[SIGLEX-MWE] 2nd Call for Abstracts: Workshop on the Role of Constituents in Multi-Word Expressions

[Sabine S. im W. <sc...@im...>]

*** 2nd Call for Abstracts ***

Workshop on the Role of Constituents in Multi-Word Expressions:
An Interdisciplinary, Cross-Lingual Perspective

Workshop at the Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society
Saarbrücken, Germany
March 8-10, 2017

http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/events/dgfs-mwe-17/

Submission Deadline: September 1, 2016

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Workshop description:

The processing and representation of multi-word expressions (MWEs),
ranging from noun compounds (e.g. "hogwash" in English, and "Ohrwurm"
in German) to particle verbs (e.g. "give up" in English, and
"aufgeben" in German) has remained an unsettled issue over the past
20+ years.

 From a psycholinguistic perspective the question is how the semantic
transparency of the constituents affects the processing and
representation of the MWE they compose (Libben, 2006; Gagne and
Spalding, 2009; Ji et al., 2011; Marelli and Luzzatti, 2012). For
example, the semantic transparency of the head has been found to
affect the processing of noun compounds in English but not in German,
with similar findings contrasting the effects of semantic transparency
in English and German particle verbs (Smolka et al., 2014).

 From a computational perspective the question is how the different
types of constituents (i.e., modifiers vs. heads, particles vs. verb
stems) influence the automatic prediction of semantic transparency, as
typically addressed by vector space models relying on the
distributional hypothesis and empirical co-occurrence information from
large corpora (Reddy et al., 2011; Bell and Schäfer, 2013; Salehi and
Cook, 2013; Schulte im Walde et al., 2013; 2016).

In this workshop, we aim to exploit complementary evidence from the
two very different types of MWE (noun compounds and particle verbs) to
shed light on the interaction of constituent properties and compound
transparency. We invite research contributions across languages and
across research disciplines to provide a cross-linguistic perspective
integrating linguistic, psycholinguistic, corpus-based and
computational studies.

Relevant aspects include (but are not restricted to)
- investigations on the role of constituent ambiguity;
- conditions for analogies and meaning shifts;
- the age at which children are affected by constituent transparency;
- evidence from neologisms; and
- empirical constituent properties (e.g. frequency and productivity).

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Invited speakers:

Gary Libben,
Department of Applied Linguistics, Brock University

Marco Marelli,
Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University

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Abstract submission:

Abstracts may consist of up to 500 words (max. 1 page), plus
additional material such as tables, figures and references on a second
page. An extra page should list all authors and their affiliations.

Abstracts should be submitted as PDF via EasyChair at:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dgfsmwe17.

The deadline for submissions is September 1, 2016.

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Workshop organisers:

Sabine Schulte im Walde,
Institut für Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung, Universität Stuttgart

Eva Smolka,
Fachbereich Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Konstanz


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Institut für Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung
Universität Stuttgart
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70569 Stuttgart, Germany

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