LINGUIST List 29.713
Tue Feb 13 2018
Calls: Comp Ling, Lexicography, Ling Theories, Text/Corpus Ling/USA
Editor for this issue: Kenneth Steimel <kenlinguistlist.org>
Date: 08-Feb-2018
From: Adam Meyers <meyers
cs.nyu.edu>
Subject: Joint Workshop on Linguistic Annotation, Multiword
Expressions and Constructions
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Full Title: Joint Workshop on Linguistic Annotation, Multiword Expressions and
Constructions
Short Title: LAW-MWE-CxG 2018
Date: 25-Aug-2018 - 26-Aug-2018
Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
Contact Person: Adam Meyers
Meeting Email:
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Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Lexicography; Linguistic Theories;
Text/Corpus Linguistics
Call Deadline: 25-May-2018
Meeting Description:
This workshop brings together three divergent (but overlapping) research communities
studying linguistic annotation, multiword expressions and grammatical constructions.
Linguistic annotation of natural language corpora is the backbone of supervised
methods for statistical natural language processing; further, it is essential for
evaluation of both rule-based and supervised systems and can help formalize and
study linguistic phenomena.
Multiword expressions (MWEs) are word combinations, such as all of a sudden, hot
dog, to pay a visit or to pull one's leg, which exhibit lexical, syntactic,
semantic, pragmatic and/or statistical idiosyncrasies. Computational research on
MWEs encompasses NLP modelling and processing as well as annotation.
Construction Grammar (CxG) is a linguistic framework of relevance to both linguistic
annotation and MWEs. In this framework, constructions are form-meaning pairings of
varying degrees of internal complexity and lexical fixedness, including idioms like
the-Xer-the-Yer (the more the merrier, etc.) and semantically productive
meaning-bearing syntactic patterns (e.g., the caused-motion construction: Mary
pushed the napkin off the table; the ditransitive construction: He gave her a
burger), which give rise to novel usages (e.g. Mary sneezed the napkin off the
table; He grilled her a burger). Annotation and automatic processing of
constructions pose significant challenges: because constructions are form-meaning
pairs that can be more or less fluid in form, determining the annotation units for a
construction is not straightforward. For the above reasons, grammatical
constructions were elected as a joint focus of interest by both the MWE and the LAW
communities to constitute a special theme within a joint 2-day workshop.
Call for Papers:
Joint Workshop on Linguistic Annotation, Multiword Expressions and Constructions
LAW-MWE-CxG-2018
at COLING 2018 (Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA)
http://multiword.sourceforge.net/lawmwecxg2018
We invite long and short papers on research related to the following topics (and
others traditionally associated with previous LAW and MWE workshops):
- Joint topics on constructions, annotation, and MWEs
+ MWE and construction annotation
+ MWE and construction representation in lexical resources
+ Extending MWE discovery and identification methods to constructions
+ MWEs and constructions in language acquisition and in non-standard language (e.g.
tweets, forums, spontaneous speech)
+ Evaluation of MWE and construction annotation and processing techniques
+ Computationally-applicable theoretical studies on MWEs and constructions in
psycholinguistics, corpus linguistics and grammar formalisms, and/or how such
studies can impact annotation of constructions
- Annotation-specific topics
+ Annotation procedures: manual, automatic, machine learning, knowledge-based
methods, etc.
+ Maintenance and interactive exploration of annotation structures and annotated
data
+ Qualitative and quantitative annotation evaluation
+ Linguistic considerations, representation formats and exploration tools for merged
annotations
+ Standards, best practices, documentation, interoperability, and comparison of
annotation schemes
+ Development, evaluation and innovative use of annotation software frameworks
- MWE-specific topics
+ Original MWE discovery and identification methods
+ MWE processing in syntactic and semantic frameworks (e.g. HPSG, LFG, TAG,
Universal Dependencies, WSD, semantic parsing), and in end-user applications (e.g.
summarization, machine translation)
- Special track: PARSEME Shared Task on Automatic Identification of Verbal MWE (a
dedicated call will follow).
Submission and reviewing:
Paper Formats -- All papers should follow the COLING style sheets and guidelines as
per the COLING 2018 website (
http://coling2018.org/second-call-for-papers/).
Review is double-blind as per COLING guidelines. Papers will also be submitted using
the start system for Coling. Instructions for submission will be sent out in a
future announcement.
Page limits:
- Long papers (9 content pages + references)
- Short papers (4 content pages + references)
- PARSEME Shared Task System papers (4 content pages + references)
There is no limit on the number of reference pages. Authors will be granted an extra
page for the final version of their papers. The Program Committee will determine
which papers are better suited for oral or poster formats.
PARSEME Shared Task System papers will be concerned by specific guidelines and a
separate reviewing process.
Endorsements
This workshop has been endorsed by the following Special Interest Groups of the
Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL):
- Special Interest Group for Annotation (SIGANN)
- Special Interest Group on the Lexicon (SIGLEX)
- Special Interest Group on Computational Semantics (SIGSEM)
Important Dates:
May 25, 2018 Submission deadline (long, short and shared task papers) June 20, 2018
Notification of acceptance June 30, 2018 Camera-ready papers due August 25-26, 2018
LAW-MWE-CxG 2018 workshop
(see a separate call for the shared task deadlines)
Contact
For any inquiries regarding the workshop please send an email to lawmwecxg2018
gmail.com
Anti-harassment policy
The LAW-MWE-CxG 2018 workshop supports the ACL anti-harassment policy.
Page Updated: 13-Feb-2018