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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>2ND CALL FOR PAPERS</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>RANLP-07 WORKSHOP ON ACQUISITION AND MANAGEMENT OF
MULTILINGUAL LEXICONS</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Sponsored by Expert System Inc. (<A
href="http://www.expertsystem.net/">http://www.expertsystem.net/</A>)<BR>Endorsed
by the ACL Special Interest Group on the Lexicon (ACL-SIGLEX)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Borovetz, Bulgaria<BR>September 30, 2007
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Workshop site:<BR><A
href="http://www.wlv.ac.uk/~in8113/amml07/">http://www.wlv.ac.uk/~in8113/amml07/</A>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>AIMS </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The current trend of information exchange on the
Internet to become ever more multilingual has stimulated new important
developments in the field of multilingual NLP. The present workshop is concerned
with the problem of automatic management of lexical resources, which lie at the
heart of many multilingual technologies. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Recently there has been an increased interest in
the automated discovery of equivalent expressions in different languages. New
interesting directions have sprung up, such as the use of the Web and comparable
corpora for this task, and new kinds of lexical phenomena, such as multiword
expressions and named entities, have come into focus. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>This workshop will bring together researchers
working on a broad range of problems related to the management of multilingual
lexical resources - their acquisition, maintenance, customization, and re-use.
The scope of the workshop includes evaluation of multilingual lexicons intended
for a broad range of applications: from personalized glossaries for a
translation project to large-scale machine-readable dictionaries and databases.
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<DIV><BR>TOPICS </DIV>
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<DIV>Specific topics of interest for the proposed workshop are: </DIV>
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<DIV>* Acquisition of lexical knowledge from parallel and comparable corpora,
and from the Web <BR>* Porting, merging and domain customisation of existing
lexical resources using NLP technologies <BR>* Acquisition of domain terminology
<BR>* Acquisition of multi-word expressions <BR>* Acquisition of translations
for polysemous words <BR>* Acquisition of multilingual lexical taxonomies <BR>*
Named Entity transliteration <BR>* Acquisition of cognates and loanwords <BR>*
Extraction of equivalent phrases and sentences from comparable corpora <BR>*
Applications of multilingual lexicons and their evaluation within:
<BR> - Statistical Machine Translation
<BR> - Computer-Aided Translation
<BR> - Information Retrieval (Question Answering,
Text Retrieval, Text Classification and Clustering)
<BR> - Knowledge Management </DIV>
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<DIV><BR>SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS </DIV>
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<DIV>* Format. Authors are invited to submit full papers on original,
unpublished work in the topic area of this workshop. Papers should be submitted
as a PDF file, formatted according to the RANLP 2007 stylefiles and not
exceeding 8 pages. The RANLP 2007 stylefiles are available at: </DIV>
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<DIV><A
href="http://lml.bas.bg/ranlp2007/submissions.htm">http://lml.bas.bg/ranlp2007/submissions.htm</A>
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<DIV>As reviewing will be blind, the papers should not include the authors'
names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the authors'
identities should be avoided. Papers that do not conform to these requirements
will be rejected without review. </DIV>
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<DIV>* Submission procedure. Submission of papers will be handled using the
START system. Specific submission guidelines will be posted on the workshop site
shortly. </DIV>
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<DIV>* Reviewing. Each submission will be reviewed at least by two members of
the Program Committee. Reviewers will be asked to provide detailed comments, and
to score submitted papers on the following factors:
<BR> - Relevance to the workshop
<BR> - Significance and originality
<BR> - Technical/methodological accuracy
<BR> - References to related work
<BR> - Presentation (clarity, organisation,
English) </DIV>
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<DIV>* Accepted papers policy. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop
proceedings. By submitting a paper at the workshop the authors agree that, in
case the paper is accepted for publication, at least one of the authors will
attend the workshop; all workshop participants are expected to pay the
RANLP-2007 workshop registration fee. </DIV>
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<DIV><BR>IMPORTANT DATES </DIV>
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<DIV>Paper submission deadline: June 15, 2007 <BR>Paper
acceptance notification: July 25, 2007 <BR>Camera-ready papers
due: August 31, 2007 <BR>Workshop date: September 30,
2007 </DIV>
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<DIV><BR>PROGRAM COMMITTEE </DIV>
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<DIV>Eneko Agirre (Basque Country University, Spain)<BR>Enrique Alfonseca
(Google Inc.)<BR>Marco Baroni (University of Trento, Italy)<BR>Paul Buitelaar
(DFKI, Germany)<BR>Michael Carl (IAI, Germany)<BR>Dan Cristea (University “Al.
I. Cuza” Iasi, Romania)<BR>Gael Dias (University of Beira Interior,
Portugal)<BR>Jesus Gimenez (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya,
Spain)<BR>Diana Inkpen (University of Ottawa, Canada)<BR>Dorothy Kenny (Dublin
City University, Ireland)<BR>Adam Kilgarriff (Lexicography Masterclass,
UK)<BR>Greg Kondrak (University of Alberta, Canada)<BR>Ruslan Mitkov (University
of Wolverhampton, UK)<BR>Sebastian Pado (University of Saarland,
Germany)<BR>Reinhard Rapp (Johannes Gutenberg-Universitat Mainz,
Germany)<BR>Fatiha Sadat (University of Ottawa, Canada)<BR>Violeta Seretan
(University of Geneva, Switzerland)<BR>Michel Simard (National Research Council
of Canada)<BR>Jorg Tiedemann (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen,
Netherlands)<BR>Takehito Utsuro (University of Tsukuba, Japan)<BR>Piek Vossen
(Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands)<BR>Michael Zock (LIF-CNRS,
France)</DIV>
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<DIV><BR>KEYNOTE SPEAKERS </DIV>
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<DIV>Keynote speakers will be announced shortly before the workshop. </DIV>
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<DIV><BR>ORGANIZING COMMITTEE </DIV>
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<DIV>Viktor Pekar<BR>University of Wolverhampton, UK</DIV>
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<DIV>Diana Inkpen<BR>University of Ottawa, Canada</DIV>
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<DIV>Andrea Mulloni<BR>Expert System Inc., Italy</DIV>
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