19^th International Conference on Parsing Technologies(IWPT 2020)

July 9, 2020, Seattle,United States

Call for Papers

The IWPT 2020 Shared Task will be on Multilingual Parsing into Enhanced Universal Dependencies (EUD). In recent years, Universal Dependencies (UD)-the de-facto standard target representations in surface-syntactic dependency parsing-have grown a second layer of structure, called enhanced dependencies, where grammatical relations that cannot be adequately represented in pure rooted trees are encoded, for example control relations and argument sharing in relative clauses, shared dependencies involving coordinate structures, and dependencies involving ellipsis. Enhanced dependencies call for non-tree graphs with reentrancies, cycles, and empty nodes.

Topics of Interest :

• Parsing of natural language (phonological, morphological, syntactic, semantic, discourse, etc.)
• Formal models and algorithms for recognition, parsing and transduction
• Machine learning techniques for syntax and parsing
• Complexity of languages, models and algorithms
• Learning of recursive structure (linguistic/latent)
• Parsing in machine translation (synchronous parsing; alignment by parsing; translation by parsing, etc.)
• Cognitive models of language processing
• Multilingual and multimodal perspectives on syntax and parsing
• Domain and genre adaptation, portability and robustness of parsing systems
• Practical applications of parsing technology
• Parser evaluation (across languages and frameworks)
• Neural Network Models for linguistic structure predictions
• Combining distributional and symbolic signals for linguistic structure prediction
• Multilingual and Universal Parsing, Parsing typologically different languages
• Parsing low-resource languages and cross-lingual or domain transfer
• Unblackboxing deep learning models to probe their level of linguistic analysis
• Integrating morphology via character-based models, subword embeddings, and beyond

Paper Submission

All submissions must follow the ACL 2020 guidelines. Style templates for LaTeX and Microsoft Word are available at the following web site http://acl2020.org/calls/papers/.Submissions must be anonymous, i.e. not reveal author(s) on the title page or through self-references. Papers must be submitted digitally, in PDF, and uploaded through the online conference system:

The page limits for submissions are: up to nine pages of content for regular papers, and up to four pages of content for short papers; any additional number of pages can be used for bibliographic references.