[Corpora-List] 1st CFP NAACL HLT 2010 Workshop on Constructions

[Magnus Sahlgren]

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                          FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
             Workshop on Extracting and Using Constructions
                       in Computational Linguistics
                 http://www.sics.se/~mange/construct2010/
  		Post-conference workshop NAACL HLT 2009
                      June 5 or 6, Los Angeles, USA
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A construction can be defined as a form-meaning pairing in which the 
components cannot entirely explain the meaning of the whole. 
Constructional phenomena range from morphemes to argument structure, and 
include obvious examples like collocations ("hermetically sealed"), 
(idiomatic) expressions with fixed constituents ("kick the bucket"), 
expressions with (semi-)optional constituents ("hungry as a X"), and 
sequences of grammatical categories ([det][adj][noun]), as well as more 
complex constructions involving, e.g., the occurrence of sentence 
composition features (e.g. transitivity) or adverbial types (e.g. spatial 
adverbials). As these examples demonstrate, constructions are a diverse 
breed, and constructionist theories do not give a government to any 
specific level of language. On the contrary, all levels are viewed as 
equally important.

Constructions are currently enjoying considerable attention in linguistic 
research, and are now widely considered as being much more frequent and 
central to language than what has traditionally been acknowledged. 
Constructionist theories emphasize that the human mind seems to prefer to 
use prefabricated chunks of linguistic elements (i.e. constructions) when 
possible, instead of generating sentences from scratch as in the 
generative grammar approach. Constructions are also gaining a central 
place in different kinds of computational linguistics applications; 
examples include machine translation, information retrieval and 
extraction, tools for language learning, etc. Constructions are an 
interesting and important phenomenon because they constitute a middleway 
in the syntax-lexicon continuum, and because they show great potential in 
tackling infamously difficult computational linguistics tasks like 
sentiment analysis and language acquisition.

This workshop will encourage submissions in all aspects of 
constructions-based research, including:

* Theoretical discussions on the nature and place within
   (computational) linguistic theory of the concept of linguistic
   constructions.

* Methods and algorithms for identifying and extracting linguistic
   constructions (collocations, idioms, multiword expressions,
   grammatical constructions, etc.).

* Uses and applications of linguistic constructions (machine
   translation, information access, sentiment analysis, tools for
   language learning etc.).

Important dates:
Submission deadline: March 1, 2010
Notification of acceptance: March 30, 2010
Workshop: June 5 or 6, 2010

Location:
NAACL HLT 2010, Los Angeles, USA.

Submission procedure: 
We invite authors to submit papers via:
https://www.softconf.com/naaclhlt2010/constructions/ 
Submissions should be blind, not exceed 8 pages, and should use the
NAACL HLT 2010 style files, available at:
http://naaclhlt2010.isi.ed/authors.html
Each submission will be reviewed by two members of the program
committee.

Organizers:
Magnus Sahlgren, SICS (mange at sics.se)
Ola Knutsson, KTH (knutsson at csc.kth.se)

Program committee:
Benjamin Bergen, University of Hawaii, USA
James Curran, University of Sydney, Australia
Stefan Evert, University of Osnabrück, Germany
Charles Fillmore, University of Berkely, USA
Jonathan Ginzburg, King's College, UK
Adele Goldberg, Princeton University, USA
Stefan Th. Gries, University of California, USA
Matthew Honnibal, University of Sydney, Australia
Jussi Karlgren, Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden
Krista Lagus, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Olga Lyashevskaya, University of Tromsø, Norway
Laura Michaelis-Cummings, University of Colorado, USA
Anatol Stefanowitsch, University of Bremen, Germany
Suzanne Stevenson, University of Toronto, Canada
Peter Turney, National Research Council, Canada
Jan-Ola Östman, University of Helsinki, Finland
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