Universals of Linguistic Idiosyncrasy in Multilingual Computational Linguistics (Dagstuhl Seminar 23191)

Timothy Baldwin (1) , William Croft (2) , Joakim Nivre (3, 4) , Agata Savary (5, 6, 7) , Sara Stymne (3) , Ekaterina Vylomova (8)

1 MBZUAI
2 The University of New Mexico [Albuquerque]
3 Uppsala University
4 RISE Research Institutes of Sweden
5 ILES - Information, Langue Ecrite et Signée
6 STL - Sciences et Technologies des Langues - LISN
7 LISN - Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire des Sciences du Numérique
8 University of Melbourne

The Dagstuhl Seminar 23191 entitled "Universals of Linguistic Idiosyncrasy in Multilingual Computational Linguistics" took place May 7-12, 2023. Its main objectives were to deepen the understanding of language universals and linguistic idiosyncrasy, to harness idiosyncrasy in treebanking frameworks in computationally tractable ways, and to promote a higher degree of convergence in universalism-driven initiatives to natural language morphology, syntax and semantics. Most of the seminar was devoted to working group discussions, covering topics such as: representations below and beyond word boundaries; annotation of particular kinds of constructions; semantic representations, in particular for multiword expressions; finding idiosyncrasy in corpora; large language models; and methodological issues, community interactions and cross-community initiatives. Thanks to the collaboration of linguistic typologists, NLP experts and experts in different annotation frameworks, significant progress was made towards the theoretical, practical and networking objectives of the seminar.

Keywords: Computing methodologies → Artificial intelligence; phrases computational linguistics morphosyntax multiword expressions language universals idiosyncrasy Digital Object Identifier 10.4230/DagRep.13.5.22; phrases computational linguistics; morphosyntax; multiword expressions; language universals; idiosyncrasy Digital Object Identifier 10.4230/DagRep.13.5.22; computational linguistics; idiosyncrasy

Domains: Computation and Language [cs.CL]; Linguistics

Timothy Baldwin, William Croft, Joakim Nivre, Agata Savary, Sara Stymne, et al.. Universals of Linguistic Idiosyncrasy in Multilingual Computational Linguistics (Dagstuhl Seminar 23191). Dagstuhl Reports, 2023, 13 (5), pp.22-70. ⟨10.4230/DagRep.13.5.22⟩. ⟨hal-04322958⟩