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This is the official website of the [Dagstuhl Seminar](https://www.dagstuhl.de/en/program/dagstuhl-seminars/) entitled [**Universals of Linguistic Idiosyncrasy in Multilingual Computational Linguistics**](https://www.dagstuhl.de/23191). It is a follow-up event of the [online Dahstuhl Seminar 21351](https://gitlab.com/unlid/dagstuhl-seminar/-/wikis) under the same title which took place on **30-31 August 2021**.
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News
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**[14 March 2022]** The UnLId Dagstuhl Seminar proposal has been **selected** and scheduled for **Monday, 8 May to Friday, 12 May, 2023**.
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**[8 November 2021]** The proposal of a Dagstuhl Seminar on "Universals of Linguistic Idiosyncrasy" has been submitted. It is roughly the same as the proposal submitted in 2018, which was selected and scheduled for 2019, rescheduled due to COVID, and finally transformed into a reduced 2-day [online workshop on 30-31 August 2021](https://gitlab.com/unlid/dagstuhl-seminar/-/wikis). The workshop could meet only part of the objectives of the original proposal, but provided a proof of concept for the pre-submitted proposal.
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People
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* Organizers
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* [Timothy Baldwin](https://people.eng.unimelb.edu.au/tbaldwin/) (University of Melbourne, Australia)
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* [William Croft](http://www.unm.edu/~wcroft/) (University of New Mexico, Alburquerque, USA)
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* [Joakim Nivre](https://stp.lingfil.uu.se/~nivre/) (Uppsala University, Sweden)
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* [Agata Savary](https://perso.lisn.upsaclay.fr/savary/) (Paris-Saclay University, France)
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* [Invitees]: To be announced
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* Dagstuhl scientific officer: Michael Gerke
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* Dagstuhl administrative officer: Christina Schwarz
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Objectives
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The **framing objectives** of this initiative (which we hope to further purse in the future) are threefold:
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* Theoretical: To deepen the understanding of **language universals**, and of linguistic idiosyncrasy in particular, so as to further promote unified modelling while preserving diversity.
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* Practical: To harness **idiosyncrasy in treebanking** frameworks, in computationally tractable ways and, thus, to foster high quality NLP tools for very many languages.
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* Networking: To promote a higher degree of **convergence** to **universalism-driven initiatives**, while focusing on three main aspects of language modelling: morphology, syntax and semantics.
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Related initiatives
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* [Universal Dependencies](http://universaldependencies.org/) (UD) - an open community effort with over 200 contributors who address cross-linguistically consistent grammatical annotation and have already produced more than 100 treebanks in over 60 languages
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* [PARSEME](http://www.parseme.eu) - a European scientific network dedicated to MWEs and parsing, with 200 researchers from 31 countries; funded in 2013-2017 in the framework of the IC 1207 COST action; produced notably a multilingual [corpus](https://gitlab.com/parseme/corpora/-/wikis/home) annotated for verbal multiword expressions
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* [UniMorph](https://unimorph.github.io/) - a collaborative effort to improve how NLP processes complex morphology in the world's languages, particularly those which are low-resourced.
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Administrative data
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* Event's [Dagstuhl webpage](https://www.dagstuhl.de/23191)
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* Seminar number: 23191
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* Dates:
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* Arrival: Sunday, May 7, 2023 (after 3:00 pm)
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* Start: Monday, May 8, 2023 (at 09:00 am)
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* End: Friday, May 12, 2023 (at 12:00 pm)
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* Departure: Friday, May 12, 2023 (after 12:45 pm)
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* Address: Schloss Dagstuhl, Wadern, Germany
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