Event title: PARSEME 2nd general meeting

Location: Divani Palace Acropolis, Athens, Greece

Dates: from 10 to 11 March 2014

Hosting Institution: Institute for Language and Speech Processing of the Athena Research Center

Local Organizers: Stella Markantonatou and Aggeliki Fotopoulou

Athens-all

NEW! Selected photos from the meeting are available (Sunday, Monday, Tuesday). If you wish to share your selected photos, contact the MC chair.

The list of the admitted posters (with downloadable abstracts, slides and poster files) and the instructions for authors are now available.

Important dates

‚Ä¢  10 January 2014 15 January 2014: extended poster submission deadline
• 22 January 2014: notifications sent out
• 10-11 March 2013: poster sessions and WG sessions

Final schedule

Monday, 10 March Tuesday, 11 March
8:30-9:00 registration and poster hanging 9:00-10:30 (session 8, chairs: Yannick Parmentier & Victoria Ros√©n) WG2 and WG4 parallel working sessions
9:00-9:30  (session 1, chair: Agata Savary) opening plenary session  10:30-11:00 coffee break
9:30-10:15 (sessions 2, chair: Adam Przepi√≥rkowski) plenary poster presentations A (2 minutes per poster)   11:00-12:30 (session 9, chairs: Manfred Sailer & Mike Rosner) WG1 and WG3 parallel working sessions
10:15-10:45 coffee break 12:30-14:00 lunch (at the Divani Hotel)
10:45-11:45    (session 3, chair: Adam Przepi√≥rkowski ) poster session A 14:00-15:30    (session 10, chairs: Manfred Sailer & Mike Rosner ) WG1 and WG3 parallel working sessions
11:45-12:45 (session 4, chair: Agata Savary) Management Committee meeting 15:30-16:00 coffee break
12:45-14:15 lunch (at the Divani Hotel) 16:00-16:30 (session 11) plenary closing session
14:15-15:00 (session 5, chair: Pavel Straňák) plenary poster presentations B (2 minutes per poster) 16:30-18:00 (session 12) Steering Committee meeting
15:00-16:00 (session 6, chair: Pavel Stra≈à√°k) poster session B    
16:00-16:30 coffee break    
16:30-18:00 (session 7, chairs: Yannick Parmentier & Victoria Ros√©n) WG2 and WG4 parallel working sessions       
20:00 dinner    

 

Accommodation: The following hotels are recommended.
• Divani Palace Acropolis (the meetings will be held in this hotel) - to book a room, use this booking form (80-90 €). Please, book preferably at this hotel. If at least 30 rooms are booked by PARSEME members the conference rooms will be offered for free.
• Philippos and Herodion - to book a room, use this booking form (70 € and 55 €)

Going from the Athens Airport to your hotels: see the directions here.

Reimbursement: In order to apply for the reimbursement for this meeting, please, accept the invitation that will be sent to you via e-COST before the meeting. After the meeting, fill in the reimbursement form that will be available online via the COST system and send all relevant signed documents to the Grant Holder, as indicated in the reimbursement form.

Walk on the western hills of Athens. We meet at Divani reception, 11.00am, Sunday 9.03.2014: It will be my pleasure to have a walk with you on the most beautiful western hills of Athens. Stella

Western-Hills

Call for Poster Proposals: We welcome poster proposals related to the scientific program of any of the four Working Groups.
Submission format: PDF, up to 2 pages (12pt font, 1in margins).  Please, include your name and affiliation, the title of the poster, and the Working Group concerned.
You may refer to results published previously in another venue or journal. Submissions are not anonymous and are open to all researchers and language technology experts from the Action's member countries.

The presentation of the posters based on selected proposals will be twofold:
- a brief presentation (of about 2 minutes) of each poster will be done in a dedicated plenary session,
- posters will be displayed in the meeting rooms and a classical poster sessions will allow for parallel discussions.

Please send your submissions via e-mail to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

The final acceptance decisions will be made by the PARSEME Steering Committee.
The authors of the selected proposals will be reimbursed for their travel and stay.

Event title: PARSEME inaugural general meeting

Location: Institute of Computer Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

Dates: from 16 to 18 September 2013

The meeting started on Monday 16.09.2013 after lunch with a plenary session, and continued on Tuesday and Wednesday 17–18.09.2013 with roughly half-day sessions for each Working Group (WG), so that – at this initial gathering – everybody could take part in all WG meetings and decide which WG(s) to join. There were slots for several presentations per WG and time for ensuing discussions.

Schedule

Monday 16 Sept

 

13:00-14:00 registration

Session 1
14:00-15:00 plenary session

Session 2 (WG2)
15:00-15:30 Valia Kordoni and Markus Egg: Multiword Expressions and Collocations in NLP: A State of the Art Overview
15:30-16:00 Jan Šnajder: Distributional Semantics of Multi-Word Expressions
16:00-16:30 coffee break

Session 3 (WG2)
16:30-17:00 Eric Wehrli: Impact of Collocation Knowledge on Sentence Parsing
17:00-18:00 Discussion on the WG2 work plan for years 1 and 2

19:00 Welcome Dinner at Nowy Arsena≈Ç Restaurant at D≈Çuga 52 str. All participants eligible for the reimbursement are cordially invited. ( To get to the Nowy Arsena≈Ç Restaurant from the Institute take a tram 26 from Elekcyjna stop at Wolska str. to Metro Ratusz Arsena≈Ç)

Tuesday 17 Sept - WG sessions

 Session 4 (WG1)

9:30-10:00 Ann Copestake: Multiword expression representation in DELPH-IN: successes and problems. A state-of-the-art overview
10:00-10:30 Alon Itai & Shuly Wintner: Lexical Representation and Morphological Processing of Hebrew Multiword Expressions
10:30-11:00 Carla Parra Escartin & Gyri Sm√∏rdal Losnegaard: Representing Multiword Expressions in Lexical and Terminological Resources
11:00-11:30 coffee break

Session 5 (WG1)
11:30-11:45 Lars Hellan: Under the Word Belt
11:45-12:00 Monika Czerepowicka: An Electronic Dictionary of Polish Multi-Word Units as an Example of Using a Text and Speech Corpus in Lexicographical Studies
12:00-13:00 Discussion on the WG1 work plan for years 1 and 2

13:00-14:30 LUNCH

Session 6 (WG3)
14:30-15:00 Johanna Monti: MWE processing in Machine Translation: State fo the Art and Open Challenges
15:00-15:30 Matthieu Constant: Integrating compound recognition in constituency parsing with an hybrid approach
15:30-16:00 Valia Kordoni & Iliana Simova: Phrasal Verb Treatment for Improving English-Bulgarian Statistical Machine Translation
16:00-16:30 coffee break

Session 7 (WG3)
16:30-17:30 Discussion on the WG3 work plan for years 1 and 2

17:30-18:30 Management Committee meeting

Wednesday 18 Sept

Session 8 (WG4)
9:30-10:00 Veronika Vincze: Annotating MWEs in Treebanks: The Case of Hungarian
10:00-10:30 Gülşen Eryiğit: How to Annotate MWEs on Dependency Treebanks & Evaluate the Improvement on Parsing Performance
10:30-11:00 Martin Volk: Multiword Expressions in Parallel Treebanks
11:00-11:30 coffee break

Session 9 (WG4)
11:30-12:00 Gyri Smørdal Losnegaard & Victoria Rosén: MWE Annotation in Monolingual and Parallel Treebanks in INESS
12:00-13:00 Discussion on the WG4 work plan for years 1 and 2
13:00-14:30 LUNCH

Session 10
14:30-15:30 summarizing work plans for WG1-4 (WG1, WG2, WG3, WG4)
15:30-16:30 Steering Committee meeting

 

Venue

the main conference hall of the Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences.

The address of the venue is: Jana Kazimierza 5, 01-248 Warsaw

City map 

If you plan to use public transport to get to the place, the nearest bus stop is ORDONA (lines 105, 154, 159 and 184) and tram stop is ELEKCYJNA (lines 8, 10, 26 and 78). Use the route planner to find your way.

Accommodation

The accommodation support for this meeting is 95 euro per night.  There are several hotels in the neighbourhood with convenient public transport available that we can recommend e.g.:  

  • Campanile (325 PLN)
    bus 159 from PL. ZAWISZY 16 to ORDONA 02 (a request stop)
  • IBIS Warszawa Centrum (299 PLN)
    tram 8, 10, 26 or 27 from OKOPOWA 04 to ELEKCYJNA 04
  • IBIS Warszawa Reduta (275 PLN)
    bus 154 or 184 from SZCZƒò≈öLIWICKA 04 to ORDONA 02 (a request stop)

Reimbursement

In order to apply for the reimbursement for this meeting please accept the invitation that has been sent to you before the meeting. And after the meeting, fill in the reimbursement form that will be available online via the COST system and send all relevant signed documents to the Grant Holder, as indicated in the reimbursement form.

Restaurants in Warsaw

Restaurants you may visit while being in Warsaw:

Close to the Institute:

 Grand Kredens Restaurant (European)  http://www.kredens.com.pl/ang/  

 Folk Gospoda (Polish)  http://www.folkgospoda.pl/pl/tresci/65,kontakt.html 

At the Old Town:

  Podwale 25 Piwna Kompania (Czech, German)  http://www.podwale25.pl/ 

 Restauracja Polka (Polish)  http://warszawa.restauracjapolka.pl/kontakt/ 

 

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Event title: PARSEME kick-off meeting

Location: COST office, Brussels, Belgium

Date: 08-03-2013

Documents:

Part 1 (by COST Office):

Parts 2 (by MC chair)