Depling 2025, the 8th edition of the international conference on Dependency linguistics, will be held at the SyntaxFest at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia, during the week of August 26-29, 2025.
Depling is a bi-annual conference dedicated to dependency-based approaches in linguistics and natural language processing. Dependencies, directed labeled graph structures representing hierarchical relations between morphemes, words or semantic units, have now become the standard representation of syntactic resources and NLP technologies. Depling has become the central event for people discussing the linguistic significance of these structures, their theoretical and formal foundations, their processing, and their use in NLP tools.
A short introduction to dependency can be found here.
The previous seven conferences were held in Barcelona in 2011, Prague in 2013, Uppsala in 2015, Pisa in 2017, Paris in 2019, Sofia in 2021 (online), Washington D.C. in 2023).
Important dates
- Submission deadlines: 15 April 2025
- Acceptance notification: 2 June 2025
- Camera-ready version: 16 June 2025
- Conference: one day during August 26-29, 2025
Attendants are encouraged but not obliged to participate in the whole SyntaxFest.
Selected topics of interest
Topics include but are not limited to:
- The use of dependency structures in theoretical linguistics; a.o.:
- The use of syntactic trees to model syntactic relations;
- The use of semantic, valency-based or predicate-argument graph structures;
- The use of dependency-like structures to model semantic and pragmatic phenomena related to information structure;
- The use of dependency-like structures beyond the sentence (e.g., to model discourse phenomena);
- The elaboration of formal lexicons for dependency-based syntax and semantics, including descriptions of collocations and paradigmatic relations;
- The use of dependency in the field of linguistic universals, and typology.
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Historical and epistemological foundations of dependency grammar; a.o.:
- The definition of the very notion of dependency;
- The development and the use of dependency-based diagrams;
- Dependency grammar and its relation to other formalisms;
- The use of dependency-like concepts in the history of grammar and linguistics.
- The use of the dependency structures in corpus linguistics; a.o.:
- Corpus annotation and development of dependency-based treebanks and other linguistic resources of written and spoken texts;
- Recent advances in dependency-based parsing, and text generation;
- Cross-lingual dependency parser evaluation, with particular emphasis on intrinsic evaluation metrics.
- The relation between dependency-based grammar and other fields of science, such as, e.g., the psycholinguistic relevance of dependency grammar.
Invited speaker
To be announcedProgram
To be announcedConference chairs
- Eva Hajičová (Charles University, Prague)
- Sylvain Kahane (Université Paris Nanterre and Institut Universitaire de France)
SyntaxFest 2025 submission page
SyntaxFest 2025 committees
Contact
- Email: depling2025@depling.org
- Web site: http://depling.org/depling2025