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First Call for Paper Submissions<br>
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ACL 2011 Workshop on Multiword Expressions:<br>
from Parsing and Generation to the real world (MWE 2011)<br>
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<a href="http://multiword.sf.net/mwe2011" target="_blank">http://multiword.sf.net/mwe2011</a><br>
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endorsed by the Special Interest Group on the Lexicon of the<br>
Association for Computational Linguistics (SIGLEX)<br>
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Portland, Oregon, USA - June 23-24, 2011<br>
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***Submission deadline: Mar 4, 2011 at 23:59 PDT (GMT-7)***<br>
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Under the denomination "Multiword Expression", one can hang a<br>
wide range of linguistic constructions such as idioms (a frog in<br>
the throat, kill some time), fixed phrases (per se, by and large,<br>
rock'n roll), noun compounds (telephone booth, cable car),<br>
compound verbs (give a presentation, go by [a name]), etc. While<br>
easily mastered by native speakers, their interpretation poses a<br>
major challenge for computational systems, due to their flexible<br>
and heterogeneous nature. Surprisingly enough, MWEs are not<br>
nearly as frequent in NLP resources (dictionaries, grammars) as<br>
they are in real-word text, where they have been reported to<br>
account for over 70% of the terms in a domain. Thus, MWEs are a<br>
key issue and a current weakness for tasks like Natural Language<br>
Parsing (NLP) and Generation (NLG), as well as real-life<br>
applications such as Machine Translation.<br>
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MWE 2011 will be the 8th event in the series, and the time has<br>
come to move from basic preliminary research and theoretical<br>
results to actual applications in real-world NLP tasks. Therefore,<br>
following further the trend of previous MWE workshops, we propose<br>
a turn towards MWEs on NLP applications, specifically towards<br>
Parsing and Generation of MWEs, as there is a wide range of open<br>
problems that prevent MWE treatment techniques to be fully<br>
integrated in current NLP systems. We will be asking for original<br>
research related (but not limited) to the following topics:<br>
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* Lexical representations: In spite of several proposals for<br>
MWE representation ranging along the continuum from words-<br>
with-spaces to compositional approaches connecting lexicon<br>
and grammar, to date, it remains unclear how MWEs should be<br>
represented in electronic dictionaries, thesauri and grammars.<br>
New methodologies that take into account the type of MWE and<br>
its properties are needed for efficiently handling manually<br>
and/or automatically acquired expressions in NLP systems.<br>
Moreover, we also need strategies to represent deep attributes<br>
and semantic properties for these multiword entries.<br>
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* Application-oriented evaluation: Evaluation is a crucial<br>
aspect for MWE research. Various evaluation techniques have<br>
been proposed, from manual inspection of top-n candidates to<br>
classic precision/recall measures. However, only application-<br>
oriented techniques can give a clear indication of whether the<br>
acquired MWEs are really useful. We call for submissions that<br>
study the impact of MWE handling in applications such as<br>
Parsing, Generation, Information Extraction, Machine<br>
Translation, Summarization, etc.<br>
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* Type-dependent analysis: While there is no unique definition<br>
or classification of MWEs, most researchers agree on some<br>
major classes such as named entities, collocations, multiword<br>
terminology and verbal expressions. These, though, are very<br>
heterogeneous in terms of syntactic and semantic properties,<br>
and should thus be treated differently by applications. Type-<br>
dependent analyses could shed some light on the best<br>
methodologies to integrate MWE knowledge in our analysis and<br>
generation systems.<br>
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* MWE engineering: Where do my MWEs go after being extracted?<br>
Do they belong to the lexicon and/or to the grammar? In the<br>
pipeline of linguistic analysis and/or generation, where<br>
should we insert MWEs? And even more important: HOW? Because<br>
all the effort put in automatic MWE extraction will not be<br>
useful if we do not know how to employ these rich resources in<br>
our real-life NLP applications!<br>
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SUBMISSIONS<br>
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MWE 2011 introduces three different submission modalities:<br>
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* Regular long papers (8 content pages + 1 page for references):<br>
Long papers should report on solid and finished research<br>
including new experimental results, resources and/or techniques.<br>
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* Regular short papers (4 content pages + 1 page for references):<br>
Short papers should report on small experiments, focused contributions,<br>
ongoing research, negative results and/or philosophical discussion.<br>
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* System demonstration (2 pages): System demonstration papers should<br>
describe and document the demonstrated system or resources. We<br>
encourage the demonstration of both early research prototypes and<br>
mature systems, that will be presented in a separate demo session.<br>
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All submissions must be in PDF format and must follow the ACL<br>
2011 formatting requirements (available at<br>
<a href="http://www.acl2011.org/call.shtml#submission" target="_blank">http://www.acl2011.org/call.shtml#submission</a>). We strongly advise<br>
the use of the provided Word or LaTeX template files. For regular<br>
long and short papers, the reported research should be<br>
substantially original. The papers will be presented<br>
orally or as posters. The decision as to which paper will be<br>
presented orally and which as poster will be made by the program<br>
committee based on the nature rather than on the quality of the<br>
work.<br>
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Following the example of major conferences like ACL-HLT 2011,<br>
this year we will also accept papers accompanied by the resource<br>
(software or data) described in the paper. Resources will be<br>
reviewed separately and the final acceptance decision will be made<br>
based on both the resource reviews and the paper reviews. The<br>
software or data resources submitted should be ready for release<br>
and should contain at a README file. All resources will be made<br>
available to the MWE community.<br>
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Reviewing will be double-blind, and thus no author information<br>
should be included in the papers; self-reference should be avoided<br>
as well. Resources submitted with the papers should be anonymized<br>
for submission. Papers and/or resources that do not conform to<br>
these requirements will be rejected without review. Accepted<br>
papers will appear in the workshop proceedings, where no<br>
distinction will be made between papers presented orally or as<br>
posters.<br>
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More details about the submission procedure (e.g. online<br>
submission system) will be available soon.<br>
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IMPORTANT DATES<br>
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Mar 4, 2011 Long paper submission deadline 23:59 PDT (GMT-7)<br>
Mar 11, 2011 Short paper and demo submission deadline 23:59 PDT (GMT-7)<br>
Apr 15, 2011 Notification of acceptance<br>
Apr 22, 2011 Camera-ready deadline<br>
Jun 23-24, 2011 Workshop (to be confirmed by ACL)<br>
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PROGRAM COMMITTEE<br>
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* Inaki Alegria (University of the Basque Country, Spain)<br>
* Dimitra Anastasiou (University of Bremen, Germany)<br>
* Timothy Baldwin (University of Melbourne, Australia)<br>
* Srinivas Bangalore (AT&T Labs-Research, USA)<br>
* Colin Bannard (University of Texas at Austin, USA)<br>
* Francis Bond (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)<br>
* Aoife Cahill (IMS University of Stuttgart, Germany)<br>
* Paul Cook (University of Toronto, Canada)<br>
* Beatrice Daille (Nantes University, France)<br>
* Mona Diab (Columbia University, USA)<br>
* Gael Dias (Beira Interior University, Portugal)<br>
* Stefan Evert (University of Osnabrueck, Germany)<br>
* Roxana Girju (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)<br>
* Chikara Hashimoto (National Institute of Information and<br>
Communications Technology, Japan)<br>
* Ulrich Heid (Stuttgart University, Germany)<br>
* Kyo Kageura (University of Tokyo, Japan)<br>
* Adam Kilgarriff (Lexical Computing Ltd., UK)<br>
* Anna Korhonen (University of Cambridge, UK)<br>
* Ioannis Korkontzelos (University of York, UK)<br>
* Zornitsa Kozareva (University of Southern California, USA)<br>
* Brigitte Krenn (Austrian Research Institute for Artificial<br>
Intelligence, Austria)<br>
* Takuya Matsuzaki (University of Tokyo, Japan)<br>
* Diana McCarthy (Lexical Computing Ltd., UK)<br>
* Yusuke Miyao (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)<br>
* Rosamund Moon (University of Birmingham, UK)<br>
* Diarmuid O Seaghdha (University of Cambridge, UK)<br>
* Jan Odijk (University of Utrecht, The Netherlands)<br>
* Darren Pearce-Lazard (University of Sussex, UK)<br>
* Pavel Pecina (Dublin City University, Ireland)<br>
* Scott Piao (Lancaster University, UK)<br>
* Elisabete Ranchhod (University of Lisbon, Portugal)<br>
* Barbara Rosario (Intel Labs, USA)<br>
* <span>Agata</span> Savary (Universite Francois Rabelais Tours, France)<br>
* Violeta Seretan (University of Edinburgh, UK)<br>
* Suzanne Stevenson (Univesity of Toronto, Canada)<br>
* Sara Stymne (Linkoping University, Sweden)<br>
* Stan Szpakowicz (University of Ottawa, Canada)<br>
* Beata Trawinski (University of Vienna, Germany)<br>
* Vivian Tsang (Bloorview Research Institute, Canada)<br>
* Kyioko Uchiyama (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)<br>
* Ruben Urizar (University of the Basque Country, Spain)<br>
* Gertjan van Noord (University of Groningen, The Netherlands)<br>
* Tony Veale (University College Dublin, Ireland)<br>
* Begona Villada Moiron (Q-go, The Netherlands)<br>
* Yi Zhang (DFKI GmbH & Saarland University, Germany)<br>
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CONSULTING BODY<br>
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* Su Nam Kim (University of Melbourne, Australia)<br>
* Preslav Nakov (National University of Singapore, Singapore)<br>
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WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS AND CONTACT<br>
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* Valia Kordoni (Saarland University, Germany)<br>
* Carlos Ramisch (University of Grenoble, France and Federal<br>
University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)<br>
* Aline Villavicencio (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)<br>
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For any inquiries regarding the workshop please send an email to<br>
mwe2011 at <a href="http://gmail.com/" target="_blank">gmail.com</a></div>