2ND CALL FOR PAPERS

 

RANLP-07 WORKSHOP ON ACQUISITION AND MANAGEMENT OF MULTILINGUAL LEXICONS

 

Sponsored by Expert System Inc. (http://www.expertsystem.net/)
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/

 

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 Authors are invited to submit full papers on original, unpublished work in the topic area of this workshop.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 stylefiles and not exceeding 8 pages. The RANLP 2007 stylefiles 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)
Dorothy Kenny (Dublin City University, Ireland)
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 (LIF-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