<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Times; "><span id="internal-source-marker_0.22851716657169163" 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; white-space: pre-wrap; ">apologies for multiple copies</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Times; "><span id="internal-source-marker_0.22851716657169163" 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; white-space: pre-wrap; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "><br></span></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Times; "><span id="internal-source-marker_0.22851716657169163" 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; white-space: pre-wrap; ">==================================================================<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span> </span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Times; "><span id="internal-source-marker_0.22851716657169163" 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; white-space: pre-wrap; "><br></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Times; "><span id="internal-source-marker_0.22851716657169163" 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; white-space: pre-wrap; "> Final Call for Paper Submissions and Deadline Extension</span><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(139, 69, 19); font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; "><br></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Times; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#8B4513" face="'Courier New'" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Due to the problems in Japan, we have extended the paper submission <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>deadline to the 1st of April, 2011.<br></span></font><div style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><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; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span></div><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; white-space: pre-wrap; "></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; white-space: pre-wrap; "> ACL 2011 Workshop on Multiword Expressions: <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span> </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; white-space: pre-wrap; "> 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; white-space: pre-wrap; "></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; white-space: pre-wrap; "> <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; white-space: pre-wrap; "> </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; white-space: pre-wrap; "> 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; white-space: pre-wrap; "> 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; white-space: pre-wrap; "></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; white-space: pre-wrap; "> 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; white-space: pre-wrap; "></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; white-space: pre-wrap; "> ***DEADLINE EXTENSION***</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; white-space: pre-wrap; "> Long papers - Apr 01, 2011 at 23:59 PDT (GMT-7)</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; white-space: pre-wrap; "> Short & demo papers - Apr 01, 2011 at 23:59 PDT (GMT-7)</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Times; "><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; white-space: pre-wrap; ">=================================================================</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; white-space: pre-wrap; "></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; white-space: pre-wrap; "> 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; white-space: pre-wrap; ">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; white-space: pre-wrap; ">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; white-space: pre-wrap; ">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; white-space: pre-wrap; ">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; white-space: pre-wrap; ">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; white-space: pre-wrap; ">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; white-space: pre-wrap; ">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; white-space: pre-wrap; ">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; white-space: pre-wrap; ">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; white-space: pre-wrap; ">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; white-space: pre-wrap; ">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; white-space: pre-wrap; ">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; white-space: pre-wrap; ">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; white-space: pre-wrap; "></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; white-space: pre-wrap; "> 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; white-space: pre-wrap; ">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; white-space: pre-wrap; ">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; white-space: pre-wrap; ">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; white-space: pre-wrap; ">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; white-space: pre-wrap; ">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; white-space: pre-wrap; ">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; white-space: pre-wrap; ">integrated in current NLP systems. We will be asking for original</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; white-space: pre-wrap; ">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; white-space: pre-wrap; "></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; white-space: pre-wrap; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>* 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; white-space: pre-wrap; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>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; white-space: pre-wrap; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>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; white-space: pre-wrap; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>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; white-space: pre-wrap; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>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; white-space: pre-wrap; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>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; white-space: pre-wrap; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>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; white-space: pre-wrap; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>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; white-space: pre-wrap; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>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; white-space: pre-wrap; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>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; white-space: pre-wrap; "> </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; white-space: pre-wrap; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>* 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; white-space: pre-wrap; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>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; white-space: pre-wrap; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>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; white-space: pre-wrap; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>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; white-space: pre-wrap; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>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; white-space: pre-wrap; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>acquired MWEs are really useful. We call for submissions 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; white-space: pre-wrap; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>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; white-space: pre-wrap; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>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; white-space: pre-wrap; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>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; white-space: pre-wrap; "> </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; white-space: pre-wrap; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>* 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; white-space: pre-wrap; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>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; white-space: pre-wrap; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>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; white-space: pre-wrap; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>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; white-space: pre-wrap; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>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; white-space: pre-wrap; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>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; white-space: pre-wrap; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>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; white-space: pre-wrap; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>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; white-space: pre-wrap; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>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; white-space: pre-wrap; "> </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; white-space: pre-wrap; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>* 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; white-space: pre-wrap; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>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; white-space: pre-wrap; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>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; white-space: pre-wrap; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>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; white-space: pre-wrap; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>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; white-space: pre-wrap; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>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; white-space: pre-wrap; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>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; white-space: pre-wrap; "></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; white-space: pre-wrap; "></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; white-space: pre-wrap; ">SUBMISSIONS</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Times; "><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; white-space: pre-wrap; "><br></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Times; "><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; white-space: pre-wrap; ">A selection of papers will be chosen for a journal publication.</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Times; "><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; white-space: pre-wrap; "></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; white-space: pre-wrap; ">MWE 2011 introduces three different submission modalities:</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; white-space: pre-wrap; "></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; white-space: pre-wrap; "> * Regular long papers (8 content pages + 1 page for references):</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; white-space: pre-wrap; "> Long papers should report on solid and finished research</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; white-space: pre-wrap; "> including new experimental results, resources and/or 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; white-space: pre-wrap; "> </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; white-space: pre-wrap; "> * Regular short papers (4 content pages + 1 page for references):</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; white-space: pre-wrap; "> Short papers should report on small experiments, focused contributions,</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; white-space: pre-wrap; "> ongoing research, negative results and/or philosophical discussion.</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; white-space: pre-wrap; "> </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; white-space: pre-wrap; "> * System demonstration (2 pages): System demonstration papers should</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; white-space: pre-wrap; "> describe and document the demonstrated system or resources. We</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; white-space: pre-wrap; "> encourage the demonstration of both early research prototypes 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; white-space: pre-wrap; "> mature systems, that will be presented in a separate 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; white-space: pre-wrap; "></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; white-space: pre-wrap; "></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; white-space: pre-wrap; ">All submissions must be in PDF format and must follow the ACL </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; white-space: pre-wrap; ">2011 formatting requirements (available at </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; white-space: pre-wrap; "><a href="http://www.acl2011.org/call.shtml#submission)">http://www.acl2011.org/call.shtml#submission)</a>. We strongly advise </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; white-space: pre-wrap; ">the use of the provided Word or LaTeX template files. For regular </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; white-space: pre-wrap; ">long and short papers, the reported research 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; white-space: pre-wrap; ">substantially original. The papers will be presented orally or 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; white-space: pre-wrap; ">posters. The decision as to which paper will be presented orally </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; white-space: pre-wrap; ">and which as poster will be made by the program committee based </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; white-space: pre-wrap; ">on the nature rather than on the quality of the work.</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; white-space: pre-wrap; "></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; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Following the example of major conferences like ACL-HLT 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; white-space: pre-wrap; ">this year we will also accept papers accompanied by the resource </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; white-space: pre-wrap; ">(software or data) described in the paper. Resources will 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; white-space: pre-wrap; ">reviewed separately and the final acceptance decision will 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; white-space: pre-wrap; ">made based on both the resource reviews and the paper reviews. </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; white-space: pre-wrap; ">The software or data resources submitted should be ready 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; white-space: pre-wrap; ">release and should contain at a README file. All resources will </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; white-space: pre-wrap; ">be made available to the MWE community.</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; white-space: pre-wrap; "></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; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Reviewing will be double-blind, and thus no author information </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; white-space: pre-wrap; ">should be included in the papers; self-reference 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; white-space: pre-wrap; ">avoided as well. Resources submitted with the papers 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; white-space: pre-wrap; ">anonymized for submission. Papers and/or resources that do 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; white-space: pre-wrap; ">conform to these requirements will be rejected without review. </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; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings, 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; white-space: pre-wrap; ">no distinction will be made between papers presented orally or </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; white-space: pre-wrap; ">as posters.</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; white-space: pre-wrap; "></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; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Submission will be electronic in PDF format through the workshop </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; white-space: pre-wrap; ">START system, available at: </span><a href="https://www.softconf.com/acl2011/mwe/"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(140, 100, 50); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">https://www.softconf.com/acl2011/mwe/</span></a><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; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span><br><a href="https://www.softconf.com/acl2011/mwe/"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(140, 100, 50); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span></a><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; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Please choose the appropriate submission type from the starting </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; white-space: pre-wrap; ">submission page, according to the category of your paper, 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; white-space: pre-wrap; ">remember that long papers must be submitted no later than </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; white-space: pre-wrap; ">March 25, 2011 at 23:59 PDT (GMT-7) and short and demo papers must </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; white-space: pre-wrap; ">be submitted no later than April 1, 2011 at 23:59 PDT (GMT-7).</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></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; white-space: pre-wrap; "></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; white-space: pre-wrap; "></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; white-space: pre-wrap; ">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; white-space: pre-wrap; "></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; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Apr 01, 2011 EXTENDED long paper, short paper and demo submission deadline 23:59 PDT (GMT-7)</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; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Apr 15, 2011 Notification of acceptance</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; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Apr 22, 2011 Camera-ready deadline</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; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Jun 23, 2011 Workshop</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; white-space: pre-wrap; "></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; white-space: pre-wrap; "></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; white-space: pre-wrap; ">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; white-space: pre-wrap; "></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; white-space: pre-wrap; "> * Iñaki Alegria (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; white-space: pre-wrap; "> * Dimitra Anastasiou (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; white-space: pre-wrap; "> * Timothy Baldwin (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; white-space: pre-wrap; "> * Srinivas Bangalore (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; white-space: pre-wrap; "> * Francis Bond (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; white-space: pre-wrap; "> * Aoife Cahill (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; white-space: pre-wrap; "> * Paul Cook (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; white-space: pre-wrap; "> * Béatrice Daille (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; white-space: pre-wrap; "> * Mona Diab (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; white-space: pre-wrap; "> * Gael Dias (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; white-space: pre-wrap; "> * Stefan Evert (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; white-space: pre-wrap; "> * Roxana Girju (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; white-space: pre-wrap; "> * Chikara Hashimoto (National Institute of Information and </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Communications Technology, Japan)</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Times; "><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; white-space: pre-wrap; "> * Ulrich Heid (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; white-space: pre-wrap; "> * Kyo Kageura (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; white-space: pre-wrap; "> * Adam Kilgarriff (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; white-space: pre-wrap; "> * Anna Korhonen (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; white-space: pre-wrap; "> * Ioannis Korkontzelos (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; white-space: pre-wrap; "> * Zornitsa Kozareva (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; white-space: pre-wrap; "> * Brigitte Krenn (Austrian Research Institute for </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Artificial Intelligence, Austria)</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Times; "><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; white-space: pre-wrap; "> * Takuya Matsuzaki (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; white-space: pre-wrap; "> * Diana McCarthy (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; white-space: pre-wrap; "> * Yusuke Miyao (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; white-space: pre-wrap; "> * Rosamund Moon (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; white-space: pre-wrap; "> * Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha (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; white-space: pre-wrap; "> * Jan Odijk (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; white-space: pre-wrap; "> * Darren Pearce-Lazard (University of Sussex, 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; white-space: pre-wrap; "> * Pavel Pecina (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; white-space: pre-wrap; "> * Scott Piao (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; white-space: pre-wrap; "> * Thierry Poibeau (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; white-space: pre-wrap; "> * Elisabete Ranchhod (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; white-space: pre-wrap; "> * Barbara Rosario (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; white-space: pre-wrap; "> * Agata Savary (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; white-space: pre-wrap; "> * Violeta Seretan (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; white-space: pre-wrap; "> * Suzanne Stevenson (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; white-space: pre-wrap; "> * Sara Stymne (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; white-space: pre-wrap; "> * Stan Szpakowicz (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; white-space: pre-wrap; "> * Beata Trawinski (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; white-space: pre-wrap; "> * Vivian Tsang (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; white-space: pre-wrap; "> * Kyioko Uchiyama (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; white-space: pre-wrap; "> * Ruben Urizar (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; white-space: pre-wrap; "> * Gertjan van Noord (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; white-space: pre-wrap; "> * Tony Veale (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; white-space: pre-wrap; "> * Begoña Villada Moirón (Q-go, 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; white-space: pre-wrap; "> * Yi Zhang (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; white-space: pre-wrap; "></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; white-space: pre-wrap; "></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; white-space: pre-wrap; ">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; white-space: pre-wrap; "></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; white-space: pre-wrap; "> * 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; white-space: pre-wrap; "> * 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; white-space: pre-wrap; "></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; white-space: pre-wrap; "></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; white-space: pre-wrap; ">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; white-space: pre-wrap; "></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; white-space: pre-wrap; "> * 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; white-space: pre-wrap; "> * 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; white-space: pre-wrap; "> * 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; white-space: pre-wrap; "></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; white-space: pre-wrap; ">For any inquiries regarding the workshop please send an email to mwe2011 at gmail.com </span></div></body></html>