EACL 2006 Workshop on Multi-word-expressions in a multilingual context April 3rd 2006, Trento, Italy http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/EACL06MWEmc/ The EACL 2006 Workshop on "Multi-word-expressions in a multilingual context" will be hosted in conjunction with the 11th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics that will take place April 3-7, 2006, in Trento, italy. * DESCRIPTION For many years, interest in the NLP community of the problems that multiword-expressions (MWE) posed was focussed mainly on English. Recently, for example at the ACL2004 workshop on multiword expressions, attention has begun to expand to other languages such as Japanese, Russian, Basque and Turkish. This necessitates a re-evaluation of earlier rule-based, statistical and hybrid techniques for MWE identification and classification. In English, MWE types such as phrasal verbs, noun phrases, proper names, and true non-compositional idioms, are considered. However, in other languages some MWE types are represented as compound words, e.g. phrasal verbs in English are generally expressed as verb-prefix in Russian. At the same time, research on MWEs for languages other than English is confronted with new problems, such as the number of word forms per lemma or free word order. Our focus in this workshop will be to incorporate the requirements from different areas such as translation, language engineering and those studying computational techniques for the processing of MWE of language learners and how all these requirements differ across languages. For further details and topics of interest, please refer to the website of the workshop. * SUBMISSIONS Authors are invited to submit full papers on original, unpublished work in the topic area of this workshop. Submissions should be formatted using the EACL 2006 stylefiles with overt author and affiliation information and not exceeding 8 pages. The EACL 2006 stylefiles are available at http://eacl06.itc.it/submission/submission.htm Please send your PDF file no later than January 6, 2006, to eacl06mwemc@googlemail.com Each submission will be reviewed at least by two members of the programme committee. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings. Dual submissions to the main EACL 2006 conference and this workshop are allowed; if you submit to the main session, do indicate this when you submit to the workshop. If your paper is accepted for the main session, you should withdraw your paper from the workshop upon notification by the main session. * REGISTRATION Information on registration and registration fees will be provided at the conference web page. * IMPORTANT DATES January 6, 2006 - Deadline for workshop papers January 27, 2006 - Notification of acceptance February 10, 2006 - Camera-ready papers due April 3, 2006 - Workshop As the schedule is extremely tight, deadline extensions are NOT possible. * ORGANISING COMMITTEE Paul Rayson (Lancaster University, UK) Serge Sharoff (University of Leeds, UK) Svenja Adolphs (University of Nottingham, UK) * PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Dawn Archer (University of Central Lancashire, UK) Timothy Baldwin (University of Melbourne, Australia) Francis Bond (NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Japan) Key-Sun Choi (KAIST, Korea) Beatrice Daille (University of Nantes, France) Sylviane Granger (Universite catholique de Louvain, Belgium) Chikara Hashimoto (Kyoto University, Japan) Ulrich Heid (Universitaet Stuttgart, Germany) Laura Lofberg (University of Tampere, Finland) Anke Luedeling (Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin, Germany) Olga Mudraya (Lancaster University, UK) Kyonghee Paik (ATR Spoken Language Translation Research Laboratories, Japan) Scott Piao (Lancaster University, UK) Norbert Schmitt (University of Nottingham, UK) * FURTHER INFORMATION Workshop web page http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/EACL06MWEmc/ Conference web page http://eacl06.itc.it/ EACL 2006 Workshops site http://www.science.uva.nl/~mdr/EACL2006Workshops/ * CONTACT INFORMATION Dr Paul Rayson Computing Department, Infolab21, South Drive, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4WA, UK. Tel: +44 1524 510357 Fax: +44 1524 510492 Email: paul-at-comp.lancs.ac.uk