RANLP 2011 Workshop
15th September, Hissar, Bulgaria
Proceedings
Workshop Programme
This workshop is a follow-up of the First Workshop on Annotation and Exploitation of Parallel Corpora.
The creation of parallel corpora has been very active especially since 90s. The globalization, the extension of EU with new countries as well as the availability of open-source places for information, such as Wikipedia, DBPeadia, etc. required a multilingual approach towards the interpersonal and official communication. This status quo produced a lot of parallel data – especially administrative and political documents in several languages (EuroParl), but also news (SETIMES) and texts on various topics (wikipedia, bi- and multilingual web sites). However, the fast compilation of large amounts of data very often compromised in lower quality of paralleling texts. Here comes the challenge to discover the inconsistencies in these huge quantities of parallel data, to process them in adequate ways, and to exploit them for various applications: QA, Information Retrieval, Machine Translation, etc. The parallel corpora go beyond word-to-word alignments. They rely on dependency, constituent or semantic pairings. There appeared guidelines and tools for aligning linguistic structures, which raised up the issue of transferability of aligning schemes from one language to another, and also for the compatibility among various resources.
Topics
The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Strategies for creation of annotated parallel corpora
- Annotation guidelines for alignment
- Annotation alignment transfer over languages
- Tools for manual and automatic processing and exploitation of parallel corpora
- Problems in manual and automatic alignment
- Syntax-based and semantic-based approaches to using parallel corpora in MT
- Parallel Grammars
- Parallel Statistical Parsing
- Usability of the existing parallel resources for various applications
Invited speaker
Preslav Nakov (Invited Speaker), National University of Singapore, Singapore
Reusing Parallel Corpora between Related Languages
Organizers
- Kiril Simov (IICT, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)
- Petya Osenova (Sofia University “St. Kl. Ohridski” and IICT Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)
- Radovan Garabik (JÚĽŠ, Slovak Academy of Sciences)
- Jörg Tiedemann (Uppsala University)
Important Dates
- Deadline for paper submission: 27th June 2011
- Notification of acceptance: 29th July 2011
- Final version of the papers: 29th August 2011
Submission details
http://lml.bas.bg/ranlp2011/submissions.php
We ask for papers (6 to 10 pages conforming to the RANLP guidelines). We welcome work in progress reports if they contain at least preliminary results. Papers should be submitted in PDF. Submissions should be made via the START System – https://www.softconf.com/ranlp11/aepc2011/ or by email to Kiril Simov (kivs@bultreebank.org).
Program Committee
- Antonio Branco (University of Lisbon)
- Nicoletta Calzolari (Institute of Computational Linguistics of the National Research Council)
- Koenraad De Smedt (University of Bergen)
- Dan Flickinger (Stanford University)
- Dale Gerdemann (University of Tübingen)
- Voula Giouli (Institute for Language and Speech Processing)
- Silvia Hansen (University of Mainz)
- Erhard Hinrichs (University of Tübingen)
- Valia Kordoni (University of Saarland)
- Vladislav Kubon (Charles University)
- Lothar Lemnitzer (Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities)
- Preslav Nakov (National University of Singapore)
- Cristina Vertan (University of Hamburg)
- Eline Westerhout (University of Utrecht)
For information on this workshop please contact petya at bultreebank org.