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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Apologies for multiple posting!</FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"> </FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> EACL 2006 Workshop</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> Third ACL-SIGSEM Workshop on Prepositions</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> April 3rd, 2006, Trento, Italy</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> </FONT><A HREF="http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~tim/events/eacl2006/"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~tim/events/eacl2006/</FONT></U></A>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">The EACL 2006 Workshop Third ACL-SIGSEM Workshop on Prepositions will be</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">hosted in conjunction with the 11th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics on April 3, 2006, in Trento, Italy.</FONT></P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">* BACKGROUND</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Prepositions have received a considerable amount of attention in recent years, due to their importance in computational tasks. For instance, in NLP, PP attachment ambiguities have attracted a lot of attention, and different machine learning techniques have been employed with varying degrees of success. Researchers from various perspectives have also looked at spatial or temporal aspects of prepositions, and their cross-linguistic differences, monolingual and cross-linguistic contrasts or the role of prepositions in syntactic alternations. Moreover, in languages like English and German, phrasal verbs have also been the subject of considerable effort, ranging from techniques for their automatic extraction from corpora, to methods for the determination of their semantics. In other languages, like Romance languages or Hindi, the focus has been either on the incorporation of the preposition or</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">its inclusion in the prepositional phrase. All these configurations are of much interest semantically as well as syntactically.</FONT></P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">* TOPICS</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Papers are invited on, but not limited to, the following topics:</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">- Descriptions:</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">prepositions in lexical resources (WordNet, Framenet), productive versus collocation uses, multilingual descriptions (mismatches, incorporation, divergences), prepositions and thematic roles.</FONT></P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">- Applications:</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">dealing with prepositions in applications e.g. for Machine Translation, Information extraction or Language Generation.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">- Representation of Prepositions:</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">prepositions in knowledge bases, cognitive or logic-based formalisms for the description of the semantics of prepositions (in isolation, and in composition/confrontation with the verb and the NP), compositional semantics; implications for AI and KR.</FONT></P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">- Prepositions in reasoning procedures:</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">how different kinds of preposition provide distinct challenges to a reasoning system and how they can be handled.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">- Cognitive dimensions of prepositions:</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">how different kinds of prepositions are acquired/interpreted/represented, in terms of human and/or computational processing.</FONT></P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">* SUBMISSIONS</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Authors are invited to submit either full papers or short papers on original, unpublished work in the topic area of this workshop. Full papers should be up to 8 pages in length; they should emphasize completed work rather than intended work, and should indicate clearly the state of completion of the reported results. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation results should be included. Short papers should be up to 6 pages in length; they can describe work in progress rather than completed work, or smaller-scale implementation/experimentation. Presentations for short papers will be proportionately shorter than presentations for full papers. Submissions will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance and</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">relevance to the workshop, and interest to the attendees.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Submissions should be formatted using the EACL 2006 stylefiles without overt author and affiliation information and not exceeding 8 pages. The EACL 2006 stylefiles are available from </FONT><A HREF="http://eacl06.itc.it/submission/submission.htm"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">http://eacl06.itc.it/submission/submission.htm</FONT></U></A></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Please send your paper in PDF format no later than January 6, 2006, to</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> prep-eacl2006@unimelb.edu.au</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">clearly indicating whether the submission is a full or short paper.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Each submission will be reviewed at least by two members of the programme committee. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Dual submissions to the main EACL 2006 conference and this workshop are</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">allowed, although you must make sure to indicate this in your submission. If your paper is accepted for the main conference, you should withdraw your paper from the workshop immediately upon notification.</FONT></P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">* REGISTRATION</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Information on registration and registration fees will be provided on the EACL 2006 conference web page.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">* IMPORTANT DATES</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">January 6, 2006 - Deadline for workshop papers</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">January 27, 2006 - Notification of acceptance</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">February 10, 2006 - Camera-ready papers due</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">April 3, 2006 - The workshop</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">As the schedule is extremely tight, there is no scope for a deadline extension.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">* PROGRAMME COMMITTEE</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">- Boban Arsenijevic (University of Leiden, Netherlands) </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">- Doug Arnold (University of Essex, UK) </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">- Timothy Baldwin (University of Melbourne, Australia)</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">- John Beavers (Stanford University, USA) </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">- Bob Borsley (University of Essex, UK) </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">- Nicoletta Calzolari (Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale, Italy)</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">- Ann Copestake (University of Cambridge, UK)</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">- Markus Egg (University of Groningen, The Netherlands) </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">- Christiane Fellbaum (Princeton University, USA) </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">- Anette Frank (DFKI, Germany) </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">- Julia Hockenmaier (University of Pennsylvania, USA) </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">- Tracy Holloway King (PARC, USA) </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">- Valia Kordoni (Saarland University, Germany) </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">- Ken Litkowski (CL Research, USA) </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">- Alda Mari (CNRS / ENST Infres, France) </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">- Paola Merlo (University of Geneva, Switzerland) </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">- Gertjan van Noord (University of Groningen, The Netherlands) </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">- Patrick Saint Dizier (IRIT, France) </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">- Beata Trawinski (University of Tübingen, Germany)</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">- Jesse Tseng (Loria, France) </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">- Aline Villavicencio (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">- Martin Volk (Stockholms Universitet, Sweden) </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">- Joost Zwarts (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">[other members pending confirmation]</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">* FURTHER INFORMATION</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Workshop web page</FONT>
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<P><A HREF="http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~tim/events/eacl2006/"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~tim/events/eacl2006/</FONT></U></A>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Conference web page</FONT>
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<P><A HREF="http://eacl06.itc.it/"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">http://eacl06.itc.it/</FONT></U></A>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">EACL 2006 Workshops site</FONT>
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<P><A HREF="http://www.science.uva.nl/~mdr/EACL2006Workshops/"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">http://www.science.uva.nl/~mdr/EACL2006Workshops/</FONT></U></A>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">* CONTACT INFORMATION</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">prep-eacl2006@unimelb.edu.au</FONT>
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