Workshop on Computational Approaches to Linguistic Creativity (CALC-09)


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Boulder, Colorado, on June 4 or 5, 2009, in conjunction with NAACL-HLT 2009.
Deadline for paper submissions: February 27, 2009.
Workshop homepage:  http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/index.php?title=CALC-09
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It is generally agreed upon that "linguistic creativity" is a unique 
property of human language. Some claim that linguistic creativity is 
expressed in our ability to combine known words in a new sentence, others 
refer to our skill to express thoughts in figurative language, and yet 
others talk about syntactic recursion and lexical creativity.

For the purpose of this workshop, we treat the term "linguistic 
creativity" to mean "creative language usage at different levels", from 
the lexicon to syntax to discourse and text (see also topics, below).

The recognition of instances of linguistic creativity and the computation 
of their meaning constitute one of the most challenging problems for a 
variety of Natural Language Processing tasks, such as machine translation, 
text summarization, information retrieval, question answering, and 
sentiment analysis. Computational systems incorporating models of 
linguistic creativity operate on different types of data (including 
written text, audio/speech/sound, and video/images/gestures). New 
approaches might combine information from different modalities. 
Creativity-aware systems will improve the contribution Computational 
Linguistics has to offer to many practical areas, including education, 
entertainment, and engineering.

Within the scope of the workshop, the event is intended to be 
interdisciplinary. Besides contributions from an NLP perspective, we also 
welcome the participation of researchers who deal with linguistic 
creativity from different perspectives, including psychology, 
neuroscience, or human-computer interaction.


Location

The CALC-09 workshop will be held in conjunction with NAACL HLT 2009 in 
Boulder, Colorado.

Topics

We are particularly interested in work on the automatic detection, 
classification, understanding, or generation of:

     * neologisms;新词
     * figurative language, including metaphor, metonymy, personification,
      idioms;隐喻相关
     * new or unconventional syntactic constructions ("May I serve who's
       next?") and constructions defying traditional parsers (e.g. gapping:
      "Many words were spoken, and sentiments expressed");新的结构
     * indirect speech acts (such as curses, insults, sarcasm and irony);詈语//这个可以做啊
     * verbally expressed humor;幽默
     * poetry and fiction;诗歌小说
     * and other phenomena illustrating linguistic creativity.其他

Depending on the state of the art of approaches to the various phenomena 
and languages, preference will be given to work on deeper processing 
(e.g., understanding, goal-driven generation) rather than shallow 
approaches (e.g., binary classication, random generation). We also welcome 
descriptions and discussions of:

     * computational tools that support people in using language creatively
       (e.g. tools for computer-assisted creative writing, intelligent thesauri);
     * computational and/or cognitive models of linguistic creativity;
     * metrics and tools for evaluating the performance of creativity-aware
       systems
     * specific application scenarios of computational linguistic creativity;
     * design and implementation of creativity-aware systems.

Related topics, including corpora collection, elicitation, and annotation 
of creative language usage, will also be considered, as long as their 
relevance to automatic systems is clearly pointed out.


Invited Speaker :      Nick Montfort, MIT


Submissions

Submissions should describe original, unpublished work. Papers are limited 
to 8 pages. The style files will be available here soon. No author 
information should be included in the papers, since reviewing will be 
blind. Papers not conforming to these requirements are subject to 
rejection without review. Papers should be submitted via START; more 
information on this will be available here as well.

We encourage submissions from everyone. For those how are new to ACL 
conferences and workshops, or with special needs, we are planning to set 
up a lunch mentoring program. Let us know if you are interested. Also, a 
limited number of student travel grants might become available, intended 
for individuals with minority background and current residents of 
countries where conference travel funding is usually hard to find.
这个会议还有资助，好啊！

Important Dates

     * Nov 1, 2008: 1st Call for papers issued
     * Jan 15, 2009: 2nd Call for papers issued
     * Feb 15, 2009: 3rd and final CFP
     * Feb 27, 2009: Deadline for paper submissions 交稿日期
     * Mar 30, 2009: Notification of paper acceptances
     * Apr 12, 2009: Camera-ready copies due
     * ~ Apr 26, 2009: Call for participation
     * June 4-5, 2009: NAACL HLT 2009 workshops

Organizers

     * Anna Feldman, Montclair State University (anna.feldman@montclair.edu)
     * Birte Loenneker-Rodman, International Computer Science Institute (loenneke@icsi.berkeley.edu)

Program Committee

     * Shlomo Argamon, Illinois Institute of Technology;
     * Roberto Basili, University of Roma, Italy;
     * Amilcar Cardoso, University of Coimbra, Portugal;
     * Afsaneh Fazly, University of Toronto, Canada;
     * Eileen Fitzpatrick, Montclair State University;
     * Pablo Gervas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain;
     * Sam Glucksberg, Princeton University;
     * Jerry Hobbs, ISI, Marina del Rey;
     * Sid Horton, Northwestern University;
     * Diana Inkpen, University of Ottawa, Canada;
     * Mark Lee, Birmingham, UK;
     * Hugo Liu, MIT;
     * Xiaofei Lu, Penn State;
     * Ruli Manurung, University of Indonesia;
     * Katja Markert, University of Leeds, UK;
     * Rada Mihalcea, University of North Texas;
     * Anton Nijholt, University of Twente, The Netherlands;
     * Andrew Ortony, Northwestern University;
     * Vasile Rus, The University of Memphis;
     * Richard Sproat, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champain;
     * Gerard Steen, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands;
     * Carlo Strapparava, Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica, Trento, Italy;
     * Juergen Trouvain, Saarland University, Germany.