The ACL 2003 Workshop on Multiword Expressions: Analysis, Acquisition and Treatment

9:00-9:05 Welcome
9:05-9:30 Complex Structuring of Term Variants for Question Answering
James Dowdall, Fabio Rinaldi, Fidelia Ibekwe-SanJuan  and  Eric SanJuan
9:30-9:55 Conceptual Structuring through Term Variations
Béatrice Daille
9:55-10:20 Noun-Noun Compound Machine Translation A Feasibility Study on Shallow Processing
Takaaki Tanaka  and  Timothy Baldwin
10:20-10:50 Break
10:50-11:15 Using Masks, Suffix Array-based Data Structures and Multidimensional Arrays to Compute Positional Ngram Statistics from Corpora
Alexandre Gil  and  Gaël Dias
11:15-11:40 A Language Model Approach to Keyphrase Extraction
Takashi Tomokiyo  and  Matthew Hurst
11:40-12:05 Multiword Unit Hybrid Extraction
Gaël Dias
12:05-12:30 Extracting Multiword Expressions with A Semantic Tagger
Scott S. L. Piao, Paul Rayson, Dawn Archer, Andrew Wilson  and  Tony McEnery
Lunch 12:30-14:00
14:00-14:25 Verb-Particle Constructions and Lexical Resources
Aline Villavicencio
14:25-14:50 A Statistical Approach to the Semantics of Verb-Particles
Colin Bannard, Timothy Baldwin  and  Alex Lascarides
14:50-15:15 Detecting a Continuum of Compositionality in Phrasal Verbs
Diana McCarthy, Bill Keller  and  John Carroll
15:15-15:40 A Disambiguation Method for Japanese Compound Verbs
Kiyoko Uchiyama  and  Shun Ishizaki
15:40-16:10 Break
16:10-16:35 An Empirical Model of Multiword Expression Decomposability
Timothy Baldwin, Colin Bannard, Takaaki Tanaka  and  Dominic Widdows
16:35-17:00 Licensing Complex Prepositions via Lexical Constraints
Beata Trawinski
17:00-17:30 Discussion