Tuesday, August 26, 2025	Wednesday, August 27, 2025	Thursday, August 28, 2025	Friday, August 29, 2025
AM Slot 1	UniDive	UDW	DepLing	TLT
AM Slot 2	UniDive	UDW	DepLing	QUASY
PM Slot 1	IWPT	UDW + DepLing	TLT	QUASY
PM Slot 2	IWPT	Joint posters	Joint posters	Joint posters
Evening	Welcome Reception	Guided Tour	Conference Dinner

Below is the preliminary detailed schedule of the conference. Note that the programme is subject to change before the start of the event. All times are CEST.
All presentation sessions will be held in the Red Hall at the conference venue, with the poster sessions taking place in the lobby area in front of the Red Hall.

Last program update: 11.07.2025.
Instructions for the presenters can be found here.

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• Day 1: Tuesday, August 26, 2025
• Day 2: Wednesday, August 27, 2025
• Day 3: Thursday, August 28, 2025
• Day 4: Friday, August 29, 2025

Day 1: Tuesday, August 26, 2025

08:00	Registration Desk Opens
09:00 – 10:30	[9:00-10:30] UniDive Shared Task on Morphosyntactic parsing Location: Red Hall	[9:00-10:30] UniDive Turkic UD Workshop Location: Grey Hall
10:30 – 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:30	[11:00-12:30] UniDive Shared Task on Morphosyntactic parsing Location: Red Hall	[11:00-13:00] UniDive Turkic UD Workshop Location: Grey Hall
12:30 – 14:00	Lunch
14:00 – 15:20	Session 1 – IWPT Chair: TBA [14:00-14:30] Conference opening [14:30-15:20] 🎤KEYNOTE: Isabel Papadimitriou (Harvard University) Title TBA
15:20 – 15:50	Coffee Break
15:50 – 17:20	Session 2 – IWPT Chair: TBA [15:50-16:10] Step-by-step Instructions and a Simple Tabular Output Format Improve the Dependency Parsing Accuracy of LLMs Hiroshi Matsuda, Chunpeng Ma, Masayuki Asahara [16:10-16:30] An Efficient Parser for Bounded-Order Product-Free Lambek Categorial Grammar via Term Graph Jinman Zhao, Gerald Penn [16:30-16:50] Crosslingual Dependency Parsing of Hawaiian and Cook Islands Māori using Universal Dependencies Gabriel H. Gilbert, Rolando Coto-Solano, Sally Akevai Nicholas, Lauren Houchens, Sabrina Barton, Trinity Pryor [16:50-17:05] CCG Revisited: A Multilingual Empirical Study of the Kuhlmann-Satta Algorithm Paul He, Gerald Penn [17:05-17:20] High-Accuracy Transition-Based Constituency Parsing John Bauer, Christopher D Manning
17:20+	Welcome Reception

Day 2: Wednesday, August 27, 2025

08:30	Registration Desk Opens
09:00 – 10:30	Session 3 – UDW Chair: TBA [9:00-9:50] 🎤KEYNOTE: Miryam de Lhoneux (KU Leuven) Typologically informed NLP evaluation [9:50-10:10] TreEn: A Multilingual Treebank Project on Environmental Discourse Adriana Silvina Pagano, Patricia Chiril, Elisa Chierchiello, Cristina Bosco [10-10-10:30] Crossing Dialectal Boundaries: Building a Treebank for the Dialect of Lesbos through Knowledge Transfer from Standard Modern Greek Stavros Bompolas, Stella Markantonatou, Angela Ralli, Antonios Anastasopoulos
10:30 – 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:30	Session 4 – UDW Chair: TBA [11:00-11:15] Negation in Universal Dependencies Jamie Yates Findlay, Dag Trygve Truslew Haug [11:15-11:30] A UD Treebank for Bohairic Coptic Amir Zeldes, Nina Speransky, Nicholas E. Wagner, Caroline T. Schroeder [11:30-11:45] Annotation of Relative Forms in the Egyptian-UJaen Treebank Roberto A. Diaz Hernandez, Daniel Zeman [11:45-12:00] MultiBLiMP 1.0: A Massively Multilingual Benchmark of Linguistic Minimal Pairs Jaap Jumelet, Leonie Weissweiler, Arianna Bisazza [12:00-12:15] Universal Dependencies for Suansu Jessica K. Ivani, Kira Tulchynska [12:15-12:30] Building UD Cairo for Old English in the Classroom Lauren Levine, Junghyun Min, Amir Zeldes
12:30 – 14:00	Lunch
14:00 – 15:30	Session 5 – DepLing / UDW Chair: TBA [14:00-14:50] 🎤KEYNOTE: Dan Zeman (Charles University, Prague) Auxiliaries across Languages and Frameworks [14:50-15:10] Annotating Second Language in Universal Dependencies: a Review of Current Practices and Directions for Harmonized Guidelines Arianna Masciolini, Aleksandrs Berdicevskis, Maria Irena Szawerna, Elena Volodina [15:10-15:30] Reference and Modification in Universal Dependencies Joakim Nivre, William Croft
15:30 – 16:00	Coffee Break
16:00 – 17:30	Session 6: Joint Poster Session A Chair: TBA [16:00-16:30] Lightning talks (2 min per poster) Location: Red Hall [16:30-17:30] Poster Session Location: Lobby UD Treebanks for Esperanto as a natural language Masanori Oya UD-English-CHILDES: A Collected Resource of Gold and Silver Universal Dependencies Trees for Child Language Interactions Xiulin Yang, Zhuoxuan Ju, Lanni Bu, Zoey Liu, Nathan Schneider Universal Dependencies for Sindhi John Bauer, Sakeena Shah, Muhammad Shaheer, Mir Afzal Ahmed Talpur, Zubair Sanjrani, Sarwat Qureshi, SHAFI M PIRZADA, Christopher D Manning, Mutee U Rahman Universal Dependencies Treebank for Khoekhoe (KDT) Kira Tulchynska, Sylvanus Job, Alena Witzlack-Makarevich Parallel Universal Dependencies Treebanks for Turkic Languages Arofat Akhundjanova, Furkan Akkurt, Bermet Chontaeva, Soudabeh Eslami, Cagri Coltekin Towards better annotation practices for symmetrical voice in Universal Dependencies Andrew Thomas Dyer, Colleen Alena O'Brien Extending the Enhanced Universal Dependencies – addressing subjects in pro-drop languages Magali Sanches Duran, Elvis A. de Souza, Maria das Graças Volpe Nunes, Adriana Silvina Pagano, Thiago A. S. Pardo Developing a Universal Dependencies Treebank for Alaskan Gwich’in Matthew Kirk Andrews, Cagri Coltekin Quid verbumst? Applying a definition of word to Latin in Universal Dependencies Flavio Massimiliano Cecchini ShUD: the First Shanghainese Universal Dependency Treebank [Remote] Qizhen Yang Introducing KIParla Forest: seeds for a UD annotation of interactional syntax Ludovica Pannitto, Eleonora Zucchini, Silvia Ballarè, Cristina Bosco, Caterina Mauri, Manuela Sanguinetti Word Order Variation in Spoken and Written Corpora: A Cross-Linguistic Study of SVO and Alternative Orders Nives Hüll, Kaja Dobrovoljc A morpheme-based treebank for Gbaya, an Ubanguian language of Central Africa Roulon-Doko Paulette, Sylvain Kahane, Bruno Guillaume UD Annotation of Experience Clauses in Tigrinya Michael Gasser, Nazareth Amlesom Kifle
18:00	Guided Tour

Day 3: Thursday, August 28, 2025

08:30	Registration Desk Opens
09:00 – 10:30	Session 7 – DepLing Chair: TBA [9:00-9:50] 🎤KEYNOTE: Artur Stepanov (University of Nova Gorica) What we learn about syntax when dependencies fail: Experimental insights into syntactic locality constraints [9:50-10:10] A corpus-driven description of OV order in Archaic Chinese Qishen WU, Santiago Herrera, Pierre Magistry, Sylvain Kahane [10:10-10:30] Periphrastic Verb Forms in Universal Dependencies Lenka Krippnerová, Daniel Zeman
10:30 – 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:30	Session 8 – DepLing Chair: TBA [11:00-11:15] Tracing Syntactic Complexity: Exploring the Evolution of Average Dependency Length Across Three Centuries of Scientific English Marie-Pauline Krielke, Diego Alves, Luigi Talamo [11:15-11:30] Modeling Syntactic Dependencies in Southern Dutch Dialects Loic De Langhe, Jasper Degraeuwe, Melissa Farasyn, Veronique Hoste [11:30-11:45] Assessing the Agreement Competence of Large Language Models Alba Táboas García, Leo Wanner [11:45-12:00] Genre Variation in Dependency Types: A Two-Level Genre Analysis Using the Czech National Corpus Xinying Chen, Miroslav Kubát [12:00-12:15] Distance and Projectivity as Predictors of Sentence Acceptability in Free Word Order Languages Kirill Chuprinko, Artem Novozhilov, Arthur Stepanov [12:15-12:30] Head-initial and head-Final coordinate structures in two annotation schemes of dependency grammar Timothy John Osborne, Chenchen Song
12:30 – 14:00	Lunch
14:00 – 15:30	Session 9 – TLT Chair: TBA [14:00-14:50] 🎤KEYNOTE: Amir Zeldes (Georgetown University) Subject prominence revisited: What makes entities salient? [14:50-15:10] STARK: A Toolkit for Dependency (Sub)Tree Extraction and Analysis Luka Krsnik, Kaja Dobrovoljc [15:10-15:30] Status of morphosyntactic features Illustration with written and spoken French UD treebanks Sylvain Kahane, Bruno Guillaume, Léna Brun, Simeng Song
15:30 – 16:00	Coffee Break
16:00 – 17:30	Session 10: Joint Poster Session B Chair: TBA [16:00-16:30] Lightning talks (2 min per poster) Location: Red Hall [16:30-17:30] Poster Session Location: Lobby Universal Dependencies for the Alemannic Alsatian Dialects Barbara Hoff, Nathanaël Beiner, Delphine Bernhard Expanding the Universal Dependencies Ancient Hebrew Treebank with Constituency Data Daniel G. Swanson Graph Databases for Fast Queries in UD Treebanks Niklas Deworetzki, Peter Ljunglöf Segmentation of Sino-origin words to enhance the representation of Korean and Japanese in S/UD-format treebanks Raoul Blin, Jinnam Choi A New Hebrew Universal Dependency Treebank: The First Treebank of Post-Rabbinic Historical Hebrew Rachel Tal, Shlomit Fuchs, Orly Albeck, Elisheva Brauner, Yitzchak Lindenbaum, Ephraim Meiri, Avi Shmidman Universal Dependency Treebank for a low-resource Dardic Language: Torwali Naeem Uddin, Daniel Zeman Syntax of referents of relative markers: Evidence from a corpus of learner English Izabela Czerniak, Debopam Das A Typology of Non-Projective Patterns in Unas's and Teti's Pyramid Texts Roberto A. Diaz Hernandez Dependency Analysis of Chinese Comparative Sentences Zexin Liu Dative alternations in less-researched syntactic patterns of standard Croatian Matea Andrea Birtić, Siniša Runjaić, Robert Sviben A Quantitative Study of Subject-Predicate-Object Word Class Composition in vernacular Chinese Based on Dependency Grammar Bingli Liu, Yiyi Zhao Syntactic units and their length distributions: A case study in Czech Michaela Nogolová, Michaela Koščová, Jan Macutek, Radek Cech Modeling the Law of Abbreviation in Classical, Modern, and ChatGPT-Generated Chinese: A Power-Law Analysis of Structural Economy Jianwei Yan, Heng Chen
19:00	Conference Dinner

Day 4: Friday, August 29, 2025

08:30	Registration Desk Opens
09:00 – 10:30	Session 11 – TLT Chair: TBA [9:00-9:20] ComparaTree: A Multi-Level Comparative Treebank Analysis Tool Luka Terčon, Kaja Dobrovoljc [9:20-9:40] Metaphorical Heads and Literal Dependents: Syntactic Properties of Metaphors in German Stefanie Dipper [9:40-10:00] Automatic Evaluation of Linguistic Validity in Japanese CCG Treebanks Asa Tomita, Hitomi Yanaka, Daisuke Bekki [10:00-10:15] Annotation of Chinese Light Verb Constructions within UMR Jingyi Li, Jin Zhao, Nianwen Xue, Shili Ge [10:15-10:30] Legal-CGEL: Analyzing Legal Text in the CGELBank Framework Brandon Waldon, Micaela Wells, Devika Tiwari, Meru Gopalan, Nathan Schneider
10:30 – 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:30	Session 12 – QUASY Chair: TBA [11:00-11:50] 🎤KEYNOTE: Xiaofei Lu (The Pennsylvania State University) The rhetorical and pragmatic functions of syntactically complex structures in academic and second language writing [11:50-12:10] On the Flatness, Non-linearity, and Branching Direction of Natural Language and Random Constituency Trees: Analyzing Structural Variation within and across Languages Taiga Ishii, Yusuke Miyao [12:10-12:30] Extraction of Contrastive Rules from Syntactic Treebanks: A Case Study in Romance Languages Santiago Herrera, Ioana-Madalina Silai, Bruno Guillaume, Sylvain Kahane
12:30 – 14:00	Lunch
14:00 – 15:30	Session 13 – QUASY Chair: TBA [14:00-14:15] A Quantitative Study of Syntactic Complexity across Genres: Dependency Distance in English and Chinese Yaqin Wang [14:15-14:30] Syntactic Complexity in L2 Reading: A Comparison of Adapted and Original Czech Texts Žaneta Stiborská, Michaela Nogolová, Xinying Chen, Miroslav Kubát [14:30-14:45] First Insights into the Syntax of Slovene Student Writing: A Statistical Analysis of Šolar 3.0 vs. Učbeniki 1.0 Tina Munda, Špela Arhar Holdt [14:45-15:00] Subject-Verb Agreement Alternations in Spanish Pseudopartitive Constructions: A Corpus Study Marina Cerebrinsky [15:00-15:15] A Computational Method for Analyzing Syntactic Profiles: The Case of the ELEXIS-WSD Parallel Sense-Annotated Corpus Jaka Čibej [15:15-15:30] Syntactic Complexity and News Credibility in Czech Media Miroslav Kubát, Xinying Chen, Michaela Nogolová, Michal Místecký
15:30 – 16:00	Coffee Break
16:00 – 17:20	Session 14: Joint Poster Session C Chair: TBA [16:00-16:20] Lightning talks (2 min per poster) Location: Red Hall [16:20-17:20] Poster Session Location: Lobby Degree centrality as a measure of robustness of dependency structures of the sentences in a large-scale learner corpus of English Masanori Oya Application of Existing Readability Methods to the Ukrainian Language: A Comprehensive Study Serhii D Prykhodchenko, Oksana Yu. Prykhodchenko The Interplay of Noun Phrase Complexity and Modification Type in Scientific Writing Isabell Landwehr Predictability Effects of Spanish-English Code-Switching: A Directionality and Part of Speech Analysis Josh Higdon, Valeria Pagliai, Zoey Liu Do Multilingual Transformers Encode Paninian Grammatical Relations? A Layer-wise Probing Study Akshit Kumar, Dipti Sharma, Parameswari Krishnamurthy «Are you Afraid of Ghosts?» A Proposal for Busting Predicate Ellipsis in Universal Dependencies Claudia Corbetta, Federica Iurescia, Marco Carlo Passarotti Case Syncretism in Kasavakan Puyuma: A Field Data Analysis of Noun Phrase Markers Deborah Watty, Yung-Jui Yao, Jens N. Watty How to Create Treebanks without Human Annotators -- An Indigenous Language Grammar Checker for Treebank Construction Linda Wiechetek, Flammie A Pirinen, Maja Lisa Kappfjell An intonosyntactic treebank for spoken French: What is new with Rhapsodie? Maria Paz Botero-Garcia, Emmett Strickland, Bruno Guillaume, Sylvain Kahane, Anne Lacheret-Dujour
17:20 – 17:30	Closing Session