<font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000"> =================================================================</font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> </span><font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000">Second</font><font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000"> Call for Paper Submissions</font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;"><font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000"> COLING 2010</font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000"> Workshop on Multiword Expressions:</font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;"><font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000"> from Theory to Applications (MWE 2010)</font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;"><font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000"> <a href="http://multiword.sf.net/mwe2010" target="_blank">http://multiword.sf.net/mwe2010</a></font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;"><font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000"> endorsed by the Special Interest Group on the Lexicon of the</font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000"> Association for Computational Linguistics (SIGLEX)</font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;"><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000"> Beijing, China</font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;"><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<p style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> Submission deadline: May 30, 2010 at 23:59 (GMT-7)</p><font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000">=================================================================</font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;"><font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000">Multiword Expressions (MWEs) are a ubiquitous component of natural</font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000">languages and appear steadily on a daily basis, both in specialized</font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;"><font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000">and in general-purpose communication. While easily mastered by</font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000">native speakers, their interpretation poses a major challenge for</font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;"><font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000">automated analysis due to their flexible and heterogeneous nature.</font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000">Therefore, the automated processing of MWEs is desirable for any</font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;"><font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000">natural language application that involves some degree of semantic</font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000">interpretation, e.g., Machine Translation, Information Extraction,</font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;"><font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000">and Question Answering.</font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;"><font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000">In spite of the recent advances in the field, there is a wide range</font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000">of open problems that prevent MWE treatment techniques from full</font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;"><font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000">integration in current NLP systems. In MWE'2010, we will be </font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000">interested in major challenges in the overall process of MWE</font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;"><font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000">treatment, asking for original research related but not limited to</font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000">the following topics:</font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;"><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000">* MWE resources: Although underused in most current state-of-the-art</font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;"><font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000"> approaches, resources are key for developing real-world</font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000"> applications capable of interpreting MWEs. We call for papers</font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;"><font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000"> describing the process of building MWE resources, constructed</font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000"> both manually and automatically from text corpora; we are also</font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;"><font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000"> interested in assessing the usability of such resources in</font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000"> various MWE tasks.</font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;"><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000">* Hybrid approaches: We invite research on integrating heterogeneous</font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;"><font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000"> MWE treatment techniques and resources in NLP applications. Such</font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000"> hybrid approaches can aim, for example, at the combination of</font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;"><font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000"> results from symbolic and statistical approaches, at the fusion</font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000"> of manually built and automatically extracted resources, or at</font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;"><font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000"> the design of language learning techniques.</font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;"><font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000">* Domain adaptation: Real-world NLP applications need to be robust</font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000"> to deal with texts coming from different domains. We thus call</font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;"><font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000"> for papers assessing the performance of MWE methods across</font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000"> domains or describing domain adaptation techniques for MWEs.</font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;"><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000">* Multilingualism: Parallel and comparable corpora are gaining</font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;"><font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000"> popularity as a resource for automatic MWE discovery and</font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000"> treatment. We are also interested in the integration of MWE</font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;"><font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000"> processing in multilingual applications such as machine</font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000"> translation and multi-lingual information retrieval, as well as</font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;"><font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000"> in porting existing monolingual MWE approaches to new languages.</font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;"><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;"><font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000">SUBMISSION GUIDELINES</font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;"><font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000">We invite submissions of original and unpublished work as full</font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000">papers. All submissions must follow the format of COLING 2010 </font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;"><font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000">proceedings, available at <a href="http://www.coling-2010.org/SubmissionGuideline.htm" target="_blank">http://www.coling-2010.org/SubmissionGuideline.htm</a>. </font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000">We strongly advise the use of the provided Word or LaTeX template </font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;"><font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000">files. Full papers should not exceed eight (8) pages for the </font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000">content, with one (1) extra page for references, thus the total </font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;"><font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000">lenght should not exceed nine pages (9) inclusive of references. </font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000">Reviewing will be double-blind, and thus no author information</font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;"><font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000">should be included in the papers; self-reference should be avoided</font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000">as well. </font><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Submission will be electronic in PDF format through the workshop</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">START system, available soon at <a href="https://www.softconf.com/coling2010/mwe2010/" target="_blank">https://www.softconf.com/coling2010/mwe2010/</a>. </span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000">The papers must be submitted no later than May 30, 2010 </font><font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000"><br>at 23:59 PDT (GMT-7). No deadline extensions will be granted.</font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;"><font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000">Submitted papers that do not conform to these requirements will be</font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000">rejected without review. Accepted papers will appear in the workshop</font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;"><font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000">proceedings and will be presented orally.</font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;"><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;"><font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000">IMPORTANT DATES</font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;"><font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000">May 30, 2010: Paper submission deadline (23:59 GMT-7)</font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000">Jun 30, 2010: Notification of acceptance</font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;"><font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000">Aug 21-22 or Aug 28, 2010: Workshop (exact date to be determined)</font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;"><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;"><font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000">PROGRAM COMMITTEE</font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;"><font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000">Inaki Alegria (University of the Basque Country, Spain)</font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000">Dimitra Anastasiou (Limerick University, Ireland)</font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;"><font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000">Timothy Baldwin (University of Melbourne, Australia)</font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000">Colin Bannard (University of Texas at Austin, USA)</font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;"><font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000">Francis Bond (Nanyang Technological University , Singapore)</font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000">Paul Cook (University of Toronto, Canada)</font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;"><font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000">Beatrice Daille (Nantes University, France)</font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000">Gael Dias (Beira Interior University, Portugal)</font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;"><font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000">Stefan Evert (University of Osnabrueck, Germany)</font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000">Roxana Girju (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)</font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;"><font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000">Nicole Gregoire (University of Utrecht, The Netherlands)</font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000">Chikara Hashimoto (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan)</font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000">Marti Hearst (University of California at Berkeley, USA)</font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;"><font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000">Ulrich Heid (Stuttgart University, Germany)</font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000">Kyo Kageura (University of Tokyo, Japan)</font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;"><font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000">Min-Yen Kan (National University of Singapore, Singapore)</font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000">Adam Kilgarriff (Lexical Computing Ltd, UK)</font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;"><font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000">Su Nam Kim (University of Melbourne, Australia)</font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000">Anna Korhonen (University of Cambridge, UK)</font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;"><font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000">Zornitsa Kozareva (University of Southern California, USA)</font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000">Brigitte Krenn (Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Austria)</font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000">Cvetana Krstev (University of Belgrade, Serbia)</font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;"><font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000">Begona Villada Moiron (Q-go, The Netherlands)</font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000">Rosamund Moon (University of Birmingham, UK)</font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;"><font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000">Jan Odijk (University of Utrecht, The Netherlands)</font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000">Stephan Oepen (University of Oslo, Norway)</font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;"><font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000">Darren Pearce (London Knowledge Lab, UK)</font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000">Pavel Pecina (Charles University, Czech Republic)</font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;"><font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000">Scott Piao (Lancaster University, UK)</font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000">Thierry Poibeau (CNRS and École Normale Supérieure, France)</font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;"><font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000">Elisabete Ranchhod (University of Lisbon, Portugal)</font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000">Barbara Rosario (Intel Labs, USA)</font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;"><font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000">Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha (University of Cambridge, UK)</font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000">Violeta Seretan (University of Geneva, Switzerland)</font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;"><font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000">Stan Szpakowicz (University of Ottawa, Canada)</font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000">Beata Trawinski (University of Tuebingen, Germany)</font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;"><font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000">Vivian Tsang (Bloorview Research Institute, Canada)</font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000">Kyioko Uchiyama (Keio University, Japan)</font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;"><font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000">Ruben Urizar (University of the Basque Country, Spain)</font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000">Tony Veale (University College Dublin, Ireland)</font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;"><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;"><font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000">WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS AND CONTACT</font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;"><font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000">Eric Laporte (Universite Paris-Est, France)</font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000">Preslav Nakov (National University of Singapore, Singapore)</font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;"><font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000">Carlos Ramisch (University of Grenoble, France)</font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000">Aline Villavicencio (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)</font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;"><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#000000">For any inquiries regarding the workshop please send an e-mail to mwe2010workshop at <a href="http://gmail.com" target="_blank">gmail.com</a></font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: courier new,monospace;">