29.1681, Calls: Comp Ling, Lexicography, Ling Theories, Text/Corpus Ling/USA

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Subject: 29.1681, Calls: Comp Ling, Lexicography, Ling Theories, Text/Corpus Ling/USA

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Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2018 18:01:05
From: Adam Meyers [meyers at cs.nyu.edu]
Subject: Joint Workshop on Linguistic Annotation, Multiword Expressions and Constructions

 
Full Title: Joint Workshop on Linguistic Annotation, Multiword Expressions and Constructions 
Short Title: LAW-MWE-CxG 2018 

Date: 25-Aug-2018 - 26-Aug-2018
Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA 
Contact Person: Adam Meyers
Meeting Email: lawmwecxg2018 at gmail.com
Web Site: http://multiword.sourceforge.net/PHITE.php?sitesig=CONF&page=CONF_04_LAW-MWE-CxG_2018 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Lexicography; Linguistic Theories; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 25-May-2018 

Meeting Description:

This workshop brings together three divergent (but overlapping) research
communities studying linguistic annotation, multiword expressions and
grammatical constructions. 

Linguistic annotation of natural language corpora is the backbone of
supervised methods for statistical natural language processing; further, it is
essential for evaluation of both rule-based and supervised systems and can
help formalize and study linguistic phenomena. 

Multiword expressions (MWEs) are word combinations, such as all of a sudden,
hot dog, to pay a visit or to pull one's leg, which exhibit lexical,
syntactic, semantic, pragmatic and/or statistical idiosyncrasies.
Computational research on MWEs encompasses NLP modelling and processing as
well as annotation. 

Construction Grammar (CxG) is a linguistic framework of relevance to both
linguistic annotation and MWEs. In this framework, constructions are
form-meaning pairings of varying degrees of internal complexity and lexical
fixedness, including idioms like the-Xer-the-Yer (the more the merrier, etc.)
and semantically productive meaning-bearing syntactic patterns (e.g., the
caused-motion construction: Mary pushed the napkin off the table; the
ditransitive construction: He gave her a burger), which give rise to novel
usages (e.g. Mary sneezed the napkin off the table; He grilled her a burger).
Annotation and automatic processing of constructions pose significant
challenges: because constructions are form-meaning pairs that can be more or
less fluid in form, determining the annotation units for a construction is not
straightforward. For the above reasons, grammatical constructions were elected
as a joint focus of interest by both the MWE and the LAW communities to
constitute a special theme within a joint 2-day workshop.


2nd Call for Papers:

Joint Workshop on Linguistic Annotation, Multiword Expressions and
Constructions 
LAW-MWE-CxG-2018
at COLING 2018 (Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA)

http://multiword.sourceforge.net/lawmwecxg2018

We invite long and short papers focusing on research related to the following
topics (as well as others traditionally associated with previous editions of
the LAW and MWE workshops):

- Joint topics on constructions, annotation, and MWEs

- MWE and construction annotation
- MWE and construction representation in lexical resources
- Extending MWE discovery and identification methods to constructions
- MWEs and constructions in language acquisition and in non-standard language
(e.g. tweets, forums, spontaneous speech)
- Evaluation of MWE and construction annotation and processing techniques
- Computationally-applicable theoretical studies on MWEs and constructions in
psycholinguistics, corpus linguistics and grammar formalisms, and/or how such
studies can impact annotation of constructions

- Annotation-specific topics

- Annotation procedures:  manual, automatic, machine learning, knowledge-based
methods, etc.
- Maintenance and interactive exploration of annotation structures and
annotated data
- Qualitative and quantitative annotation evaluation
- Linguistic considerations, representation formats and exploration tools for
merged annotations
- Standards, best practices, documentation, interoperability, and comparison
of annotation schemes
- Development, evaluation and innovative use of annotation software frameworks

- MWE-specific topics

- Original MWE discovery and identification methods
- MWE processing in syntactic and semantic frameworks (e.g. HPSG, LFG, TAG,
Universal Dependencies, WSD, semantic parsing), and in end-user applications
(e.g. summarization, machine translation)

- Special track: PARSEME Shared Task on Automatic Identification of Verbal MWE
(a dedicated call will follow).

      
Submission and reviewing:

Paper Formats -- All papers should follow the COLING style sheets and
guidelines as per the COLING 2018 website
(http://coling2018.org/second-call-for-papers/). All papers should be
submitted via the START space at
https://www.softconf.com/coling2018/ws-LAW-MWE-CxG-2018/. Review is
double-blind as per COLING guidelines.
   
Page limits:
   
- Long papers (8 content pages + references)   
- Short papers (4 content pages + references)   
- PARSEME Shared Task System papers  (4 content pages + references)
 
There is no limit on the number of reference pages. Authors will be granted an
extra page for the final version of their papers. The Program Committee will
determine which papers are better suited for oral or poster formats.
   
PARSEME Shared Task System papers will be concerned by specific guidelines and
a separate reviewing process.

Endorsements

This workshop is organized and funded by by the following Special Interest
Groups of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL):

- Special Interest Group for Annotation (SIGANN)
- Special Interest Group on the Lexicon (SIGLEX)
- Special Interest Group on Computational Semantics (SIGSEM) 

Important dates:

May 25, 2018: Submission deadline (long, short and shared task papers)
June 20, 2018: Notification of acceptance
June 30, 2018: Camera-ready papers due
August 25-26, 2018: LAW-MWE-CxG 2018 workshop
(see a separate call for the shared task deadlines)

Contact:

For any inquiries regarding the workshop please send an email to
lawmwecxg2018 at gmail.com
   
Anti-harassment policy:

The LAW-MWE-CxG 2018 workshop supports the ACL anti-harassment policy.




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