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2018

• Cheating a Parser to Death: Data-driven Cross-Treebank Annotation Transfer, D Seddah, ÉV de La Clergerie, B Sagot, HM Alonso, M Candito, Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018), Miasaki, Japan pdf
• CoNLL-UL: Universal Morphological Lattices for Universal Dependency Parsing, Amir More, Özlem Çetinoğlu, Çağri Çöltekin, Nizar Habash, Benoît Sagot, Djamé Seddah, Dima Taji, Reut Tsarfaty, Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018), Miasaki, Japan [[https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01786125/document|pdf]
• ELMoLex: Connecting ELMo and Lexicon Features for Dependency Parsing, Ganesh Jawahar, Benjamin Muller, Amal Fethi, Louis Martin, Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie, Benoît Sagot and Djamé Seddah, in Proc of Conll 2018 Shared task: Multilingual Parsing from Raw Text to Universal Dependencies, Bruxelles, Belgique pdf

2017

• Paris and Stanford at EPE 2017: Downstream Evaluation of Graph-based Dependency Representations, S Schuster, EV de la Clergerie, M Candito, B Sagot, CD Manning, 2017 , PE 2017 - The First Shared Task on Extrinsic Parser Evaluation, Sep 2017, Pisa, Italy. pp.47-59, 2017, Proceedings of the 2017 Shared Task on Extrinsic Parser Evaluation. site pdf
• Enhanced UD dependencies with neutralized diathesis alternation, M Candito, B Guillaume, G Perrier, D Seddah, Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Dependency Linguistics, 2017 pdf
• The ParisNLP entry at the ConLL UD Shared Task 2017: A Tale of a #ParsingTragedy, É.de La Clergerie, B Sagot, D Seddah, Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, 243-252, 2017 pdf

2016

• From Noisy Questions to Minecraft Texts: Annotation Challenges in Extreme Syntax Scenarios H Martínez-Alonso, D Seddah, B Sagot. In Proc of 2nd Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text (W-NUT 2016) pdf
• Hard Time Parsing Questions: Building a QuestionBank for French Djamé Seddah, Marie Candito, in Proc. of LREC 2016, Portoroz, Slovenia. pdf
• Accurate Deep Syntactic Parsing of Graphs: The Case of French, Corentin Ribeyre, Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie, Djamé Seddah in Proc. of LREC 2016, Portoroz, Slovenia. pdf

2015

• Because Syntax does Matter: Improving Predicate-Argument Structures Parsing Using Syntactic Features, C Ribeyre, ÉV de La Clergerie, D Seddah, Proceeddings of the Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL 2015)pdf

2014

• Semi-automatic deep syntactic annotations of the french treebank, C Ribeyre, M Candito, D Seddah, in Proc. of the workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT 2014), Poland pdf
• Multilingual Discriminative Shift-Reduce Phrase Structure Parsing for the SPMRL 2014 Shared Task, B Crabbé, D Seddah, Proceedings of the SPMRL-SANCL workshop, colocated with COLING 2014, Dublin, Ireland pdf
• Alpage: Transition-based semantic graph parsing with syntactic features Corentin Ribeyre, Éric de La Clergerie, Djamé Seddah, Proceedings of the International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SEMEVAL'2014) colocated with COLING'2014, Dublin, Ireland
• Deep Syntax Annotation of the Sequoia French Treebank,Marie Candito, Guy Perrier, Bruno Guillaume, Corentin Ribeyre, Karën Fort, Djamé Seddah and Eric de la Clergerie, 2014 , Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), Reykjavik, Iceland, 2014. pdf
• Un schéma d’annotation en dépendances syntaxiques profondes pour le français,Guy Perrier, Marie Candito, Bruno Guillaume, Corentin Ribeyre, Karën Fort et Djamé Seddah, In Actes de la 20eme conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles, Marseille, France (to appear)
• Introducing the SPMRL 2014 shared task on parsing morphologically-rich languages D Seddah, S Kübler, R Tsarfaty, Proceedings of the First Joint Workshop on Statistical Parsing of MRL and Non-canonical languages (SPMRL-SANCL)
• The CoMeRe corpus for French: structuring and annotating heterogeneous CMC genres, Thierry Chanier , Céline Poudat , Benoit Sagot , Georges Antoniadis , Ciara R. Wigham , Linda Hriba , Julien Longhi , Djamé Seddah (to appear) preprint version

2013

• Overview of the SPMRL 2013 Shared Task: A Cross-Framework Evaluation of Parsing Morphologically Rich Languages Djamé Seddah, Reut Tsarfaty, Sandra Kübler, Marie Candito, Jinho D. Choi, Richárd Farkas, Jennifer Foster, Iakes Goenaga, Koldo Gojenola Galletebeitia, Yoav Goldberg, Spence Green, Nizar Habash, Marco Kuhlmann, Wolfgang Maier, Yuval Marton, Joakim Nivre, Adam Przepiórkowski, Ryan Roth, Wolfgang Seeker, Yannick Versley, Veronika Vincze, Marcin Woliski,Alina Wróblewska,Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie, 2013, Proceedings of the Fourth SPMRL Workshop, Seattle, USA. pdf bib shared task page (data set still available]
• The LIGM-Alpage architecture for the SPMRL 2013 Shared Task: Multiword Expression Analysis and Dependency Parsing,Constant M., Candito M. and Seddah D., 2013, Proceedings of the Fourth SPMRL Workshop, Seattle, USA.pdf
• A Word Clustering Approach to Domain Adaptation: Robust parsing of source and target domains Djamé Seddah, Marie Candito and Enrique Henestroza Anguiano (to appear in Grammars, parsers and recognisers special issue of the Journal of Logic and Computation 12-27 Unedited pdf Data Set
• Parsing Morphologically Rich Languages: Introduction to the Special Issue, Reut Tsarfaty, Djamé Seddah, Sandra Kübler and Joakim Nivre, in Computation Linguistics special issue on Parsing Morphologically Rich Languages, CL 39:1,pdf CL special Issue on Parsing Morphologically-rich languages

2012

• The French Social Media Bank: a Treebank of Noisy User Generated Content, Djamé Seddah, Benoit Sagot, Marie Candito, Virginie Mouilleron, Vanessa Combet, COLING 2012, Mumbay, India pdf
• Effectively long-distance dependencies in French : annotation and parsing evaluation, Marie Candito and Djamé Seddah, TO APPEAR in Proceedings of TLT'11, Lisbon, Portugal
• Building a Treebank of Noisy User Generated Content : The French Social Media Bank, Djamé Seddah, Benoît Sagot, Marie Candito, Virginie Mouilleron and Vanessa Combet, TO APPEAR in Proceedings of TLT'11, Lisbon, Portugal
• A linguistically-motivated 2-stage Tree to Graph Transformation, Corentin Ribeyre, Djamé Seddah and Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie, in Proceedings of TAG+11, Paris, France pdf
• The Alpage Architecture at the SANCL 2012 Shared Task: Robust Pre-Processing and Lexical Bridging for User-Generated Content Parsing. Djamé Seddah, Benoit Sagot, Marie Candito, in Notes of the first workshop of Syntactic Analysis of Non Canonical Languages (SANCL'2012), colocated with NAACL'2012, Montreal, Canada pdf
• Statistical Parsing of Spanish and Data Driven Lemmatization,Joseph Le Roux, Benoit Sagot, Djamé Seddah, Procedings of SP-SEM-MRL'2012, Fisrt ACL joint workshop on Statistical Parsing and Semantic Processing of Morphologically Rich Languages (Jeju, South Korea) pdf
• Ubiquitous Usage of a Broad Coverage French Corpus: Processing the Est Republicain corpus, Djamé Seddah, Marie Candito, Benoit Crabbé and Enrique Henestroza Anguiano, in Proceedings of LREC'2012, pdf
• Towards Using Data Driven Lemmatization for Statistical Constituent Parsing of Italian, EVALITA 2012 D. Seddah, J. Le Roux and B. Sagot pdf
• Le corpus Sequoia : annotation syntaxique et exploitation pour l’adaptation d’analyseur par pont lexical,Candito M.-H. and Djamé Seddah, 2012, Proceedings of TALN'2012, Grenoble, France pdf Data Set
• Proceedings of the ACL 2012 Joint Workshop on Statistical Parsing and Semantic Processing of Morphologically Rich Languages Marianna Apidianaki, Ido Dagan, Jennifer Foster, Yuval Marton, Djamé Seddah and Reut Tsarfaty url

2011

• A Word Clustering Approach to Domain Adaptation: Effective Parsing of Biomedical Texts Candito M.-H., Henestroza Anguiano E. and Seddah D., 2011, Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Parsing Technologies (IWPT'2011), Dublin, Ireland pdf
• Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Statistical Parsing of Morphologically Rich Languages Djamé Seddah, Reut Tsarfaty and Jennifer Foster (eds), colocated event with IWPT'2011 (Dublin, Ireland) pdf url

2010

• Control Verb, Argument Cluster Coordination and Multi Component TAG, Djamé Seddah, Benoit Sagot and Laurence Danlos, Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Tree Adjoining Grammars and Related Formalisms (TAG+10), New Haven, June, 2010 pdf
• Statistical Parsing of Morphologically Rich Languages (SPMRL) What, How and Whither, Reut Tsarfaty, Djamé Seddah, Yoav Goldberg, Sandra Kuebler, Yannick Versley, Marie Candito, Jennifer Foster, Ines Rehbein and Lamia Tounsi, Proceedings of the NAACL-HLT 2010 First Workshop on Statistical Parsing of Morphologically-Rich Languages (SPMRL 2010), Los Angeles, June, 2010 pdf
• Lemmatization and Lexicalized Statistical Parsing of Morphologically-Rich Languages: the Case of French, Djamé Seddah, Grzegorz Chrupała, Ozlem Cetinoglu, Josef van Genabith and, Marie Candito, Proceedings of the NAACL-HLT 2010 First Workshop on Statistical Parsing of Morphologically-Rich Languages (SPMRL 2010), Los Angeles, June, 2010 pdf
• Parsing Word Clusters, Marie Candito and Djamé Seddah, Proceedings of the NAACL-HLT 2010 First Workshop on Statistical Parsing of Morphologically-Rich Languages (SPMRL 2010), Los Angeles, June, 2010 pdf
• Exploring the Spinal-STIG model for parsing French, Djamé Seddah, In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2010), Malta, 2010 pdf

2009

• Cross parsers evaluation : a French Treebanks study Djamé Seddah, Marie Candito, Benoit Crabbé, In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Parsing Technologies (IWPT 2009), Paris, October 7-9, 2009 pdf
• Adaptation de parsers statistiques lexicalisés pour le français : Une évaluation complète sur corpus arborés Djamé Seddah, Marie Candito, Benoit Crabbé, Proceedings of Traitement automatique des Langues Naturelles (TALN 2009), Senlis, France
• On statistical parsing of French with supervised and semi-supervised strategies Marie-Hélène Candito, Benoit Crabbé and Djamé Seddah (2009). in Proceedings of Computational Linguistic Aspects of Grammatical Inference (CLAGI 2009), Athens, Greece. pdf

2008

• The Use of MCTAG to Process Elliptic Coordination. Seddah Djamé (2008). In Actes de TAG+9, Tuebingen, Germany. pdf

2007

• C-Structures and F-Structures for the British National Corpus. Joachim Wagner, Djamé Seddah, Jennifer Foster and Josef van Genabith (2007): In Proceedings of the Twelfth International Lexical Functional Grammar Conference (LFG07), CSLI Publications, Stanford University, July 28-30, 2007 pdf
• Adapting WSJ-Trained Parsers to the British National Corpus using In-Domain Self-Training. Jennifer Foster, Joachim Wagner, Djamé Seddah and Josef van Genabith (2007): In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Parsing Technologies (IWPT 2007), Prague, June 23-24, 2007 pdf

2006

• «Modélisation et analyse des coordinations elliptiques via l'exploitation dynamique des forêts de dérivation», (Modeling and analysis of elleptic coordination through the dynamic exploitation of derivation forests), Traitement automatique des Langues Naturelles 2006 (TALN06), Louvain, Belgique, D. Seddah & B. Sagot
• Modeling and Analysis of Elliptic Coordination by Dynamic Exploitation of Derivation Forests in LTAG Parsing. Seddah Djamé et Sagot Benoît (2006). In Actes de TAG+8, Sydney, Australia.

2005

• « How to Build Argumental graphs Using TAG Shared Forest : a view from control verbs », Logical Aspect of Computional Linguistic (LACL) 2005, Bordeaux, Avril 2005, D.Seddah & B.Gaiffe
• «Des arbres de dérivation aux forêts de dépendance : un chemin via les forêts partagées »,(From Derivation Trees to Dependency Forests : A Path Trough Shared Forests), Traitement automatique des langues Naturelles (TALN) 2005, Dourdan, Juin 2005, D.Seddah & B.Gaiffe
• « Using both Derivation tree and Derived tree to get dependency graph in Derivation Forest », 6th International Workshop on Computational Semantics (IWCS-6), Tilburg, Pays-Bas, Janvier 2005 D.Seddah & B.Gaiffe

2004

• «Synchronisation des connaissances syntaxiques et sémantiques pour l'analyse d'énoncés en langage naturel à partir du formalisme des Grammaires d'Arbres Adjoints" ''Synchronization of syntactical and semantic knowledge for natural language analysis in the Lexicalized Tree Adjoining Grammars framework”

2002

• « Conceptualization of a lexical information system », Terminology and Knowledge Enginering (TKE) 2002, Nancy, Août 2002, E. Jacquey & D.Seddah,
• « Conceptualisation d'un système d'informations lexicales : une interface paramétrable pour le T.A.L», RECITAL2002, Nancy, Juin 2002, D.Seddah, E. Jacquey
  

2000

• « Practical aspect in compiling tabular TAG Parsers »,TAG+5, Paris , Mai 2000 M.A Pardo, D. Seddah & E. Villemonte de la Clergerie
• « Performance des correcteurs syntaxiques », ''Linux Pratique n°9, Mai 2000

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• « Étude du moteur de reconnaissance optique de caractères OCR-SHOP », Linux Pratique n°11, Juillet 2000

Seminars and Invited Talks

• Coordination and Control processing using Multi-Component TAG grammar: is this realistic?, November 16th, 2012, Dusseldorf, Germany
• Vers un treebank des médias sociaux: l'analyse syntaxique face au web 2.0. LingLunch Paris 7 seminar series, June 2012, Paris
• Statistical Parsing of French,Seminar INFOGLU, Marne la Vallée (Paris 13), France, June 2011
• Statistical Parsing of MRLs : Lemmatization, Morphological Clustering and Lexicalized Parsing of French, Dublin, Ireland, November 3rd, 2010
• Cross Parser Evaluation and Tagset Variation : a French Treebanks Study, Dublin, Ireland, December 09, 2009, Feast, Saarland University
• « An Overview on LFG Parsing with XLE », Tutorial, NCLT, Dublin City University, Dublin,27/03/06
• « Tree Adjoining Grammar and Syntax Semantic Interface », NCLT Seminar Series, Dublin City University, Dublin, 18/01/06
• « Forêt de dérivation et dépendances argumentales dans les grammaires d'arbre adjoint lexicalisées : Une approche illustrative sur les verbes à contrôle et les coordinations elliptiques », Séminaire Traitement automatique des langues, Loria Nancy, le 24 Novembre 2005 et Séminaire Lattice-Talana, Université Paris 7, Paris, le 21 Novembre 2005
• «Conceptualisation d'un système d'informations lexicales »,(avec E.Jacquey), Journée de l'Inist : « Ingénierie des langues et traitement de l'information », 30 Janvier 2003, Nancy.