[Corpora-List] *Deadline Extension* - ACL-2003 Workshop on Multiword Expressions

[Diana McCarthy]

 CALL FOR PAPERS


          ACL-2003 Workshop on
          Multiword Expressions: Analysis, Acquisition and Treatment


          12 July 2003, Sapporo, Japan

 *** New Submission Deadline:  21 April 2003 ***
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 WEBSITES

 Workshop website:
 http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/alk23/mwe/mwe.html

 ACL website:
 http://www.ec-inc.co.jp/ACL2003/



 WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION

 Multiword expressions (MWEs) include a large range of linguistic
 phenomenon, such as phrasal verbs (e.g. "add up"), nominal compounds
 (e.g. "telephone box"), and institutionalized phrases (e.g. "salt and
 pepper"),
 and they can be syntactically and/or semantically idiosyncratic in nature.
 MWEs are used frequently in everyday language, usually to express
 precisely ideas and concepts that cannot be compressed into a single word.


 A considerable amount of research has been devoted to this subject,
 both in terms of theory and practice, but despite increasing interest in
 idiomaticity within linguistic research, there is still a gap between the
 needs
 of NLP and the descriptive tradition of linguistics. Owing to the lack of
 adequate resources to identify and treat MWEs properly, they pose a real
 challenge for NLP. Most real-world applications tend to ignore MWEs or
 address them simply by listing. However, it is clear that successful
 applications will need to be able to identify and treat them appropriately.
 This particularly applies to the many applications which require some
 degree of semantic processing (e.g. machine translation,
 question-answering, summarisation, generation).


 In recent years there has been a growing awareness in the NLP community
 of the problems that MWEs pose and the need for their robust handling.
 A considerable amount of research has been conducted in this area, some
 within large research projects dedicated to MWEs (e.g. the Multiword
 Expression Project). There is also a growing interest in MWEs in projects
 focused on tasks such as parsing (e.g. Robust Accurate Statistical Parsing
 (RASP)) and word sense disambiguation (e.g. MEANING - Developing
 Multilingual Web-scale Language Technologies) which are required by
 real-world applications.


 Previous workshops on MWEs have focused on certain MWE types,
 notably collocations, terminology and named entities. There are, however,
 further subtypes of MWEs, which are highly relevant for NLP tasks but
 which have not to date received specific attention. One example are
 lexicalised (non- or semi-compositional) MWEs which raise specific
 issues for applications which require semantic interpretation.



 TARGET AUDIENCE

 This workshop is intended to bring together NLP researchers working on
 all areas of MWEs. The objective is to summarise what has been achieved
 in the area, to establish common themes between different approaches,
 and to discuss future trends, with particular emphasis on addressing the
 problems that different MWE (sub)types pose for real-world NLP
 applications.



 AREAS OF INTEREST

 Papers are invited on, but not limited to, the following topics:


     * Theoretical research on MWEs
     * MWE taxonomies, classifications and databases
     * Corpus based analysis of MWEs
     * Cross-lingual analysis of MWE types, use, and behaviour
     * Methods for identification and extraction of MWEs
       (machine learning, statistical, example- or rule-based, or hybrid)
     * Evaluation of MWE extraction methods
     * Integration of MWE data into grammars and NLP applications
       (e.g. machine translation and generation)
     * Problems MWEs (or MWE types) pose for NLP applications
        and solutions proposed


 Papers can cover one or more of these areas.



 SUBMISSION INFORMATION

 Papers should be submitted electronically in Postscript or PDF
 format to: mwe at cslab.kecl.ntt.co.jp. Submissions should conform to
 the two-column format of ACL proceedings and should not exceed
 eight (8) pages, including references. We strongly recommend the
 use of ACL-2003 style files, also available from the ACL-2003 website.


 The subject line of the submission email should be
 "ACL2003 WORKSHOP PAPER SUBMISSION". As reviewing will be
 blind, the body of the paper should not include the names or affiliations
 of the authors. The following identification information should be sent in
 a separate email with the subject line "ACL2003 WORKSHOP ID PAGE":


 Title: title of paper
 Authors: list of all authors
 Keywords: up to five topic keywords
 Contact author: email address of author of record (for correspondence)
 Abstract: abstract of paper (not more than 5 lines)


 Notification of receipt will be emailed to the contact author.



 IMPORTANT DATES

 Submission deadline:    21 April 2003
 Acceptance notification:   14 May 2003
 Final version deadline:   26 May 2003
 Workshop date:   12 July 2003


 WORKSHOP CHAIRS

 Francis Bond
 NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Japan
 (bond at cslab.kecl.ntt.co.jp)

 Anna Korhonen
 University of Cambridge, UK
 (Anna.Korhonen at cl.cam.ac.uk)

 Diana McCarthy
 University of Sussex, UK
 (dianam at cogs.susx.ac.uk)

 Aline Villavicencio
 University of Cambridge, UK
 (Aline.Villavicencio at cl.cam.ac.uk)



 PROGRAM COMMITTEE

 Anne Abeillé (Université Paris 7, France)
 Timothy Baldwin (Stanford University, USA)
 Ted Briscoe (University of Cambridge, UK)
 Nicoletta Calzolari (Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale, Italy)
 Ido Dagan (Lingomotors, Israel)
 Christiane Fellbaum (Princeton University, USA)
 Chuck Fillmore (UC Berkeley, USA)
 Nancy Ide (Vassar College, USA)
 Kyo Kageura (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
 Brigitte Krenn (Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence,
 Austria)
 Maria Lapata (University of Edinburgh, UK)
 Simonetta Montemagni (Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale, Italy)
 Kentaro Ogura (NTT Cyber Space Laboratories, Japan)
 Darren Pearce (University of Sussex, UK)
 Ivan Sag (Stanford University, USA)
 Tom Wasow (Stanford University, USA)
 Annie Zaenen (PARC, USA)



 REGISTRATION

 Workshop registration information will be posted at a later date. The
 registration fee will include attendance at the workshop and a copy of
 workshop proceedings.