SyntaxFest 2019 - Program
Quasy / DepLing / TLT / UDW| QUASY | |||
| Monday 26th | 8:30 | REGISTRATION | |
| Monday 26th | 9:30 | OPENING SESSION | |
| Monday 26th | 9:40 | INVITED TALK:
Ramon Ferrer i Cancho (Universitat politècnica de Catalunya) Dependency distance minimization: facts, theory and predictions |
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| Monday 26th | 10:30 | COFFEE BREAK | |
| Monday 26th | 11:00-12:30 | Chair: Richard Futrell | |
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11:00 |
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Which annotation scheme is more expedient to measure syntactic difficulty and cognitive demand? Jianwei Yan and Haitao Liu |
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11:25 |
LONG |
An explanation of the decisive role of function words in driving syntactic development. Anat Ninio |
11:50 |
SHORT |
Extracting out of the subject in French: experimental evidence. Anne Abeillé and Elodie Winckel |
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12:10 |
SHORT |
Full valency and the position of enclitics in the Old Czech. Radek Cech, Pavel Kosek, Olga Navratilova and Jan Macutek |
| Monday 26th | 12:30 | LUNCH | |
| Monday 26th | 14:00-15:50 | Chair: Natalia Levshina | |
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14:00 |
LONG |
A quantitative probe into the hierarchical structure of written Chinese. Heng Chen and Haitao Liu |
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14:25 |
LONG |
Intervention effects in object relatives in English and Italian: a study in quantitative computational syntax. Giuseppe Samo and Paola Merlo |
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14:50 |
SHORT |
Gradient constraints on the use of Estonian possessive reflexives Suzanne Lesage and Olivier Bonami |
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15:10 |
SHORT |
What can we learn from natural and artificial dependency trees. Marine Courtin and Chunxiao Yan |
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15:30 |
SHORT |
Length of non-projective sentences: A pilot study using a Czech UD treebank. Jan Macutek, Radek Cech and Jiri Milicka |
| Monday 26th | 15:50 | COFFEE BREAK | |
| Monday 26th | 16:20-17:50 | Chair: Radek Cech | |
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16:20 |
LONG |
Information-theoretic locality properties of natural language. Richard Futrell |
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16:45 |
LONG |
A comparative corpus analysis of PP ordering in English and Chinese. Zoey Liu |
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17:10 |
SHORT |
Advantages of the flux-based interpretation of dependency length minimization. Sylvain Kahane and Chunxiao Yan |
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17:30 |
SHORT |
Dependency length minimization vs. word order constraints: An empirical study on 55 treebanks. Xiang Yu, Agnieszka Falenska and Jonas Kuhn |
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17:50 |
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The relation between dependency distance and frequency. Xinying Chen and Kim Gerdes |
| Monday 26th | 18:10 | QUASY CLOSING SESSION | |
| Monday 26th | 18:20 | WELCOME DRINK | |
| DEPLING | |||
| Tuesday 27th | 9:00-10:40 | Chair: Djamé Seddah | |
| 9:00 | INVITED TALK:
Emmanuel Dupoux (ENS/CNRS/EHESS/INRIA/PSL Research University, Paris) Inductive biases and language emergence in communicative agents |
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10:00 |
SHORT |
Examining MDD and MHD as Syntactic Complexity Measures with Intermediate Japanese Learner Corpus Data Saeko Komori, Masatoshi Sugiura and Wenping Li |
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10:20 |
SHORT |
Quantitative Analysis on verb valence evolution of Chinese Bingli Liu, Chunshan Xu, Yan Wang and Xu Liu |
| Tuesday 27th | 10:40 | COFFEE BREAK | |
| Tuesday 27th | 11:10-12:25 | Chair: Dan Maxwell | |
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11:10 |
LONG |
Syntactic dependencies correspond to word pairs with high mutual information Richard Futrell, Peng Qian, Edward Gibson, Evelina Fedorenko and Idan Blank |
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11:35 |
LONG |
Coordination of Unlike Grammatical Functions Agnieszka Patejuk and Adam Przepiórkowski |
12:00 |
LONG |
Predicate Catenae: A Dependency Grammar Analysis of It-Clefts Timothy Osborne |
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| Tuesday 27th | 12:25 | LUNCH | |
| Tuesday 27th | 13:55-11:30 | Chair: Gérard Huet | |
13:55 |
LONG |
The evolution of spatial rationales in Tesnière’s stemmas Nicolas Mazziotta |
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14:20 |
LONG |
Toward a cognitive dependency grammar of Hungarian András Imrényi |
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14:45 |
SHORT |
A Spanish E-dictionary of Collocations Maria Auxiliadora Barrios Rodriguez and Igor Boguslavsky |
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15:05 |
SHORT |
Character-level Annotation for Chinese Surface-Syntactic Universal Dependencies Yixuan Li, Gerdes Kim and Dong Chuanming |
| Tuesday 27th | 15:25 | COFFEE BREAK | |
| Tuesday 27th | 16:00-17:40 | Chair: Carlos Ramisch | |
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15:55 |
SHORT |
Experiments on Human Incremental Parsing Leonid Mityushin and Leonid Iomdin |
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16:15 |
LONG |
Identifying Grammar Rules for Language Education with Dependency Parsing in German Eleni Metheniti, Pomi Park, Kristina Kolesova and Günter Neumann |
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16:40 |
SHORT |
Association Metrics in Neural Transition-Based Dependency Parsing Patricia Fischer, Sebastian Pütz and Daniël de Kok |
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17:00 |
SHORT |
Dependency Parsing as Sequence Labeling with Head-Based Encoding and Multi-Task Learning Ophélie Lacroix |
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17:20 |
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How to Parse Low-Resource Languages: Cross-Lingual Parsing, Target Language Annotation, or Both? Ailsa Meechan-Maddon and Joakim Nivre |
| Tuesday 27th | 17:40 | DEPLING BUSINESS MEETING | |
| Wednesday 28th | 9:00-10:25 | Chair: Marie Candito | |
| slides | 9:00 | INVITED TALK:
Barbara Plank (IT University of Copenhagen) Transferring NLP models across languages and domains |
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10:00 |
LONG |
Reflexives in Czech from a Dependency Perspective Vaclava Kettnerova and Marketa Lopatkova |
| Wednesday 28th | 10:25 | COFFEE BREAK | |
| Wednesday 28th | 10:50-12:35 | Chair: Igor Boguslavsky | |
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10:50 |
SHORT |
Delimiting Adverbial Meanings. A corpus-based comparative study on Czech spatial prepositions and their English equivalents Marie Mikulová, Veronika Kolářová, Jarmila Panevová and Eva Hajičová |
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11:10 |
LONG |
Cliticization of Serbian Personal Pronouns and Auxiliary Verbs. A Dependency-Based Account Jasmina Milicevic |
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11:35 |
SHORT |
Presenting TWITTIRÒ-UD: An Italian Twitter Treebank in Universal Dependencies Alessandra Teresa Cignarella, Cristina Bosco and Paolo Rosso |
11:55 |
SHORT |
Exceptive constructions. A Dependency-based Analysis Mohamed Galal, Sylvain Kahane and Yomna Safwat |
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12:15 |
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Word order variation in Mbyá Guaraní Angelika Kiss and Guillaume Thomas |
| Wednesday 28th | 12:35 | LUNCH | |
| Wednesday 28th | 14:00-15:30 | Chair: Guy Perrier | |
14:00 |
LONG |
Noun Phrases Rooted by Adjectives: A Dependency Grammar Analysis of the Big Mess Construction Timothy Osborne |
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14:25 |
LONG |
Interpreting and defining connections in a dependency structure Sylvain Kahane |
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14:50 |
SHORT |
Pān.inian Syntactico-Semantic Relation Labels Amba Kulkarni |
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15:10 |
SHORT |
Towards Deep Universal Dependencies Kira Droganova and Daniel Zeman |
| Wednesday 28th | 15:30 | COFFEE BREAK | |
| TLT | |||
| Wednesday 28th | 16:00-18:00 | Chair: Timothy Osborne | |
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16:00 |
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Are formal restrictions on crossing dependencies epiphenominal? Himanshu Yadav, Samar Husain and Richard Futrell |
| slides< | 16:30 | LONG | Weighted posets: Learning surface order from dependency trees William Dyer |
| slides | 17:00 | SHORT | Dependency Parser for Bengali-English Code-Mixed Data enhanced with a Synthetic Treebank Urmi Ghosh, Dipti Sharma and Simran Khanuja |
| slides | 17:20 | SHORT | Artificially Evolved Chunks for Morphosyntactic Analysis Mark Anderson, David Vilares and Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez |
| 17:40 | SHORT | Syntax is clearer on the other side - Using parallel corpus to extract monolingual data Andrea Dömötör |
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| Thursday 29th | 9:00-10:30 | Chair: Eric de la Clergerie | |
| slides | 9:00 | INVITED TALK:
Paola Merlo (University of Geneva) Quantitative Computational Syntax: dependencies, intervention effects and word embeddings |
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| slides | 10:00 | LONG | Parallel Dependency Treebank Annotated with Interlinked Verbal Synonym Classes and Roles Zdeňka Urešová, Eva Fučíková, Eva Hajičová and Jan Hajič |
| Thursday 29th | 10:30 | COFFEE BREAK | |
| Thursday 29th | 11:00-12:30 | Chair: Yannick Versley | |
| slides | 11:00 | LONG | Ordering of Adverbials of Time and Place in Grammars and in an Annotated English-Czech Parallel Corpus Eva Hajičová, Jiří Mírovský and Kateřina Rysová |
| slides | 11:30 | SHORT | Creating, Enriching and Valorizing Treebanks of Ancient Greek Alek Keersmaekers, Wouter Mercelis, Colin Swaelens and Toon Van Hal |
| slides | 11:50 | SHORT | Challenges of language change and variation: towards an extended treebank of Medieval French Mathilde Regnault, Sophie Prévost and Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie |
| slides | 12:10 | SHORT | Improving Surface-syntactic Universal Dependencies (SUD): MWEs and deep syntactic features Kim Gerdes, Bruno Guillaume, Sylvain Kahane and Guy Perrier |
| Thursday 29th | 12:30 | LUNCH | |
| Thursday 29th | 14:00-16:00 | Chair: Eva Hajičová | |
| slides Hamlet in Naija (video extract) |
14:00 | LONG | A Surface-Syntactic UD Treebank for Naija Bernard Caron, Marine Courtin, Kim Gerdes and Sylvain Kahane |
| slides | 14:30 | LONG | Can Greenbergian universals be induced from language networks? Kartik Sharma, Kaivalya Swami, Aditya Shete and Samar Husain |
| slides | 15:00 | SHORT | Linked Open Treebanks. Interlinking Syntactically Annotated Corpora in the LiLa Knowledge Base of Linguistic Resources for Latin Francesco Mambrini and Marco Passarotti |
| slides | 15:20 | SHORT | Challenges of Annotating a Code-Switching Treebank Özlem Çetinoğlu and Çağrı Çöltekin |
| slides | 15:40 | SHORT | tweeDe – A Universal Dependencies treebank for German tweets Ines Rehbein, Josef Ruppenhofer and Bich-Ngoc Do |
| Thursday 29th | 16:00 | TLT CLOSING SESSION | |
| Thursday 29th | 16:15 | COFFEE BREAK | |
| UDW | |||
| Thursday 29th | 16:30 | UD discussion (16:30 - 18:30) | |
| Friday 30th | 9:00-11:15 | Chair: Teresa Lynn | |
| slides | 09:00-10:00 | INVITED TALK:
Adam Przepiórkowski (University of Warsaw / Polish Academy of Sciences / University of Oxford) Arguments and adjuncts |
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| 10:00 | LONG | Universal Dependencies in a galaxy far, far away… What makes Yoda’s English truly alien Natalia Levshina |
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| slides | 10:25 | LONG | Nested Coordination in Universal Dependencies Adam Przepiórkowski and Agnieszka Patejuk |
| slides | 10:50 | LONG | Improving UD processing via satellite resources for morphology Kaja Dobrovoljc, Tomaž Erjavec and Nikola Ljubešić |
| Friday 30th | 11:15 | COFFEE BREAK | |
| Friday 30th | 11:45-13:00 | Chair: Dan Zeman | |
| slides | 11:45 | LONG | HDT-UD: A very large Universal Dependencies Treebank for German Emanuel Borges Völker, Maximilian Wendt, Felix Hennig and Arne Köhn |
| 12:10 | LONG | Developing Universal Dependencies for Wolof Cheikh Bamba Dione |
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| slides | 12:35 | LONG | Building a treebank for Occitan: what use for Romance UD corpora? Aleksandra Miletic, Myriam Bras, Louise Esher, Jean Sibille and Marianne Vergez-Couret |
| 12:50 | LUNCH | ||
| Friday 30th | 14:00-15:45 | Chair: Arne Köhn | |
| 14:00 | SHORT | Comparing learnability of two dependency approaches to headedness: ‘semantic’ (UD) and ‘syntactic’ (SUD) Aleksander Leczkowski, Adam Przepiórkowski and Ryszard Tuora (oral presentation only) |
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| slides | 14:15 | SHORT | Universal Dependencies for Mbyá Guaraní Guillaume Thomas |
| slides | 14:30 | SHORT | A Dependency Treebank for Welsh Johannes Heinecke (oral presentation only) |
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14:45 | SHORT | ConlluEditor: a fully graphical editor for Universal dependencies treebank files Johannes Heinecke |
| 15:00 | SHORT | Rediscovering Greenberg’s Word Order Universals in UD Kim Gerdes, Sylvain Kahane and Xinying Chen |
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| slides | 15:15 | SHORT | Towards an adequate account of parataxis in Universal Dependencies Lars Ahrenberg |
| 15:30 | COFFEE BREAK | ||
| Friday 30th | 16:00-17:30 | Chair: Joakim Nivre | |
| slides | 16:00 | SHORT | Survey of Uralic Universal Dependencies development Niko Partanen and Jack Rueter |
| slides | 16:15 | SHORT | Towards transferring Bulgarian Sentences with Elliptical Elements to Universal Dependencies: issues and strategies Petya Osenova and Kiril Simov |
| slides | 16:30 | SHORT | Building minority dependency treebanks, dictionaries and computational grammars at the same time – an experiment in Karelian treebanking Tommi A Pirinen |
| slides | 16:45 | SHORT | Improving the Annotations in the Turkish Universal Dependency Treebank Utku Türk, Furkan Atmaca, Şaziye Betül Özateş, Balkız Öztürk Başaran, Tunga Güngör and Arzucan Özgür |
| 17:00 | UDW CLOSING SESSION | ||