This page describes the group project organization for the 2nd PARSEME Training School in La Rochelle, 27 June - 1 July, 2016.

Modalities:

• the invited trainees have submitted manuscripts on their MWE-related scientific activity and challenging issues for discussion (a longer description of some issues is available in dedicated documents)
• the trainees are divided into 6 groups of 5-8 members each according to their domains of interest
• each group is supervised by 1-2 senior researchers, her/his role is not to lead the group but to advise it and give feedback, the trainees themselves are in charge of proposals and outcomes
• each group is assigned 3 challenging issues selected among those sumitted by the trainees
• 2 sessions of (90 minutes each) are dedicated to the project work; one session on Friday features the presentation of the outcomes (15 minutes per group) - see the program
• at the beginning each group selects 1-2 reporting persons, who will be in charge of minuting
• at the end, each group selects 1-2 presenters for the final session
• each author of a selected discussion issue presents the issue to the group
• the group work consists in brainstorming, propositing solutions to the issue and describing them
• the expected outcome consists in several slides (presented in no more than 15 min.) describing at least:
  • the problem statement
  • multilingual examples illustrating the issue, with glosses and translations
  • the solutions proposed by the group
  • conclusions
• the slides are also sent to parseme_at_nlp_dot_ipipan_dot_waw_dot_pl for on-line publication

Assignments:

• each trainee reads the manuscripts of all other trainees from his/her group in advance
• each trainee comes with a A0 poster presenting the contents of his/her manuscript and sends (until 20 June to parseme_at_nlp_dot_ipipan_dot_waw_dot_pl) a poster booster slide for a 2-minute plenary presentation (on Monday)

Groups:

• [ANN] Annotation issues
  
  • Supervisor: Victoria Ros√©n
  • Trainees: K√ºbra Adali, Hiwa Asadpour, Natalia Klyueva, Ivana Matas Ivankoviƒá, Carlos Ramisch, Veronika Vincze
  • Discussion issues:
    • How to match a lexicon against a corpus, especially in an agglutinative language? (Variant of the same issue: How to automatically identify inflected forms of MWEs in a corpus, while only their base forms are present in the lexicon?) - submitted by Adali
    • Is it possible to represent semantically idiosyncratic MWEs in (syntactic) treebanks? How? - submitted by Ramisch
    • Status of metaphors wrt. collocations and MWEs - submitted by Vincze
• [DISC] Discovery issues
  • Supervisor: Fabienne Cap
  • Trainees: Eleri Aedmaa, Chlo√© Artaud, Goranka Blagus Bartolec, Guillaume Chiron, Vittorio Ganfi, Daniela Majchr√°kov√°, Justina Mandravickaite, Shiva Taslimipoor
  • Discussion issues:
    • How to distinguish literal from compositional readings? (Variants of the same issue: How to detect MWEs in context? Differentiating multiword terms from collocations. Diachronic studies for identifying fully from partially grammaticalized items) - submitted by Aedmaa, Blagus, Majchr√°kov√°, Taslimipoor, Ara√∫z, and Ganfi
    • Conflating variants of the same MWE - submitted by Artaud
    • How to apply MWEs for post-OCR correction - submitted by Chiron
• [LEX] Lexion issues
  • Supervisors: Adam Przepi√≥rkowski & Agnieszka Patejuk
  • Trainees: Eduard Bejƒçek, Made Windu Kesiman, Nikoleta Olexov√°, Lauma Pretkalni≈Üa, Dage S√§rg, Maria Todorova
  • Discussion issues:
    • Encoding the variability of MWEs (Variants of the same issue: How to describe such MWEs that permit some variation to a certain degree in a lexicon? How to describe syntagmatic peculiarities of verbal MWEs and all quantitative and positional changes of the idiom components? While creating a MWE lexicon, how to understand which words are variable and which are fixed in a MWE?) - submitted by Bejƒçek, Todorova, and Pretkalnina
    • Productivity of different elements in a MWE - submitted by S√§rg
    • Lexicon model for MWEs to support transcription of ancient manuscripts - submitted by Kesiman
• [PARS] Parsing issues
  
  • Supervisor: Matthieu Constant
  • Trainees: Miryam de Lhoneux, Philippe Grang√©, Verginica Mititelu, Violeta Seretan, Jakub Waszczuk
  • Discussion issues:
    • Impact of transformations of MWE representations (e.g. collapsing into words-with-spaces) in treebanks on parsing accuracy  - submitted by de Lhoneux
    • Which types of MWEs should be handled at the stage of the syntactic parsing?  - submitted by Waszczuk
    • Distinguishing between an idiomatic and a compositional meaning of the same string of words in MT and parsing - submitted by Mititelu
• [SEM] Semantic issues
  • Supervisor: Koenraad de Smedt
  • Trainees: Carlos Herrero-Zorita, Pilar Le√≥n Ara√∫z, Elpiniki Margariti, Valentina Piunno, Christophe Rigaud
  • Discussion issues:
    • How to correlate free arguments of a MWE with the free arguments of its meaning/paraphrase? - submitted by Margariti
    • Emotional charge of a MWE - submitted by Pirego
    • The role of negation in MWEs (Variants of the same issue: Semantic polarity of syntactically negated MWEs and its links with lexicalization degree. Periphrastic MWEs and their negation) - submitted by Piunno and Herrero
• [TRANS] Translation issues
  • Supevisors: J√∂rg Tiedemann, Agata Savary
  • Trainees: Mika H√§m√§l√§inen, Jelena Mitrovic, Aleksandar Petrovski, Matƒ´ss Rikters, Beatriz S√°nchez C√°rdenas, Katalin Simk√≥, Georgios Zakis
  • Challenging issues:
    • Pairs of idioms with the same compositional meaning but different idiomatic meanings - submitted by Simko
    • Decoding the semantics of free arguments of MWEs - submitted by Zakis
    • Applying resources of rhetorical figures in machine translation - submitted by Mitrovic