[Corpora-List] CFP (short papers): ACL-2012 Workshop ExProM "Extra-propositional aspects of meaning in computational linguistics"
Caroline Sporleder
csporled at coli.uni-sb.de
Thu Apr 12 14:28:15 UTC 2012
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ACL Workshop ExProM 2012
Extra-propositional aspects of meaning in computational linguistics
Organised by the University of Antwerp and Saarland University
Colocated with ACL 2012
13 July 2012, Jeju Island, Korea
http://www.clips.ua.ac.be/exprom2012
***** Short paper submission deadline: 26.4.2012 *****
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Short papers are invited for the one-day workshop to be held in Jeju
Island, Korea, on 13 July 2012.
Until recently, research in Natural Language Processing (NLP) has focused
predominantly on propositional aspects of meaning. For example, semantic
role labeling, question answering or text mining tasks aim at extracting
information of the type "who does what, when and where". However,
understanding language involves also processing Extra-Propositional
Aspects of Meaning (EPAM), such as factuality, uncertainty, or
subjectivity, since the same propositional meaning can be presented in a
diversity of statements. While some work on phenomena like subjectivity
has been carried out in the context of sentiment processing, other
phenomena like the detection of sarcasm have received less attention.
By proposing this workshop we aim at bringing together scientists working
on EPAM from any area related to computational language learning and
processing. By EPAM we understand aspects of meaning that cannot be
captured with a propositional representation such as the output of
semantic role labelers.
For instance, the meaning of the sentence in Example (1) can be
represented with the proposition ADD(earthquake,further threats to the
global economy), whereas representing the meaning of the sentences in
Example (2) requires additional mechanisms, despite the fact that all
sentences share a propositional meaning.
(1) The earthquake adds further threats to the global economy.
(2) Does the earthquake add further threats to the global economy?
The earthquake adds further threats to the global economy, doesn't
it?
The earthquake does not add further threats to the global economy.
The earthquake will never add further threats to the global
economy.
The earthquake will probably add further threats to the global
economy.
Who could (possibly) think the earthquake adds further threats to
the global economy?
The earthquake might have added further threats to the global
economy.
The last analysis shows that the earthquake will add further
threats to the global economy.
It is expected that the earthquake will add further threats to the
global economy.
It has been denied that the earthquake adds further threats to the
global economy.
Some of the sentences above could also be combined in a paragraph such as
(3), which shows that the same event can be presented from different
perspectives, at different points in time and with different
extra-propositional meanings.
(3) The main question 6 months ago was whether the earthquake would add
further threats to the global economy. Some days after the earthquake the
authorities were convinced that it would be possible to minimize the
impact of the earthquake. Most economists didn't share this view and
predicted a high economic impact of the earthquake. However, a recent
study about the earthquake's effect has shown that, although the
earthquake might have added further threats to the global economy, its
negative impact can be controlled by applying the right measures.
While the area of EPAM comprises a broad range of phenomena, this workshop
will focus mainly on the aspects related to modality understood in a
general sense (modalities, hedging, certainty, factuality), negation,
attitude, and irony/sarcasm. Since many of these phenomena cannot be
adequately modeled without taking (discourse) context into account, the
workshop also touches on discourse phenomena in so far as they relate to
extra-propositional aspects of meaning.
The workshop is a follow-up to Negation and Speculation in Natural
Language Processing (NeSp-NLP 2010) held in Uppsala, Sweden, in July 2010.
SCOPE AND TOPICS
In particular, the workshop will address the following topics, although it
will be open to other related topics:
- Negation
- Modality
- Hedging
- Factuality
- Certainty
- Subjectivity, attitude
- Evidentiality
- Irony, sarcasm
- Modeling and annotating extra-propositional aspects of meaning
- Scope resolution
- Detection of non-factual information
- Changes of the factual status of events within a text/message and within
collections of texts/messages
- Discourse phenomena related to extra-propositional aspects of meaning
- The impact of extra-propositional aspects of meaning in NLP tasks:
sentiment analysis, text mining, textual entailment, information
extraction, machine translation, paraphrasing
- Implicit expression of extra-propositional meaning
- Multimodal expression of extra-propositional meaning
- Author profiling based on extra-propositional aspects of meaning
- Extra-propositional aspects of meaning across domains and genres
SUBMISSIONS
Authors are invited to submit short papers on original, unpublished work
in the topic area of this workshop. All submissions must conform to the
official ACL 2012 style guidelines. Formatting instructions and the ACL
2012 Style Files can be found at http://www.acl2012.org/call/sub01.asp .
Short papers may consist of up to four (4) pages of content, and two (2)
additional pages of references. The following types of papers are
appropriate for a short paper submission:
1. A small, focused contribution
2. Work in progress
3. A negative result
4. An opinion piece
5. An interesting application nugget
The reviewing of the papers will be blind and the papers should not
include the authors' names and affiliations. Each submission will be
reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. Accepted
papers will be published in the workshop proceedings.
Papers should be submitted no later than April 26, 2012, via the following
submission site:
https://www.softconf.com/acl2012/exprom-2012
IMPORTANT DATES
April 26, 2012 - Short paper submission deadline
May 11, 2012 - Short paper notification of acceptance
May 15, 2012 - Camera-ready short papers due
July 13, 2012 - Workshop
ORGANISATION
Roser Morante, CLiPS-LTG, University of Antwerp
Caroline Sporleder, MMCI / Computational Linguistics and Phonetics,
Saarland University
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Johan Bos - University of Groningen
Gosse Bouma - University of Groningen
Walter Daelemans - University of Antwerp
Matt Gerber - University of Virginia
Roxana Girju - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Iris Hendrickx - University of Lisbon
Halil Kilicoglu - Concordia University
Maria Liakata - University of Wales
Katja Markert - University of Leeds
Erwin Marsi - Norwegian University of Science and Technology
David Martinez - NICTA and University of Melbourne
Malvina Nissim - University of Bologna
Sebastian Pado - University of Heidelberg
Sampo Pyysalo - NaCTeM and University of Manchester
Owen Rambow - Columbia University
Paolo Rosso - Universidad Polit?cnica de Valencia
Josef Ruppenhofer - Saarland University
Roser Sauri - Barcelona Media Innovation Center
Carlo Strapparava - Fondazione Bruno Kessler
György Szarvas - TU Darmstadt
Erik Velldal - University of Oslo
Anita de Waard - Elsevier Labs
Bonnie Webber - University of Edinburgh
Michael Wiegand - Saarland University
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Caroline Sporleder
Cluster of Excellence MMCI / Computational Linguistics
Saarland University
csporled at coli.uni-sb.de
http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~csporled
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