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UDW 23, WASHINGTON DC, MARCH 9-12, 2023

Universal Dependencies (UD) is a framework for cross-linguistically consistent treebank annotation that has so far been applied to over 100 languages (https://universaldependencies.org). The framework is aiming to capture similarities as well as idiosyncrasies among typologically different languages.

The Universal Dependencies Workshop is a forum for discussion of the theory and practice of UD, its use in research and development, and its future goals and challenges. The five workshops so far were held at NoDaLiDa in Gothenburg (2017), at EMNLP in Brussels (2018), at SyntaxFest in Paris and Online (2019 and 2021) and at COLING online (2020). The sixth workshop on Universal Dependencies will take place during the week of March 9th-12th, 2023 in Washington D.C. on the campus of Georgetown University as part of GURT 2023.

We invite papers on all topics relevant to UD, including but not limited to:

- Theoretical foundations and universal guidelines - Linguistic analysis of specific languages and/or constructions - Language typology and linguistic universals - Treebank annotation, conversion and validation - Word segmentation, morphological tagging and syntactic parsing - Downstream applications in natural language processing - Linguistic studies based on the UD data

Priority will be given to papers that adopt a cross-lingual perspective.

VENUE

The Georgetown University Round Table on Linguistics (GURT) is a peer-reviewed annual linguistics conference held continuously since 1949 at Georgetown University in Washington DC, with topics and co-located events varying from year to year. Under an overarching theme of ‘Computational and Corpus Linguistics’, GURT 2023 will feature four workshops focused on computational and corpus approaches to syntax: UDW, Depling, TLT, and CxGs+NLP. Talks will take place in plenary sessions to promote cross-fertilization of ideas across subcommunities.

INVITED SPEAKER

Joakim Nivre (RISE)

IMPORTANT DATES

- November 15, 2022: submission deadline (long and short papers) - January 11, 2023: notification of acceptance - February 1, 2023: camera-ready papers due - March 9–12, 2023: conference

SUBMISSION INFORMATIONS

We invite paper submissions in two distinct tracks:

- Regular papers on substantial, original, and unpublished research, including empirical evaluation results, where appropriate - Short papers on smaller, focused contributions, work in progress, negative results, surveys, or opinion pieces.

All papers accepted for presentation at the workshop will be included in the UDW23 proceedings volume, which will be part of the ACL Anthology.

See details at https://gurt.georgetown.edu/gurt-2023/udw-call-for-papers

Depending on the number of submissions, we will also accept a small number of short, non-archival communications, mainly opinion pieces and discussion on evolution to UD. Please contact the workshop chairs directly.

CONTACT:

Loïc Grobol (Université Paris Nanterre) Francis Tyers (Indiana University)

Website: https://universaldependencies.org/udw23/