25.4418, Calls: Computational Linguistics, Semantics/UK

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Subject: 25.4418, Calls: Computational Linguistics, Semantics/UK

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Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2014 17:50:12
From: Paola Pietrandrea [paolapietrandrea at gmail.com]
Subject: Models for Modality Annotation

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Full Title: Models for Modality Annotation 
Short Title: MOMA 2015 

Date: 14-Apr-2015 - 14-Apr-2015
Location: London, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Paola Pietrandrea
Meeting Email: paolapietrandrea at gmail.com
Web Site: http://http:/malvinanissim.github.io/moma2015/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Semantics 

Call Deadline: 21-Dec-2014 

Meeting Description:

MOMA 2015 MOdels for Modality Annotation
malvinanissim.github.io/moma2015 
Workshop co-located with IWCS 2015 - London, 14 April 2015
http://iwcs2015.github.io

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.

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.

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.

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.**

Programme Committee:

Johan van der Auwera, University of Antwerp
Delphine Battistelli, Paris 10 Nanterre
Anette Frank, Heidelberg University
Dylan Glynn, University of Paris 8
Ferdinand de Haan, Oracle Language Technology Group
Iris Hendrickx, University of Nijmegen
Caterina Mauri, University of Pavia
Marjorie McShane, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Roser Morante, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
James Pustejovsky, Brandeis University
Andrea Sansò, University of Insubria
Roser Saurí, University Pompeu Fabra
Caroline Sporleder, Saarbrücken University
Veronika Vincze, University of Szeged
ORGANISERS
Malvina Nissim, University of Groningen
Paola Pietrandrea, University of Tours and CNRS LLL

If have any enquiries/comments about the workshop or the submission procedure, please just contact us via email: 

m.nissim at rug.nl 
paolapietrandrea at gmail.com

With the support of the Laboratoire Ligérien de Linguistique

Call for Papers:

Papers are solicited on topics such as (list not exhaustive):

- Annotation schemes for modality
- Resources annotated for modality
- Automatic approaches to modality detection/interpretation
- Cross-linguistic formalisations of modality
- Concrete strategies for the annotation of modality
- Issues with modality annotation of speech
- Issues with polarity and negation
- Annotation tools for marking modality
- Linguistic issues
- Profile-based approaches to modality

Paper Submission:

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 (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=moma2015). Submissions must be anonymous and follow the IWCS formatting guidelines (http://iwcs2015.github.io/category/submissions.html). 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.

Important Dates:

Submission deadline: 21 December 2014
Notification of acceptance: 02 February 2015
Camera ready version: 25 February 2015
Workshop: 14 April 2015

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