LAW-MWE-CxG business meeting Santa Fe, 26 August 2018 Agenda - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

LAW-MWE-CxG business meeting Santa Fe, 26 August 2018

Agenda Feedback from the joint workshop ● Announcements ● The future of the PARSEME corpus and shared task ● SIGLEX-MWE section ● MWE research questions ●

Feedback from bringing 3 communities together 3 communities ● LAW workshop - organised by SIGANN since 2007 (12th edition) ○ MWE workshop - organised by SIGLEX since 2003 (14th edition) ○ CxG - 4 past events on computational approaches to constructions ○ LAW-MWE-CxG: ● Research track: ○ 41 submissions: 22 LAW, 21 MWE, 6 CxG, 8 MWE shared task ■ 22 selected papers (16 long, 6 short): 11 cover at least 2 topics (out of the 3) ■ 65% selectivity rate ■ Shared task track: ○ 8 system description papers were submitted, all selected ■

Feedback from participants Added value from bringing 3 communities together ● Future research directions ● How to further develop synergies? ●

Announcements Phraseology and Multiword Expressions - book series at Language Science ● Press, Berlin fully Open Access, collaborative proofreading ○ just published: ○ Manfred Sailer, Stella Markantonatou (eds.) Multiword expressions: Insights from a ■ multi-lingual perspective to appear in 2018 ○ Yannick Parmentier, Jakub Waszczuk (eds.) Representation and parsing of multiword ■ expressions: Current trends Stella Markantonatou, Carlos Ramisch, Agata Savary, Veronika Vincze (eds.) ■ Multiword expressions at length and in depth: Extended papers from the MWE 2017 workshop 2 other books in the pipeline ○ new book proposals are welcome ○

Announcements Other announcements from the audience ●

PARSEME corpus PARSEME corpus edition 1.1 ● 20 languages, 6 mln tokens, 80,000 VMWE annotations ○ openly available on CLARIN/LINDAT: http://hdl.handle.net/11372/LRT-2842 ○ Future annotation campaigns ● New MWE categories: ○ Nominal MWEs: ■ non-compositional NPs ( hot dog ), ● MW named entities ( Red Sea ), ● complex terms ( recurrent neural network ) ● Adjectival MWEs: crystal clear, as busy as a bee ■ New languages (call for language leaders) ○ First step: annotation guidelines (call for contributors) ○ Organize continuous corpus enhancements (regular releases) ●

PARSEME shared task Feedback from the ST edition 1.1 ● ○ 12 teams, 17 systems, 19 languages covered ○ Feedback on the .cupt format Feedback on possible enhancements of the ST organisation ○ ST edition 2.0: ● ○ 2020 or later ○ Including nominal & adjectival MWEs ○ Maybe a joint task with parsing or NE recognition

UD-PARSEME coordination Towards the .conllup format ● ○ Stand-off metaformat for adding new columns to .conllu ○ The .cupt format is an instance of this metaformat for PARSEME MWE working group at UDs - objectives: ● Separate syntactic and semantic annotation ○ Annotate properly the MWEs which have a correct syntactic structure ○ Solutions to the representation of syntactically irregular structures ○ Richer guidelines for UD annotation of MWEs ○ Avoiding competing semantically-driven annotations between UDs and PARSEME (e.g. ○ LVCs or VCPs in today's UD tagset)

SIGLEX-MWE section MWE section of SIGLEX now has a constitution and a standing committee ● Nominations to the SC for 2018-2020 ● 1 elected representative (3-year mandate): Agata Savary ○ 4 nominated officers (2-year mandate): Francis Bond, Styliani Markantonatou, Johanna ○ Monti, Carlos Ramisch 2 officers stepping down and 2 joining every year ○ call for candidates, also open to members not present at the workshop ○ Deadlines: ○ Expressions of interest: 30 August ■ Beginning of mandate: end September ■ MWE 2019 workshop ● ○ Co-organisation with the WordNet community ○ Preferred venue: ACL 2019 in Florence

MWE research questions Motivations ● The CL/NLP community is becoming increasingly engineering-oriented. ○ It is often hard to understand the underlying research issues, the theoretical hypotheses ○ which the experimental science is trying to (in)validate. See also Joakim Nivre's ACL 2017 presidential address (fast science vs. slow science) ○ Aim: better formulate the research questions and hypotheses underlying ● the activities of the MWE community - see a draft Objectives ● Better understanding of the state-of-the-art and perspectives of the MWE research ○ Make the MWE research more interesting ○ Lead the efforts of the community towards important challenges to be addressed ○ Pave the way towards convergences with other communities ○