Multiword Expressions: from Theory to Applications (MWE 2010)
Workshop at COLING 2010 (Beijing, China), August 28, 2010
Endorsed by the Special Interest Group on the Lexicon of the Association for Computational Linguistics (SIGLEX)
Last updated: September 10, 2010
News
- September 10, 2010: The presentation slides are now available!
- August 3, 2010: The online proceedings are now available!
- August 3, 2010: The workshop program was updated with invited talks, session chairs and panelists information.
- August 3, 2010: The MWE 2010 workshop is due to proceed as scheduled (in spite of rumors about cancelled workshops).
- August 3, 2010: The abstract of Aravind K. Joshi's invited talk is now online.
- August 3, 2010: Authors of short papers should check the poster guidelines section.
- July 14, 2010: More details about the invited talks are now online.
- July 14, 2010: The workshop program is now online.
- July 5, 2010: List of accepted papers online.
- July 5, 2010: Confirmed invited speakers.
Description
The COLING 2010 Workshop on Multiword Expressions: from Theory to Applications (MWE 2010) took place on August 28, 2010 in Beijing, China, following the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2010). The workshop has been held every year since 2003 in conjunction with ACL, EACL and LREC; this is the first time that it has been co-located with COLING.
Multiword Expressions (MWEs) are a ubiquitous component of natural languages and appear steadily on a daily basis, both in specialized and in general-purpose communication. While easily mastered by native speakers, their interpretation poses a major challenge for automated analysis due to their flexible and heterogeneous nature. Therefore, the automated processing of MWEs is desirable for any natural language application that involves some degree of semantic interpretation, e.g., Machine Translation, Information Extraction, and Question Answering.
In spite of the recent advances in the field, there is a wide range of open problems that prevent MWE treatment techniques from full integration in current NLP systems. In MWE’2010, we were interested in major challenges in the overall process of MWE treatment. We thus asked for original research related but not limited to the following topics:
- MWE resources: Although underused in most current state-of-the-art approaches, resources are key for developing real-world applications capable of interpreting MWEs. We thus encouraged submissions describing the process of building MWE resources, constructed both manually and automatically from text corpora; we were also interested in assessing the usability of such resources in various MWE tasks.
- Hybrid approaches: We further invited research on integrating heterogeneous MWE treatment techniques and resources in NLP applications. Such hybrid approaches can aim, for example, at the combination of results from symbolic and statistical approaches, at the fusion of manually built and automatically extracted resources, or at the design of language learning techniques.
- Domain adaptation: Real-world NLP applications need to be robust to deal with texts coming from different domains. Thus, its is important to assess the performance of MWE methods across domains or describing domain adaptation techniques for MWEs.
- Multilingualism: Parallel and comparable corpora are gaining popularity as a resource for automatic MWE discovery and treatment. We were thus interested in the integration of MWE processing in multilingual applications such as machine translation and multilingual information retrieval, as well as in porting existing monolingual MWE approaches to new languages.
We received 18 submissions, and, given our limited capacity as a one-day workshop, we were only able to accept eight full papers for oral presentation: an acceptance rate of 44%. We further accepted four papers as posters. The regular papers were distributed in three sessions: Lexical Representation, Identification and Extraction, and Applications. The workshop also featured two invited talks (by Kyo Kageura and by Aravind K. Joshi), and a panel discussion (involving Mona Diab, Valia Kordoni and Hans Uszkoreit).
We would like to thank the members of the Program Committee for their timely reviews. We would also like to thank the authors and participants for their valuable contributions.
Workshop Organizers
- Eric Laporte (Universite Paris-Est, France)
- Preslav Nakov (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
- Carlos Ramisch (University of Grenoble, France and Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
- Aline Villavicencio (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
Contact
For any inquiries regarding the workshop please send an email to mwe2010workshop at gmail.com