[Corpora-List] MWE'2010: Call for Participation

[Preslav Nakov (GMail)]

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                MWE'2010: Call for Participation

       *** Early bird registration deadline extended!***

                        July 31, 2010

                          COLING 2010
               Workshop on Multiword Expressions:
             from Theory to Applications (MWE 2010)

                http://multiword.sf.net/mwe2010

  endorsed by the Special Interest Group on the Lexicon of the
       Association for Computational Linguistics (SIGLEX)

                          Beijing, China


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Multiword Expressions (MWEs) are a ubiquitous component of natural
languages and appear steadily on a daily basis, both in specialized
and in general-purpose communication. While easily mastered by
native speakers, their interpretation poses a major challenge for
automated analysis due to their flexible and heterogeneous nature.
Therefore, the automated processing of MWEs is desirable for any
natural language application that involves some degree of semantic
interpretation, e.g., Machine Translation, Information Extraction,
and Question Answering.

In spite of the recent advances in the field, there is a wide range
of open problems that prevent MWE treatment techniques from full
integration in current NLP systems. In MWE'2010, we will be
interested in major challenges in the overall process of MWE
treatment, asking for original research related but not limited to
the following topics:

* MWE resources: Although underused in most current state-of-the-art
    approaches, resources are key for developing real-world
    applications capable of interpreting MWEs. We call for papers
    describing the process of building MWE resources, constructed
    both manually and automatically from text corpora; we are also
    interested in assessing the usability of such resources in
    various MWE tasks.

* Hybrid approaches: We invite research on integrating heterogeneous
    MWE treatment techniques and resources in NLP applications. Such
    hybrid approaches can aim, for example, at the combination of
    results from symbolic and statistical approaches, at the fusion
    of manually built and automatically extracted resources, or at
    the design of language learning techniques.

* Domain adaptation: Real-world NLP applications need to be robust
    to deal with texts coming from different domains. We thus call
    for papers assessing the performance of MWE methods across
    domains or describing domain adaptation techniques for MWEs.

* Multilingualism: Parallel and comparable corpora are gaining
    popularity as a resource for automatic MWE discovery and
    treatment. We are also interested in the integration of MWE
    processing in multilingual applications such as machine
    translation and multilingual information retrieval, as well as
    in porting existing monolingual MWE approaches to new languages.


IMPORTANT DATES

Jul 31, 2010              Early bird registration deadline
Aug 28, 2010              Workshop


INVITED TALKS

    Aravind K. Joshi - University of Pennsylvania, USA
    Kyo Kageura - University of Tokyo, Japan

ORAL PRESENTATIONS

    * Automatic Extraction of Arabic Multiword Expressions
      Mohammed Attia, Antonio Toral, Lamia Tounsi, Pavel Pecina and Josef
van Genabith
    * Automatic Extraction of Complex Predicates in Bengali
      Dipankar Das, Santanu Pal, Tapabrata Mondal, Tanmoy Chakroborty and
Sivaji Bandyopadhyay
    * Computational Lexicography of Multi-Word Units. How Efficient Can It
Be?
      Filip Graliński, Agata Savary, Monika Czerepowicka and Filip
Makowiecki
    * Standardizing Complex Functional Expressions in Japanese Predicates:
Applying Theoretically-Based Paraphrasing Rules
      Tomoko Izumi, Kenji Imamura, Genichiro Kikui and Satoshi Sato
    * Handling Named Entities and Compound Verbs in Phrase-Based Statistical
Machine Translation
      Santanu Pal, Sudip Kumar Naskar, Pavel Pecina and Sivaji Bandyopadhyay
    * Construction of Chinese Idiom Knowledge-base and Its Applications
      Lei Wang and Shiwen Yu
    * Sentence Analysis and Collocation Identification
      Eric Wehrli, Violeta Seretan and Luka Nerima
    * Application of the Tightness Continuum Measure to Chinese Information
Retrieval
      Ying Xu, Randy Goebel, Christoph Ringlstetter and Grzegorz Kondrak


POSTER PRESENTATIONS

    * Contrastive filtering of domain specific multi-word terms from
different types of corpora
      Francesca Bonin, Felice Dell'Orletta, Simonetta Montemagni and Giulia
Venturi
    * Identification of Reduplication in Bengali Corpus and their Semantics
Analysis: A Rule Based Approach
      Tanmoy Chakraborty and Sivaji Bandyopadhyay
    * A Hybrid Approach for Functional Expression Identification in a
Japanese Reading Assistant
      Gregory Hazelbeck and Hiroaki Saito
    * An efficient, generic approach to extracting multi-word expressions
from dependency trees
      Scott Martens and Vincent Vandeghinste 



PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Inaki Alegria          (University of the Basque Country, Spain)
Dimitra Anastasiou     (Limerick University, Ireland)
Timothy Baldwin        (University of Melbourne, Australia)
Colin Bannard          (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
Francis Bond           (Nanyang Technological University , Singapore)
Paul Cook              (University of Toronto, Canada)
Beatrice Daille        (Nantes University, France)
Gael Dias              (Beira Interior University, Portugal)
Stefan Evert           (University of Osnabrueck, Germany)
Roxana Girju           (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Nicole Gregoire        (University of Utrecht, The Netherlands)
Chikara Hashimoto      (National Institute of Information and Communications
Technology, Japan)
Marti Hearst           (University of California at Berkeley, USA)
Ulrich Heid            (Stuttgart University, Germany)
Kyo Kageura            (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Min-Yen Kan            (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Adam Kilgarriff        (Lexical Computing Ltd, UK)
Su Nam Kim             (University of Melbourne, Australia)
Anna Korhonen          (University of Cambridge, UK)
Zornitsa Kozareva      (University of Southern California, USA)
Brigitte Krenn         (Austrian Research Institute for Artificial
Intelligence, Austria)
Cvetana Krstev         (University of Belgrade, Serbia)
Begona Villada Moiron  (Q-go, The Netherlands)
Rosamund Moon          (University of Birmingham, UK)
Jan Odijk              (University of Utrecht, The Netherlands)
Stephan Oepen          (University of Oslo, Norway)
Darren Pearce          (London Knowledge Lab, UK)
Pavel Pecina           (Charles University, Czech Republic)
Scott Piao             (Lancaster University, UK)
Thierry Poibeau        (CNRS and École Normale Supérieure, France)
Elisabete Ranchhod     (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
Barbara Rosario        (Intel Labs, USA)
Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha    (University of Cambridge, UK)
Violeta Seretan        (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
Stan Szpakowicz        (University of Ottawa, Canada)
Beata Trawinski        (University of Tuebingen, Germany)
Vivian Tsang           (Bloorview Research Institute, Canada)
Kyioko Uchiyama        (Keio University, Japan)
Ruben Urizar           (University of the Basque Country, Spain)
Tony Veale             (University College Dublin, Ireland)


WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS AND CONTACT

Eric Laporte           (Universite Paris-Est, France)
Preslav Nakov          (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Carlos Ramisch         (University of Grenoble, France)
Aline Villavicencio    (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)

For any inquiries regarding the workshop please send an e-mail to
mwe2010workshop at gmail.com



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