DiderotSchedule

Monday to Wednesday: Plenary

Schedule for the 2018 DELPH-IN Summit at the University of Chicago Center in Paris (6 rue Thomas Mann). Welcome coffee on arrival from 9:00 onwards.


Monday, 18 June
9:30-11:00 Plenary Session 1 -- Chair: Sanghoun
9:30-9:50	Introductions
9:50-10:40	Site Updates (8 minutes each)
	Cambridge (Guy Emerson)
	Paris (Berthold Crysmann)
	Singapore (Francis Bond)
	Stanford / Trondheim (Dan Flickinger)
	Sussex (John Carroll)
	Washington (Emily Bender)
10:40-11:00	Information extraction in the oil & gas domain using the IBM English Slot Grammar (Alexandre Rademaker: 10+10)
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-13:00 Plenary Session 2 -- Chair: Dan
11:30	Nominalized clauses in the Grammar Matrix (Kristen Howell, Olga Zamaraeva & Emily Bender: 5 Blitz)
	Clausal modifiers in the LinGO Grammar Matrix (Kristen Howell & Olga Zamaraeva: 5 Blitz)
	Clausal complements in the Grammar Matrix (Olga Zamaraeva, Kristen Howell & Emily Bender: 20+10)
	Improved type hierarchy processing and display (John Carroll: 20+10)
13:00-14:30 Lunch
14:30-16:00 Plenary Session 3 -- Chair: TBA
14:30-16:00	Discussion: Applications of MRS to downstream NLP tasks, in particular for language generation (Jan Buys) Notes
16:00-16:30 Coffee Break
16:30-18:00 Plenary Session 4 -- Chair: Francis
16:30	Indra update (David Moeljadi: 5+5)
	Recent partnership for the development of !BrGram (Alexandre Rademaker: 10+10)
	Error analysis of a neural MRS parser (Jan Buys & Emily Bender: 20+10)
	Towards a new release of the ERG (Dan Flickinger: 20+10)


Tuesday, 19 June
9:30-11:00 Plenary Session 5 -- Chair: Emily
9:30	Discussion: WH-questions in the Grammar Matrix: A start (Olga Zamaraeva) notes
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-13:00 Plenary Session 6 -- Chair: Guy
11:30	DMRS to text generation with neural networks (Jan Buys: 20+10)
	Dialogue management framework for virtual agents (Bernd Kiefer: 20+10)
	Neural networks for transducing between DMRS graphs in English and Japanese (Jan Buys: 10+10)
13:00-14:30 Lunch
14:30-16:00 Plenary Session 7 -- Chair: Berthold
14:30	Linguistic type database update (Francis Bond: 5 Blitz)
	Integrated semantic framework (Francis Bond: 5+5)
	A parsing model and a generation model for graph-structured syntacto-semantic representations (Weiwei Sun: 10+10)
	Scope of temporal modifiers: Or how I learned to stop worrying and love the MRS scoping machinery (Guy Emerson: 20+10)
16:00-16:30 Coffee Break
16:30-18:00 Plenary Session 8 -- Chair: Bernd
16:30-16:50	Raising/control safari: How the ERG's inventory compares to what's studied in the theoretical literature (Emily Bender & Dan Flickinger: 10+10)
16:50-18:00	Discussion: ERG Semantic Documentation (ESD) focus group (Dan Flickinger, Stephan Oepen & Emily Bender)

Wednesday, 20 June
9:30-11:00 Plenary Session 9 -- Chair: Jan
9:30	Helping engineering students writing better English (Luis Morgado da Costa: 5+5)
	Using the DELPH-IN resources for second language acquisition studies (Sanghoun Song: 10+10)
	Feature resolution via lists (Gabriel Aguila-Multner & Berthold Crysmann: 20+10)
	Business Meeting (All: 30)
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-13:00 Plenary Session 10 -- Chair: John
11:30-12:30	Discussion: How could the HPSG and Universal Dependencies communities benefit each other for some integration? (Alexandre Rademaker)
12:30-13:00	Planning Special Interest Groups (All: 30) Spreadsheet --- max=8 --- 0.5, 1 to show interest
13:00-14:30 Lunch
17:00 Excursion (walk along the Seine towards île St Louis and île de la Cité), followed by Dinner @ Le Loubnane

University of Paris Diderot, bâtiment Olympe de Gouges, rooms 126 & 127.

Tutorial: The ERG - how to use it and how to contribute to improving results with technical/scientific texts (Dan Flickinger; requester: Alexandre Rademaker)
Tutorial: HPSG grammar development starting from an existing grammar (Kristen Howell, Olga Zamaraeva; requester: Alexandre Rademaker)
Tutorial: Introduction to Jacy (David Moeljadi)
SIG: Unifying lexical resources (e.g. using WordNet or PARC's UL) (Alexandre Rademaker)
Tutorial and Discussion: Deep learning for NLP, parsing and generation (Jan Buys)
SIG: Comparing and combining methods for mapping between strings and graphs (Alexander Koller)
SIG: How to teach grammar engineering (Sanghoun Song)
SIG: Teaching old-school semantics to new people who are trying to reinvent semantics (Alexander Koller)
SIG: Noun incorporation (Angelina McMillan-Major)
SIG: Pragmatic reasoning in the Rational Speech Acts framework (Guy Emerson)
SIG: Constraining composition (Ann Copestake)
SIG: Use of DELPH-IN technology and resources for flexible dialogue systems (Bernd Kiefer)
SIG: Underspecification of PP attachment (Emily Bender, Guy Emerson)
SIG: Grammar engineering environment on top of LKB-FOS [Berthold Crysmann, John Carroll]
SIG: NL Generation from MRS-induced/deduced/reduced meaning representations (Weiwei Sun)