[Corpora-List] HLT/NAACL 2007 Workshop: Computational Approaches to Figurative Language, April 26

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    Computational Approaches to Figurative Language

    *************************Call for Papers***************************

    Workshop in conjunction with HLT/NAACL 2007
    To be held in Rochester, NY, April 26, 2007

    Submission Deadline: January 18, 2007

    Figurative language, such as metaphor, metonymy, idioms, personification,
    simile among others, is in abundance in natural discourse. It is an
    effective apparatus to heighten effect and convey various meanings, such
    as humor, irony, sarcasm, affection, etc. Figurative language can be found
    not only in fiction, but also in everyday speech, newspaper articles,
    research papers, and even technical reports. The recognition of figurative
    language use and the computation of figurative language meaning constitute
    one of the hardest problems for a variety of natural language processing
    tasks, such as machine translation, text summarization, information
    retrieval, and question answering. Resolution of this problem involves
    both a solid understanding of the distinction between literal and
    non-literal language and the development of effective computational models
    that can make the appropriate semantic interpretation automatically.

    As natural language processing moves to an unprecedented new stage, it has
    become more urgent than ever to tackle the bottleneck presented by
    figurative language. There has been an increasing amount of work in this
    area in the past few years (e.g. theoretical semantic/pragmatic analyses
    of non-compositional phenomena, research on psychological/neuro-linguistic
    modeling of figurative language comprehension and production, research on
    the structure of the lexicon, knowledge representation and figurative
    language comprehension, domain-specific figurative language detection,
    computational corpus studies of figurative language), but much more work
    needs to be done (e.g. large-scale automatic figurative language
    detection, automatic extraction of idioms and non-compositional phrases
    from large corpora, automatic semantic interpretation of figurative
    language, automatic figurative language generation, machine translation of
    non-literal phenomena, etc.). The goal of this workshop is to provide a
    venue for researchers in this area to inform each other and the natural
    language processing community at large of the state of the art of current
    systems and to reach a better understanding of the new issues and
    challenges that need to be tackled.

    The workshop is intended to be highly interdisciplinary. We encourage the
    participation of people whose research deals with figurative language from
    different perspectives, including (but not limited to) applied
    linguistics, psychology, corpus linguistics, human-computer interaction,
    natural language processing, etc.

    Topics covered by the workshop include, but are not limited to:

    (1) Computational models of figurative language processing, including
         - extracting idioms and non-compositional phrases from large corpora
         - classifying metaphoric/non-metaphoric and humorous/non-humorous
           language use
         - computing non-literal meaning
         - multilingual or cross-lingual processing of figurative language
         - computational modeling of human figurative language comprehension
           and production

    (2) Psychological models of figurative language processing, including
         - figurative language comprehension
         - figurative language production
         - figurative language acquisition

    (3) Corpus-driven studies of figurative language, including
         - corpus-based studies of figurative aspects of any language
         - corpus-based studies of specific linguistic cues for figurative language
         - effects of domain and genre on studies of figurative language
         - annotation of non-literal phenomena in corpora

    (4) Theoretical discussions on literal and non-literal language,
         including discussions on
         - the distinction between literal and non-literal language
         - the distinction between different types of figurative language
         - cross-linguistic differences of figurative language

    (5) Lexical and ontological resources for figurative language
         processing, including
         - representation of non-literal meaning in lexicons and ontologies
         - development of new lexical resources for figurative language
           processing

    (6) Evaluation of figurative language processing in large-scale NLP
         systems, such as machine translation, Computer-assisted Language
         Learning (CALL), question answering, dialogue systems, etc.

    The emphasis of the workshop is on computational approaches to figurative
    language. We particularly are interested in submissions that deal with
    figurative language in the context of Machine Translation, Word Sense
    Disambiguation, Information Extraction, Document Retrieval, Dialogue
    Systems, Intelligent Tutoring systems, etc.

    Workshop Home Page:

    http://chss3.montclair.edu/linguistics/lingpage/faculty/feldman/FigLang2007

    Paper Submission:

    Submissions should describe original, unpublished work.
    Papers are limited to 8 pages. Submissions should use the
    style files available on the main HLT/NAACL2007 conference web site.
    No author information should be included in the papers since reviewing
    will be blind. Papers not conforming to these requirements are subject
    to rejection without review. Papers should be submitted via START, which
    will become available at the following website in the near future:

    http://www.cs.rochester.edu/meetings/hlt-naacl07/workshops.shtml

    Important Dates:

    Paper submission deadline: January 18, 2007
    Notification of acceptance for papers: February 22, 2007
    Camera ready papers due: March 1, 2007
    Workshop Date: April 26, 2007

    Organizers:

    Xiaofei Lu, Penn State University (xxl13 AT psu.edu)
    Anna Feldman, Montclair State University (feldmana AT mail.montclair.edu)

    Program Committee:

    Chris Brew, The Ohio State University
    Afsaneh Fazly, University of Toronto, Canada
    Eileen Fitzpatrick, Montclair State University
    Sam Glucksberg, Princeton University
    Sid Horton, Northwestern University
    Diana Inkpen, University of Ottawa, Canada
    Kevin Knight, USC/Information Sciences Institute
    Mark Lee, The University of Birmingham, UK
    Katja Markert, The University of Edinburgh, UK
    Detmar Meurers, The Ohio State University
    Rada Mihalcea, University of North Texas
    Andrew Ortony, Northwestern University
    Wim Peters, University of Sheffield, UK
    Vasile Rus, The University of Memphis
    Richard Sproat, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champain
    Suzanne Stevenson, University of Toronto, Canada
    Carlo Strapparava, Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica, Trento, Italy



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