Acquisition and Management of Multilingual Lexicons
Date: 16-Mar-2007
From: Viktor Pekar <v.pekarwlv.ac.uk>
Subject: Acquisition and Management of Multilingual Lexicons
Full Title: Acquisition and Management of Multilingual Lexicons
Date: 26-Sep-2007 - 30-Sep-2007
Location: Borovetz, Bulgaria
Contact Person: Viktor Pekar
Meeting Email: v.pekarwlv.ac.uk
Web Site:
http://pers-www.wlv.ac.uk/~in8113/amml07/ Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Lexicography
Call Deadline: 15-Jun-2007
Meeting Description
This workshop aims to bring together researchers working on a broad range of
problems related to the automatic management of multilingual lexical resources -
their acquisition, maintenance, customization, and re-use. The scope of the
workshop includes evaluation of multilingual lexicons intended for a wide
variety of applications: from personalized glossaries for a translation project
to large-scale machine-readable dictionaries and databases. Specifics topics of
interest to the workshop include: acquisition of bilingual lexical knowledge
from parallel and comparable corpora, and from the Web; acquisition of domain
terminology, multiword expressions, multilingual lexical taxonomies, named
entity transliteration.
RANLP-07 Workshop on Acquisition and Management of Multilingual Lexicons
Endorsed by the ACL Special Interest Group on the Lexicon (ACL-SIGLEX)
Borovetz, Bulgaria
September 30, 2007
Workshop site:
http://www.wlv.ac.uk/~in8113/amml07/ RANLP'2007 site:
http://lml.bas.bg/ranlp2007/ Aims
The current trend of information exchange on the Internet to become ever more
multilingual has stimulated new important developments in the field of
multilingual NLP. The present workshop is concerned with the problem of
automatic management of lexical resources, which lie at the heart of many
multilingual technologies.
Recently there has been an increased interest in the automated discovery of
equivalent expressions in different languages. New interesting directions have
sprung up, such as the use of the Web and comparable corpora for this task, and
new kinds of lexical phenomena, such as multiword expressions and named
entities, have come into focus.
This workshop will bring together researchers working on a broad range of
problems related to the management of multilingual lexical resources - their
acquisition, maintenance, customization, and re-use. The scope of the workshop
includes evaluation of multilingual lexicons intended for a broad range of
applications: from personalized glossaries for a translation project to
large-scale machine-readable dictionaries and databases.
Topics
Specific topics of interest for the proposed workshop are:
- Acquisition of lexical knowledge from parallel and comparable corpora, and
from the Web
- Porting, merging and domain customisation of existing lexical resources using
NLP technologies
- Acquisition of domain terminology
- Acquisition of multi-word expressions
- Acquisition of translations for polysemous words
- Acquisition of multilingual lexical taxonomies
- Named Entity transliteration
- Acquisition of cognates and loanwords
- Extraction of equivalent phrases and sentences from comparable corpora
- Applications of multilingual lexicons and their evaluation within:
- Statistical Machine Translation
- Computer-Aided Translation
- Information Retrieval (Question Answering, Text Retrieval, Text
Classification and Clustering)
- Knowledge Management
Submission Instructions
- Format. Authors are invited to submit full papers on original, unpublished
work in the topic area of this workshop. Papers should be submitted as a PDF
file, formatted according to the RANLP 2007 style files and not exceeding 8
pages. The RANLP 2007 style files are available at:
http://lml.bas.bg/ranlp2007/submissions.htm As reviewing will be blind, the papers should not include the authors' names and
affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the authors' identities
should be avoided. Papers that do not conform to these requirements will be
rejected without review.
- Submission procedure. Submission of papers will be handled using the START
system. Specific submission guidelines will be posted on the workshop site shortly.
- Reviewing. Each submission will be reviewed at least by two members of the
Program Committee. Reviewers will be asked to provide detailed comments, and to
score submitted papers on the following factors:
- Relevance to the workshop
- Significance and originality
- Technical/methodological accuracy
- References to related work
- Presentation (clarity, organisation, English)
- Accepted papers policy. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop
proceedings. By submitting a paper at the workshop the authors agree that, in
case the paper is accepted for publication, at least one of the authors will
attend the workshop; all workshop participants are expected to pay the
RANLP-2007 workshop registration fee.
Important Dates
Paper submission deadline: June 15, 2007
Paper acceptance notification: July 25, 2007
Camera-ready papers due: August 31, 2007
Workshop date: September 30, 2007
Program Committee
Eneko Agirre (Basque Country University, Spain)
Enrique Alfonseca (Google Inc.)
Marco Baroni (University of Trento, Italy)
Paul Buitelaar (DFKI, Germany)
Michael Carl (IAI, Germany)
Dan Cristea (University ''Al. I. Cuza'' Iasi, Romania)
Gael Dias (University of Beira Interior, Portugal)
Jesus Gimenez (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain)
Diana Inkpen (University of Ottawa, Canada)
Adam Kilgarriff (Lexicography Masterclass, UK)
Greg Kondrak (University of Alberta, Canada)
Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton, UK)
Sebastian Pado (University of Saarland, Germany)
Reinhard Rapp (Johannes Gutenberg-Universitat Mainz, Germany)
Fatiha Sadat (University of Ottawa, Canada)
Violeta Seretan (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
Michel Simard (National Research Council of Canada)
Jorg Tiedemann (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Netherlands)
Takehito Utsuro (University of Tsukuba, Japan)
Piek Vossen (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Michael Zock (LIMSI-CNRS, France)
Keynote Speakers
Keynote speakers will be announced shortly before the workshop.
Organizing Committee
Viktor Pekar
University of Wolverhampton, UK
Diana Inkpen
University of Ottawa, Canada
Andrea Mulloni
Expert System Inc., Italy