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Sun Apr 6 2003

Calls: Multiword Expressions/Japan; Numerals/Germany

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  • av208, Workshop on Multiword Expressions
  • David Gil, Workshop on Numerals, Leipzig, 29-30 March 2004

    Message 1: Workshop on Multiword Expressions

     Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2003 09:25:28 +0000
    From: av208 <av208cl.cam.ac.uk>
    Subject: Workshop on Multiword Expressions


    ACL-2003 Workshop on Multiword Expressions: Analysis, Acquisition and Treatment Short Title: Workshop on MWE

    Date: 12-Jul-2003 - 12-Jul-2003 Location: Sapporo, Japan Contact: Anna Korhonen Contact Email: alk23cl.cam.ac.uk Meeting URL: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/alk23/mwe/mwe.html

    Linguistic Sub-field: Computational Linguistics Call Deadline: 21-Apr-2003

    Meeting Description:

    WS7: Multiword Expressions: Analysis, Acquisition and Treatment

    The workshop will concentrate on the analysis, acquisition and treatment of multiword expressions (MWEs), such as phrasal verbs (e.g. ''add up''), nominal compounds (e.g. ''radar footprint''), and institutionalized phrases (e.g. ''salt and pepper''). In particular we focus on addressing the problems that MWEs pose for natural language processing applications.

    URL: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/alk23/mwe/mwe.html Submission Deadline: 21 April 2003

    ACL-2003 Workshop on Multiword Expressions: Analysis, Acquisition and Treatment

    12 July 2003, Sapporo, Japan

    *** New Submission Deadline: 21 April 2003 *** ______________________________________________________________

    WEBSITES

    Workshop website: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/alk23/mwe/mwe.html

    ACL website: http://www.ec-inc.co.jp/ACL2003/

    WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION

    Multiword expressions (MWEs) include a large range of linguistic phenomenon, such as phrasal verbs (e.g. ''add up''), nominal compounds (e.g. ''telephone box''), and institutionalized phrases (e.g. ''salt and pepper''), and they can be syntactically and/or semantically idiosyncratic in nature. MWEs are used frequently in everyday language, usually to express precisely ideas and concepts that cannot be compressed into a single word.

    A considerable amount of research has been devoted to this subject, both in terms of theory and practice, but despite increasing interest in idiomaticity within linguistic research, there is still a gap between the needs of NLP and the descriptive tradition of linguistics. Owing to the lack of adequate resources to identify and treat MWEs properly, they pose a real challenge for NLP. Most real-world applications tend to ignore MWEs or address them simply by listing. However, it is clear that successful applications will need to be able to identify and treat them appropriately. This particularly applies to the many applications which require some degree of semantic processing (e.g. machine translation, question-answering, summarisation, generation).

    In recent years there has been a growing awareness in the NLP community of the problems that MWEs pose and the need for their robust handling. A considerable amount of research has been conducted in this area, some within large research projects dedicated to MWEs (e.g. the Multiword Expression Project). There is also a growing interest in MWEs in projects focused on tasks such as parsing (e.g. Robust Accurate Statistical Parsing (RASP)) and word sense disambiguation (e.g. MEANING - Developing Multilingual Web-scale Language Technologies) which are required by real-world applications.

    Previous workshops on MWEs have focused on certain MWE types, notably collocations, terminology and named entities. There are, however, further subtypes of MWEs, which are highly relevant for NLP tasks but which have not to date received specific attention. One example are lexicalised (non- or semi-compositional) MWEs which raise specific issues for applications which require semantic interpretation.

    TARGET AUDIENCE

    This workshop is intended to bring together NLP researchers working on all areas of MWEs. The objective is to summarise what has been achieved in the area, to establish common themes between different approaches, and to discuss future trends, with particular emphasis on addressing the problems that different MWE (sub)types pose for real-world NLP applications.

    AREAS OF INTEREST

    Papers are invited on, but not limited to, the following topics:

    * Theoretical research on MWEs * MWE taxonomies, classifications and databases * Corpus based analysis of MWEs * Cross-lingual analysis of MWE types, use, and behaviour * Methods for identification and extraction of MWEs (machine learning, statistical, example- or rule-based, or hybrid) * Evaluation of MWE extraction methods * Integration of MWE data into grammars and NLP applications (e.g. machine translation and generation) * Problems MWEs (or MWE types) pose for NLP applications and solutions proposed

    Papers can cover one or more of these areas.

    SUBMISSION INFORMATION

    Papers should be submitted electronically in Postscript or PDF format to: mwecslab.kecl.ntt.co.jp. Submissions should conform to the two-column format of ACL proceedings and should not exceed eight (8) pages, including references. We strongly recommend the use of ACL-2003 style files, also available from the ACL-2003 website.

    The subject line of the submission email should be ''ACL2003 WORKSHOP PAPER SUBMISSION''. As reviewing will be blind, the body of the paper should not include the names or affiliations of the authors. The following identification information should be sent in a separate email with the subject line ''ACL2003 WORKSHOP ID PAGE'':

    Title: title of paper Authors: list of all authors Keywords: up to five topic keywords Contact author: email address of author of record (for correspondence) Abstract: abstract of paper (not more than 5 lines)

    Notification of receipt will be emailed to the contact author.

    IMPORTANT DATES

    Submission deadline: 21 April 2003 Acceptance notification: 14 May 2003 Final version deadline: 26 May 2003 Workshop date: 12 July 2003

    WORKSHOP CHAIRS

    Francis Bond NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Japan (bondcslab.kecl.ntt.co.jp)

    Anna Korhonen University of Cambridge, UK (Anna.Korhonencl.cam.ac.uk)

    Diana McCarthy University of Sussex, UK (dianamcogs.susx.ac.uk)

    Aline Villavicencio University of Cambridge, UK (Aline.Villavicenciocl.cam.ac.uk)

    PROGRAM COMMITTEE

    Anne Abeill� (Universit� Paris 7, France) Timothy Baldwin (Stanford University, USA) Ted Briscoe (University of Cambridge, UK) Nicoletta Calzolari (Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale, Italy) Ido Dagan (Lingomotors, Israel) Christiane Fellbaum (Princeton University, USA) Chuck Fillmore (UC Berkeley, USA) Nancy Ide (Vassar College, USA) Kyo Kageura (National Institute of Informatics, Japan) Brigitte Krenn (Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Austria) Maria Lapata (University of Edinburgh, UK) Simonetta Montemagni (Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale, Italy) Kentaro Ogura (NTT Cyber Space Laboratories, Japan) Darren Pearce (University of Sussex, UK) Ivan Sag (Stanford University, USA) Tom Wasow (Stanford University, USA) Annie Zaenen (PARC, USA)

    REGISTRATION

    Workshop registration information will be posted at a later date. The registration fee will include attendance at the workshop and a copy of workshop proceedings.

    Message 2: Workshop on Numerals, Leipzig, 29-30 March 2004

     Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2003 12:29:43 +0200
    From: David Gil <gileva.mpg.de>
    Subject: Workshop on Numerals, Leipzig, 29-30 March 2004


    Department of Linguistics Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Leipzig, Germany

    First Call for Abstracts

    WORKSHOP ON NUMERALS IN THE WORLD'S LANGUAGES

    29 - 30 March 2004 Leipzig, Germany

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    The workshop will consist of one plenary lecture (to be announced), some six papers by local participants, and approximately one dozen papers chosen from submitted abstracts.

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    Persons wishing to present a paper at the symposium are invited to submit a one-page abstract, by regular mail, email, or fax, to David Gil, at any of the following addresses:

    Department of Linguistics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Inselstrasse 22, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany

    email: gileva.mpg.de fax: 49-341-9952119

    Deadline for submission of abstracts: 31 October 2003

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    Papers presented at the workshop should be concerned with any aspect of the morphology, syntax, semantics and discourse use of numerals. Papers may deal with either the internal properties of numeral expressions or their external properties, namely how they interact with the larger linguistic units of which they form part. Papers may be about cardinal numerals, or other types of numerals, such as ordinal, collective, distributive, multiplicative, and so forth. Of particular interest are papers which present novel facts about numerals in little-known languages, papers which propose cross-linguistic typological generalizations about numerals, and papers which explore possible links between numerals and more general aspects of cognition and culture.

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    Programme Committee:

    Bernard Comrie Patience Epps David Gil Eva Schultze-Berndt

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    The Workshop is being held immediately prior to the 5th Conference on the Evolution of Language (Evolang), 31 March - 3 April 2004, also in Leipzig.

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    For further information, as it becomes available: http://monolith.eva.mpg.de/~gil/numerals/

    - David Gil

    Department of Linguistics Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Inselstrasse 22, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany

    Telephone: 49-341-9952321 Fax: 49-341-9952119 Email: gileva.mpg.de Webpage: http://monolith.eva.mpg.de/~gil/