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<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='text-align:right'><b><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Multiword
expressions: hard going or plain sailing?<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='text-align:right'><b><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Special
issue of the International Journal of Language Resources and<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='text-align:right'><b><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Evaluation
<a href="http://www.springer.com/journal/10579/">http://www.springer.com/journal/10579/</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Guest editors:<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Paul Rayson (<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Lancaster
University</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region></st1:place>)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Begoña Villada Moirón (<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType>
of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Groningen</st1:PlaceName>, The <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">Netherlands</st1:country-region></st1:place>)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><st1:PersonName w:st="on"><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Serge Sharoff</span></font></st1:PersonName><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> (<st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">University of Leeds</st1:City>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region></st1:place>)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Scott Piao (<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">University
of Manchester</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region></st1:place>)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Stefan Evert (<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">University
of Osnabrueck</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Germany</st1:country-region></st1:place>)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>This special issue is concerned with language resources and
evaluation in the area of multiword expressions. For a number of years, the focus
in the natural language processing (NLP) community on the problems posed by
multiword expressions (MWE) was on English. Recently, for example at the ACL
and EACL workshops on multiword expressions, attention has expanded to other
languages including Dutch, Chinese, Japanese, German, Estonian, Russian,
Basque, Turkish and Hindi. This necessitates a re-evaluation of earlier rule-based,
statistical and hybrid techniques for MWE extraction and classification. In
English, MWE types such as phrasal verbs, light verb constructions, noun
compounds, proper names, and non-compositional idioms, have been considered.
However, in other languages some MWE types can be represented as compound
words, e.g. phrasal verbs in English are generally expressed as verb-prefix in
Russian. At the same time, research on MWEs for languages other than English is
confronted with new problems, such as the number of word forms per lemma, case
marking, word order or word segmentation.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>The focus of this special issue is on the acquisition and
analysis of language resources related to MWE and the methods for evaluation of
the extraction procedures and resulting MWE resources. Language resources
include written or spoken corpora marked up for MWE, terminology or domain
specific databases and dictionaries of MWE, as well as software tools for their
acquisition and analysis.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Topics to be addressed include, but are not limited to:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<ol style='margin-top:0cm' start=1 type=1>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><i><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-style:
italic'>Linguistic analysis</span></font></i><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>: of MWE based on language
resources (such as corpora) and the impact that these studies have on NLP
applications. We also welcome articles which undertake cross-linguistic
analyses of MWE or which identify variation across languages. Here we
include studies which investigate how application of techniques developed
for one language can be transferred to another language and how successful
bilingual (or multilingual) approaches are.<o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><i><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-style:
italic'>Typologies of MWE</span></font></i><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>: descriptions of different
classes of MWE and their representation in language resources, and in
addition to evaluate how well computational techniques transfer across
different types of MWE. Investigations of the variability of MWEs.<o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><i><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-style:
italic'>Extraction methods</span></font></i><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>: Do methods generalise across
languages? What is the interaction between linguistic
descriptions/analyses of MWE and extraction methods? (i.e. to what extent
are linguistically informed extraction methods useful?) Is fully automatic
extraction of MWE feasible, or will manual validation/intervention always
be necessary?<o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><i><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-style:
italic'>Evaluation strategies</span></font></i><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>: creation of gold standard MWE
language resources. Comparative studies using human subjects including
experts and non-experts and computational evaluations using language
resources derived from the web and elsewhere. Task-based evaluation of MWE
lexical resources in NLP applications<o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><i><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-style:
italic'>Compositionality</span></font></i><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>: comparative evaluation of how
well humans and machines make reliable judgements on compositionality for
the various classes of MWE. Also, the extent to which compositionality is
a key indicator for extraction and classification of MWE.<o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><i><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-style:
italic'>Applications</span></font></i><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>: of the theories, techniques
and tools developed in MWE research to practical tasks such as IR, Text
Mining etc.<o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
</ol>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Important Dates<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>- Deadline for paper submission: 15<sup>th</sup> November
2007<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>- Notification of acceptance: 15<sup>th</sup> May 2008<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>- Camera-ready version of accepted paper: 15<sup>th</sup> July
2008<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>- Target publication date: 4th quarter 2008<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Instructions for Authors<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Submissions should be not more than 20 pages long, must be
in English, and follow the submission guidelines at<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><a
href="http://www.springer.com/cda/content/document/cda_downloaddocument/instr_print_10579.060421.pdf?SGWID=0-0-45-126854-p35554703">http://www.springer.com/cda/content/document/cda_downloaddocument/instr_print_10579.060421.pdf?SGWID=0-0-45-126854-p35554703</a>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Extended and revised versions of papers accepted at previous
ACL and EACL workshops on multiword expressions, e.g. Workshops held in Trento
(April 2006), Sydney (July 2006) and in Prague (June 2007) are encouraged.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Authors are advised to use the online manuscript submission
for the journal. Authors are also encouraged to send a brief email to Paul
Rayson (<a href="mailto:paul@comp.lancs.ac.uk">paul@comp.lancs.ac.uk</a>) indicating
their intention to participate as soon as possible, including their contact information
and the topic they intend to address in their submissions. Enquiries regarding
the special issue should be sent to the same address.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Dr. Paul Rayson<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Director of UCREL<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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