[Corpora-List] CFP: ACL-2003 Workshop on Multiword Expressions

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            CALL FOR PAPERS

            ACL-2003 Workshop on
            Multiword Expressions: Analysis, Acquisition and Treatment
            
            12 July 2003, Sapporo, Japan

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    WEBSITES

    Workshop website:
    http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/alk23/mwe/mwe.html
            
    ACL website:
    http://www.ec-inc.co.jp/ACL2003/

    WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION

    Multiword expressions (MWEs) include a large range of linguistic
    phenomenon, such as phrasal verbs (e.g. "add up"), nominal compounds
    (e.g. "telephone box"), and institutionalized phrases (e.g. "salt and
    pepper"),
    and they can be syntactically and/or semantically idiosyncratic in nature.
    MWEs are used frequently in everyday language, usually to express
    precisely ideas and concepts that cannot be compressed into a single word.

    A considerable amount of research has been devoted to this subject,
    both in terms of theory and practice, but despite increasing interest in
    idiomaticity within linguistic research, there is still a gap between the
    needs
    of NLP and the descriptive tradition of linguistics. Owing to the lack of
    adequate resources to identify and treat MWEs properly, they pose a real
    challenge for NLP. Most real-world applications tend to ignore MWEs or
    address them simply by listing. However, it is clear that successful
    applications will need to be able to identify and treat them appropriately.
    This particularly applies to the many applications which require some
    degree of semantic processing (e.g. machine translation,
    question-answering, summarisation, generation).

    In recent years there has been a growing awareness in the NLP community
    of the problems that MWEs pose and the need for their robust handling.
    A considerable amount of research has been conducted in this area, some
    within large research projects dedicated to MWEs (e.g. the Multiword
    Expression Project). There is also a growing interest in MWEs in projects
    focused on tasks such as parsing (e.g. Robust Accurate Statistical Parsing
    (RASP)) and word sense disambiguation (e.g. MEANING - Developing
    Multilingual Web-scale Language Technologies) which are required by
    real-world applications.

    Previous workshops on MWEs have focused on certain MWE types,
    notably collocations, terminology and named entities. There are, however,
    further subtypes of MWEs, which are highly relevant for NLP tasks but
    which have not to date received specific attention. One example are
    lexicalised (non- or semi-compositional) MWEs which raise specific
    issues for applications which require semantic interpretation.

    TARGET AUDIENCE

    This workshop is intended to bring together NLP researchers working on
    all areas of MWEs. The objective is to summarise what has been achieved
    in the area, to establish common themes between different approaches,
    and to discuss future trends, with particular emphasis on addressing the
    problems that different MWE (sub)types pose for real-world NLP
    applications.

    AREAS OF INTEREST

    Papers are invited on, but not limited to, the following topics:

        * Theoretical research on MWEs
        * MWE taxonomies, classifications and databases
        * Corpus based analysis of MWEs
        * Cross-lingual analysis of MWE types, use, and behaviour
        * Methods for identification and extraction of MWEs
          (machine learning, statistical, example- or rule-based, or hybrid)
        * Evaluation of MWE extraction methods
        * Integration of MWE data into grammars and NLP applications
          (e.g. machine translation and generation)
        * Problems MWEs (or MWE types) pose for NLP applications
           and solutions proposed

    Papers can cover one or more of these areas.

    SUBMISSION INFORMATION

    Papers should be submitted electronically in Postscript or PDF
    format to: mwe@cslab.kecl.ntt.co.jp. Submissions should conform to
    the two-column format of ACL proceedings and should not exceed
    eight (8) pages, including references. We strongly recommend the
    use of ACL-2003 style files, also available from the ACL-2003 website.

    The subject line of the submission email should be
    "ACL2003 WORKSHOP PAPER SUBMISSION". As reviewing will be
    blind, the body of the paper should not include the names or affiliations
    of the authors. The following identification information should be sent in
    a separate email with the subject line "ACL2003 WORKSHOP ID PAGE":

    Title: title of paper
    Authors: list of all authors
    Keywords: up to five topic keywords
    Contact author: email address of author of record (for correspondence)
    Abstract: abstract of paper (not more than 5 lines)

    Notification of receipt will be emailed to the contact author.

    IMPORTANT DATES

    Submission deadline: 05 April 2003
    Acceptance notification: 03 May 2003
    Final version deadline: 24 May 2003
    Workshop date: 12 July 2003

    WORKSHOP CHAIRS

    Francis Bond
    NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Japan
    (bond@cslab.kecl.ntt.co.jp)

    Anna Korhonen
    University of Cambridge, UK
    (Anna.Korhonen@cl.cam.ac.uk)

    Diana McCarthy
    University of Sussex, UK
    (dianam@cogs.susx.ac.uk)

    Aline Villavicencio
    University of Cambridge, UK
    (Aline.Villavicencio@cl.cam.ac.uk)

    PROGRAM COMMITTEE

    Anne Abeillé (Université Paris 7, France)
    Timothy Baldwin (Stanford University, USA)
    Ted Briscoe (University of Cambridge, UK)
    Nicoletta Calzolari (Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale, Italy)
    Ido Dagan (Lingomotors, Israel)
    Christiane Fellbaum (Princeton University, USA)
    Chuck Fillmore (UC Berkeley, USA)
    Nancy Ide (Vassar College, USA)
    Kyo Kageura (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
    Brigitte Krenn (Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence,
    Austria)
    Maria Lapata (University of Edinburgh, UK)
    Simonetta Montemagni (Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale, Italy)
    Kentaro Ogura (NTT Cyber Space Laboratories, Japan)
    Darren Pearce (University of Sussex, UK)
    Ivan Sag (Stanford University, USA)
    Tom Wasow (Stanford University, USA)
    Annie Zaenen (Xerox PARC, USA)

    REGISTRATION

    Workshop registration information will be posted at a later date. The
    registration fee will include attendance at the workshop and a copy of
    workshop proceedings.



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