UDFest-BR 2023: 2nd Universal Dependencies Brazilian Festival 2023 UFMG Belo Horizonte, Brazil, September 25-29, 2023 |
Conference website | https://sites.google.com/icmc.usp.br/udfest-br2023/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=udfestbr2023 |
Submission deadline | July 2, 2023 |
CALL FOR PAPERS
*** 2nd Edition of the Universal Dependencies Brazilian Festival (UDFest-BR 2023) ***
https://sites.google.com/icmc.usp.br/udfest-br2023
The 2nd Edition of the Universal Dependencies Brazilian Festival (UDFest-BR 2023) will take place with the 15th Symposium in Information and Human Language Technology (STIL 2023). It is a forum in which researchers involved with the study and application of the Universal Dependencies (UD) model, along with its adaptation to Portuguese, can meet and discuss best practices and strategies, as well as problems and solutions related to this topic.
UD is a cross-language international model for grammatical annotation (morphosyntactic tags, lexical/morphosyntactic features and syntactic dependencies) that resulted from the efforts of an open community of hundreds of researchers. Building upon a common framework, the model captures idiosyncrasies and similarities between different languages, so as to foster contrastive linguistic studies, along with the development of multilingual technologies for Natural Language Processing (NLP). In recent years, this model has drawn considerable attention from the NLP community. Currently, there are nearly 200 UD annotated corpora available in more than 100 languages.
Although there are some annotated corpora and lexical resources for Portuguese, computational linguistic research involving UD and this language is still limited. As such, this workshop helps to fill in this gap, giving more visibility to current efforts in this area and fostering new initiatives and collaborations.
UDFest-BR welcomes research work on the study and application of the UD model to the Portuguese language. Both theoretical and practical research is accepted, including all kinds of papers, as work in progress, complete works, opinion papers, and application and software demonstration papers.
Papers should describe original and unpublished work, having up to eight (8) pages of content (including tables and figures), and additional pages of references. They may be written in Portuguese or English, following the STIL paper format guidelines, also available for Overleaf.
Each paper submission will be evaluated by at least two reviewers. As reviewing will be double-blind, submitted papers must be anonymized, i.e., they should not contain the authors’ names and affiliations. Authors must also avoid self-references that reveal their identities.
The accepted papers must be orally presented, requiring at least one author to be registered in the conference. The papers will be published online at the workshop webpage and possibly at the ACL Anthology (under negotiation).
Important dates (preliminary)
- Paper submission:
June 25, 2023July 2, 2023 (new submission deadline) - Notification of acceptance: July 31, 2023
- Camera-ready versions due: August 15, 2023
Submission
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=udfestbr2023
Organization
Thiago Alexandre Salgueiro Pardo (ICMC-USP)
Lucelene Lopes (ICMC-USP)
Magali Sanches Duran (ICMC-USP)