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Workshop on Multiword Expressions and Electronic Lexicons (MWE-LEX
2020)
COLING (Barcelona, Spain), September 14th, 2020
http://multiword.sourceforge.net/mwelex2020
First call for papers
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, available
soon.
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
will feature (a) improved and extended corpora annotated with MWEs, (b)
complementary unannotated corpora for unsupervised MWE discovery, and
(c) new evaluation metrics 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 on :
http://multiword.sf.net/sharedtask2020. IMPORTANT DATES :
All deadlines are at 23:59 UTC-12 (anywhere in the world).
- May 20, 2020 : Workshop papers due date (short papers, long papers,
system description papers)
- Jun 24, 2020 : Notification of acceptance
- Jul 11, 2020 : Camera-ready papers due
- Sep 14, 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@gmail.com.
ANTI-HARASSMENT POLICY
The workshop supports the ACL anti-harassment policy
(https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Anti-Harassment_Policy).