SIGTYP 2020: The Second Workshop on Computational Research in Linguistic Typology

Yevgeni Berzak, Ryan Cotterell, Anna Korhonen, Roi Reichart, Eitan Grossman, Haim Dubossarsky, Arya D. McCarthy, Edoardo Maria Ponti, Ivan Vulić and Ekaterina Vylomova

Live Session 1: Nov 19, Live Session 1: Nov 19 (13:30-23:10 UTC)
Bringing together researchers interested in applying computational techniques to problems in linguistic typology and multilingual NLP.

Time (PDT) Event Hosts
Nov 19, (13:30-13:40 UTC)

Opening Session

TBD
Nov 19, (13:40-14:20 UTC)

Keynote Talk: Richard Sproat (Japan)

TBD
Nov 19, (14:20-14:30 UTC)

Keynote Q&A

TBD
Nov 19, (14:30-15:10 UTC)

Keynote Talk: Miriam Butt (Germany)

TBD
Nov 19, (15:10-15:20 UTC)

Keynote Q&A

TBD
Nov 19, (15:20-15:30 UTC)

Coffee Break

TBD
Nov 19, (15:30-15:45 UTC)

Shared Task Overview: Johannes Bjerva (Denmark)

TBD
Nov 19, (15:45-15:55 UTC)

Shared Task Team 1: KMI-Panlingua-IITKGP (India)

TBD
Nov 19, (15:55-16:05 UTC)

Shared Task Team 2: NEMO (UK+Japan)

TBD
Nov 19, (16:05-16:15 UTC)

Shared Task Team 3: ÚFAL (Europe)

TBD
Nov 19, (16:15-16:25 UTC)

Shared Task Team 4: Gerhard Jäger (Europe)

TBD
Nov 19, (16:25-16:35 UTC)

Shared Task Team 5: NUIG (Europe)

TBD
Nov 19, (16:35-17:15 UTC)

Keynote Talk: Harald Hammarström (Germany)

TBD
Nov 19, (17:15-17:25 UTC)

Keynote Q&A

TBD
Nov 19, (17:25-17:30 UTC)

Coffee Break

TBD
Nov 19, (17:30-17:40 UTC)

DEmA: the Pavia Diachronic Emergence of Alignment database (Europe/Italy)

TBD
Nov 19, (17:40-17:50 UTC)

A dataset and metric to evaluate lexical extraction from parallel corpora (Canada/Toronto)

TBD
Nov 19, (17:50-18:00 UTC)

Keyword Spotting: A quick-and-dirty method for extracting typological features of language from grammatical descriptions (Europe/Germany)

TBD
Nov 19, (18:00-18:10 UTC)

SNACS Annotation of Case Markers and Adpositions in Hindi (US/W,DC)

TBD
Nov 19, (18:10-18:20 UTC)

Information from Topic Contexts: The Prediction of Aspectual Coding of Verbs in Russian (Europe/Germany)

TBD
Nov 19, (18:20-18:30 UTC)

The role of community size and network structure in shaping linguistic diversity: experimental evidence (Europe;UK)

TBD
Nov 19, (18:30-19:05 UTC)

gather.town

TBD
Nov 19, (19:05-19:20 UTC)

SimAlign: High Quality Word Alignments without Parallel Training Data using Static and Contextualized Embeddings (Europe/Germany)

TBD
Nov 19, (19:20-19:30 UTC)

Parsing with Multilingual BERT, a Small Corpus, and a Small Treebank (US/Pacific)

TBD
Nov 19, (19:30-19:45 UTC)

Is Typology-Based Adaptation Effective for Multilingual Sequence Labelling? (Netherlands)

TBD
Nov 19, (19:45-20:00 UTC)

Multilingual BERT Learns Abstract Case Representations (US/California)

TBD
Nov 19, (20:00-20:10 UTC)

Towards Induction of Structured Phoneme Inventories (UK)

TBD
Nov 19, (20:10-20:20 UTC)

Uncovering Typological Context-Sensitive Features (Europe/Italy)

TBD
Nov 19, (20:20-20:30 UTC)

Multilingual Jointly Trained Acoustic and Written Word Embeddings (US/Chicago)

TBD
Nov 19, (20:30-20:45 UTC)

Cross-lingual Alignment Methods for Multilingual BERT: A Comparative Study (US/UK)

TBD
Nov 19, (20:45-21:20 UTC)

gather.town

TBD
Nov 19, (21:20-22:00 UTC)

Keynote Talk: Yulia Tsvetkov (US/Pennsylvania)

TBD
Nov 19, (22:00-22:10 UTC)

Keynote Q&A

TBD
Nov 19, (22:10-22:50 UTC)

Keynote Talk: Bill Croft (US/New Mexico)

TBD
Nov 19, (22:50-23:00 UTC)

Keynote Q&A

TBD
Nov 19, (23:00-23:10 UTC)

Closing

TBD

Pre-recorded Plenary Talks


Invited talk

Miriam Butt


Invited talk

Yulia Tsvetkov


Invited talk

Richard Sproat


Invited talk

Bill Croft


Invited talk

Harald Hammarström


SIGTYP 2020 Shared Task: Prediction of Typological Features

Johannes Bjerva, Elizabeth Salesky, Sabrina J. Mielke, Aditi Chaudhary, Giuseppe G. A. Celano, Edoardo M. Ponti, Ekaterina Vylomova, Ryan Cotterell, Isabelle Augenstein