Joint Workshop on Multiword Expressions and WordNet (MWE-WN 2019)
Workshop at ACL 2019 (Florence, Italy), August 2nd, 2019
Organized, sponsored and endorsed by the Global Wordnet Association (GWA) and the Special Interest Group on the Lexicon (SIGLEX) of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).
This joint event is the 15th edition of the Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE), with a special focus on WordNet.
Last updated: August 19, 2019
Proceedings
The MWE-WN proceedings are available on the ACL Anthology.Selected papers
37 papers (20 long and 17 short) were submitted to the research track of the workshop, and none to the dissemination track. 12 long papers and 8 short ones were selected. 6 papers (1 short and 5 long) were selected as oral presentations and 14 (7 short and 7 long) as posters. The overall acceptance rate is 54%.
Workshop Program (Fortezza da Basso, Hall 7)
| 8:55–09:00 | Opening |
| 09:00–10:00 | Session 1: Invited talk (chair: Carlos Ramisch) |
| When the whole is greater than the sum of its parts: Multiword expressions and idiomaticity Aline Villavicencio | |
| 10:00–10:30 | Session 2: Poster boosters (chair: Jelena Mitrović; 2 min. per poster) |
| 10:30–11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00–12:30 | Session 3: Posters (chair: Verginica Barbu Mititelu) |
| The Romanian Corpus Annotated with Verbal Multiword Expressions Verginica Barbu Mititelu, Mihaela Ionescu and Mihaela Onofrei | |
| Learning to Predict Novel Noun-Noun Compounds Prajit Dhar and Lonneke van der Plas | |
| A comparison of statistical association measures for identifying dependency-based collocations in various languages Marcos Garcia, Marcos García Salido and Margarita Alonso-Ramos | |
| Confirming the Non-compositionality of Idioms for Sentiment Analysis Alyssa Hwang and Christopher Hidey | |
| L2 Processing Advantages of Multiword Sequences: Evidence from Eye-Tracking Elma Kerz, Arndt Heilmann and Stella Neumann | |
| Identification of Adjective-Noun Neologisms using Pretrained Language Models John Philip McCrae | |
| IDION: A database for Modern Greek multiword expressions. Stella Markantonatou, Panagiotis Minos, George Zakis, Vassiliki Moutzouri and Maria Chantou | |
| Evaluating Automatic Term Extraction Methods on Individual Documents. Antonio Šajatović, Maja Buljan, Jan Šnajder and Bojana Dalbelo Bašić | |
| A Systematic Comparison of English Noun Compound Representations Vered Shwarzt | |
| Semantic Modelling of Adjective-Noun Collocations using Frame-Net Yana Strakatova and Erhard Hinrichs | |
| Cross-lingual Transfer Learning and Multitask Learning for Capturing Multiword Expressions Shiva Taslimipoor, Omid Rohanian and Le An Ha | |
| The Impact of Word Representations on Sequential Neural MWE Identification Nicolas Zampieri, Carlos Ramisch and Geraldine Damnati | |
| Ilfhocail: A Lexicon of Irish MWEs Abigail Walsh, Teresa Lynn and Jennifer Foster | |
| A Neural Graph-based Approach to Verbal MWE Identification Jakub Waszczuk, Rafael Ehren, Regina Stodden and Laura Kallmeyer | |
| 12:30–14:00 | Lunch break |
| Session 4: Multiword Expressions and WordNet (chair: John Phillip McCrae) | |
| 14:00–14:30 | Hear about Verbal Multiword Expressions in the Bulgarian and the Romanian Wordnets Straight from the Horse’s Mouth Verginica Barbu Mititelu, Ivelina Stoyanova, Svetlozara Leseva, Maria Mitrofan, Tsvetana Dimitrova and Maria Todorova |
| 14:30–15:00 | Modeling MWEs in BTB-WN Laska Laskova, Petya Osenova, Kiril Simov, Ivajlo Radev and Zara Kancheva |
| 15:00–15:30 | Using OntoLex-Lemon for Representing and Interlinking German Multiword Expressions in OdeNet and MMORPH Thierry Declerck, Melanie Siegel and Stefania Racioppa |
| 15:30–16:00 | Coffee break |
| Session 5: Multiword Expressions - translation, lemmatization and identification (chair: Stella Markantonatou) | |
| 16:00–16:30 | Unsupervised Compositional Translation of Multiword Expressions Pablo Gamallo and Marcos Garcia |
| 16:30–16:50 | Neural Lemmatization of Multiword Expressions Marine Schmitt and Mathieu Constant |
| 16:50–17:20 | Without lexicons, multiword expression identification will never fly: A position statement Agata Savary, Silvio Cordeiro and Carlos Ramisch |
| 17:20–18:00 | Session 6: Community discussion (chair: Agata Savary) News, future work, SIGLEX MWE section [slides] |