*** CALL FOR PAPERS *** ROMANCE FrameNet Workshop and Kick-off Meeting 26 - 28 July, 2005 a satellite event of the EUROLAN 2005 Summer School http://www.cs.ubbcluj.ro/EUROLAN2005 Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania 25 July - 6 August, 2005 *** Backgrounds and Goals ROMANCE FrameNet (http://ic2.epfl.ch/~pallotta/rfn) is a joint initiative to create a special interest group with the goal of building a multi-lingual FrameNet resource for romance languages based on Fillmore's Frame Semantics (1977, 1982). ROMANCE FrameNet is different from Multi-Lingual WordNet since it will link collocational and constructional material to word senses (not only sub-categorization frames of verbs). Applications to foreign language learning are apparent, as well as for computer assisted translation, multi-lingual information extraction and cross-lingual question answering. We consider the major 6 Romance languages, namely French, Spanish, Italian, Romanian, Portuguese, Catalan, but we do not exclude other Romance languages whose representatives are equally invited to join the ROMANCE FrameNet initiative. We suggest to adopt a new methodology for the development of ROMANCE FrameNet by translating the sentences annotated in the original FrameNet project from support corpora (e.g. BNC). This approach is inspired by the recent work on MultiSemCor. The translation task will be distributed among the participants and supervised by local teams in the participating institutions working on the different languages. ROMANCE FrameNet is directed towards the following goals: 1. creating a consistent aligned and frame-annotated multi-lingual corpus; 2. highlighting cross-language regularities, and structural intra- and extra-typological idiosyncrasies; 3. creating a semantically indexed translation memory and an inverse multi-lingual dictionary; 4. creating one of the first freely available resource which contains cross-languages sub-categorization and collocational mappings; 5. reusing the work done on automatic role assignment and semantic parsing (cf. Senseval-3). *** Workshop and Kick-off Meeting We propose to meet during the EUROLAN 2005 Summer School in Cluj-Napoca in order to develop an informal agreement on a work plan for bootstrapping the ROMANCE FrameNet resource. As a first shared task for bootstrapping the project, we propose the translation and annotation of a common subset of 110 sentences from the English FrameNet data in each of the targeted languages. The burden of this work will be taken by the participants to the workshop and kick-off meeting, noting that there may be multiple translations for the same sentence. We consider this redundancy very useful for evaluating inter-translator agreement. The mini-corpus will be the basis of the discussion during the kick-off meetings and possibly of the workshop papers. It is available for download at: http://ic2.epfl.ch/~pallotta/rfn/data.zip. FrameNet annotations can be found by browsing the FrameNet data (http://framenet.icsi.berkeley.edu/) locally or by using the Sato's FrameSQL browser (http://sato.fm.senshu-u.ac.jp/fn22/notes/fullMenuFrame.html). The format of the ROMANCE FrameNet workshop and kick-off meeting will be of one hour of daily official public presentations and discussions (from 18.30 to 19.30) during three consecutive days (July, 26, 27 and 28). Additionally we expect and foster a number of spontaneous informal gatherings and working groups involving participants (either within the same language or cross-language) during day-long meetings at EUROLAN school. *** Paper Submission We invite papers on several aspects of the construction of the ROMANCE FrameNet resource. Topic of interest include but are not limited to: * Creation of aligned multi-lingual corpus for ROMANCE FrameNet * Transfer of Frames between English and Romance Languages * Transfer and Adaptation of Frame annotations * Cross-language similarities and differences in lexical choice for translating the lexical units * Cross-language similarities and differences in sub-categorization and selectional restrictions * Transfer of collocations and idiomatic expressions * Automatic methods for alignment of multilingual resources in perspective of Frame annotation * Applications of multilingual FrameNet * Evaluation (inter-translators agreement, annotation transfer, etc.) Extended versions of a selection of the best papers will be published in a special issue "Romanian Journal of Information Science and Technology", published by the Romanian Academy Publishing House (ISSN: 1453-8245). The issue will be printed as post-conference proceedings. *** IMPORTANT DATES SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 30th June 2005 Notification of Acceptance: 10th July 2005 Camera-ready Papers: 15th July 2005 Workshop: 26-28 July 2005 *** Paper Requirements Authors are invited to submit a 6-10 pages paper in electronic form (pdf only) by 30th of June 2005. Like in the case of other EUROLAN workshops over the past years, the review process is not blind. Authors of accepted papers should submit the final version in electronic format not later than 15th of July. The final version must be also in pdf format. For the papers selected for publication in the ROJIST journal, we require a Latex file (all macros used should be included; both Emtex and Latex2e are allowed; the standard "article" style is strongly recommended). All illustrations must be of professional quality and should be sent in separate files in bmp format. The Abstract, Introduction and Conclusion chapters are requested. References should be listed in alphabetical order. A sample paper is available here: http://www.ceid.upatras.gr/Balkanet/journal/7_Overview.pdf No galley proofs are sent to authors, the paper is printed in the final form received from the authors after the completion of the refereeing process. For each published paper 25 reprints are free of charge. We suggest to comply with the ROJIST guidelines from the beginning in the submission of the workshop paper. All the papers should be sent both to Vincenzo Pallotta and Dan Tufis. *** Registration People attending the ROMANCE FrameNet workshop are warmly invited to participate to the EUROLAN 2005 Summer School by registering here: http://www.cs.ubbcluj.ro/EUROLAN2005/index.php?r=Registr (Note that authors of the papers accepted for presentation at the workshop will benefit of early registration fee regardless of the date they register). Participation to the workshop is open to all EUROLAN 2005 attendants and is included in the school's participation fee. Copies of workshop proceedings will be included in the EUROLAN school's CD-ROM. In alternative, it is possible to register only for the workshop with a fee of 50 euro to be payed on the workshop site. *** Scientific Committee Collin Baker (FrameNet, ICSI, Berkeley, USA) Dan Cristea (University of Iasi, Romania) Rodolfo Delmonte (University of Venice, Italy) Charles J. Fillmore (FrameNet, ICSI, Berkeley, USA) Thierry Fontenelle (Microsoft Research, USA) Rada Mihalcea (University of of North Texas, USA) Vincenzo Pallotta (EPFL, Switzerland) Carlos Subirats (Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain) Violeta Seretan (University of Geneva, Switzerland) Amalia Todirascu (University of Strasbourg, France) Dan Tufis (Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania) Nancy Ide (Vasar College, USA) Alessandro Lenci (University of Pisa, Italy) Francesca Bertagna (University of Pisa, Italy) Emanuele Pianta (ITC-IRST, Trento, Italy) Berardo Magnini (ITC-IRST, Trento, Italy) Pierrette Bouillon (University of Geneva, Switzerland) Dominique Dutoit (Memodata, France) Mercé Lorente (University of Barcelona, Spain) Aline Villavicencio (University of Essex, UK) *** Organization The ROMANCE FrameNet Workshop and Kick-off Meeting is part of the EUROLAN 2005 Summer School and it is organized by: Vincenzo Pallotta (EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland) Dan Tufis (Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania) For further information please contact: Vincenzo Pallotta: Vincenzo.Pallotta@epfl.ch Dan Tufis: tufis@racai.ro This document is also available on-line at: http://ic2.epfl.ch/~pallotta/rfn/