Program (preliminary)

Session 1: Opening and invited talk

Chair: Katrin Tomanek
9:00 - 9:10Opening remarks
9:10 - 10:05Invited talk. Marie-Catherine de Marneffe: Assessing the consistency of crowdsourcing and dependency annotations
10:05 - 10:30Manjuan Duan, Ethan Hill and Michael White. Generating Disambiguating Paraphrases for Structurally Ambiguous Sentences

Coffee break

Session 2: dependency annotation, discourse

Chair: Nancy Ide
11:00 - 11:25Kim Gerdes and Sylvain Kahane. Dependency Annotation Choices: Assessing Theoretical and Practical Issues of Universal Dependencies
11:25 - 11:50Juhi Tandon, Himani Chaudhry, Riyaz Ahmad Bhat and Dipti Sharma. Conversion from Paninian Karakas to Universal Dependencies for Hindi Dependency Treebank
11:50 - 12:15Amir Zeldes and Dan Simonson. Different Flavors of GUM: Evaluating Genre and Sentence Type Effects on Multilayer Corpus Annotation Quality
12:15 - 12:40Nianwen Xue, Qishen Su and Sooyoung Jeong. Annotating the discourse and dialogue structure of SMS message conversations

Lunch break

Session 3: special theme I (evaluation of agreement)

Chair: Heike Zinsmeister
14:00 - 14:25Marcel Bollmann, Stefanie Dipper and Florian Petran. Evaluating Inter-Annotator Agreement on Historical Spelling Normalization
14:25 - 14:50Hannah Rohde, Anna Dickinson, Nathan Schneider, Annie Louis and Bonnie Webber. Filling in the Blanks in Understanding Discourse Adverbials: Consistency, Conflict, and Context-Dependence in a Crowdsourced Elicitation Task

Poster session

Chair: Annemarie Friedrich
14:50 - 15:05Poster boasters
15:05 - 15:30Poster presentations: list of posters
15:30 - 16:00Poster presentations and coffee

Session 4: special theme II

16:00 - 16:30Invited tutorial. Dirk Hovy: How item-response models can help us take the headache out of annotation projects new MACE implementation
16:30 - 17:15Discussion
17:15 - 17:30Closing remarks: 10 years of LAW (Nancy Ide)

Workshop Dinner

7pm, Cum Laude at the HU.
It is located in the same building as the Audimax, but you need to walk around the building and find the entrance on the opposite site.