NAACL-HLT 2012 Workshop on Inducing Linguistic Structure
Welcome to the homepage of the NAACL-HLT 2012 Workshop on Inducing Linguistic Structure. This workshop addresses the challenges of learning in an unsupervised or minimally supervised context with questions of linguistic structure. It encompasses many popular themes in computational linguistics and machine learning, including grammar induction, shallow syntax induction (e.g., parts of speech), learning semantics, learning the structure of documents and discourses, and learning relations within multilingual text collections. Unlike supervised settings, where annotated training data is available, unsupervised induction is considerably more difficult, both in terms of modelling and evaluation.
For more information see the CallForPapers and the following links
Description of the SharedTask
The webpage for NAACL-HLT 2012
Paper submissions
We solicit papers from many subfields of computational linguistics and language processing. Topics include, but are not limited to - grammar learning - part-of-speech and shallow syntax - learning semantic representations - inducing document and discourse structure - learning/projecting structures across multilingual corpora - relation induction across document collections - evaluation of induced representations Our aim is to bring together work on fully unsupervised methods along with minimally supervised approaches (e.g., domain adaptation and multilingual projection).
The workshop will solicit short papers (6 pages) for either oral or poster presentation. Please submit your papers using the following link
Important Dates
Workshop
Workshop Papers Submission |
April 6 |
Acceptance Notification |
April 24 |
Workshop Camera Ready |
May 7 |
NAACL-HLT 2012 |
Jun 4-6, 2012 |
Workshop |
Jun 7-8, 2012 |
Shared Task
Training Data Released |
Jan 27 |
Test Data Release |
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Test Data Submission |
April 13 |
Evaluation results released |
April 23 |
Shared Task System Description Submission |
May 4 |
NAACL-HLT 2012 |
Jun 4-6, 2012 |
Workshop |
Jun 7-8, 2012 |
News
Jan 27 Training data has been released.
Feb 8 Accommodation after NAACL will be tight due to an overlap with a Formula 1 event. You will need to book your hotel early so that you can attend the workshops.
Organisers
- Trevor Cohn, The University of Sheffield
- João Graça, Spoken Language Systems Lab, INESC-ID Lisboa
- Phil Blunsom, The University of Oxford
Program Committee
- Ben Taskar - University of Pennsylvania
- Percy Liang - Stanford University
- Andreas Vlachos - University of Cambridge
- Chris Dyer - CMU
- Mark Drezde - John Hopkins
- Shai Cohen - Columbia University
- Kuzman Ganchev - Google Inc.
- André Martins - CMU/IST Portugal
- Greg Druck - Yahoo
Ryan McDonald - Google Inc.
- Nathan Schneider - CMU
- Partha Talukdar - CMU
- Dipanjan Das - CMU
- Mark Steedman - University of Edinburgh
- Luke Zettlemoyer - University of Washington
- Roi Reichart - MIT
- David Smith - University of Massachusetts
- Ivan Titov - Saarland University
- Alex Clarke - Royal Holloway University
- Khalil Sima'an - University of Amsterdam
- Stella Frank - University of Edinburgh
Registration
Conference registration is expected to open in early-to-mid March 2012. See NAACL-HLT 2012 for more details.