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WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS
ACL2007 - A Broader Perspective on Multiword Expressions
Endorsed by the ACL Special Interest Group on the Lexicon (SIGLEX)
Date: June, 28 (AM), 2007
Location: Prague, Czech Republic
Workshop web page: http://www.let.uu.nl/~Nicole.Gregoire/personal/
ACL07-MWE/
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In recent years, the NLP community has increasingly become aware of
the problems that multiword expressions (MWEs) pose. A considerable
amount of research has been conducted in this area, some within large
research projects dedicated to MWEs. Although progress has been made
especially in the area of multiword extraction, a number of
fundamental questions remain unanswered.
Following up workshops on various aspects of MWEs at previous ACL
conferences, we want to address these questions in this year's MWE
workshop:
- Is it sufficient to use purely statistical methods for the
extraction of MWEs from corpora, or is it necessary to harness human
knowledge and linguistic insights?
- Is fully automatic MWE extraction feasible, or will manual
validation always be required?
- What is the nature of MWEs, and how can they be defined formally?
- To what extent can definitions and extraction procedures be
generalised to other languages, other text types and other types of
MWEs?
- Can and should we distinguish subtypes of MWEs for NLP applications?
In addition to these fundamental issues, we want to address the
practical question of what is needed for a successful treatment of
MWEs in NLP:
- What properties should be specified for MWEs or subtypes of MWEs in
the lexicon?
- Can we detect these properties automatically with sufficient accuracy?
- How can existing grammars be adapted in order to deal better with
MWEs?
- What role do the semantics of MWEs play in NLP applications and can
they be determined automatically from large corpora?
We therefore solicit papers describing linguistically motivated
approaches to MWEs, comparative studies across languages or different
subtypes of MWEs, and the treatment of MWEs in NLP applications. This
includes (but is not limited to) research on:
- Linguistic, Empirical and Cognitive Properties of MWEs: research
into the definitions and characteristic properties of MWEs and the
impact that such information has on NLP applications.
- Classes of MWEs: investigating classes (or subtypes) of MWEs and
the extent to which computational techniques transfer to different
classes and different languages.
- Linguistic and Psycholinguistic Theories of MWEs: combining the
computational treatment of a class of MWEs with a solid linguistic
and/or psycholinguistic analysis.
SUBMISSION INFORMATION
Submissions should follow the two-column format of ACL proceedings
and should not exceed eight (8) pages, including references.
As reviewing will be blind, the paper should not include the authors'
names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-citations and other
references (e.g. to projects, corpora, or software) that could reveal
the author's identity should be avoided. For example, instead of "We
previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...", write "Smith previously showed
(Smith, 1991) ...".
Submission will be electronic, using the workshop's START paper
submission webpage (http://www.softconf.com/acl07/ACL07-WS6/
submit.html). The only accepted format for submitted papers is Adobe
PDF. The papers must be submitted no later than 7pm US
Eastern time March 26, 2007 (23:59 GMT March 26, 2007). Papers
submitted after that time will not be reviewed.
WORKSHOP FORMAT
This is a half-day workshop. The accepted papers will be presented as
20-minute talks followed by a 10-minute discussion.
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission deadline: March 26, 2007
Notification of acceptance: April 30, 2007
Camera ready papers due: May 9, 2007
Workshop date: June 28 (AM), 2007
PROGRAM COMITTEE
Iñaki Alegria (University of the Basque Country)
Timothy Baldwin (Stanford University, USA; University of Melbourne,
Australia)
Colin Bannard (Max Planck Institute, Germany)
Francis Bond (NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Japan)
Beatrice Daille (Nantes University, France)
Gael Dias (Beira Interior University, Portugal)
James Dowdall (University of Sussex, UK)
Uli Heid (Stuttgart University, Germany)
Kyo Kageura (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Anna Korhonen (University of Cambridge, UK)
Brigitte Krenn (OFAI, Vienna, Austria)
Dan Moldovan (University of Texas, USA)
Rosamund Moon (University of Birmingham, UK)
Diana McCarthy (University of Sussex, UK)
Eric Laporte (University of Marne-la-Vallee, France)
Preslov Nakov (University of California, USA)
Jan Odijk (University of Utrecht, The Netherlands)
Stephan Oepen (Stanford University, USA; University of Oslo, Norway)
Darren Pearce (University of Sussex, UK)
Scott Piao (University of Manchester, UK)
Violeta Seretan (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
Suzanne Stevenson (University of Tuebingen, Germany)
Beata Trawinski (University of Toronto, Canada)
Kiyoko Uchiyama (Keio University, Japan)
Ruben Urizar (University of the Basque Country)
Begoña Villada Moirón (University of Groningen, The Netherlands)
Aline Villavicencio (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
WORKSHOP CHAIRS
Nicole Grégoire
University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
Stefan Evert
University of Osnabrueck, Germany
Su Nam Kim
University of Melbourne, Australia
CONTACT
For any inquiries regarding the workshop please contact Nicole Grégoire
(Nicole.Gregoire@let.uu.nl).
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