<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span id="internal-source-marker_0.9839235982150712" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>MWE 2011 Call for Participation</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "></span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "></span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> *** Early bird registration until May 23, 2011 ***</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "></span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "></span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> ACL 2011 Workshop on Multiword Expressions: </span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> from Parsing and Generation to the real world (MWE 2011)</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "></span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> <a href="http://multiword.sf.net/mwe2011">http://multiword.sf.net/mwe2011</a></span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "></span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> endorsed by the Special Interest Group on the Lexicon of the</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> Association for Computational Linguistics (SIGLEX)</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "></span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> Portland, Oregon, USA - June 23, 2011</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "></span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "></span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; ">Registration: <a href="http://www.aclweb.org/membership/acl2011reg.php">http://www.aclweb.org/membership/acl2011reg.php</a></span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; ">=================================================================</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "></span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> Under the denomination "Multiword Expression", one can hang a</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; ">wide range of linguistic constructions such as idioms (a frog in</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; ">the throat, kill some time), fixed phrases (per se, by and large,</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; ">rock'n roll), noun compounds (telephone booth, cable car),</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; ">compound verbs (give a presentation, go by [a name]), etc. While</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; ">easily mastered by native speakers, their interpretation poses a</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; ">major challenge for computational systems, due to their flexible</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; ">and heterogeneous nature. Surprisingly enough, MWEs are not</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; ">nearly as frequent in NLP resources (dictionaries, grammars) as</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; ">they are in real-word text, where they have been reported to</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; ">account for over 70% of the terms in a domain. Thus, MWEs are a</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; ">key issue and a current weakness for tasks like Natural Language</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; ">Parsing (NLP) and Generation (NLG), as well as real-life</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; ">applications such as Machine Translation.</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "></span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> MWE 2011 will be the 8th event in the series, and the time has</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; ">come to move from basic preliminary research and theoretical</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; ">results to actual applications in real-world NLP tasks. Therefore,</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; ">following further the trend of previous MWE workshops, we propose</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; ">a turn towards MWEs on NLP applications, specifically towards</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; ">Parsing and Generation of MWEs, as there is a wide range of open</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; ">problems that prevent MWE treatment techniques to be fully</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; ">integrated in current NLP systems. We will be interested in</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; ">research related (but not limited) to the following topics:</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "></span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> * Lexical representations: In spite of several proposals for</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> MWE representation ranging along the continuum from words-</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> with-spaces to compositional approaches connecting lexicon</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> and grammar, to date, it remains unclear how MWEs should be</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> represented in electronic dictionaries, thesauri and grammars.</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> New methodologies that take into account the type of MWE and</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> its properties are needed for efficiently handling manually</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> and/or automatically acquired expressions in NLP systems.</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> Moreover, we also need strategies to represent deep attributes</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> and semantic properties for these multiword entries.</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> </span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> * Application-oriented evaluation: Evaluation is a crucial</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> aspect for MWE research. Various evaluation techniques have</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> been proposed, from manual inspection of top-n candidates to</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> classic precision/recall measures. However, only application-</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> oriented techniques can give a clear indication of whether the</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> acquired MWEs are really useful. We will discuss papers that</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> study the impact of MWE handling in applications such as</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> Parsing, Generation, Information Extraction, Machine</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> Translation, Summarization, etc.</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> </span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> * Type-dependent analysis: While there is no unique definition</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> or classification of MWEs, most researchers agree on some</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> major classes such as named entities, collocations, multiword</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> terminology and verbal expressions. These, though, are very</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> heterogeneous in terms of syntactic and semantic properties,</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> and should thus be treated differently by applications. Type-</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> dependent analyses could shed some light on the best</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> methodologies to integrate MWE knowledge in our analysis and</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> generation systems.</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> </span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> * MWE engineering: Where do my MWEs go after being extracted?</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> Do they belong to the lexicon and/or to the grammar? In the</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> pipeline of linguistic analysis and/or generation, where</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> should we insert MWEs? And even more important: HOW? Because</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> all the effort put in automatic MWE extraction will not be</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> useful if we do not know how to employ these rich resources in</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> our real-life NLP applications!</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "></span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "></span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; ">IMPORTANT DATES</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "></span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; ">May 23, 2011 Early bird registration deadline through acl2011.org</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; ">Jun 23, 2011 Workshop at ACL 2011</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "></span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "></span><br><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><b><span id="internal-source-marker_0.8551595028008389" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; ">PROGRAM</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "></span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "></span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; ">08:15-08:30 Welcome</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; ">08:30-09:30 MWEs and Topic Modelling: Enhancing Machine Learning with Linguistics</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> Invited talk by Tim Baldwin</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> </span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> Session I - Short Papers</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> Chair: Eric Wherli</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> </span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; ">09:30-09:45 Automatic Extraction of NV Expressions in Basque: Basic Issues on Cooccurrence Techniques</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> Antton Gurrutxaga and Iñaki Alegria</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; ">09:45-10:00 Semantic Clustering: an Attempt to Identify Multiword Expressions in Bengali</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> Tanmoy Chakraborty, Dipankar Das and Sivaji Bandyopadhyay</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; ">10:00-10:15 Decreasing Lexical Data Sparsity in Statistical Syntactic Parsing - Experiments with Named Entities</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> Deirdre Hogan, Jennifer Foster and Josef van Genabith</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; ">10:15-10:30 Detecting Multi-Word Expressions Improves Word Sense Disambiguation</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> Mark Finlayson and Nidhi Kulkarni</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> </span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; ">10:30-11:00 MORNING BREAK</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "></span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> Session II - Identification and Representation</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> Chair: Berthold Crysmann</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> </span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; ">11:00-11:25 Tree-Rewriting Models of Multi-Word Expressions</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> William Schuler and Aravind Joshi</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; ">11:25-11:50 Learning English Light Verb Constructions: Contextual or Statistical</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> Yuancheng Tu and Dan Roth</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; ">11:50-12:15 Two Types of Korean Light Verb Constructions in a Typed Feature Structure Grammar</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> Juwon Lee</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> </span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; ">12:15-13:50 LUNCH BREAK</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "></span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> Session III - Tasks and Applications</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> Chair: Ted Pedersen</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> </span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; ">13:50-14:15 MWU-Aware Part-of-Speech Tagging with a CRF Model and Lexical Resources</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> Matthieu Constant and Anthony Sigogne</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; ">14:15-14:40 The Web is not a PERSON, Berners-Lee is not an ORGANIZATION, and African-Americans are not LOCATIONS: An Analysis of the Performance of Named-Entity Recognition</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> Robert Krovetz, Paul Deane and Nitin Madnani</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; ">14:40-15:05 A Machine Learning Approach to Relational Noun Mining in German</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> Berthold Crysmann</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> </span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; ">15:05-15:30 Poster and Demo Session</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> Chair: Iñaki Alegria</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> </span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> Long Papers</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> </span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> Identifying and Analyzing Brazilian Portuguese Complex Predicates</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> Magali Sanches Duran, Carlos Ramisch, Sandra Maria Aluísio and Aline Villavicencio</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> An N-gram Frequency Database Reference to Handle MWE Extraction in NLP Applications</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> Patrick Watrin and Thomas François</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> Extracting Transfer Rules for Multiword Expressions from Parallel Corpora</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> Petter Haugereid and Francis Bond</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> Identification and Treatment of Multiword Expressions Applied to Information Retrieval</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> Otavio Acosta, Aline Villavicencio and Viviane Moreira</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> </span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> Short Papers</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> </span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> Stepwise Mining of Multi-Word Expressions in Hindi</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> Rai Mahesh Sinha</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> Detecting Noun Compounds and Light Verb Constructions: a Contrastive Study</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> Veronika Vincze, István Nagy T. and Gábor Berend</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> </span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> Demo Papers</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> </span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> jMWE: A Java Toolkit for Detecting Multi-Word Expressions</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> Nidhi Kulkarni and Mark Finlayson</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> On-line Visualisation of Collocations Extracted from Multilingual Corpora</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> Violeta Seretan and Eric Wehrli</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> StringNet Lexico-Grammatical Knowledgebase and its Applications</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> David Wible and Nai-Lung Tsao</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> The Ngram Statistics Package (Text::NSP) : A Flexible Tool for Identifying Ngrams, Collocations, and Word Associations</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> Ted Pedersen, Satanjeev Banerjee, Bridget McInnes, Saiyam Kohli, Mahesh Joshi and Ying Liu</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> Fast and Flexible MWE Candidate Generation with the mwetoolkit</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> Vitor De Araujo, Carlos Ramisch and Aline Villavicencio</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "></span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; ">15:30-16:00 AFTERNOON BREAK</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "></span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; ">16:00-17:00 How Many Multiword Expressions do People Know?</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> Invited talk by Ken Church</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; ">17:00-18:00 Panel: Toward a Special Interest Group for MWEs</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> Moderator: Valia Kordoni, DFKI GmbH & Saarland University, Germany</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> Mark Johnson, Macquarie University, Australia</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> Preslav Nakov, National University of Singapore, Singapore</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> TBD</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "></span></b></span></font><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "></span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; ">PROGRAM COMMITTEE</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "></span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> * Iñaki Alegria </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; ">(University of the Basque Country, Spain)</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> * Dimitra Anastasiou </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; ">(University of Bremen, Germany)</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> * Timothy Baldwin </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; ">(University of Melbourne, Australia)</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> * Srinivas Bangalore </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; ">(AT&T Labs-Research, USA)</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> * Francis Bond </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; ">(Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> * Aoife Cahill </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; ">(IMS University of Stuttgart, Germany)</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> * Paul Cook </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; ">(University of Toronto, Canada)</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> * Béatrice Daille </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; ">(Nantes University, France)</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> * Mona Diab </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; ">(Columbia University, USA)</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> * Gaël Dias </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; ">(Beira Interior University, Portugal)</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> * Stefan Evert </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; ">(University of Osnabrueck, Germany)</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> * Roxana Girju </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; ">(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> * Chikara Hashimoto </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; ">(National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan)</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> * Ulrich Heid </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; ">(Stuttgart University, Germany)</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> * Kyo Kageura </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; ">(University of Tokyo, Japan)</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> * Adam Kilgarriff </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; ">(Lexical Computing Ltd., UK)</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> * Ioannis Korkontzelos </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; ">(University of Manchester, UK)</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> * Zornitsa Kozareva </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; ">(University of Southern California, USA)</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> * Brigitte Krenn </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; ">(Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Austria)</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> * Takuya Matsuzaki </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; ">(University of Tokyo, Japan)</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> * Diana McCarthy </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; ">(Lexical Computing Ltd., UK)</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> * Yusuke Miyao </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; ">(National Institute of Informatics, Japan)</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> * Rosamund Moon </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; ">(University of Birmingham, UK)</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> * Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; ">(University of Cambridge, UK)</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> * Jan Odijk </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; ">(University of Utrecht, The Netherlands)</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> * Pavel Pecina </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; ">(Dublin City University, Ireland)</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> * Scott Piao </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; ">(Lancaster University, UK)</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> * Thierry Poibeau </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; ">(CNRS and École Normale Supérieure, France)</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> * Elisabete Ranchhod </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; ">(University of Lisbon, Portugal)</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> * Barbara Rosario </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; ">(Intel Labs, USA)</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> * Agata Savary </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; ">(Université François Rabelais Tours, France)</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> * Violeta Seretan </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; ">(University of Edinburgh, UK)</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> * Ekaterina Shutova </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; ">(University of Cambridge, UK)</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> * Suzanne Stevenson </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; ">(University of Toronto, Canada)</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> * Sara Stymne </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; ">(Linköping University, Sweden)</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> * Stan Szpakowicz </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; ">(University of Ottawa, Canada)</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> * Beata Trawinski </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; ">(University of Vienna, Austria)</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> * Vivian Tsang </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; ">(Bloorview Research Institute, Canada)</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> * Kyioko Uchiyama </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; ">(National Institute of Informatics, Japan)</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> * Ruben Urizar </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; ">(University of the Basque Country, Spain)</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> * Gertjan van Noord </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; ">(University of Groningen, The Netherlands)</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> * Tony Veale </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; ">(University College Dublin, Ireland)</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> * Begoña Villada Moirón </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; ">(RightNow, The Netherlands)</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> * Yi Zhang </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; ">(DFKI GmbH & Saarland University, Germany)</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "></span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "></span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; ">CONSULTING BODY</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "></span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> * Su Nam Kim (University of Melbourne, Australia)</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> * Preslav Nakov (National University of Singapore, Singapore)</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "></span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "></span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; ">WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS AND CONTACT</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "></span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> * Valia Kordoni (DFKI GmbH & Saarland University, Germany)</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> * Carlos Ramisch (University of Grenoble, France and Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> * Aline Villavicencio (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "></span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; ">For any inquiries regarding the workshop please send an email to mwe2011 at gmail.com </span></body></html>