Apologies for cross-posting
Joint Workshop on Multiword Expressions and Electronic Lexicons (MWE-LEX 2020)
COLING (Barcelona, Spain), December 13th, 2020
http://multiword.sourceforge.net/mwelex2020
Second call for papers (UPDATED)
Organised, sponsored and endorsed by:
SIGLEX<http://www.siglex.org/>, the Special Interest Group on the Lexicon of
the ACL
<https://www.aclweb.org/>ELEXIS<https://elex.is/> - European Lexicographic
Infrastructure
This joint workshop addresses two domains – multiword expressions and
(electronic) lexicons – with partly overlapping communities and research
interests, but divergent practices and terminologies.
Multiword expressions (MWEs) are word combinations, such as by and large, hot
dog, pay a visit or pull one's leg, which exhibit lexical, syntactic, semantic,
pragmatic or statistical idiosyncrasies. MWEs encompass closely related
linguistic objects: idioms, compounds, light-verb constructions, rhetorical
figures, institutionalised phrases and collocations. Because of their
unpredictable behavior, notably their non-compositional semantics, MWEs pose
problems in linguistic modelling (e.g. treebank annotation, grammar
engineering), NLP pipelines (notably when orchestrated with parsing), and
end-user applications (e.g. information extraction). Modelling and processing
of MWEs has been the topic of the MWE workshop, organised over the past years
by the MWE section<http://multiword.sourceforge.net/> of
SIGLEX<http://www.siglex.org/>.
Because MWE-hood is a largely lexical phenomenon, appropriately built
electronic MWE lexicons turn out to be quite important for NLP. Their
conception opens up, among others, the issues of lemmatisation and of
standardised representation of morphological, syntactic and semantic properties
of MWEs. Large standardised multilingual, possibly interconnected, NLP-oriented
MWE lexicons prove indispensable for NLP tasks such as MWE identification, due
to its critical sensitivity to unseen data. But the development of such
lexicons is challenging and calls for tools which would leverage, on the one
hand, MWEs encoded in pre-existing NLP-unaware lexicons and, on the other hand,
automatic MWE discovery in large non-annotated corpora.
In order to pave the way towards a better understanding of these issues, and to
foster convergence and scientific innovation, the MWE and ELEXIS (European
Union's Horizon 2020 research grant 731015) communities put forward a joint
event and call for papers on research related (but not limited) to:
Joint topics on MWEs and e-lexicons:
* Extracting and enriching MWE lists from traditional human-readable
lexicons for NLP use
* Formats for NLP-applicable MWE lexicons
* Interlinking MWE lexicons with other language resources
* Using MWE lexicons in NLP tasks (identification, parsing, translation,
...)
* MWE discovery in the service of lexicography
* Multiword terms in specialised lexicons
* Representing semantic properties of MWEs in lexicons
* Paving the way towards encoding lexical idiosyncrasies in constructions
MWE-specific topics:
* Computationally-applicable theoretical work on MWEs and constructions in
psycholinguistics, corpus linguistics and formal grammars
* MWE and construction annotation in corpora and treebanks
* Processing of MWEs and constructions in syntactic and semantic frameworks
(e.g. CCG, CxG, HPSG, LFG, TAG, UD, etc.), and in end-user applications (e.g.
information extraction, machine translation and summarisation)
* Original discovery and identification methods for MWEs and constructions
* MWEs and constructions in language acquisition and in non-standard
language (e.g. tweets, forums, spontaneous speech)
* Evaluation of annotation and processing techniques for MWEs and
constructions
* Retrospective comparative analyses from the PARSEME shared tasks on
automatic identification of MWEs
Our intention is to also perpetuate previous converging effects with the
Construction Grammar and WordNet community (see the LAW-MWE-CxG 2018
<http://multiword.sourceforge.net/lawmwecxg2018/> and MWE-WN
2019<http://multiword.sourceforge.net/mwewn2019/> workshops). Therefore, we
extend the traditional MWE scope to grammatical constructions and we include
WordNets in the scope of e-lexicons.
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
The workshop features two tracks:
* A regular research track, where the submissions must be substantially
original.
* A shared task track, with submissions consisting of system description
papers.
The regular research track submissions should follow one of the 2 formats:
* Long papers (9 content pages + references): Long papers should report on
solid and finished research including new experimental results, resources
and/or techniques.
* Short papers (4 content pages + references): Short papers should report
on small experiments, focused contributions, ongoing research, negative results
and/or philosophical discussion.
The decisions as to oral or poster presentations of the selected papers will be
taken by the PC chairs. No distinction between papers presented orally and as
posters is made in the workshop proceedings. There is no limit on the number of
reference pages. The submission will be double-blind. Papers available as
preprints can also be submitted provided that they fulfil the conditions
defined by the ACL Policies for Submission, Review and
Citation<https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/new-policies-submission-review-and-citation>.
All papers should be submitted via the workshop's START space
https://www.softconf.com/coling2020/MWE-LEX/
Please follow the guidelines and use the COLING 2020 style files available at
https://coling2020.org/pages/submission. Please choose the appropriate track ;
(research/shared task) and for research papers the submission modality
(long/short).
PARSEME SHARED TASK 1.2
MWE-LEX 2020 will host edition 1.2 of the PARSEME shared task on
semi-supervised identification of MWEs. This is a follow-up of editions 1.0
(2017)<http://multiword.sourceforge.net/sharedtask2017>, and 1.1
(2018)<http://multiword.sourceforge.net/sharedtask2018>. Edition 1.2 features
(a) improved and extended corpora annotated with MWEs, (b) complementary
unannotated corpora for unsupervised MWE discovery, and (c) evaluation focusing
on unseen MWEs. Following the synergy with Elexis, our aim is to foster the
development of unsupervised methods for MWE lexicon induction, which in turn
can be used for identification. Authors may submit system description papers to
the shared task track. Details are available at
http://multiword.sf.net/sharedtask2020
IMPORTANT DATES (UPDATED):
All deadlines are at 23:59 UTC-12 (anywhere in the world).
* September 2, 2020: Workshop papers due date (short papers, long papers,
system description papers)
* October 16, 2020: Notification of acceptance
* November 1, 2020: Camera-ready papers due
* December 13, 2020: Workshop colocated with COLING 2020 in Barcelona
PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS
* Research track, MWE-specific topics:
* Stella
Markantonatou<http://www.ilsp.gr/en/profile/staff?view=member&task=show&id=38>,
Institute for Language and Speech Processing, R.C. "Athena" (Greece)
* Jelena Mitrović<http://jelena.mitrovic.rs>, University of Passau
(Germany)
* Research track, MWE-LEX topics:
* John McCrae<http://john.mccr.ae/>, National University of Ireland
Galway (Ireland)
* Carole Tiberius, Dutch Language Institute in Leiden (Netherlands)
* Shared task track:
* Carlos Ramisch<http://pageperso.lis-lab.fr/~carlos.ramisch/>, Aix
Marseille University (France)
* Ashwini Vaidya<http://web.iitd.ernet.in/~avaidya/>, Indian Institute
of Technology in Delhi (India)
PUBLICATION CHAIRS
* Petya Osenova<http://bultreebank.org/en/our-team/petya-osenova/>,
University of Sofia and Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (Bulgaria)
* Agata Savary<http://www.info.univ-tours.fr/~savary/>, Université of Tours
(France)
CONTACT
For any inquiries regarding the workshop please send an email to
mwelex2020@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:mwelex2020@xxxxxxxxx>.
ANTI-HARASSMENT POLICY
The workshop supports the ACL anti-harassment
policy<https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Anti-Harassment_Policy>.
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Dr. Carole Tiberius
Instituut voor de Nederlandse Taal / Dutch Language Institute
P.O. Box 9500
NL 2300 RA Leiden
Address:
Rapenburg 61
2311 GJ Leiden
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