotated corpora . additional issues - are " pure " dependency formalisms sufficient to account for all syntactic phenomena or do they need to be augmented with phrase structures ? - should dgs be considered as a simple notational variant of other types of formal grammars or are there deep reasons for adopting them ? each speaker will be given 30 minutes to present a paper followed by 15 minutes for questions / discussions . organizing committee sylvain kahane ( talana , universite paris 7 ) < sk @ ccr . jussieu . fr > alain polguere ( universite de montreal ) < polguera @ ere . umontreal . ca > requirement for submission - maximum length of 10 pages including figures and references - a4 or us letter format ; set margins so that the text lies within a rectangle of 6 . 5x9 inches ( 16 . 5x23 cm ) . - classical fonts such as times roman or computer modern , 11 to 12 points for text , 14 to 16 points for headings and title - latex users are encouraged to use the style file provided by acl : http : / / coling-acl 98 . iro . umontreal . ca / colaclsub . sty - papers should be submitted as hardcopies - - five ( 5 ) are required . - submissions should be sent to : alain polguere departement of linguistics and translation c . p . 6128 , succ . centre - ville montreal ( quebec ) h3c 3j7 canada deadlines - submissions due : march 15 , 1998 - notifications of acceptance : may 1 , 1998 - final manuscript due : june 15 , 1998 program comittee anne abeille ( u . paris 7 ) michael a . covington ( u . of georgia ) michel elhadad ( ben - gurion u . ) sylvain kahane ( u ; paris 7 ) dick hudson ( u . college london ) igor mel ' cuk ( u . de montreal ) alexis nasr ( u . d ' avignon ) alain polguere ( u . de montreal ) petr sgall ( charles u . ) jacques vergne ( u . de caen )