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
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
• 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 Rosén) 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 Przepiórkowski) 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 Przepiórkowski ) 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 Straňák) poster session B | ||
16:00-16:30 | coffee break | ||
16:30-18:00 | (session 7, chairs: Yannick Parmentier & Victoria Rosén) 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
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 Arsenał Restaurant at Długa 52 str. All participants eligible for the reimbursement are cordially invited. ( To get to the Nowy Arsenał Restaurant from the Institute take a tram 26 from Elekcyjna stop at Wolska str. to Metro Ratusz Arsenał)
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
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/
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)
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