SyntaxFest 2019
Accepted papers

Quasy - Long papers

• Anat Ninio
  An explanation of the decisive role of function words in driving syntactic development


• Giuseppe Samo and Paola Merlo
  Intervention effects in object relatives in English and Italian: a study in quantitative computational syntax


• Heng Chen and Haitao Liu
  A quantitative probe into the hierarchical structure of written Chinese


• Jianwei Yan and Haitao Liu
  Which annotation scheme is more expedient to measure syntactic difficulty and cognitive demand?


• Richard Futrell
  Information-theoretic locality properties of natural language


• Zoey Liu
  A Comparative Corpus Analysis of PP Ordering in English and Chinese

Quasy - Short papers

• Anne Abeillé and Elodie Winckel
  Extracting out of the subject in French: experimental evidence


• Jan Macutek, Radek Cech and Jiri Milicka
  Length of non-projective sentences: A pilot study using a Czech UD treebank


• Marine Courtin and Chunxiao Yan
  What can we learn from natural and artificial dependency trees


• Radek Cech, Pavel Kosek, Olga Navratilova and Jan Macutek
  Full valency and the position of enclitics in the Old Czech


• Suzanne Lesage and Olivier Bonami
  Gradient constraints on the use of Estonian possessive reflexives


• Sylvain Kahane and Chunxiao Yan
  Advantages of the flux-based interpretation of dependency length minimization


• Xiang Yu, Agnieszka Falenska and Jonas Kuhn
  Dependency Length Minimization vs. Word Order Constraints: An Empirical Study On 55 Treebanks


• Xinying Chen and Kim Gerdes
  The relation between dependency distance and frequency

DepLing - Long papers

• Agnieszka Patejuk and Adam Przepiórkowski
  Coordination of Unlike Grammatical Functions


• András Imrényi
  Toward a cognitive dependency grammar of Hungarian


• Eleni Metheniti, Pomi Park, Kristina Kolesova and Günter Neumann
  Identifying Grammar Rules for Language Education with Dependency Parsing in German


• Jasmina Milicevic
  Cliticization of Serbian Personal Pronouns and Auxiliary Verbs. A Dependency-Based Account


• Nicolas Mazziotta
  The evolution of spatial rationales in Tesnière’s stemmas


• Richard Futrell, Peng Qian, Edward Gibson, Evelina Fedorenko and Idan Blank
  Syntactic dependencies correspond to word pairs with high mutual information


• Sylvain Kahane
  Interpreting and defining connections in a dependency structure


• Timothy Osborne
  Noun Phrases Rooted by Adjectives: A Dependency Grammar Analysis of the Big Mess Construction


• Timothy Osborne
  Predicate Catenae: A Dependency Grammar Analysis of It-Clefts


• Vaclava Kettnerova and Marketa Lopatkova
  Reflexives in Czech from a Dependency Perspective

DepLing - Short papers

• Ailsa Meechan-Maddon and Joakim Nivre
  How to Parse Low-Resource Languages: Cross-Lingual Parsing, Target Language Annotation, or Both?


• Alessandra Teresa Cignarella, Cristina Bosco and Paolo Rosso
  Presenting TWITTIRÒ-UD: An Italian Twitter Treebank in Universal Dependencies


• Amba Kulkarni
  Pān.inian Syntactico-Semantic Relation Labels


• Angelika Kiss and Guillaume Thomas
  Word order variation in Mbyá Guaraní


• Bingli Liu, Chunshan Xu, Yan Wang and Xu Liu
  Quantitative Analysis on verb valence evolution of Chinese


• Kira Droganova and Daniel Zeman
  Towards Deep Universal Dependencies


• Leonid Mityushin and Leonid Iomdin
  Experiments on human incremental parsing


• Maria Auxiliadora Barrios Rodriguez and Igor Boguslavsky
  A Spanish E-dictionary of Collocations


• Marie Mikulová, Veronika Kolářová, Jarmila Panevová and Eva Hajičová
  Delimiting Adverbial Meanings. A corpus-based comparative study on Czech spatial prepositions and their English equivalents


• Mohamed Galal, Sylvain Kahane and Yomna Safwat
  Exceptive constructions. A Dependency-based Analysis


• Ophélie Lacroix
  Dependency Parsing as Sequence Labeling with Head-Based Encoding and Multi-Task Learning


• Patricia Fischer, Sebastian Pütz and Daniël de Kok
  Association Metrics in Neural Transition-Based Dependency Parsing


• Saeko Komori, Masatoshi Sugiura and Wenping Li
  Examining MDD and MHD as Syntactic Complexity Measures with Intermediate Japanese Learner Corpus Data


• Yixuan Li, Gerdes Kim and Dong Chuanming
  Character-level Annotation for Chinese Surface-Syntactic Universal Dependencies

TLT - Long papers

• Bernard Caron, Marine Courtin, Kim Gerdes and Sylvain Kahane
  A Surface-Syntactic UD Treebank for Naija


• Eva Hajičová, Jiří Mírovský and Kateřina Rysová
  Ordering of Adverbials of Time and Place in Grammars and in an Annotated English-Czech Parallel Corpus


• Himanshu Yadav, Samar Husain and Richard Futrell
  Are formal restrictions on crossing dependencies epiphenominal?


• Kartik Sharma, Kaivalya Swami, Aditya Shete and Samar Husain
  Can Greenbergian universals be induced from language networks?


• William Dyer
  Weighted posets: Learning surface order from dependency trees


• Zdeňka Urešová, Eva Fučíková, Eva Hajičová and Jan Hajič
  Parallel Dependency Treebank Annotated with Interlinked Verbal Synonym Classes and Roles

TLT - Short papers

• Alek Keersmaekers, Wouter Mercelis, Colin Swaelens and Toon Van Hal
  Creating, Enriching and Valorizing Treebanks of Ancient Greek


• Andrea Dömötör
  Syntax is clearer on the other side - Using parallel corpus to extract monolingual data


• Francesco Mambrini and Marco Passarotti
  Linked Open Treebanks. Interlinking Syntactically Annotated Corpora in the LiLa Knowledge Base of Linguistic Resources for Latin


• Ines Rehbein, Josef Ruppenhofer and Bich-Ngoc Do
  tweeDe – A Universal Dependencies treebank for German tweets


• Kim Gerdes, Bruno Guillaume, Sylvain Kahane and Guy Perrier
  Improving Surface-syntactic Universal Dependencies (SUD): MWEs and deep syntactic features


• Mark Anderson, David Vilares and Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez
  Artificially Evolved Chunks for Morphosyntactic Analysis


• Mathilde Regnault, Sophie Prévost and Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie
  Challenges of language change and variation: towards an extended treebank of Medieval French


• Özlem Çetinoğlu and Çağrı Çöltekin
  Challenges of Annotating a Code-Switching Treebank


• Urmi Ghosh, Dipti Sharma and Simran Khanuja
  Dependency Parser for Bengali-English Code-Mixed Data enhanced with a Synthetic Treebank

UDW - Long papers

• Adam Przepiórkowski and Agnieszka Patejuk
  Nested Coordination in Universal Dependencies


• Aleksandra Miletic, Myriam Bras, Louise Esher, Jean Sibille and Marianne Vergez-Couret
  Building a treebank for Occitan: what use for Romance UD corpora?


• Cheikh Bamba Dione
  Developing Universal Dependencies for Wolof


• Emanuel Borges Völker, Maximilian Wendt, Felix Hennig and Arne Köhn
  HDT-UD: A very large Universal Dependencies Treebank for German


• Kaja Dobrovoljc, Tomaž Erjavec and Nikola Ljubešić
  Improving UD processing via satellite resources for morphology


• Natalia Levshina
  Universal Dependencies in a galaxy far, far away… What makes Yoda’s English truly alien

UDW - Short papers

• Guillaume Thomas
  Universal Dependencies for Mbyá Guaraní


• Johannes Heinecke
  A Dependency Treebank for Welsh


• Johannes Heinecke
  ConlluEditor: a fully graphical editor for Universal dependencies treebank files


• Kim Gerdes, Sylvain Kahane and Xinying Chen
  Rediscovering Greenberg’s Word Order Universals in UD


• Lars Ahrenberg
  Towards an adequate account of parataxis in Universal Dependencies


• Mohab Elkaref and Bernd Bohnet
  Recursive LSTM Tree Representation for Arc-Standard Transition-Based Dependency Parsing


• Niko Partanen and Jack Rueter
  Survey of Uralic Universal Dependencies development


• Petya Osenova and Kiril Simov
  Towards transferring Bulgarian Sentences with Elliptical Elements to Universal Dependencies: issues and strategies


• Tommi A Pirinen
  Building minority dependency treebanks, dictionaries and computational grammars at the same time---an experiment in Karelian treebanking


• Utku Türk, Furkan Atmaca, Şaziye Betül Özateş, Balkız Öztürk Başaran, Tunga Güngör and Arzucan Özgür
  Improving the Annotations in the Turkish Universal Dependency Treebank