Using Ancient Treebanks: Reports and Dreams
September 20–21, 2019
University of Helsinki
Porthania P673 (Yliopistonkatu 3, Helsinki)
Program
Friday, September 20
9:20–9:30 Welcome by Saana Svärd (Helsinki), Director of the Centre of Excellence in Ancient Near Eastern Empires
9:30–10:30 Keynote lecture by Joakim Nivre (Uppsala University): Universal Dependencies: A Framework for Morphosyntactic Annotation
10:30–11:00 Coffee Break
11:00–11:45 Steve Tinney (University of Pennsylvania): Oracc Corpora as Language Data
11:45–12:30 Fumi Karahashi (Chuo University): A Failed Attempt to Make a Syntactically Annotated Corpus of Sumerian
12:30–14:00 Lunch Break
14:00–14:45 Veronika Laippala (University of Turku): Combining Machine Learning and Treebanks to Analyze Texts and Other Linguistic Elements – the Good and the Bad Ideas
14:45–15:30 Niek Veldhuis (University of California, Berkeley; University of Helsinki): Akkadian and Sumerian Treebanks: Research Goals
15:30–16:00 Coffee Break
16:00–16:45 Mikko Luukko (University of Helsinki): Towards an Akkadian Treebank with Assyrian Royal Inscriptions
16:45–17:30 Aleksi Sahala (University of Helsinki): Assisting Akkadian Treebanking with a Morphological Analyzer
19:00 Dinner for Workshop Speakers
Saturday, September 21
9:00–9:45 Krister Lindén (University of Helsinki): Annotating Treebanks to Develop Language Technology
9:45–10:45 Marja Vierros & Polina Yordanova (University of Helsinki): Ancient Greek Dependency Treebanking and Fragmentary Papyrus Sources
10:45–11:15 Coffee Break
11:15–12:00 Atro Voutilainen (University of Helsinki): Lessons Learned from Treebanking Finnish
12:00–13:00 Final Discussion
Please register here by Monday, September 16th.
For further information and questions, please contact Mikko Luukko (mikko.luukko@helsinki.fi)