Proceedings of the COLING Workshop on Multiword Expressions: from Theory to Applications (MWE 2010)

Eric Laporte (1) , Preslav Nakov (2) , Carlos Ramisch (3) , Aline Villavicencio (4)

1 LIGM - Laboratoire d'Informatique Gaspard-Monge
2 EECS - Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science [Berkeley]
3 GETALP - Groupe d’Étude en Traduction Automatique/Traitement Automatisé des Langues et de la Parole
4 Institute of Informatics

Multiword Expressions (MWEs) are a ubiquitous component of natural languages. 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. We thus asked for original research related but not limited to the following topics: MWE resources, hybrid approaches, domain adaptation, and multilingualism. We received 18 submissions, and 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.

Mots clés: multiword expression

Domaines: Traitement du texte et du document; Informatique et langage [cs.CL]; Linguistique

Eric Laporte, Preslav Nakov, Carlos Ramisch, Aline Villavicencio. Proceedings of the COLING Workshop on Multiword Expressions: from Theory to Applications (MWE 2010). COLING, Aug 2010, Beijing, China. Association for Computational Linguistics, 101 p., 2010. ⟨hal-00722851⟩