[Corpora-List] Meta4NLP: call for participation

Tue May 14 22:43:17 UTC 2013

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

 *The 1**st** Workshop on Metaphor in NLP *

 (co-located with NAACL-HLT 2013)

 Atlanta, Georgia, USA – June 13, 2013

 *https://sites.google.com/site/1stworkshoponmetaphorinnlp2013/*

 *WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION*

 Characteristic to all areas of human activity (from poetic to ordinary to
scientific) and, thus, to all types of discourse, metaphor becomes an
important problem for natural language processing. Its ubiquity in language
has been established in a number of corpus studies and the role it plays in
human reasoning has been confirmed in psychological experiments. This makes
metaphor an important research area for computational and cognitive
linguistics, and its automatic identification and interpretation
indispensable for any semantics-oriented NLP application.

 The main focus of the workshop is on computational modeling of metaphor
using state-of-the-art NLP techniques. The selected papers offer
explorations into the following directions: (1) creation of
metaphor-annotated datasets; (2) identification of new features that are
useful for metaphor identification; (3) cross-lingual metaphor
identification.

 The papers represent a variety of approaches to utilization and creation
of datasets. While existing annotated corpora were used in some papers
(Dunn, Tsvetkov et al), most papers describe creation of new annotated
materials. Along with annotation guidelines adapted from the MIP and MIPVU
procedures (Badryzlova et al), more intuitive annotation protocols are
explored in Beigman Klebanov and Flor, Hovy et al, Heintz et al, Mohler et
al, and Strzalkowski et al.

 The papers present a number of novel and extended features for metaphor
detection. Topic models, abstractness/concreteness, and semantic
classifications based on an ontology are each used in multiple papers.
Additional features include classes of named entities (Tsvetkov et al),
WordNet examples and glosses (Wilks et al); suggestive evidence is
presented regarding potential usefulness of a relationality feature
(Jamrozik et al). A distinguishing characteristic of multiple submissions
is the interest in cross-lingual approaches to metaphor identification.
Accordingly, contributors explore features that can be supported by
resources that exist in languages like Russian, Spanish, and Farsi
(Strzalkowski et al., Tsvetkov et al, Heintz et al).

 The program of the workshop also features two invited talks that
complement the discussion by addressing topics that are not addressed by
this year’s submissions, namely, the relationship between metaphor and
action (Srini Narayanan), and interpretation of metaphors (John Barnden).

*WORKSHOP PROGRAM*

 09:00-09:10 Opening remarks

 09:10-10:05 *Invited talk*

"*From Metaphor to Action*"

Srini Narayanan

 10:05-10:30

"*What metaphor identification systems can tell us about
metaphor-in-language*"

Jonathan Dunn

 10:30-11:00 Coffee break

 11:00-11:25

"*Argumentation-Relevant Metaphors in Test-Taker Essays*"

Beata Beigman Klebanov and Michael Flor

 11:25-11:50

"*Relational words have high metaphoric potential*"

Anja Jamrozik, Eyal Sagi, Micah Goldwater and Dedre Gentner

 11:50-12:10

"*Semantic Signatures for Example-Based Linguistic Metaphor Detection*"

Michael Mohler, David Bracewell, Marc Tomlinson and David Hinote

 12:10-13:40 Lunch

 13:40-14:20 *Invited talk*

“*Computational Approaches to Metaphor Interpretation: **Some
Considerations arising from a Deep Reasoning System*”

John Barnden

 14:20-14:45

"*Automatic Metaphor Detection using Large-Scale Lexical Resources and
Conventional Metaphor Extraction*"

Yorick Wilks, Adam Dalton, James Allen and Lucian Galescu

 14:45-15:10

"*Cross-Lingual Metaphor Detection Using Common Semantic Features*"

Yulia Tsvetkov, Elena Mukomel and Anatole Gershman

 15:10-15:30

"*Identifying Metaphorical Word Use with Tree Kernels*"

Dirk Hovy, Shashank Shrivastava, Sujay Kumar Jauhar, Mrinmaya Sachan,
Kartik Goyal, Huying Li, Whitney Sanders and Eduard Hovy

 15:30-16:00 Coffee break

 16:00-16:25

"*Automatic Extraction of Linguistic Metaphors with LDA Topic Modeling*"

Ilana Heintz, Ryan Gabbard, Mahesh Srivastava, Dave Barner, Donald Black,
Majorie Friedman and Ralph Weischedel

 16:25-16:50

"*Robust Extraction of Metaphor from Novel Data*"

Tomek Strzalkowski, George Aaron Broadwell, Sarah Taylor, Laurie Feldman,
Samira Shaikh, Ting Liu, Boris Yamrom, Kit Cho, Umit Boz, Ignacio Cases and
Kyle Elliot

 16:50-17:15

"*Annotating a Russian corpus of conceptual metaphor: a bottom-up approach*"

Yulia Badryzlova, Natalia Shekhtman, Yekaterina Isaeva and Ruslan Kerimov

 17:15-17:30 Closing remarks

*WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS*

 Ekaterina Shutova, University of California at Berkeley, USA

Beata Beigman Klebanov, Educational Testing Service, USA

Joel Tetreault, Nuance, USA

Zornitsa Kozareva, USC Information Sciences Institute, USA

 *PROGRAM COMMITTEE*

 Shlomo Argamon, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA

John Barnden, University of Birmingham, UK

Gemma Boleda, University of Texas at Austin, USA

Danushka Bollegala, University of Tokyo, Japan

Marisa Boston, Nuance, USA

David Bracewell, LCC, USA

Ted Briscoe, University of Cambridge, UK

Jaime Carbonell, CMU, USA

Stephen Clark, University of Cambridge, UK

Paul Cook, University of Melbourne, Australia

Gerard de Melo, University of California at Berkeley, USA

Alice Deignan, Leeds University, UK

Afsaneh Fazly, University of Toronto, Canada

Anna Feldman, Montclair State University, USA

Jerry Feldman, University of California at Berkeley, USA

Michael Flor, Educational Testing Service, USA

Marjorie Freedman, BBN, USA

Deidre Gentner, Northwestern University, USA

Yanfen Hao, Electronics Industry Research Institute, ShanXi, China

Jerry Hobbs, University of Southern California, USA

Eugenie Giesbrecht, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

Valia Kordoni, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany

Anna Korhonen, University of Cambridge, UK

George Lakoff, University of California at Berkeley, USA

Alex Lascarides, University of Edinburgh, UK

Mark Lee, University of Birmingham, UK

Katja Markert, University of Leeds, UK

James H. Martin,University of Colorado at Boulder, USA

Andreas Musolff, University of East Anglia, UK

Srini Narayanan, University of California at Berkeley, USA

Malvina Nissim, University of Bologna, Italy

Thierry Poibeau, Ecole Normale Superieure and CNRS, France

Diarmuid O'Seaghdha, University of Cambridge, UK

Caroline Sporleder, Saarland University, Germany

Carlo Strapparava, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy

Tomek Strzalkowski, SUNY Albany, USA

Marc Tomlinson, LCC, USA

Oren Tsur, Hebrew University, Israel

Peter Turney, National Research Council Canada, Canada

Tim van de Cruys, IRIT and CNRS, Toulouse, France

Tony Veale, Korean Advanced Institute for Science and Technology, Republic
of Korea

Aline Villavicencio, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil and
MIT, USA

Andreas Vlachos, University of Cambridge, UK

Yorick Wilks, Florida Institute of Human and Machine Cognition, USA
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