30.4494, Calls: Computational Linguistics/Spain

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LINGUIST List: Vol-30-4494. Tue Nov 26 2019. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 30.4494, Calls: Computational Linguistics/Spain

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Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2019 16:10:16
From: Petya Osenova [petya at bultreebank.org]
Subject: Joint Workshop on Multiword Expressions and Electronic Lexicons

 
Full Title: Joint Workshop on Multiword Expressions and Electronic Lexicons 
Short Title: MWE-LEX 2020 

Date: 14-Sep-2020 - 14-Sep-2020
Location: Barcelona, Spain 
Contact Person: Petya Osenova
Meeting Email: petya at bultreebank.org
Web Site: http://multiword.sourceforge.net/mwelex2020/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 20-May-2020 

Meeting Description:

The joint MWE-LEX workshop addresses two domains – multiword expressions and
(electronic) lexicons – with partly overlapping communities and research
interests, but divergent practices and terminologies.

Multiword expressions (MWEs) are word combinations, such as by and large, hot
dog, pay a visit or pull one's leg, which exhibit lexical, syntactic,
semantic, pragmatic or statistical idiosyncrasies. MWEs encompass closely
related linguistic objects: idioms, compounds, light-verb constructions,
rhetorical figures, institutionalised phrases and collocations. Because of
their unpredictable behavior, notably their non-compositional semantics, MWEs
pose problems in linguistic modelling (e.g. treebank annotation, grammar
engineering), NLP pipelines (notably when orchestrated with parsing), and
end-user applications (e.g. information extraction). Modelling and processing
of MWEs has been the topic of the MWE workshop, organised over the past years
by the MWE section of SIGLEX.

Because MWE-hood is a largely lexical phenomenon, appropriately built
electronic MWE lexicons turn out to be quite important for NLP. Their
conception opens up, among others, the issues of lemmatization and of
standardised representation of morphological, syntactic and semantic
properties of MWEs. Large standardised multilingual, possibly interconnected,
NLP-oriented MWE lexicons prove indispensable for NLP tasks such as MWE
identification, due to its critical sensitivity to unseen data. But the
development of such lexicons is challenging and calls for tools which would
leverage, on the one hand, MWEs encoded in pre-existing NLP-unaware lexicons
and, on the other hand, automatic MWE discovery in large non-annotated
corpora.


Call for Papers:

In order to pave the way towards a better understanding of these issues, and
to foster convergence and scientific innovation, the MWE and ELEXIS (European
Union's Horizon 2020 research grant 731015) communities put forward a joint
event. We call for papers on research related (but not limited) to:

Joint topics on MWEs and e-lexicons:

- Extracting and enriching MWE lists from traditional human-readable lexicons
for NLP use
- Formats for NLP-applicable MWE lexicons
- Interlinking MWE lexicons with other language resources
- Using MWE lexicons in NLP tasks (identification, parsing, translation, etc.)
- MWE discovery in the service of lexicography
- Multiword terms in specialized lexicons
- Representing semantic properties of MWEs in lexicons
- Paving the way towards encoding lexical idiosyncrasies in constructions

MWE-specific topics:

- Computationally-applicable theoretical work on MWEs and constructions in
psycholinguistics, corpus linguistics and formal grammars
- MWE and construction annotation in corpora and treebanks
- Processing of MWEs and constructions in syntactic and semantic frameworks
(e.g. CCG, CxG, HPSG, LFG, TAG, UD, etc.), and in end-user applications (e.g.
information extraction, machine translation and summarization)
- Original discovery and identification methods for MWEs and constructions
MWEs and constructions in language acquisition and in non-standard language
(e.g. tweets, forums, spontaneous speech)
- Evaluation of annotation and processing techniques for MWEs and
constructions
- Retrospective comparative analyses from the PARSEME shared tasks on
automatic identification of MWEs

Our intention is to also perpetuate previous converging effects with the
Construction Grammar and WordNet community (see the LAW-MWE-CxG 2018 and
MWE-WN 2019 workshops). Therefore, and we extend the traditional MWE scope to
grammatical constructions and we include WordNets in the scope of e-lexicons.

For submission information, visit our website.




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