The 10th Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE 2014)
Workshop at EACL 2014 (Gothenburg, Sweden), April 26-27, 2014 | room HB2
Endorsed by the Special Interest Group on the Lexicon of the Association for Computational Linguistics (SIGLEX), SIGLEX's Multiword Expressions Section (SIGLEX-MWE), and PARSEME, European IC1207 COST Action.
Last updated: Apr 25, 2014
Workshop program
Saturday, 26 April 2014
08:45–09:00 | Opening Remarks |
Oral Session 1: Detection and Extraction of MWEs | |
09:00–09:30 |
Breaking Bad: Extraction of Verb-Particle Constructions from a Parallel Subtitles Corpus Aaron Smith |
09:30–10:00 |
A Supervised Model for Extraction of Multiword Expressions, Based on Statistical Context Features Meghdad Farahmand and Ronaldo Martins |
Oral Session 2: PARSEME I — Parsing MWEs | |
10:00–10:30 |
VPCTagger: Detecting Verb-Particle Constructions With Syntax-Based Methods István Nagy T. and Veronika Vincze |
10:30–11:00 | Coffee Break |
11:00–12:00 |
Invited Talk 1: The Web as an Implicit Training Set: Application to Noun Compounds Syntax and Semantics Preslav Nakov |
Oral Session 2: PARSEME I — Parsing MWEs (continued) | |
12:00–12:30 |
The Relevance of Collocations for Parsing Eric Wehrli |
12:30–14:00 | Lunch |
Oral Session 3: PARSEME II — Short Papers | |
14:00–14:20 |
Parsing Modern Greek verb MWEs with LFG/XLE grammars Niki Samaridi and Stella Markantonatou |
14:20–14:40 |
Evaluation of a Substitution Method for Idiom Transformation in Statistical Machine Translation Giancarlo Salton, Robert Ross and John Kelleher |
14:40–15:00 |
Encoding MWEs in a conceptual lexicon Aggeliki Fotopoulou, Stella Markantonatou and Voula Giouli |
15:00–15:30 | Poster Booster (4 minutes per poster) |
German Compounds and Statistical Machine Translation. Can they get along? Carla Parra Escartín, Stephan Peitz and Hermann Ney | |
Extracting MWEs from Italian corpora: A case study for refining the POS-pattern methodology Sara Castagnoli, Malvina Nissim and Francesca Masini | |
Mickey Mouse is not a Phrase: Improving Relevance in E-Commerce with Multiword Expressions Prathyusha Senthil Kumar, Vamsi Salaka, Tracy Holloway King and Brian Johnson | |
Encoding of Compounds in Swedish FrameNet Karin Friberg Heppin and Miriam R L Petruck | |
Extraction of Nominal Multiword Expressions in French Marie Dubremetz and Joakim Nivre | |
Towards an Empirical Subcategorization of Multiword Expressions Luigi Squillante | |
Contexts, Patterns, Interrelations – New Ways of Presenting Multiword Expressions Kathrin Steyer and Annelen Brunner | |
Detecting change and emergence for multiword expressions Martin Emms and Arun Jayapal | |
An Approach to Take Multi-Word Expressions Claire Bonial, Meredith Green, Jenette Preciado and Martha Palmer | |
15:30–16:00 | Coffee Break |
16:00–17:30 | Poster Session |
Sunday, 27 April 2014
09:30–10:30 |
Panel: Current European and other research initiatives on Multiword Expressions Valia Kordoni, Agata Savary, Markus Egg, Eric Wehrli, Stefan Evert |
10:30–11:00 | Coffee Break |
Oral Session 4: MWEs in Multilingual Applications — Short Papers | |
11:00–11:20 |
Paraphrasing Swedish Compound Nouns in Machine Translation Edvin Ullman and Joakim Nivre |
11:20–11:40 |
Feature Norms of German Noun Compounds Stephen Roller and Sabine Schulte im Walde |
11:40–12:00 |
Identifying collocations using cross-lingual association measures Lis Pereira, Elga Strafella, Kevin Duh and Yuji Matsumoto |
Oral Session 5: Issues in Lexicon Construction and Machine Translation | |
12:00–12:30 |
Unsupervised Construction of a Lexicon and a Repository of Variation Patterns for Arabic Modal Multiword Expressions Rania Al-Sabbagh, Roxana Girju and Jana Diesner |
12:30–14:00 | Lunch |
Oral Session 5: Issues in Lexicon Construction and Machine Translation (continued) | |
14:00–14:30 |
Issues in Translating Verb-Particle Constructions from German to English Nina Schottmüller and Joakim Nivre |
14:30–15:30 |
Invited Talk 2: Statistical Modelling of Metaphor Ekaterina Shutova |
15:30–15:45 | Closing Remarks |