*6th International Conference on Dependency Linguistics (Depling 2021) –
First call for papers* – https://depling.org/depling2021/

Depling 2021 will be held at the SyntaxFest in Sofia, during the week of
March 21-March 25, 2022. The event will be held online, face-to-face or
hybrid, depending on the health situation. The proceedings will be
published preemptively, in December 2021.

Depling is a bi-annual conference dedicated to dependency-based
approaches in linguistics and natural language processing. Dependencies,
directed labeled graph structures representing hierarchical relations
between morphemes, words or semantic units, have now become the standard
representation of syntactic resources and NLP technologies. Depling has
become the central event for people discussing the linguistic
significance of these structures, their theoretical and formal
foundations, their processing, and their use in NLP tools.

*Selected topics of interest*

For this edition, we would like to put a special emphasis on two topics
of interest:
– the epistemological and historical foundations of dependency
linguistics (how dependency is defined, how it emerged, how it was
formalized, etc.);
– relations between theoretical dependency linguistics and NLP tasks
(how, e.g., syntactic models are framed to achieve specific tasks, how
the results of such computational tasks modify our conceptions about
linguistic modeling, etc.).

Other topics are of course welcome. Topics include but are not limited to:
1- The use of dependency structures in theoretical linguistics; a.o.:
– The use of syntactic trees to model syntactic relations;
– The use of semantic, valency-based or predicate-argument graph
structures;
– The use of dependency-like structures to model semantic and
pragmatic phenomena related to information structure;
– The use of dependency-like structures beyond the sentence (e.g., to
model discourse phenomena);
– The elaboration of formal lexicons for dependency-based syntax and
semantics, including descriptions of collocations and paradigmatic
relations;
– The use of dependency in the field of linguistic universals, and
typology.
2- Historical and epistemological foundations of dependency grammar:
– The definition of the very notion of dependency;
– The development and the use of dependency-based diagrams;
– Dependency grammar and its relation to other formalisms;
– The use of dependency-like concepts in the history of grammar and
linguistics.
3- The use of the dependency structures in corpus linguistics:
– Corpus annotation and development of dependency-based treebanks and
other linguistic resources of written and spoken texts;
– Recent advances in dependency-based parsing, and text generation;
– Cross-lingual dependency parser evaluation, with particular
emphasis on intrinsic evaluation metrics.
4- The relation between dependency-based grammar and other fields of
science, such as, e.g., the psycholinguistic relevance of dependency
grammar.

*Paper submission information*

Papers should describe original work related to dependency-based
linguistics. They should emphasize completed work rather than intended
work, and should indicate clearly the state of completion of the
reported results. Submissions will be judged on correctness,
originality, technical strength, significance and relevance to the
conference, and interest to the attendees. All the details for
submission can be found on the conference page.

*Important dates*

06 Sep. 2021: Announcement of conference modality
27 Sep. 2021: Submission deadlines for long and short papers
01 Nov. 2021: Long and short papers reviews due
10 Nov. 2021: Acceptance notification
30 Nov. 2021: Camera-ready version
21-25th March 2022: Conference
Attendants are encouraged but not obliged to participate in the whole
SyntaxFest

*General topics*

Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Theories, Historical Linguistics,
Computational Linguistics, Corpus Linguistics

*Contact*

Email: depling2021@depling.org
Website: http://depling.org/depling2021/

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Depling Chairs: Nicolas Mazziotta & Simon Mille