[Corpora-List] Extended deadline: NAACL HLT 2010 Workshop on Constructions

[Ola Knutsson]

Due to numerous requests, we have decided to extend the paper  
submission deadline, until March 8, 2010.

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                          FINAL 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 8, 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 Berkeley, 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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