31.2444, Calls: Computational Linguistics/Spain

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LINGUIST List: Vol-31-2444. Mon Aug 03 2020. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 31.2444, Calls: Computational Linguistics/Spain

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Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2020 13:57:25
From: Petya Osenova [petya at bultreebank.org]
Subject: Joint Workshop on Multiword Expressions and Electronic Lexicons

 
Full Title: Joint Workshop on Multiword Expressions and Electronic Lexicons 
Short Title: MWE-LEX 2020 

Date: 14-Sep-2020 - 14-Sep-2020
Location: Barcelona, Spain 
Contact Person: Petya Osenova
Meeting Email: petya at bultreebank.org
Web Site: http://multiword.sourceforge.net/mwelex2020/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 02-Sep-2020 

Meeting Description:

The joint MWE-LEX workshop addresses two domains – multiword expressions and
(electronic) lexicons – with partly overlapping communities and research
interests, but divergent practices and terminologies.

Multiword expressions (MWEs) are word combinations, such as by and large, hot
dog, pay a visit or pull one's leg, which exhibit lexical, syntactic,
semantic, pragmatic or statistical idiosyncrasies. MWEs encompass closely
related linguistic objects: idioms, compounds, light-verb constructions,
rhetorical figures, institutionalised phrases and collocations. Because of
their unpredictable behavior, notably their non-compositional semantics, MWEs
pose problems in linguistic modelling (e.g. treebank annotation, grammar
engineering), NLP pipelines (notably when orchestrated with parsing), and
end-user applications (e.g. information extraction). Modelling and processing
of MWEs has been the topic of the MWE workshop, organised over the past years
by the MWE section of SIGLEX.

Because MWE-hood is a largely lexical phenomenon, appropriately built
electronic MWE lexicons turn out to be quite important for NLP. Their
conception opens up, among others, the issues of lemmatization and of
standardised representation of morphological, syntactic and semantic
properties of MWEs. Large standardised multilingual, possibly interconnected,
NLP-oriented MWE lexicons prove indispensable for NLP tasks such as MWE
identification, due to its critical sensitivity to unseen data. But the
development of such lexicons is challenging and calls for tools which would
leverage, on the one hand, MWEs encoded in pre-existing NLP-unaware lexicons
and, on the other hand, automatic MWE discovery in large non-annotated
corpora.

Organised, sponsored and endorsed by: 
SIGLEX, the Special Interest Group on the Lexicon of the ACL
ELEXIS - European Lexicographic Infrastructure


Final Call for Papers: 

This joint workshop addresses two domains – multiword expressions and
(electronic) lexicons – with partly overlapping communities and research
interests, but divergent practices and terminologies.

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
The workshop features two tracks:
A regular research track, where the submissions must be substantially
original.
A shared task track, with submissions consisting of system description papers.
The regular research track submissions should follow one of the 2 formats:
* Long papers (9 content pages + references): Long papers should report on
solid and finished research including new experimental results, resources
and/or techniques.
* Short papers (4 content pages + references): Short papers should report on
small experiments, focused contributions, ongoing research, negative results
and/or philosophical discussion. 

The decisions as to oral or poster presentations of the selected papers will
be taken by the PC chairs. No distinction between papers presented orally and
as posters is made in the workshop proceedings. There is no limit on the
number of reference pages. The submission will be double-blind. Papers
available as preprints can also be submitted provided that they fulfil the
conditions defined by the ACL Policies for Submission, Review and Citation. 

All papers should be submitted via the workshop's START space
https://www.softconf.com/coling2020/MWE-LEX/ 
Please follow the guidelines and use the COLING 2020 style files available at
https://coling2020.org/pages/submission. Please choose the appropriate track
(research/shared task) and for research papers the submission modality
(long/short).

PARSEME SHARED TASK 1.2
MWE-LEX 2020 will host edition 1.2 of the PARSEME shared task on
semi-supervised identification of MWEs. Details are available at
http://multiword.sf.net/sharedtask2020

IMPORTANT DATES (UPDATED): 
All deadlines are at 23:59 UTC-12 (anywhere in the world).
September 2, 2020: Workshop papers due date (short papers, long papers, system
description papers)
October 16, 2020: Notification of acceptance
November 1, 2020: Camera-ready papers due
December 13, 2020: Workshop colocated with COLING 2020 in Barcelona

CONTACT
For any inquiries regarding the workshop please send an email to
mwelex2020 at gmail.com.




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