Provisional Programme

The ACL-08 Workshop on Parsing German will take place in Columbus, Ohio, as part of the ACL-08: HLT conference. The workshop covers parsing with respect to both constituent-based and dependency-based structure, and features a shared task based upon the TIGER and Tueba-D/Z corpora. 

8:45-9:00 Opening Remarks
9:00-9:30 Yo Sato: Lexicalised Parsing of German V2
9:30-10:00 Berthold Crysmann: Parse Selection with a German HPSG Grammar
10:00-10:30 Yves Scherrer: Part-of-Speech Tagging with a Symbolic Full Parser: Using the TIGER Treebank to Evaluate Fips
10:30-11:00 Break
11:00-12:00 Wolfgang Menzel (Invited Talk): Dependency-Parsing -- Old and New Challenges
12:00-12:30 Adriane Boyd and Detmar Meurers: Revisiting the Impact of Different Annotation Schemes on PCFG Parsing: A Grammatical Dependency Evaluation
12:30-14:00 Lunch
Shared Task
14:00-14:30 Slav Petrov and Dan Klein: Parsing German with Latent Variable Grammars
14:30-15:00 Anna Rafferty and Christopher Manning: Parsing Three German Treebanks: Lexicalized and Unlexicalized Baselines
15:00-15:30 Johan Hall and Joakim Nivre: A Dependency-Driven Parser for German Dependency and Constituency Representations
15:30-16:00 Break
16:00-16:30 Sandra Kuebler: The PaGe 2008 Shared Task on Parsing German
16:30-17:30 Julia Hockenmaier (Invited Talk): TBA