LINGUIST List 21.2942 Fri Jul 16 2010 FYI: Call for Participation: Multi-Word Expressions Conference Editor for this issue: Rachelle Felzien <rachellelinguistlist.org> To post to LINGUIST, use our convenient web form at http://linguistlist.org/LL/posttolinguist.cfm. Directory         1.    Eric Laporte, Call for Participation: Multi-Word Expressions Conference Message 1: Call for Participation: Multi-Word Expressions Conference Date: 14-Jul-2010 From: Eric Laporte <eric.laporteuniv-paris-est.fr> Subject: Call for Participation: Multi-Word Expressions Conference E-mail this message to a friend COLING 2010 Workshop on Multiword Expressions: from Theory to Applications (MWE 2010) at Beijing, China July 31, 2010 Early bird registration deadline extended! Information at: http://multiword.sf.net/mwe2010 Endorsed by the Special Interest Group on the Lexicon of the Association for Computational Linguistics (SIGLEX) ========================= Multiword Expressions (MWEs) are a ubiquitous component of natural languages and appear steadily on a daily basis, both in specialized and in general-purpose communication. While easily mastered by native speakers, their interpretation poses a major challenge for automated analysis due to their flexible and heterogeneous nature. Therefore, the automated processing of MWEs is desirable for any natural language application that involves some degree of semantic interpretation, e.g., Machine Translation, Information Extraction, and Question Answering. In spite of the recent advances in the field, there is a wide range of open problems that prevent MWE treatment techniques from full integration in current NLP systems. In MWE'2010, we will be interested in major challenges in the overall process of MWE treatment, asking for original research related but not limited to the following topics: * MWE resources: Although underused in most current state-of-the-art approaches, resources are key for developing real-world applications capable of interpreting MWEs. We call for papers describing the process of building MWE resources, constructed both manually and automatically from text corpora; we are also interested in assessing the usability of such resources in various MWE tasks. * Hybrid approaches: We invite research on integrating heterogeneous MWE treatment techniques and resources in NLP applications. Such hybrid approaches can aim, for example, at the combination of results from symbolic and statistical approaches, at the fusion of manually built and automatically extracted resources, or at the design of language learning techniques. * Domain adaptation: Real-world NLP applications need to be robust to deal with texts coming from different domains. We thus call for papers assessing the performance of MWE methods across domains or describing domain adaptation techniques for MWEs. * Multilingualism: Parallel and comparable corpora are gaining popularity as a resource for automatic MWE discovery and treatment. We are also interested in the integration of MWE processing in multilingual applications such as machine translation and multilingual information retrieval, as well as in porting existing monolingual MWE approaches to new languages. Important Dates: Jul 31, 2010 - - Early bird registration deadline Aug 28, 2010 - - Workshop Invited Talks: Aravind K. Joshi - University of Pennsylvania, USA Kyo Kageura - University of Tokyo, Japan Oral Presentations: * Automatic Extraction of Arabic Multiword Expressions Mohammed Attia, Antonio Toral, Lamia Tounsi, Pavel Pecina and Josef van Genabith * Automatic Extraction of Complex Predicates in Bengali Dipankar Das, Santanu Pal, Tapabrata Mondal, Tanmoy Chakroborty and Sivaji Bandyopadhyay * Computational Lexicography of Multi-Word Units. How Efficient Can It Be? Filip Graliński, Agata Savary, Monika Czerepowicka and Filip Makowiecki * Standardizing Complex Functional Expressions in Japanese Predicates: Applying Theoretically-Based Paraphrasing Rules Tomoko Izumi, Kenji Imamura, Genichiro Kikui and Satoshi Sato * Handling Named Entities and Compound Verbs in Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation Santanu Pal, Sudip Kumar Naskar, Pavel Pecina and Sivaji Bandyopadhyay * Construction of Chinese Idiom Knowledge-base and Its Applications Lei Wang and Shiwen Yu * Sentence Analysis and Collocation Identification Eric Wehrli, Violeta Seretan and Luka Nerima * Application of the Tightness Continuum Measure to Chinese Information Retrieval Ying Xu, Randy Goebel, Christoph Ringlstetter and Grzegorz Kondrak Poster Presentations * Contrastive filtering of domain specific multi-word terms from different types of corpora Francesca Bonin, Felice Dell'Orletta, Simonetta Montemagni and Giulia Venturi * Identification of Reduplication in Bengali Corpus and their Semantics Analysis: A Rule Based Approach Tanmoy Chakraborty and Sivaji Bandyopadhyay * A Hybrid Approach for Functional Expression Identification in a Japanese Reading Assistant Gregory Hazelbeck and Hiroaki Saito * An efficient, generic approach to extracting multi-word expressions from dependency trees Scott Martens and Vincent Vandeghinste Program Committee Inaki Alegria (University of the Basque Country, Spain) Dimitra Anastasiou (Limerick University, Ireland) Timothy Baldwin (University of Melbourne, Australia) Colin Bannard (University of Texas at Austin, USA) Francis Bond (Nanyang Technological University , Singapore) Paul Cook (University of Toronto, Canada) Beatrice Daille (Nantes University, France) Gael Dias (Beira Interior University, Portugal) Stefan Evert (University of Osnabrueck, Germany) Roxana Girju (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) Nicole Gregoire (University of Utrecht, The Netherlands) Chikara Hashimoto (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan) Marti Hearst (University of California at Berkeley, USA) Kyo Kageura (University of Tokyo, Japan) Min-Yen Kan (National University of Singapore, Singapore) Adam Kilgarriff (Lexical Computing Ltd, UK) Su Nam Kim (University of Melbourne, Australia) Anna Korhonen (University of Cambridge, UK) Zornitsa Kozareva (University of Southern California, USA) Brigitte Krenn (Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Austria) Cvetana Krstev (University of Belgrade, Serbia) Rosamund Moon (University of Birmingham, UK) Jan Odijk (University of Utrecht, The Netherlands) Stephan Oepen (University of Oslo, Norway) Darren Pearce (London Knowledge Lab, UK) Pavel Pecina (Charles University, Czech Republic) Scott Piao (Lancaster University, UK) Thierry Poibeau (CNRS and École Normale Supérieure, France) Elisabete Ranchhod (University of Lisbon, Portugal) Barbara Rosario (Intel Labs, USA) Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha (University of Cambridge, UK) Violeta Seretan (University of Geneva, Switzerland) Stan Szpakowicz (University of Ottawa, Canada) Beata Trawinski (University of Tuebingen, Germany) Vivian Tsang (Bloorview Research Institute, Canada) Kyioko Uchiyama (Keio University, Japan) Ruben Urizar (University of the Basque Country, Spain) Tony Veale (University College Dublin, Ireland) Workshop Organizers and Contact: Eric Laporte (Universite Paris-Est, France) Preslav Nakov (National University of Singapore, Singapore) Carlos Ramisch (University of Grenoble, France) Aline Villavicencio (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) For any inquiries regarding the workshop please send an e-mail to mwe2010workshop at gmail.com Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 16-Jul-2010       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.