37.3224, Confs: 23rd Workshop on Multiword Expressions at EACL 2027 (Greece)

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Date: 06-Oct-2026
From: Patricia Chiril [patricia.chiril at telecom-paris.fr]
Subject: 23rd Workshop on Multiword Expressions at EACL 2027


23rd Workshop on Multiword Expressions at EACL 2027
Short Title: MWE 2027

Date: 09-Mar-2027 - 14-Mar-2027
Location: Athens, Greece
Meeting URL: https://multiword.org/mwe2027/

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Submission Deadline: 01-Dec-2026

Full day workshop colocated with the 20th Conference of the European
Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2027,
https://2027.eacl.org/ )
Organised, sponsored, and endorsed by SIGLEX, the Special Interest
Group on the Lexicon of the ACL.
Important Dates:
Direct Submission deadline: December 1, 2026
Pre-reviewed (ARR) submission deadline: December 22, 2026
Notification of acceptance: TBA (January 2027)
Camera-ready paper due: January 19, 2027
Workshop date: one full day between March 9–14, 2027
All deadlines are at 23:59 UTC-12 (Anywhere on Earth).
Overview:
Multiword expressions (MWEs), i.e., word combinations that exhibit
lexical, syntactic, semantic, pragmatic, and/or statistical
idiosyncrasies (Baldwin and Kim, 2010), such as "by and large", "hot
dog", "make a decision" and "break one's leg" are still a pain in the
neck for Natural Language Processing. The notion of MWE encompasses
closely related phenomena: idioms, compounds, light-verb
constructions, phrasal verbs, rhetorical figures, collocations,
institutionalised phrases, etc. Given their irregular nature, MWEs
often pose complex problems in linguistic modelling (e.g.,
annotation), NLP tasks (e.g., parsing), and end-user applications
(e.g., natural language understanding and Machine Translation), hence
still representing an open issue for computational linguistics
(Miletić and Schulte im Walde, 2024; Ramisch et al., 2023; Phelps et
al., 2024; Mahajan et al., 2024).
For more than two decades, the topic of modelling and processing MWEs
for NLP has been the focus of the MWE workshop, organized by the MWE
section of ACL-SIGLEX in conjunction with major NLP conferences since
2003. Impressive progress has been made in the field, but our
understanding of MWEs still requires substantial further research,
given their importance and usefulness in NLP applications. This is
also relevant to domain-specific NLP pipelines that need to tackle
terminologies most often realised as MWEs.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
 - Linguistic aspects of MWE: criteria for their classification,
morpho-syntactic and semantic idiosyncrasies, contrastive studies of
MWEs in various languages;
 - MWE resources: corpora, dictionaries, lexicons, treebanks,
mono-/multilingual, new and enhanced representation of MWEs in
language resources, computational models of compositionality as gold
standards for formative intrinsic evaluation, development of
multilingual benchmarks for MWE identification;
 - MWE processing, identification, and recognition in the general
language, as well as in specialised languages and domains, including
in low-resourced languages;
 - MWEs in LLMs and embeddings: representation, compositionality, and
phrase-level embeddings, adapting LLMs to better handle MWEs, probing
LLMs’ understanding of MWEs;
 - MWE processing to enhance end-user applications.
Submission Formats:
The workshop invites three types of submissions:
 - Archival submission of research papers that present substantially
original research in both long paper format (8 pages + references) and
short paper format (4 pages + references).
 - System and resource demonstrations that present tools and datasets
related to MWEs and MWE processing, which could be demoed during the
workshop. System/resource description papers should be up to 4 pages +
references, and do not need to be anonymised.
 - Non-archival submissions describing relevant research
presented/published elsewhere; non-archival submissions will not be
included in the MWE proceedings and do not need to be anonymised (they
will not undergo reviews); they should contain a short abstract of the
paper (1-2 pages) with a link to the already published paper.
Paper Submission and Templates:
Papers should be submitted via the workshop's submission page (to be
announced). Please choose the appropriate submission format
(archival/system/non-archival). Archival papers with existing reviews
will also be accepted through the ACL Rolling Review. Submissions must
follow the ACL stylesheet.
Authors are encouraged, wherever relevant, to adopt the conventions on
citing, glossing, and translating multilingual examples of MWEs
promoted by the editors of the Phraseology and Multiword Expressions
book series published by Language Science Press.
Organizing Committee:
Patricia Chiril, Jaka Čibej, Adriana Silvana Pagano, Ivelina
Stoyanova, and Sara Stymne
Anti-harassment policy:
The workshop follows the ACL anti-harassment policy.
Contact:
For any inquiries regarding the workshop, please send an email to the
Organizing Committee at siglex-mwe-board at googlegroups.com



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