TOPICS

We solicit contributions including but not limited to the following topics.

Building Comparable Corpora:

 

• Human translations
• Automatic and semi-automatic methods
• Methods to mine parallel and non-parallel corpora from the Web
• Tools and criteria to evaluate the comparability of corpora
• Parallel vs non-parallel corpora, monolingual corpora
• Rare and minority languages, across language families
• Multi-media/multi-modal comparable corpora

Applications of comparable corpora:

 

• Human translations
• Language learning
• Cross-language information retrieval & document categorization
• Bilingual projections
• Machine translation
• Writing assistance
• Machine learning techniques using comparable corpora

Mining from Comparable Corpora:

 

• Induction of morphological, grammatical, and translation rules from comparable corpora
• Extraction of parallel segments or paraphrases from comparable corpora
• Extraction of bilingual and multilingual translations of single words and multi-word expressions, proper names, and named entities from comparable corpora
• Induction of multilingual word classes from comparable corpora
• Cross-language distributional semantics

Note that an edited book “Building and Using Comparable Corpora” has recently been published by Springer. Chapter 1, an introduction and state of the art on the topic, is now freely available on Springer’s Web site: Overviewing Important Aspects of the Last 20 Years of Research in Comparable Corpora (click on "Download Sample pages 1 (pdf, 346 kB)").

 

IMPORTANT DATES

SUBMISSION INFORMATION

Submissions should follow the ACL 2015 length and formatting requirements found at http://acl2015.org/call_for_papers.html: long papers can have a maximum of eight (8) pages of content plus two (2) extra pages for references, while short papers can have a maximum of four (4) pages of content plus two (2) extra pages for references. They should be submitted as PDF documents to the following address:

Papers will be blind reviewed by at least two members of the Program Committee. Therefore, authors’ names and affiliations should not appear in the paper. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings.

Authors may submit the same paper at several meetings, but a paper published at this workshop cannot also be published elsewhere. In case of double submission, the authors must notify the workshop organizers in a separate e-mail, so we know that the paper might be withdrawn depending on the results at some other meeting. However, after notification authors will be asked to make a final decision.

For further information, please contact Pierre Zweigenbaum pz(erase_at)limsi(erase_dot)fr