Call for contributions

Presentation

GdR LIFT (the Research Group on Computational Linguistics, Field Linguistics and Formal Linguistics) presents a two-day meeting to bring together computational linguists, applied linguists and formal linguists, in order to develop and improve exchanges between these fields.
A theme is put on the spotlight for this year's gathering: negation.

We invite researchers to present their work by submitting an extended abstract (2 pages maximum + unlimited references, using the provided template). Selected abstracts will be presented with either an oral or a poster presentation and will be published in the meeting's proceedings.

Important dates

• Abstract submission deadline: October 1st, 2021 October 10th 2021.
• Acceptance notification: November 1st, 2021 November 15th 2021.
• Camera ready deadline: November 15th, 2021 November 24th 2021.
• Conference date: December 6th-7th, 2021.

Topics

Any topic of LIFT, including the following non-exhaustive list:

• machine learning and linguistic modelling;
• linguistics and open science;
• formal and computational linguistic modelling (formal languages, unification grammars, etc.);
• computational approaches to the analysis of low-resource and/or unwritten languages;
• opinion pieces;
• feedback about the use or development of computational tools for linguistics;
• controlled language.

We want to encourage this year submissions related to negation in computational linguistics, field linguistics or formal linguistics, but this theme is not a constraint.

The presentation of already published work as well as in-progress work is welcome.
The meeting mainly aims at fostering discussions and initiating potential collaborations.

Format

Submissions should be 2-page pdf files (without counting the bibliography) following the Latex or Word template available at: https://gdr-lift.loria.fr/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/LIFT_styles_2021.zip

The submissions should be uploaded at: https://lift2021.sciencesconf.org/

Conference site

The LIFT scientific meeting will take place at the ground floor of the IMAG building on Grenoble Alpes University campus.

In case an in-person meeting is impossible due to the pandemic, the meeting will take place virtually.

Invited speakers

• Laurent Besacier (Naver Labs Europe)
• Daan van Esch (Google research)
• Alda Mari (Institut Jean Nicod, CNRS)
• Matti Miestamo (University of Helsinki)

Organization committee

• Benjamin Lecouteux, LIG/Université Grenoble-Alpes
• Maximin Coavoux, LIG/CNRS
• Emmanuelle Esperança-Rodier, LIG/Université Grenoble-Alpes
• Claire Lemaire, LIG/Université Grenoble-Alpes, LAIRDIL/Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse 3
• Timothée Bernard, LLF/Université de Paris
• Patrick Caudal, LLF/Université de Paris

Scientific committee

• Thierry Poibeau
• Berthold Crysmann
• Guillaume Wisniewski
• Karën Fort
• Alexis Michaud
• Tatiana Nikitina
• Angélique Amelot
• Valentin Vydrine
• Carlos Ramish
• Emmanuel Schang
• Anaïs Lefeuvre-Halftermeyer
• Pascal Amsili
• Heather Burnett
• Pierre Magistry
• Sylvain Kahane
• Gilles Sérasset
• Marco Dinarelli
• Solène Evain