<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><span>DEADLINE</span> <span>EXTENSION</span> : 5 January 2015 </div><div><div class="h5"><div><br></div><div>MOMA 2015 - Models for Modality Annotation</div><div><a href="http://malvinanissim.github.io/moma2015" target="_blank">malvinanissim.github.io/moma2015</a> </div><div><br></div><div>Workshop co-located with IWCS 2015 - London, 14 April 2015</div><div><a href="http://iwcs2015.github.io" target="_blank">http://iwcs2015.github.io</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>The
notion of modality involves a spectrum of phenomena that are pervasive
in language but far from being formalised. For an exhaustive
formalisation, a joint effort by computational, corpus, and formal
linguists as well as language typologists is required.</div><div><br></div><div>Computationally,
the automatic identification and interpretation of modalised statements
is a prime concern in a large number of applications, especially with
the recent attention to opinion mining and social networks. In corpus
linguistics studies of modality-related phenomena, researchers use an
incremental method based on redefining categories after assessing
agreement through several rounds of manual annotation, with the aim of
finding the right balance between feasibility and expressivity of
categories. Formally, and from a comparative linguistics perspective,
characterisations are sought of the range of modal types and their
marking across the languages of the world, towards a complete
classification of modal functions.</div><div>Insights from these
traditions are crucial for the advancement of computational work on
modality, since a comprehensive scheme for producing reliable annotated
data must obviously be usable from a computational perspective, but it
also has to rely on a solid theoretical base. In other words, a balance
must be found between accuracy and detailing in the description of the
phenomenon, and preventing proliferation of labels which might cause
data to be too sparse to learn from, and also lower agreement among
annotators.</div><div><br></div><div>The main aim of this workshop is to
bring together researchers from all involved fields to join efforts in
defining exhaustive and at the same time usable representations of
modality, towards working, implementable annotation standards. **Beside
the contribution of peer-reviewed research papers, we envisage a truly
hands-on event as part of this workshop, where we would like to
encourage participants to possibly try each other's annotation tools and
schemes, and set up a roadmap for reaching shared standards in the
annotation of modality.**</div><div><br></div><div>Papers are solicited on topics such as (list not exhaustive):</div><div><br></div><div>- annotation schemes for modality</div><div>- resources annotated for modality</div><div>- automatic approaches to modality detection/interpretation</div><div>- cross-linguistic formalisations of modality</div><div>- concrete strategies for the annotation of modality</div><div>- issues with modality annotation of speech</div><div>- issues with polarity and negation</div><div>- annotation tools for marking modality</div><div>- linguistic issues</div><div>- profile-based approaches to modality</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>KEYNOTE SPEAKER</div><div><br></div><div>James Pustejovsky, Brandeis University</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>PAPER SUBMISSION</div><div><br></div><div>Standard
research papers should be a mamximum of 8 pages long, including
references. We also encourage submission of short papers of maximum 4
pages (references included), for describing technical issues concerning
annotation, or a very specific modality phenomenon, for example. All
papers should be electronically submitted in PDF format via EasyChair (<a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=moma2015" target="_blank">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=moma2015</a>). Submissions must be anonymous and follow the IWCS formatting guidelines (<a href="http://iwcs2015.github.io/category/submissions.html" target="_blank">http://iwcs2015.github.io/category/submissions.html</a>).
The deadline for submission is 21st December 2014. The accepted papers
will be part of the conference proceedings and will be published
electronically in the ACL Anthology.</div><div><br></div><div>** NEW **
-- A selection of papers will be published in a special issue on
modality of Linguistic Issues in Language Technology (LiLT). </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>IMPORTANT DATES</div><div><br></div></div></div><div>Submission deadline <span style="white-space:pre-wrap"></span> 05.01.2014</div><div><div class="h5"><div>Notification of acceptance<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>02.02.2015</div><div>Camera ready version<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>25.02.2015</div><div>Workshop<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>14.04.2015</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>PROGRAMME COMMITTEE</div><div><br></div><div>Johan van der Auwera, University of Antwerp</div><div>Delphine Battistelli, Paris 10 Nanterre</div><div>Anette Frank, Heidelberg University</div><div>Dylan Glynn, University of Paris 8</div><div>Ferdinand de Haan, Oracle Language Technology Group</div><div>Iris Hendrickx, University of Nijmegen</div><div>Caterina Mauri, University of Pavia</div><div>Marjorie McShane, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute</div><div>Roser Morante, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam</div><div>James Pustejovsky, Brandeis University</div><div>Andrea Sansò, University of Insubria</div><div>Roser Saurí, University Pompeu Fabra</div><div>Caroline Sporleder, Trier University</div><div>Veronika Vincze, University of Szeged</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>ORGANISERS</div><div><br></div><div>Malvina Nissim, University of Groningen</div><div>Paola Pietrandrea, University of Tours and CNRS LLL</div><div><br></div><div>If have any enquiries/comments about the workshop or the submission procedure, please just contact us via email: </div><div>m dot nissim at rug dot nl </div><div>paolapietrandrea at gmail dot com</div><div><br></div><div>With the support of the Laboratoire Ligérien de Linguistique</div></div></div></div>
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