BriGap is a venue for linguists and NLP scientists to meet: what fruitful interactions can we have? How do we build upon each other’s work?
Venue: 33rd European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI 2022), Galway, Ireland
Date: 8–12 August, 2022
While computational linguistics is historically rooted in formal linguistics, it might seem that the distance between these two fields has only grown larger and larger. The goal of this workshop is to consider whether this impression is correct in the light of both recent developments and long-standing approaches.
Indeed, while we are currently witnessing a growing interest within formal linguistics in both explaining the remarkable successes of neural-based language models and uncovering their limitations, one should not forget the contribution to theoretical linguistics provided, for example, by the computational implementation of grammatical formalisms. And while neural-based methods have recently received the lion’s share of the public attention, interpretable models based on symbolic methods are still relevant and widely used in the natural language processing industry.
This workshop is intended to make members of the aforementioned scientific communities meet and share their perspectives on these topics and related areas.
The following is a non-exhaustive list of topics relevant to the workshop:
The full program is available here.
We invited authors to submit abstracts for 30 minutes presentations (including questions) related to the above topics. Abstracts had to be anonymous, up to two pages (A4 or US letter) in 12pt font, with 1 inch margins, plus an additional page for supplemental material (figures, glossed examples for languages other than English), and unlimited references. Submissions were made via EasyChair.