[SIGLEX-MWE] MUMTTT 2017 - First Announcement

[johanna m. <joh...@gm...>]

*----------------------------------------[apologies for any
cross-posting]----------------------------------------**The 3rd Workshop on
Multi-word Units in Machine Translation and Translation Technology (MUMTTT
2017)*

In conjunction with EUROPHRAS 2017 – International Conference
“Computational and Corpus-based Phraseology: *Recent advances and
interdisciplinary approaches*” (London, 13-14 November 2017)

*Preliminary Announcement*

Following the success of the two previous editions of the workshop on
*Multi-word
Units in Machine Translation and Translation Technology* – the 2013 edition
at the MT Summit in Nice, France, and the 2015 edition at the European
Society of Phraseology Conference in Malaga, Spain, we are announcing the
third edition to be held in conjunction with the International Conference
“Computational and Corpus-based Phraseology: Recent advances and
interdisciplinary approaches” which is jointly organised by the European
Association for Phraseology (EUROPHRAS), the University of Wolverhampton
(Research Institute of Information and Language Processing) and the
Association for Computational Linguistics – Bulgaria (London, 13-14
November 2017).

The MUMTTT workshop will be held on the second day of the conference, 14
November 2017. It will provide a forum for researchers and practitioners in
the fields of (Computational) Linguistics, (Computational) Phraseology,
Translation Studies and Translation Technology to discuss recent advances
in the area of multi-word unit processing and to coordinate research
efforts across disciplines in order to improve the integration of
multi-word units in machine translation and translation technology tools.

Multi-word units are acknowledged as one of the major challenges in natural
language processing (NLP). In spite of the relative progress achieved for
particular types of units such as verb-particle constructions, the
identification, interpretation and translation of multi-word units in
general still represent open challenges, both from a theoretical and a
practical point of view. The idiosyncratic morpho-syntactic, semantic and
translational properties of multi-word units pose many obstacles even to
human translators, mainly because of intrinsic ambiguities, structural and
lexical asymmetries between languages, and, finally, cultural differences.

In recent years, growing attention has been paid to integrating multi-word
units (MWUs) in machine translation and translation technology tools, as it
has been acknowledged that it is not possible to create large scale
language solutions without properly handling MWUs of all types. As a matter
of fact, researchers are now addressing the problems posed by MWU
processing and translation using different formalisms and techniques, such
as: automatic recognition of MWUs in a monolingual or bilingual setting;
alignment and paraphrasing techniques; development and use of (handcrafted)
monolingual and bilingual language resources; creation of annotated
monolingual and parallel corpora, development of strategies for handling
syntactically flexible units in language analysis and translation modules,
development of evaluation projects.

The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners
working on MWU processing from various perspectives, in order to enable
cross fertilisation and foster the creation of innovative solutions that
can only arise from interdisciplinary collaborations. In particular, the
workshop welcomes interactions between NLP researchers working on the
computational treatment of multi-word units, experts in (computational)
phraseology working on challenging topics of their discipline, as well as
translation practitioners, to the benefit of applying their latest results
to advance the state of the art in MWU processing.

The MUMTTT 2017 workshop invites the submission of full-text papers (6 to 8
pages long) reporting on original and unpublished research on topics
related to MWU processing in machine translation and translation
technology, including:

   - Lexical, syntactic, semantic and translational aspects in MWU
   representation
   - Theoretical approaches to MWUs (e.g., collostructional analysis of
   MWU, cognitive approaches to processing MWUs, etc.
   - Development of multilingual MWU resources
   - Identification and acquisition of MWUs and variants
   - Learning semantic information about MWUs from monolingual, parallel or
   comparable corpora
   - Development and use of MWU resources in machine translation and
   translation technology
   - Development of corpora for the extraction and translation of MWUs
   - Compilation of resources for the extraction and translation of
   multiword units
   - Creation of MWU-annotated corpora with a focus on translation aspects
   - Paraphrasing of MWUs applied to the improving of machine translation
   - MWUs and word alignment techniques
   - MWUs in machine translation
   - MWU-centred machine translation evaluation
   - Evaluation of MWU translation
   - MWUs in CAT tools
   - Multilingualism and MWU processing
   - Psycholinguistic studies of MWU processing in a bilingual setting.

Submissions must be formatted according to guidelines that will be provided
both for Word and LaTeX text processor. Each submission will be reviewed by
at least three programme committee members. As reviewing will be double
blind, papers must not reveal author’s identify. Accepted papers will be
presented orally or as posters, as determined by the programme committee.
There will be no distinction in the workshop proceedings between papers
presented orally or as posters.

*Important Dates*
The first call for papers, expected in January 2017, will provide details
on the submission procedure, including deadlines.

*Workshop Chairs*
Gloria Corpas Pastor, Universidad de Málaga, Spain
Ruslan Mitkov, University of Wolverhampton, United Kingdom
Johanna Monti, Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”, Italy
[image: ✉] Violeta Seretan <Vio...@un...>, Université de
Genève, Switzerland (Chair for contacts)