[Corpora-List] ACL-2004 Workshop on Multiword Expressions (Call for Participation)

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		  ***** Call for Participation *****

2nd Workshop on Multiword Expressions: Integrating Processing

A Workshop in conjunction with ACL'04 in Barcelona, Spain

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Workshop date:    July 26, 2004
Workshop website: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/alk23/mwe04/mwe.html
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To register for the workshop, go to http://www.acl2004.org/

WORKSHOP OVERVIEW:

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.

Many 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.

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.

WORKSHOP PROGRAM:

  9:30-9:35 	Welcome
  	
  9:35-10:00  * Statistical Measures of the Semi-Productivity of
	        Light Verb Constructions
	      - Suzanne Stevenson, Afsaneh Fazly and Ryan North

  10:00-10:25 *	Paraphrasing of Japanese Light-verb Constructions
	        Based on Lexical Conceptual Structure
	      - Atsushi Fujita, Kentaro Furihata, Kentaro Inui,
	        Yuji Matsumoto and Koichi Takeuchi

  10:25-10:50 *	What is at Stake: a Case Study of Russian Expressions
                Starting with a Preposition
              - Serge Sharoff

  10:50-11:20 	BREAK
  	
  11:20-11:45 *	Translation by Machine of Complex Nominals: Getting it Right
	      - Timothy Baldwin and Takaaki Tanaka

  11:45-12:10 *	MWEs as Non-propositional Content Indicators
	      - Kosho Shudo, Toshifumi Tanabe, Masahito Takahashi and
	        Kenji Yoshimura

  12:10-12:35 *	Multiword Expression Filtering for Building Knowledge
	      - Shailaja Venkatsubramanyan and Jose Perez-Carballo

  12:35-14:00 	LUNCH
  	
  14:00-14:25 *	Representation and Treatment of Multiword Expressions
	      in Basque
	      - Inaki Alegria, Olatz Ansa, Xabier Artola,
	        Nerea Ezeiza, Koldo Gojenola and Ruben Urizar

  14:25-14:50 *	Multiword Expressions as Dependency Subgraphs
	      - Ralph Debusmann

  14:50-15:15 *	Integrating Morphology with Multi-word Expression
	        Processing in Turkish
	      - Kemal Oflazer, Ozlem Cetinoglu and Bilge Say

  15:15-15:45 	BREAK
  	
  15:45-16:10 *	Frozen Sentences of Portuguese: Formal Descriptions for NLP
	      -	Jorge Baptista, Anabela Correia and Graca Fernandes

  16:10-16:35 *	Lexical Encoding of MWEs
	      - Aline Villavicencio, Ann Copestake, Benjamin Waldron
	        and Fabre Lambeau

  16:35-17:30 	DISCUSSION

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

    Takaaki Tanaka (NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Japan)
    Aline Villavicencio (University of Essex, UK; 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)
    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)


CONTACT: mwe-acl04 at cl.cam.ac.uk

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