UPDATE: The conference is over, a massive thank you to everyone who attended, contributed and helped organise the event. See you all next year!
The 5th International Treebanks and Linguistic Theories conference is happening in Prague on the 28th November 2006.
The focus of this conference is on treebanks – a part of languages that provide notations at the different structural levels – sentence, phrase, word. Many projects are underway to work on identifying and compiling treebanks in languages that are currently missing them. This includes the languages of denmark, portugal, turkey and spain, among others.
Workshops and submissions are aimed at obtaining information and data descriptions that are more complex and better documented. The organisers are seeking submissions from people that a suitable to the topic of linguistics and tree banks – how they can be applied, how better knowledge of linguistics can be obtained, quality control, discovering, recording and managing them and suggestions for quality standardisation.
Some submitters will be invited to present their findings at the conference in the format of a thirty minute workshop. Please keep in mind that completed papers need to be less that twelve A four pages.
Two keynote speakers are Palmer, Martha UC at BÂ http://verbs.colorado.edu/mpalmer/palmer/
and
Bourma, Gosse of the Groningen Uni http://www.let.rug.nl/~gosse/
The conference will be held at MFF UK School of Computer Science, Czech Republic
