Exploring Syntactically Annotated Corpora
                 Workshop to be held on July 14th
                     CORPUS LINGUISTICS 2005
               University of Birmingham, 14-17 July
                http://www.bultreebank.org/ESyntAC/

*Workshop motivation and aims

 A lot of syntactically annotated corpora have been created recently for
 various languages. Therefore, the question of applicability and usefulness
 of such resources seems to have become of big importance. Syntactically
 annotated corpora can be viewed in two ways: 1) as a reliable base for
 resource creation: further annotation (for example, semantic and discourse
 annotation); automatic extraction of linguistic knowledge (grammar and
 lexicon extraction; creation of automatic parsing tools etc.) and
 environment for testing tools.; 2) as a base for navigation and search:
 query languages and support engines.


 We envisage a one-day workshop and 10-12 presentations.

*Topics of interest:

 - creation of resources  on top of syntactic corpora;
 - various kinds of knowledge extraction;
 - creation and testing of parsing tools;
 - search languages;
 - symbolic and subsymbolic methods for syntactic corpora
   exploration;
 - software systems for management and accessibility to
   syntactically annotated corpora;
 - various applications of  syntactic corpora.

*Important dates

 Deadline for workshop abstract submission: 29th May 2005

 Notification of acceptance: 15th June 2005

 Final version of paper: 30th June 2005

*Submissions

 Papers should describe existing research connected to the topics of the
 workshop. The presentation at the workshop will be 30 minutes long (25
 minutes for presentation and 5 minutes for questions and discussion). Each
 submission should show: title; author(s); affiliation(s); and contact
 author's e-mail address, postal address, telephone and fax
 numbers. Abstracts (maximum 500 words, plain-text format) should be sent
 to:

                  Petya Osenova
                  Email: petya@bultreebank.org

*Program committee: tba

*Organizing committee:

 Kiril Simov
 BulTreeBank Project
 Linguistic  Modelling  Laboratory, IPP,
 Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

 Dimitar Kazakov
 Dept. of Computer Science,
 University of York

 Petya Osenova
 BulTreeBank Project
 Linguistic  Modelling  Laboratory, IPP,
 Bulgarian Academy of Sciences