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    Message 1: Recent Advances in Dependency Grammar

     Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 06:37:29 -0400 (EDT)
    From: Geert-Jan Kruijff gj <Geert-Jan>
    Subject: Recent Advances in Dependency Grammar


    Recent Advances in Dependency Grammar This is a special session held during the following conference: 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics

    Date: 28-Aug-2004 - 29-Aug-2004 Location: Geneva, Switzerland Contact name: Geert-Jan Kruijff Contact email: dg2004coli.uni-sb.de Conference URL: http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/cl/COLING2004/workshops.html

    Linguistic Subfield: Computational Linguistics

    Call Deadline: 21-Apr-2004

    Meeting Description:

    Following the regular program of the main conference, workshops on current topics in Computational Linguistics will be held on 28th-29th, August 2004, at the conference venue. Workshops will normally last one day, but may extend to a second day if required. Proposals by qualified individuals interested in organising a workshop are solicited.

    Call for papers:

    SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS

    Workshop on

    RECENT ADVANCES IN DEPENDENCY GRAMMAR

    August 28th, 2004

    To be held in conjunction with COLING 2004 [ http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/conf/dg2004/ ]

    ** Poster/paper submission deadline: April 21 **

    Over the last years, there has been a strong revival of interest for dependency grammar, following up on, and contributing to, the recent advances in formal grammar and in computational linguistics. Dependency grammar is, however, more of a ''perspective'' on grammar than a singular framework, which has led to a great variety of proposals making this perspective more concrete.

    The last workshop dedicated purely to dependency grammar was the Dependency Grammar workshop organized in conjunction with ACL-COLING 1998 in Montreal [ http://www.olst.umontreal.ca/Eng/DGPapers.html ]. The goal of the current workshop is to offer a dedicated forum where the community can present and assess recent advances in dependency grammar, discuss issues, progress and perspectives, and to foster new collaborations.

    To make optimal use of the workshop format, we plan to mix paper presentations with a poster session (1.30h), and allow for enough time for discussion around paper presentations (25+10).

    We would like to invite submissions to the workshop on any theme relating to dependency grammars.

    FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION:

    The format and length requirements will be the same as for full papers for COLING 2004. See [ http://www.issco.unige.ch/coling2004/ ] or [ http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/conf/dg2004/ ] for more details.

    SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:

    Papers should be sent to [ dg2004coli.uni-sb.de ]. The paper should be an attachment in PDF format and the heading on the email should read ''PAPER SUBMISSION''. Notification of acceptance or rejection will be sent to the originating email address.

    LANGUAGE:

    All papers must be written and presented in English

    PROCEEDINGS AND WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION

    Accepted papers and posters will be published in a proceedings volume. For the workshop to take place, the COLING 2004 organizers require at least 20 participants to register for the workshop. Speakers and participants are therefore asked to register via the official COLING 2004 site as soon as possible.

    IMPORTANT DATES:

    Apr 21 Deadline full papers and posters May 26 Notification Jun 16 Final versions of full papers, posters/short papers due Jun 24 Submission camera ready proceedings

    PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

    Geert-Jan Kruijff Saarland University, Saarbr (co-chair)

    Alexander Dikovsky Universite de Nantes, Nantes Dick Hudson University College London, London Sylvain Kahane University Paris 10 - Nanterre Alexander Koller Saarland University, Saarbrucken Wolfgang Menzel Hamburg University, Hamburg Glyn Morrill Universitat PolitA Futurs, Lille Joakim Nivre Vaxjo University, Vaxjo Alain Polguy of Montreal, Montreal Owen Rambow Columbia University, New York Petr Sgall Charles University, Prague

    CONTACT INFORMATION:

    All inquiries should be sent to [ dg2004coli.uni-sb.de ] with the SUBJECT heading ''INQUIRY''. Please note that general organizational details (registration, accommodation, etc.) are taken care of by COLING 2004, not by the workshop organizers.

    Message 2: ACL 2004 Workshop on Multiword Expressions: Integrating Processing

     Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2004 22:06:45 -0400 (EDT)
    From: bond <bondcslab.kecl.ntt.co.jp>
    Subject: ACL 2004 Workshop on Multiword Expressions: Integrating Processing


    ACL 2004 Workshop on Multiword Expressions: Integrating Processing

    Date: 26-Jul-2004 - 26-Jul-2004 Location: Barcelona, Spain Contact: Anna Korhonen Contact Email: Anna.Korhonencl.cam.ac.uk Meeting URL: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/alk23/mwe04/mwe.html

    Linguistic Sub-field: Computational Linguistics Call Deadline: 12-Apr-2004

    Meeting Description:

    ACL-2004 Workshop onMultiword Expressions: Integrating Processing 26th July 2004, Barcelona, Spain

    FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS and DEADLINE EXTENSION :

    Submission deadline extended to !! April 12, 2004 !!

    ACL-2004 Workshop on Multiword Expressions: Integrating Processing

    26th July 2004, Barcelona, Spain

    Workshop website: www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/alk23/mwe04/mwe.html

    ACL website: http://www.acl2004.org/

    WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION

    In recent years, there has been a growing awareness in the NLP community of the problems that Multiword Expressions (MWEs) pose and the need for their robust handling.

    MWEs include a large range of linguistic phenomena, such as phrasal verbs (e.g. ''add up''), nominal compounds (e.g. ''telephone box''), and institutionalized phrases (e.g. ''salt and pepper''). These expressions, which can be syntactically and/or semantically idiosyncratic in nature, are used frequently in everyday language, usually to express precisely ideas and concepts that cannot be compressed into a single word. 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 interpretation (e.g. machine translation, question-answering, summarisation, generation) and require tasks such as parsing and word sense disambiguation.

    A considerable amount of research has lately been conducted in this area, some within large research projects dedicated to MWEs. In this context, a successful workshop on MWEs was held at ACL 2003 (www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/alk23/mwe/mwe.html), with papers presenting a cross section of research on MWEs. There is some research on MWEs in general. Some is very computational, examining detection and extraction using a variety of methods. Some is more linguistic, focusing on classification of the various types. There is also a lot of research on particular subtypes of MWEs, especially English phrasal verbs. In this workshop the focus is on papers that integrate analysis, acquisition and treatment of various kinds of multiword expressions (MWEs) in NLP. For example,

    (1) research that combines a linguistic analysis with a method of automatically acquiring the classes described (2) work that combines the computational treatment of a class of MWEs with a solid linguistic analysis (3) research that extracts MWEs and either classifies them or uses them in some task.

    These combinations of research will help to bridge the gap between the needs of NLP and the descriptive tradition of linguistics.

    TARGET AUDIENCE

    The workshop will be of interest to anyone working on MWEs, e.g. in the areas of computational grammars, computational lexicography, automatic lexical acquisition, machine translation, information retrieval, text mining, and computer-assisted language teaching and learning. The objective is to summarise what has been achieved in the area, to establish common themes between different approaches, and to discuss future trends.

    AREAS OF INTEREST

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

    * Theoretical research on MWEs, including corpus based analysis * MWE taxonomies, classifications and databases * 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 * Methods for determining the compositionality of MWEs * Integration of MWE data into grammars and NLP applications (e.g. machine translation and generation)

    Papers can cover one or more of these areas, but research that combines different topics is especially encouraged.

    SUBMISSION INFORMATION

    Papers should be submitted electronically in Postscript or PDF format to: mwe-acl04cl.cam.ac.uk . 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-2004 style files, also available from the ACL-2004 website.

    The subject line of the submission email should be ''ACL2004 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 ''ACL2004 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 10 lines)

    Notification of receipt will be emailed to the contact author.

    IMPORTANT DATES

    Submission deadline EXTENDED to: April 12, 2004 Acceptance notification: May 7, 2004 Final version deadline: May 17, 2004 Workshop date: July 26, 2004

    WORKSHOP CHAIRS

    Takaaki Tanaka (NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Japan) Aline Villavicencio (University of Cambridge, UK) Francis Bond (NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Japan) Anna Korhonen (University of Cambridge, UK)

    PROGRAM COMMITTEE

    Timothy Baldwin (Stanford University, USA) Colin Bannard (University of Edinburgh, UK) Ann Copestake (University of Cambridge, UK) Gael Dias (Beira Interior University, Portugal) James Dowdall (University of Zurich, Switzerland) Dan Flickinger (Stanford University, USA) Matthew Hurst (Intelliseek, USA) Stephan Oepen (Stanford University, USA; University of Oslo, Norway) Kyonghee Paik (ATR Spoken Language Translation Research Laboratories, Japan) Scott Piao (University of Lancaster, UK) Beata Trawinski (University of Tuebningen, Germany) Kiyoko Uchiyama (Keio University, Japan)

    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.