[Corpora-List] Call for papers: SLTC 2010 Workshop on Compounds and Multiword Expressions

[Mats Wirén]

        [Apologies for cross-/multiple postings]

Call for papers
SLTC 2010 Workshop on Compounds and Multiword Expressions
October 29, Linköping, Sweden

Workshop webpage: http://www.ida.liu.se/~sarst/compound-ws/

Compounds and Multiword Expressions (MWEs) -- for example, nominal 
compounds ("frying pan"), verb-particle constructions ("take off"), and 
idiomatic expressions ("break the ice") -- constitute a highly frequent 
phenomenon in natural language, yet one that provides a challenge to the 
traditional division between lexicon and grammar in linguistics and 
language technology.

The goal of this workshop is to discuss current activities and 
outstanding problems in the area of compounds and MWEs from a 
theoretical and/or applications-oriented perspective. Reports about 
on-going work and original research are thus equally welcome. We believe 
that the relevant area can be broadly structured as follows:

    * Identification: Although much compound identification can be 
carried out with high accuracy, identifying MWEs in running text is 
still a challenging problem, which might require combinations of 
traditional techniques such as static lists and rules with novel 
techniques based on machine learning.
    * Interpretation: Semantic interpretation of compounds and MWEs is a 
central problem. Supervised approaches might be based on specifying the 
semantics of compounds and MWEs using a pre-defined, static set of 
semantic relations, whereas unsupervised approaches might be based on 
charting their distributions in word space.
    * Disambiguation: Most compounds and MWEs are ambiguous in various 
ways. A key problem for MWEs is to determine whether it is used 
non-compositionally (idiomatically) or compositionally (literally) in a 
particular context.
    * Applications: Identifying compounds and MWEs in context and 
understanding their syntax and semantics is crucial for many natural 
language applications. For example, in the area of terminology, nearly 
all instances of "unknown" words turn out to be compounds. In 
information retrieval, an important issue is the relative informational 
contribution of compound components. In translation, one issue is the 
choice of whether a word sequence constitutes a MWE and should be 
translated as such, or if the component words should be translated 
literally.

Submission:
Submissions are invited as two-page abstracts, following the formatting 
guidleines of SLTC. For further details see the workshop page: 
http://www.ida.liu.se/~sarst/compound-ws/

Important dates:
Submission deadline: September 20
Notification: September 27
Workshop: October 29

Location: Linköping University in cooperation with
SLTC 2010, Linköping, Sweden.

Organizers:
Magnus Merkel (LiU)
Magnus Sahlgren (SICS)
Sara Stymne (LiU)
Mats Wirén (SU)
Robert Östling (SU)



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