Multiword Expressions: from Parsing and Generation to the Real World (MWE 2011)
Workshop at ACL 2011 (Portland, Oregon, USA), June 23, 2011
Endorsed by the Special Interest Group on the Lexicon of the Association for Computational Linguistics (SIGLEX)
Last updated: May 20, 2011
Workshop Program
Thursday, June 23, 2011
08:15-08:30 | Welcome |
08:30-09:30 | MWEs and Topic Modelling: Enhancing Machine Learning with Linguistics |
Invited talk by Tim Baldwin | |
Session I - Short Papers | |
Chair: Eric Wherli | |
09:30-09:45 | Automatic Extraction of NV Expressions in Basque: Basic Issues on Cooccurrence Techniques |
Antton Gurrutxaga and Iñaki Alegria | |
09:45-10:00 | Semantic Clustering: an Attempt to Identify Multiword Expressions in Bengali |
Tanmoy Chakraborty, Dipankar Das and Sivaji Bandyopadhyay | |
10:00-10:15 | Decreasing Lexical Data Sparsity in Statistical Syntactic Parsing - Experiments with Named Entities |
Deirdre Hogan, Jennifer Foster and Josef van Genabith | |
10:15-10:30 | Detecting Multi-Word Expressions Improves Word Sense Disambiguation |
Mark Finlayson and Nidhi Kulkarni | |
10:30-11:00 | MORNING BREAK |
Session II - Identification and Representation | |
Chair: Francis Bond | |
11:00-11:25 | Tree-Rewriting Models of Multi-Word Expressions |
William Schuler and Aravind Joshi | |
11:25-11:50 | Learning English Light Verb Constructions: Contextual or Statistical |
Yuancheng Tu and Dan Roth | |
11:50-12:15 | Two Types of Korean Light Verb Constructions in a Typed Feature Structure Grammar |
Juwon Lee | |
12:15-13:50 | LUNCH BREAK |
Session III - Tasks and Applications | |
Chair: Ted Pedersen | |
13:50-14:15 | MWU-Aware Part-of-Speech Tagging with a CRF Model and Lexical Resources |
Matthieu Constant and Anthony Sigogne | |
14:15-14:40 | The Web is not a PERSON, Berners-Lee is not an ORGANIZATION, and African-Americans are not LOCATIONS: An Analysis of the Performance of Named-Entity Recognition |
Robert Krovetz, Paul Deane and Nitin Madnani | |
14:40-15:05 | A Machine Learning Approach to Relational Noun Mining in German |
Berthold Crysmann | |
15:05-15:30 | Poster and Demo Session |
Chair: Iñaki Alegria | |
Long Papers | |
Magali Sanches Duran, Carlos Ramisch, Sandra Maria Aluísio and Aline Villavicencio | |
Patrick Watrin and Thomas François | |
Petter Haugereid and Francis Bond | |
Otavio Acosta, Aline Villavicencio and Viviane Moreira | |
Short Papers | |
Rai Mahesh Sinha | |
Veronika Vincze, István Nagy T. and Gábor Berend | |
Demo Papers | |
Nidhi Kulkarni and Mark Finlayson | |
Violeta Seretan and Eric Wehrli | |
David Wible and Nai-Lung Tsao | |
Collocations, and Word Associations | |
Ted Pedersen, Satanjeev Banerjee, Bridget McInnes, Saiyam Kohli, Mahesh Joshi and Ying Liu | |
Vitor De Araujo, Carlos Ramisch and Aline Villavicencio | |
15:30-16:00 | AFTERNOON BREAK |
16:00-17:00 | How Many Multiword Expressions do People Know? |
Invited talk by Ken Church | |
17:00-18:00 | Panel: Toward a Special Interest Group for MWEs |
Moderator: Valia Kordoni, DFKI GmbH & Saarland University, Germany | |
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List of accepted papers
Oral presentations
- Long papers
- MWU-aware Part-of-Speech Tagging with a CRF model and lexical resources Matthieu Constant and Anthony Sigogne
- Tree-rewriting Models of Multi-word Expressions William Schuler
- The Web is not a PERSON, Berners-Lee is not an ORGANIZATION, and African-Americans are not LOCATIONS: An Analysis of the Performance of Named-Entity Recognition Robert Krovetz, Paul Deane and Nitin Madnani
- A machine learning approach to relational noun mining in German Berthold Crysmann
- Learning English Light Verb Constructions: Contextual or Statistical Yuancheng Tu and Dan Roth
- Two Types of Korean Light Verb Constructions in a Typed Feature Structure Grammar Juwon Lee
- Short papers
- Detecting Multi-Word Expressions improves Word Sense Disambiguation Mark Finlayson and Nidhi Kulkarni
- Semantic Clustering: an Attempt to Identify Multiword Expressions in Bengali Tanmoy Chakraborty, Dipankar Das and Sivaji Bandyopadhyay
- Automatic extraction of NV expressions in Basque: basic issues on cooccurrence techniques Antton Gurrutxaga and Iñaki Alegria
- Decreasing lexical data sparsity in syntactic parsing - experiments with named entities Deirdre Hogan, Jennifer Foster and Josef van Genabith
Poster presentations
- Long papers
- Identifying and Analyzing Brazilian Portuguese Complex Predicates Magali Sanches Duran, Carlos Ramisch, Sandra Maria Aluísio and Aline Villavicencio
- N-gram frequency database reference to handle MWE extraction in NLP applications Patrick Watrin and Thomas François
- Extracting Transfer Rules for Multiword Expressions from Parallel Corpora Petter Haugereid and Francis Bond
- Identification and Treatment of Multiword Expressions applied to Information Retrieval Otavio Acosta, Aline Villavicencio and Viviane Moreira
- Short papers
- Stepwise Mining of Multi-Word Expressions in Hindi Rai Mahesh Sinha
- Detecting noun compounds and light verb constructions: a contrastive study Veronika Vincze, István Nagy T. and Gábor Berend
Demo presentations
- jMWE: A Java Toolkit for Detecting Multi-Word Expressions Nidhi Kulkarni and Mark Finlayson
- On-line Visualisation of Collocations Extracted from Multilingual Corpora Violeta Seretan and Eric Wehrli
- StringNet Lexico-Grammatical Knowledgebase and its Applications David Wible and Nai-Lung Tsao
- The Ngram Statistics Package (Text::NSP) : A Flexible Tool for Identifying Ngrams, Collocations, and Word Associations Ted Pedersen
- Fast and Flexible MWE Candidate Generation Vítor De Araújo, Carlos Ramisch and Aline Villavicencio