International Conference on Dependency Linguistics
Depling 2027, Prague, August 30 – September 3, 2027
Depling 2027, the 9th edition of the international conference on Dependency linguistics, will be held at the SyntaxFest 2027 in Prague, Czech Republic, during the week of August 30 – September 3, 2027.
Depling is a biennial 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.
SyntaxFest 2027 brings together five events under a unified submission process and program: Depling (9th International Conference on Dependency Linguistics), IWPT (19th International Conference on Parsing Technologies), QUASY (4th Workshop on Quantitative Syntax), SLiDE (2nd Workshop on Structured Linguistic Data and Evaluation) and UDW (10th Universal Dependencies Workshop).
A short introduction to dependency can be found here.
The previous eight 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, and Ljubljana in 2025.
Important dates
- Paper submission deadline: 22 April 2027
- Notification of acceptance: 3 June 2027
- Camera-ready papers: to be announced
- End of early bird registration: 10 June 2027
- SyntaxFest: 30 August to 3 September 2027 (the Depling days will be announced)
All deadlines are at 23:59 AoE (Anywhere on Earth).
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 speakers
To be announcedProgram
To be announcedProgramme chairs
- Jiří Mírovský (Charles University)
- Jan Štěpánek (Charles University)
SyntaxFest 2027 calls and submission information
Authors submit their paper only once for the whole SyntaxFest, and can uncheck the events they do not wish it to be considered for. All papers undergo double-blind peer review. The Depling call for papers will be announced on the SyntaxFest calls page.
SyntaxFest 2027 committees
Contact
- Email: syntaxfest@ufal.mff.cuni.cz
- Web site: https://depling.org/depling2027