[Corpora-List] 2nd Call for Papers: Towards a Shared Task for Multiword Expressions (LREC 2008)

[Stefan Evert]

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SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS

  LREC2008 - Towards a Shared Task for Multiword Expressions (MWE 2008)

endorsed by the ACL Special Interest Group on the Lexicon (SIGLEX)


Date: Sunday, 1 June 2008
Location: Marrakech, Morocco
Deadline: Friday, 29 February 2008

Workshop web page: http://multiword.sf.net/mwe2008/
Paper submission:  https://www.softconf.com/LREC2008/MWE2008/submit.html

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The MWE 2008 workshop is primarily intended as a forum for  
collecting, sharing and exploiting MWE evaluation resources. We have  
solicited contributions of such resources in a separate call. The new  
collection of the resources can be downloaded from the Multiword  
homepage: http://multiword.sourceforge.net/, and contributors have  
been invited to submit a short paper describing their resource.

An exploratory shared task making use of the collected data sets will  
be announced in a separate call. Participating teams are invited to  
submit a short paper with an evaluation of their algorithm on  
multiple data sets to the workshop. The deadline for shared task  
papers is Friday, March 14th.

With this call, we invite submissions of REGULAR PAPERS, in  
particular (but not limited to) research that relates to the  
evaluation of MWE extraction methods and/or makes use of the new  
resource collection. Topics of special interest are:

(a) Linguistic analysis of MWEs based on language resources (such as  
corpora) and the impact that these studies have on NLP applications.  
We particularly welcome papers that perform a cross-linguistic  
analysis of MWEs, identify variation across languages, text types,  
domains, etc. or investigate the variability of MWEs.

(b) Typologies of MWEs: Papers that describe classes of MWEs and  
their representation in language resources, discuss different  
approaches to the definition and classification of MWEs, or apply new  
MWE typologies to the evaluation of computational techniques.

(c) The evaluation and comparison of multiword extraction techniques:  
Do methods generalise across languages, text types, different classes  
of MWEs, etc.? How useful and essential is linguistic knowledge and a  
theoretical understanding of MWEs? Is fully automatic extraction  
feasible or will manual intervention always be necessary?

(d) Evaluation methodology and the creation of gold standards for  
MWEs. Papers should address theoretical and technical issues, while  
descriptions of existing resources may be submitted as short papers  
for the shared task. Topics of particular interest are novel types of  
gold standards (such as human ratings from expert and non-expert  
subjects, language resources derived from the Web, etc.), inter- 
annotator agreement in the manual validation of candidate lists  
(which is often fairly low) and the task-based evaluation of MWE  
resources in NLP applications.


SUBMISSION INFORMATION

Regular papers must adhere to the format of LREC proceedings  
(preferably using the style files provided on the conference Web  
site) and must not exceed eight (8) pages, including references.

As reviewing of regular papers will be blind, the paper should not  
include the authors' names and affiliations. Furthermore, self- 
citations and other references (e.g. to projects, corpora, or  
software) that could reveal the author's identity should be avoided.  
For example, instead of "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...",  
write "Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...".

The papers must be submitted no later than 23:59 GMT on February 29,  
2008. Papers submitted after that time cannot be reviewed.

Please submit your paper here: https://www.softconf.com/LREC2008/ 
MWE2008/submit.html


IMPORTANT DATES

8-page regular paper submission deadline: February 29, 2008
4-page resource paper submission deadline: February 29, 2008
4-page shared task paper submission deadline: March 14, 2008
Notification of acceptance: March 28, 2008
Camera ready papers due: April 4, 2008
Workshop date: June 1, 2008


PROGRAM COMITTEE

Iñaki Alegria, University of the Basque Country (Spain)
Timothy Baldwin, Stanford University (USA); U of Melbourne (Australia)
Colin Bannard, Max Planck Institute (Germany)
Francis Bond, NTT Communication Science Laboratories (Japan)
Gaël Dias, Beira Interior University (Portugal)
Ulrich Heid, Stuttgart University (Germany)
Kyo Kageura, University of Tokyo (Japan)
Rosamund Moon, University of Birmingham (UK)
Diana McCarthy, University of Sussex (UK)
Eric Laporte, University of Marne-la-Vallee (France)
Preslov Nakov, University of California, Berkeley (USA)
Jan Odijk, University of Utrecht (The Netherlands)
Stephan Oepen, Stanford University (USA); U of Oslo (Norway)
Darren Pearce, University of Sussex (UK)
Pavel Pecina, Charles University (Czech Republic)
Scott Piao, University of Manchester (UK)
Violeta Seretan, University of Geneva (Switzerland)
Suzanne Stevenson, University of Toronto (Canada)
Beata Trawinski, University of Tuebingen (Germany)
Kiyoko Uchiyama, Keio University (Japan)
Begoña Villada Moirón, University of Groningen (The Netherlands)
Aline Villavicencio, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil)


WORKSHOP CHAIRS

Nicole Grégoire
University of Utrecht, The Netherlands

Stefan Evert
University of Osnabrueck, Germany

Brigitte Krenn
Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (ÖFAI), Austria


CONTACT

For any inquiries regarding the workshop please contact Nicole Grégoire
(Nicole.Gregoire at let.uu.nl).
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