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<P>Apologies for cross-postings</P></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2><SPAN class=215125015-21062007>NEW
SUBMISSION DEADLINE</SPAN>: JULY 6, 2007</FONT></FONT></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><FONT face=Arial size=2>TOPICS </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Specific topics of interest for the proposed
workshop are: </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>* 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><SPAN class=215125015-21062007>* </SPAN>Acquisition of
multilingual domain terminology<BR><SPAN class=215125015-21062007>*
</SPAN>Acquisition of translations for multi-word expressions<BR><SPAN
class=215125015-21062007>* </SPAN>Acquisition of translations for polysemous
words<BR><SPAN class=215125015-21062007>* </SPAN>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 </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>* 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: </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><A href="http://lml.bas.bg/ranlp2007/submissions.htm"><FONT face=Arial
size=2>http://lml.bas.bg/ranlp2007/submissions.htm</FONT></A><FONT face=Arial
size=2> </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>* Submission procedure. Please submit your paper
at: </FONT><A href="http://quad.softconf.com/ranlp/amml07/submit.html"><FONT
face=Arial
size=2>http://quad.softconf.com/ranlp/amml07/submit.html</FONT></A></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>* 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) </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>* 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. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>IMPORTANT DATES </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Paper submission deadline: July 06,
2007 <BR>Paper acceptance notification: July 25,
2007 <BR>Camera-ready papers due: August 31, 2007 <BR>Workshop
date: September 30, 2007 </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>PROGRAM COMMITTEE </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>KEYNOTE SPEAKERS </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Keynote speakers will be announced shortly before
the workshop. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>ORGANIZING COMMITTEE </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Viktor Pekar<BR>University of Wolverhampton,
UK</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Diana Inkpen<BR>University of Ottawa,
Canada</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Andrea Mulloni<BR>Expert System Inc.,
Italy</FONT></DIV>
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