[Corpora-List] ACL 2004 Workshop CFP: Multiword Expressions: Integrating Processing

[Anna Korhonen]

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CALL FOR PAPERS

ACL-2004 Workshop on
Multiword Expressions: Integrating Processing

26th July 2004, Barcelona, Spain

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WEBSITES

Workshop website:
<http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/alk23/mwe04/mwe.html>

ACL website:
<http://www.acl2004.org/>


WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION

In recent years, there has been a growing awareness in the NLP community
of the problems that Multiword Expressions (MWEs) pose and the need for
their robust handling.

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

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 interpretation
(e.g. machine translation, question-answering, summarisation, generation)
and require tasks such as parsing and word sense disambiguation.

A considerable amount of research has lately been conducted in
this area, some within large research projects dedicated to MWEs.
In this context, a successful workshop on MWEs was held at ACL 2003
(<http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/alk23/mwe/mwe.html>), with papers
presenting a cross section of research on MWEs. There is some research
on MWEs in general. Some is very computational, examining detection and
extraction using a variety of methods. Some is more linguistic, focusing on
classification of the various types. There is also a lot of research on
particular subtypes of MWEs, especially English phrasal verbs.

In this workshop the focus is on papers that integrate analysis, acquisition
and treatment of various kinds of multiword expressions (MWEs) in NLP.
For example,

(1) research that combines a linguistic analysis with a method of
automatically acquiring the classes described

(2) work that combines the computational treatment of a class of MWEs with
a solid linguistic analysis

(3) research that extracts MWEs and either classifies them or uses them in
some task.

These combinations of research will help to bridge the gap between the needs
of NLP and the descriptive tradition of linguistics.

TARGET AUDIENCE

The workshop will be of interest to anyone working on MWEs, e.g. in the
areas of computational grammars, computational lexicography, automatic
lexical acquisition, machine translation, information retrieval, text
mining, and computer-assisted language teaching and learning. The
objective is to summarise what has been achieved in the area, to
establish common themes between different approaches, and to discuss
future trends.

AREAS OF INTEREST

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

* Theoretical research on MWEs, including corpus based analysis
* MWE taxonomies, classifications and databases
* 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
* Methods for determining the compositionality of MWEs
* Integration of MWE data into grammars and NLP applications
(e.g. machine translation and generation)

Papers can cover one or more of these areas, but research that combines
different topics is especially encouraged.

SUBMISSION INFORMATION

Papers should be submitted electronically in Postscript or PDF format
to: mwe-acl04 at cl.cam.ac.uk . 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-2004
style files, also available from the ACL-2004 website.

The subject line of the submission email should be "ACL2004 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 "ACL2004 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 10 lines)

Notification of receipt will be emailed to the contact author.

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline: 1 April 2003
Acceptance notification: 1 May 2003
Final version deadline: 15 May 2003
Workshop date: 26 July 2003

WORKSHOP CHAIRS

Takaaki Tanaka (NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Japan)
Aline Villavicencio (University of Cambridge, UK)
Francis Bond (NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Japan)
Anna Korhonen (University of Cambridge, UK)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Timothy Baldwin (Stanford University, USA)
Colin Bannard (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Ann Copestake (University of Cambridge, UK)
Gael Dias (Beira Interior University, Portugal)
James Dowdall (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
Dan Flickinger (Stanford University, USA)
Matthew Hurst (Intelliseek, USA)
Stephan Oepen (Stanford University, USA; University of Oslo, Norway)
Kyonghee Paik (ATR Spoken Language Translation Research Laboratories, Japan)
Scott Piao (University of Lancaster, UK)
Beata Trawinski (University of Tuebningen, Germany)
Kiyoko Uchiyama (Keio University, Japan)

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.