[Corpora-List] CfP: EUROLAN 2005 Workshop "ROMANCE FrameNet"

From: Vincenzo Pallotta (Vincenzo.Pallotta@epfl.ch)
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                                *** CALL FOR PAPERS ***

                                   ROMANCE FrameNet
     
                             Workshop and Kick-off Meeting
                                  26 - 28 July, 2005

          
                   a satellite event of the EUROLAN 2005 Summer School
                        http://www.cs.ubbcluj.ro/EUROLAN2005

                    
                     Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
                              25 July - 6 August, 2005

     

    *** Backgrounds and Goals

    ROMANCE FrameNet (http://ic2.epfl.ch/~pallotta/rfn) is a joint
    initiative to create a special interest group with the goal of building
    a multi-lingual FrameNet resource for romance languages based on
    Fillmore's Frame Semantics (1977, 1982). ROMANCE FrameNet is different
    from Multi-Lingual WordNet since it will link collocational and
    constructional material to word senses (not only sub-categorization
    frames of verbs). Applications to foreign language learning are
    apparent, as well as for computer assisted translation, multi-lingual
    information extraction and cross-lingual question answering.

    We consider the major 6 Romance languages, namely French, Spanish,
    Italian, Romanian, Portuguese, Catalan, but we do not exclude other
    Romance languages whose representatives are equally invited to join the
    ROMANCE FrameNet initiative.

    We suggest to adopt a new methodology for the development of ROMANCE
    FrameNet by translating the sentences annotated in the original FrameNet
    project from support corpora (e.g. BNC). This approach is inspired by
    the recent work on MultiSemCor. The translation task will be distributed
    among the participants and supervised by local teams in the
    participating institutions working on the different languages.

    ROMANCE FrameNet is directed towards the following goals:

       1. creating a consistent aligned and frame-annotated multi-lingual
    corpus;
       2. highlighting cross-language regularities, and structural intra-
    and extra-typological idiosyncrasies;
       3. creating a semantically indexed translation memory and an inverse
    multi-lingual dictionary;
       4. creating one of the first freely available resource which contains
    cross-languages sub-categorization and collocational mappings;
       5. reusing the work done on automatic role assignment and semantic
    parsing (cf. Senseval-3).

    *** Workshop and Kick-off Meeting

    We propose to meet during the EUROLAN 2005 Summer School in Cluj-Napoca
    in order to develop an informal agreement on a work plan for
    bootstrapping the ROMANCE FrameNet resource.

    As a first shared task for bootstrapping the project, we propose the
    translation and annotation of a common subset of 110 sentences from the
    English FrameNet data in each of the targeted languages. The burden of
    this work will be taken by the participants to the workshop and kick-off
    meeting, noting that there may be multiple translations for the same
    sentence. We consider this redundancy very useful for evaluating
    inter-translator agreement.

    The mini-corpus will be the basis of the discussion during the kick-off
    meetings and possibly of the workshop papers. It is available for
    download at: http://ic2.epfl.ch/~pallotta/rfn/data.zip.

    FrameNet annotations can be found by browsing the FrameNet data
    (http://framenet.icsi.berkeley.edu/) locally or by using the Sato's
    FrameSQL browser
    (http://sato.fm.senshu-u.ac.jp/fn22/notes/fullMenuFrame.html).
     
    The format of the ROMANCE FrameNet workshop and kick-off meeting will be
    of one hour of daily official public presentations and discussions (from
    18.30 to 19.30) during three consecutive days (July, 26, 27 and 28).

    Additionally we expect and foster a number of spontaneous informal
    gatherings and working groups involving participants (either within the
    same language or cross-language) during day-long meetings at EUROLAN school.

    *** Paper Submission

    We invite papers on several aspects of the construction of the ROMANCE
    FrameNet resource. Topic of interest include but are not limited to:

        * Creation of aligned multi-lingual corpus for ROMANCE FrameNet
        * Transfer of Frames between English and Romance Languages
        * Transfer and Adaptation of Frame annotations
        * Cross-language similarities and differences in lexical choice for
    translating the lexical units
        * Cross-language similarities and differences in sub-categorization
    and selectional restrictions
        * Transfer of collocations and idiomatic expressions
        * Automatic methods for alignment of multilingual resources in
    perspective of Frame annotation
        * Applications of multilingual FrameNet
        * Evaluation (inter-translators agreement, annotation transfer, etc.)

    Extended versions of a selection of the best papers will be published in
    a special issue "Romanian Journal of Information Science and
    Technology", published by the Romanian Academy Publishing House (ISSN:
    1453-8245). The issue will be printed as post-conference proceedings.

    *** IMPORTANT DATES

    SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 30th June 2005

    Notification of Acceptance: 10th July 2005
     
    Camera-ready Papers: 15th July 2005

    Workshop: 26-28 July 2005

    *** Paper Requirements

    Authors are invited to submit a 6-10 pages paper in electronic form (pdf
    only) by 30th of June 2005. Like in the case of other EUROLAN workshops
    over the past years, the review process is not blind. Authors of
    accepted papers should submit the final version in electronic format not
    later than 15th of July. The final version must be also in pdf format.

    For the papers selected for publication in the ROJIST journal, we
    require a Latex file (all macros used should be included; both Emtex and
    Latex2e are allowed; the standard "article" style is strongly
    recommended). All illustrations must be of professional quality and
    should be sent in separate files in bmp format. The Abstract,
    Introduction and Conclusion chapters are requested. References should be
    listed in alphabetical order.

    A sample paper is available here:
    http://www.ceid.upatras.gr/Balkanet/journal/7_Overview.pdf

    No galley proofs are sent to authors, the paper is printed in the final
    form received from the authors after the completion of the refereeing
    process. For each published paper 25 reprints are free of charge.

    We suggest to comply with the ROJIST guidelines from the beginning in
    the submission of the workshop paper.
    All the papers should be sent both to Vincenzo Pallotta and Dan Tufis.

    *** Registration

    People attending the ROMANCE FrameNet workshop are warmly invited to
    participate to the EUROLAN 2005 Summer School by registering here:
    http://www.cs.ubbcluj.ro/EUROLAN2005/index.php?r=Registr (Note that
    authors of the papers accepted for presentation at the workshop will
    benefit of early registration fee regardless of the date they register).
     
    Participation to the workshop is open to all EUROLAN 2005 attendants and
    is included in the school's participation fee. Copies of workshop
    proceedings will be included in the EUROLAN school's CD-ROM.

    In alternative, it is possible to register only for the workshop with a
    fee of 50 euro to be payed on the workshop site.

    *** Scientific Committee

    Collin Baker (FrameNet, ICSI, Berkeley, USA)
    Dan Cristea (University of Iasi, Romania)
    Rodolfo Delmonte (University of Venice, Italy)
    Charles J. Fillmore (FrameNet, ICSI, Berkeley, USA)
    Thierry Fontenelle (Microsoft Research, USA)
    Rada Mihalcea (University of of North Texas, USA)
    Vincenzo Pallotta (EPFL, Switzerland)
    Carlos Subirats (Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain)
    Violeta Seretan (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
    Amalia Todirascu (University of Strasbourg, France)
    Dan Tufis (Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania)
    Nancy Ide (Vasar College, USA)
    Alessandro Lenci (University of Pisa, Italy)
    Francesca Bertagna (University of Pisa, Italy)
    Emanuele Pianta (ITC-IRST, Trento, Italy)
    Berardo Magnini (ITC-IRST, Trento, Italy)
    Pierrette Bouillon (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
    Dominique Dutoit (Memodata, France)
    Mercé Lorente (University of Barcelona, Spain)
    Aline Villavicencio (University of Essex, UK)

    *** Organization

    The ROMANCE FrameNet Workshop and Kick-off Meeting is part of the
    EUROLAN 2005 Summer School and it is organized by:

    Vincenzo Pallotta (EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland)
    Dan Tufis (Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania)

    For further information please contact:

    Vincenzo Pallotta: Vincenzo.Pallotta@epfl.ch
    Dan Tufis: tufis@racai.ro

    This document is also available on-line at:

                 http://ic2.epfl.ch/~pallotta/rfn/



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