<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Due to numerous requests, we have decided to extend the paper submission deadline, until March 8, 2010. <div><br></div><div>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br> FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS<br> Workshop on Extracting and Using Constructions<br> in Computational Linguistics<br> <a href="http://www.sics.se/~mange/construct2010/">http://www.sics.se/~mange/construct2010/</a><br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Post-conference workshop NAACL HLT 2009<br> June 5 or 6, Los Angeles, USA<br>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br><br>A construction can be defined as a form-meaning pairing in which the components cannot entirely explain the meaning of the whole. Constructional phenomena range from morphemes to argument structure, and include obvious examples like collocations ("hermetically sealed"), (idiomatic) expressions with fixed constituents ("kick the bucket"), expressions with (semi-)optional constituents ("hungry as a X"), and sequences of grammatical categories ([det][adj][noun]), as well as more complex constructions involving, e.g., the occurrence of sentence composition features (e.g. transitivity) or adverbial types (e.g. spatial adverbials). As these examples demonstrate, constructions are a diverse breed, and constructionist theories do not give a government to any specific level of language. On the contrary, all levels are viewed as equally important.<br><br>Constructions are currently enjoying considerable attention in linguistic research, and are now widely considered as being much more frequent and central to language than what has traditionally been acknowledged. Constructionist theories emphasize that the human mind seems to prefer to use prefabricated chunks of linguistic elements (i.e. constructions) when possible, instead of generating sentences from scratch as in the generative grammar approach. Constructions are also gaining a central place in different kinds of computational linguistics applications; examples include machine translation, information retrieval and extraction, tools for language learning, etc. Constructions are an interesting and important phenomenon because they constitute a middleway in the syntax-lexicon continuum, and because they show great potential in tackling infamously difficult computational linguistics tasks like sentiment analysis and language acquisition.<br><br>This workshop will encourage submissions in all aspects of constructions-based research, including:<br><br>* Theoretical discussions on the nature and place within<br> (computational) linguistic theory of the concept of linguistic<br> constructions.<br><br>* Methods and algorithms for identifying and extracting linguistic<br> constructions (collocations, idioms, multiword expressions,<br> grammatical constructions, etc.).<br><br>* Uses and applications of linguistic constructions (machine<br> translation, information access, sentiment analysis, tools for<br> language learning etc.).<br><br>Important dates:<br>Submission deadline: March 8, 2010<br>Notification of acceptance: March 30, 2010<br>Workshop: June 5 or 6, 2010<br><br>Location:<br>NAACL HLT 2010, Los Angeles, USA.<br><br>Submission procedure:<br>We invite authors to submit papers via: <a href="https://www.softconf.com/naaclhlt2010/constructions/">https://www.softconf.com/naaclhlt2010/constructions/</a><br>Submissions should be blind, not exceed 8 pages, and should use the NAACL HLT 2010 style files, available at: <a href="http://naaclhlt2010.isi.ed/authors.html">http://naaclhlt2010.isi.ed/authors.html</a><br>Each submission will be reviewed by two members of the program committee.<br><br>Organizers:<br>Magnus Sahlgren, SICS (<a href="mailto:mange@sics.se">mange@sics.se</a>)<br>Ola Knutsson, KTH (<a href="mailto:knutsson@csc.kth.se">knutsson@csc.kth.se</a>)<br><br>Program committee:<br>Benjamin Bergen, University of Hawaii, USA<br>James Curran, University of Sydney, Australia<br>Stefan Evert, University of Osnabrück, Germany<br>Charles Fillmore, University of Berkeley, USA<br>Jonathan Ginzburg, King's College, UK<br>Adele Goldberg, Princeton University, USA<br>Stefan Th. Gries, University of California, USA<br>Matthew Honnibal, University of Sydney, Australia<br>Jussi Karlgren, Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden<br>Krista Lagus, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland<br>Olga Lyashevskaya, University of Tromsø, Norway<br>Laura Michaelis-Cummings, University of Colorado, USA<br>Anatol Stefanowitsch, University of Bremen, Germany<br>Suzanne Stevenson, University of Toronto, Canada<br>Peter Turney, National Research Council, Canada<br>Jan-Ola Östman, University of Helsinki, Finland<br><br></div></body></html>