[Corpora-List] 1st CFP: RANLP-07 Workshop on Acquisition and Management of Multilingual Lexicon

[Andrea Mulloni]

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							    		     CALL FOR PAPERS
		
		  RANLP-07 WORKSHOP ON ACQUISITION AND MANAGEMENT OF MULTILINGUAL  
LEXICONS

			      	Endorsed by the ACL Special Interest Group on the Lexicon  
(ACL-SIGLEX)

				    						Borovetz, Bulgaria
				    					      September 30, 2007

				    						  Workshop site:
				    			   http://www.wlv.ac.uk/~in8113/amml07/

				    					        RANLP'2007 site:
				    					http://lml.bas.bg/ranlp2007/



AIMS

The current trend of information exchange on the Internet to become  
ever more multilingual has stimulated new important developments in  
the field of multilingual NLP. The present workshop is concerned with  
the problem of automatic management of lexical resources, which lie  
at the heart of many multilingual technologies.

Recently there has been an increased interest in the automated  
discovery of equivalent expressions in different languages. New  
interesting directions have sprung up, such as the use of the Web and  
comparable corpora for this task, and new kinds of lexical phenomena,  
such as multiword expressions and named entities, have come into focus.

This workshop will bring together researchers working on a broad  
range of problems related to the management of multilingual lexical  
resources - their acquisition, maintenance, customization, and re- 
use. The scope of the workshop includes evaluation of multilingual  
lexicons intended for a broad range of applications: from  
personalized glossaries for a translation project to large-scale  
machine-readable dictionaries and databases.


TOPICS

Specific topics of interest for the proposed workshop are:

* Acquisition of lexical knowledge from parallel and comparable  
corpora, and from the Web
* Porting, merging and domain customisation of existing lexical  
resources using NLP technologies
* Acquisition of domain terminology
* Acquisition of multi-word expressions
* Acquisition of translations for polysemous words
* Acquisition of multilingual lexical taxonomies
* Named Entity transliteration
* Acquisition of cognates and loanwords
* Extraction of equivalent phrases and sentences from comparable corpora
* Applications of multilingual lexicons and their evaluation within:
       - Statistical Machine Translation
       - Computer-Aided Translation
       - Information Retrieval (Question Answering, Text Retrieval,  
Text Classification and Clustering)
       - Knowledge Management


SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

* Format. Authors are invited to submit full papers on original,  
unpublished work in the topic area of this workshop. Papers should be  
submitted as a PDF file, formatted according to the RANLP 2007  
stylefiles and not exceeding 8 pages. The RANLP 2007 stylefiles are  
available at:

http://lml.bas.bg/ranlp2007/submissions.htm

As reviewing will be blind, the papers should not include the  
authors' names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that  
reveal the authors' identities should be avoided. Papers that do not  
conform to these requirements will be rejected without review.

* Submission procedure. Submission of papers will be handled using  
the START system. Specific submission guidelines will be posted on  
the workshop site shortly.

* Reviewing. Each submission will be reviewed at least by two members  
of the Program Committee. Reviewers will be asked to provide detailed  
comments, and to score submitted papers on the following factors:
       - Relevance to the workshop
       - Significance and originality
       - Technical/methodological accuracy
       - References to related work
       - Presentation (clarity, organisation, English)

* Accepted papers policy. Accepted papers will be published in the  
workshop proceedings. By submitting a paper at the workshop the  
authors agree that, in case the paper is accepted for publication, at  
least one of the authors will attend the workshop; all workshop  
participants are expected to pay the RANLP-2007 workshop registration  
fee.


IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission deadline: June 15, 2007
Paper acceptance notification:  July 25, 2007
Camera-ready papers due:  August 31, 2007
Workshop date:  September 30, 2007


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Eneko Agirre (Basque Country University, Spain)
Enrique Alfonseca (Google Inc.)
Marco Baroni (University of Trento, Italy)
Paul Buitelaar (DFKI, Germany)
Michael Carl (IAI, Germany)
Dan Cristea (University ìAl. I. Cuzaî Iasi, Romania)
Gael Dias (University of Beira Interior, Portugal)
Jesus Gimenez (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain)
Diana Inkpen (University of Ottawa, Canada)
Adam Kilgarriff (Lexicography Masterclass, UK)
Greg Kondrak (University of Alberta, Canada)
Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton, UK)
Sebastian Pado (University of Saarland, Germany)
Reinhard Rapp (Johannes Gutenberg-Universitat Mainz, Germany)
Fatiha Sadat (University of Ottawa, Canada)
Violeta Seretan (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
Michel Simard (National Research Council of Canada)
Jorg Tiedemann (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Netherlands)
Takehito Utsuro (University of Tsukuba, Japan)
Piek Vossen (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Michael Zock (LIMSI-CNRS, France)


KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Keynote speakers will be announced shortly before the workshop.


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Viktor Pekar
University of Wolverhampton, UK

Diana Inkpen
University of Ottawa, Canada

Andrea Mulloni
Expert System Inc., Italy