[HPSG-L] Fwd: Collaborative book on MWE Representation and Parsing - Call for Chapters

[Arnold, Doug]

I’m forwarding this (only readers of hpsg-l can post to it, but this seems like it might be of interest to some of you. Apologies if this results in cross-posting duplicates.
Best
Doug

> Begin forwarded message:
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> From: Yannick Parmentier <yannick.parmentier at univ-orleans.fr>
> Subject: Collaborative book on MWE Representation and Parsing - Call for Chapters
> Date: 22 January 2016 at 16:19:04 GMT
> To: <yannick.parmentier at univ-orleans.fr>
> 
> 
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> Collaborative book on MWE Representation and Parsing
> Call for Chapter proposals
> ***********************************************************
> 
> Provisional title
> *****************
> "Mutliword Expressions: Representation and Parsing"
> 
> Coordinators/editors
> ********************
> Yannick Parmentier (Orléans) & Jakub Waszczuk (Blois)
> parseme-wg2-book at listes.univ-orleans.fr
> 
> Content
> *******
> While Multiword expressions (MWEs) have been attracting attention for
> a long time because of their idiosyncratic properties going beyond
> word boundaries, they remain a challenge for both linguistic theories
> and natural language applications.
> 
> A contrastive study on the representation of MWEs within various
> languages and frameworks has been carried out recently in the context
> of the Working Group 1 of the PARSEME Action. This study will appear
> as a special issue of the "Empirically Oriented Theoretical Morphology
> and Syntax" series at Language Science Press
> (http://langsci-press.org/).
> 
> The planned volume will appear within the same series and aims at
> providing the NLP research community with a sharing of experience from
> MWE experts who have been experimenting with the design of linguistic
> resources allowing for MWE parsing.
> 
> Possible topics for contributions include:
> 
> A) Implemented grammars:
> 
>    How to encode the syntactic and/or semantic properties of MWEs
>    within formal grammars ?
>    How to account for various degrees of flexibility of MWEs ?
>    How to represent MWEs which exhibit both syntactic variability and
>    semantic non-compositionality ? Is there a connection between
>    semantic and syntactic flexibility? 
>    How do linguistic theories and / or grammatical frameworks
>    influence MWE representations within implemented grammars ?
>    How to evaluate the coverage of implemented grammars with respect
>    to MWEs ? 
>    Can we define abstract models (e.g. metagrammars) of MWEs'
>    properties that would capture linguistic richness of MWEs
>    independently of particular grammatical frameworks ? If so, how
>    can such models help to reduce the cost of MWE-aware resource
>    development ? Can they adapt to different languages ?
>    How to represent MWEs within strongly lexicalized formalisms ?
> 
> B) Challenging MWE examples:
> 
>    What types of "transformations" (such as passivization, internal
>    modification, pronominalization, participation to long distance
>    dependency phenomena, control and binding phenomena) can be
>    applied to MWEs? Can those transformations be easily captured
>    within (lexicalized or not) formal grammar ?
>    How to account for morphological flexibility at the lexical
>    level ? at the grammatical level (e.g. agreement) ? 
>    How to tackle language-specific challenges in encoding MWEs in
>    formal grammars ? 
> 
> C) Parsing MWE:
> 
>    What statistical and / or symbolic frameworks support MWE
>    parsing ?
>    How to enrich parsers with information about MWEs within
>    treebanks ?
>    How to reconcile linguistic precision and computational efficiency
>    when parsing MWEs ? 
>    How do syntactic parsing and semantic representation relate in the
>    context of MWEs ?
> 
> D) Cross-linguistic comparison of MWE representations and analyses
> 
>    How to reuse material from  grammars for other languages or
>    frameworks (cross-language and cross-framework grammar design) ?
>    Can MWE parsing benefit from representations and annotations of
>    MWEs in other languages ? Other frameworks ? 
> 
> Submission
> **********
> We invite the submission of abstracts of chapters (2 pages) by March
> 31, 2016.
> 
> The outline should clearly express the topic, indicate whether
> electronic resources are available and give the status of the work
> (completed or in progress).
> 
> Selected abstracts will be presented during the automn meeting of the
> Working Group “Parsing Techniques for MWE” of the COST Action IC 1207
> PARSEME (Parsing Multiword Expressions) in Dubrovnik, Croatia (26-27
> September, 2016).
> 
> Reimbursement for participation at this meeting might be available for
> authors of selected abstracts according to COST regulations. Please
> contact the editors for details.
> 
> Submissions should mention “MWE Volume” in the subject line and be
> sent to parseme-wg2-book at listes.univ-orleans.fr
> 
> Preliminary schedule
> ********************
> 
> January 2016: Call for abstracts sent out
> 
> March 31, 2016: Deadline for abstract submissions
> 
> Mid June 2016: Notification of pre-selection
> 
> September 26-27, 2016 (Parseme meeting in Dubrovnik): Presentation of
> the contribution proposals.
> 
> October 31, 2016: deadline for first versions of the chapters.
> 
> December 14, 2016: comments, notifications of acceptance sent out.
> 
> January 30, 2017: deadline for final versions.
>