Workshop on Annotation and Exploitation of Parallel Corpora (AEPC)
In recent years parallel corpora have become ever more useful for data-driven Machine Translation, Word Sense Disambiguation, or Cross-language Information Retrieval. Most of the time parallel corpora were used as raw texts (i.e. without any linguistic annotation) or with independent linguistic annotation (i.e. linguistic annotation that was applied to either language side without resort to the other). We believe that the full potential of parallel corpora will be reached when parallel corpora are aligned and annotated concurrently. Many research strands like the automatic creation of parallel treebanks and parallel parsing point in this direction. In particular the popularity of syntax-enhanced approaches to statistical machine translation and the rise of multilingual corpus linguistics indicate the relevance of this workshop at this point in time.
With this workshop we try to bring together researchers that work on annotating parallel corpora for various languages and purposes and researchers that explore such resources for various applications. The following research areas will be addressed:
- Parallel Treebanks (manual or automatic creation)
- Cross-language Word Alignment and Phrase-Structure Alignment
- Parallel Grammars, Parallel Parsing
- Grammar Induction
- Parallel Semantic Annotation
- Parallel Referent Resolution and Anaphora
- Annotation Projection
- Multi-parallel Corpora
- Tools for Multilingual Corpus Linguistics
- Exploitation of Parallel Corpora for Evaluation
- Annotated Parallel Corpora for Machine Translation
- Novel Applications of Annotated Parallel Corpora
Invited speaker
- Matthias Buch-Kromann, Copenhagen Business School
AEPC Workshop Schedule
- Deadline for paper submission: 3 October 2010
- Notification of acceptance: 24 October 2010
- Final version of paper for workshop proceedings: 15 November 2010
- Workshop: 2 December 2010
AEPC Workshop Organizers
- Lars Ahrenberg (Linköping University)
- Jörg Tiedemann (Uppsala University)
- Martin Volk (University of Zurich)
AEPC Submission Format
We ask for papers (min. length 6 pages - max. length 10 pages conforming to the TLT guidelines) describing research in the range of topics specified above. We welcome work in progress reports if they contain at least preliminary results.
The language of the AEPC Workshop is English, and all papers should be submitted in well-checked English. Papers should be submitted in PDF. Submissions should be made via the EasyChair AEPC Web page.
Program Committee
The following researchers have agreed to serve on the program committee:
- Paul Buitelaar (DERI, Galway)
- Anne Göhring (University of Zurich)
- Silvia Hansen (University of Mainz)
- Joakim Nivre (Uppsala University)
- Lonneke van der Plas (University of Geneva)
- Yvonne Samuelsson (Stockholm University)
- John Tinsley (Dublin City University)
- Mats Wirén (Stockholm University)
- Dekai Wu (Hong Kong University of Science & Technology)
- Ventsislav Zhechev (Dublin City University)
For information on this workshop please contact volk at cl uzh ch.