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FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS<br>
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WORKSHOP ON COLLOCATION<br>
Computational Extraction, Analysis and Exploitation<br>
ACL'2001 Conference <br>
Toulouse, France <br>
July 7th, 2001<br>
We invite papers on topics relating to the theme of collocation and more
<br>
particularly their <br>
computational extraction, analysis and exploitation. This workshop <br>
follows the French <br>
ATALA workshop on collocation which took place in Paris, France on <br>
January 2001 and <br>
seeks to go forward so as to explore the wider perspective of <br>
computational linguistics.<br>
The term "collocation" was introduced in the nineteen thirties
by J. R. <br>
Firth, founder <br>
member of the British Contextualist school, to characterise certain
<br>
linguistic phenomena <br>
of cooccurrence that stem principally from the linguistic competence of
<br>
native speakers <br>
(Firth 1957). By its very nature collocation remains a relatively fuzzy
<br>
concept, the <br>
consequence of which being that traditional grammarians and semanticists
<br>
have tended to <br>
ignore it, the exception being some lexical semanticists as Cruse <br>
(1986). The study of <br>
collocation is above all a practical one aimed at assisting language
<br>
learners and <br>
translators in their tasks.<br>
Essentially idiomatic in nature, collocation defies rigid formalisation
<br>
which explains the <br>
existence of different schools of thought between those seeking a <br>
descriptive <br>
contextualised view of linguistic phenomena and those who seeks <br>
formalised applications <br>
for translation, lexicography or computational purposes. This has led to
<br>
a variety of <br>
approaches based around a general core meaning for the phenomenon.<br>
For several years, NLP has been concerned with collocation largely <br>
through the following <br>
fields:<br>
Formalisation through specialised formalisms for different NLP <br>
tasks: dictionary <br>
formalism such as lexical function; HPSG, LFG, TAG, ... <br>
formalisms for analysis <br>
or generation. <br>
Extraction from monolingual or bilingual texts or dictionairies <br>
using either raw <br>
statistics or statistics combined with linguistic information <br>
such as <br>
part-of-speech or grammar dependancy. <br>
Exploitation through specific NLP systems dedicated to second <br>
language learning <br>
or translation, or for such NLP tasks as information retrieval or <br>
thematic <br>
structuration.<br>
This workshop aims to guage the extend to which the role of collocation
<br>
as a phenomenon <br>
in applied linguistics is now being taken into account in formal <br>
linguistics and NLP and <br>
addresses the following topics (not limitative):<br>
Formal description of collocation through existing or dedicated <br>
specialised <br>
formalisms <br>
New methods adopted for the identification of collocations. This <br>
would include <br>
statistics and also more linguistic oriented methods. <br>
NLP systems dedicated to collocation. <br>
Exploitation of collocations for other NLP tasks through <br>
monolingual or <br>
multilingual environments.<br>
This workshop addresses researchers in all fields of theoretical and
<br>
applied computational <br>
linguistics and most particularly those working in automatic and <br>
assisted machine <br>
translation, dictionnary building and computationally assisted language
<br>
teaching as well <br>
as those concerned with information retrieval and text mining.<br>
<br>
ORGANIZERS<br>
Béatrice Daille IRIN - University of Nantes, France - <br>
daille@irin.univ-nantes.fr <br>
Geoffrey Williams CRELLIC - University of Bretagne-Sud, <br>
France - <br>
Geoffrey.Williams@univ-ubs.fr<br>
PROGRAM COMMITTEE<br>
Jeremy Clear, Honorary Research Fellow, University of Birmingham <br>
Pernilla Danielsson, TELRI <br>
Chris Gledhill, University of St Andrews <br>
Syvain Kahane, LaTTiCe/TALaNa <br>
Marie-Claude L'Homme, University of Montreal <br>
Julia Pajzs, Hungarian Academy of Science <br>
Antoinette Renouf, University of Liverpool <br>
Alain Polguère, OLST - University of Montreal <br>
Laurent Romary, LORIA <br>
Dan Tufis, Romanian Academy - RACAI <br>
Jean Véronis, University of Provence <br>
Leo Wanner, University of Stuttgart<br>
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SCHEDULE<br>
Workshop paper submissions <br>
April 8, 2001 <br>
Notification of acceptance <br>
April 30, 2001 <br>
Deadline for camera-ready papers <br>
May 13, 2001<br>
WORKSHOP DATE<br>
July 7th, 2001<br>
SUBMISSION FORMAT AND INSTRUCTIONS<br>
Submissions must be in English, no more than 8 pages long, and in the
<br>
two-column format <br>
prescribed by ACL'2001. Please see
<a href="http://acl2001.dfki.de/style/" eudora="autourl"><font color="#0000FF"><u>http://acl2001.dfki.de/style/</a></font></u>
for the <br>
detailed <br>
guidelines; however, please put the authors' names, rather than a paper <br>
id, since <br>
reviewing will not be <br>
blind. Submissions should be sent electronically in either Word, pdf, or <br>
postscript format <br>
(only) no later than April 8, 2001 to: Béatrice Daille <br>
daille@irin.univ-nantes.fr<br>
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