*MWE-UD2024 @LREC-COLING2024 Call for Sponsorships*

We are pleased to announce that the multiword expressions (MWE) and Universal Dependencies (UD) research communities are joining forces in 2024 to organize a joint workshop MWE-UD2024 https://multiword.org/mweud2024/, to be held as a full-day event collocated with LREC-COLING 2024 https://lrec-coling-2024.org/about-lrec-coling/, Torino, Italy, May 25, 2024.

The MWE WS organised by the MWE section https://multiword.org/ of SIGLEX http://www.siglex.org/ (Special Interest Group on the Lexicon of the ACL https://www.aclweb.org), ran into its 19th edition in 2023 and is organized within major NLP conferences since 2003. The UniDive COST action (CA21167) https://unidive.lisn.upsaclay.fr/doku.php?id=start is an interdisciplinary scientific network devoted to universality, diversity, and idiosyncrasy in language technology. Both communities share an interest in developing guidelines, data-sets, and tools that can be applied to a wide range of typologically diverse languages, raising fundamental questions about tokenization, lemmatization, and morphological decomposition of tokens.

The joint workshop invites submissions of original research on MWE, UD, and the interplay of both. In particular, MWE-UD2024 calls for the submission of the following topics:

● *Sensitivity of large language models (LLMs) to MWEs and syntactic dependencies *

● *Applicability of UD and MWE annotation and discovery for low-resource and typologically diverse languages and language varieties*

● *Case studies* on the consistency, coverage or universal applicability of MWE annotation in the UD or PARSEME frameworks, as well as studies on automatic detection and interpretation of MWEs in corpora

● *MWE and UD processing to enhance end-user applications, *including Machine Translation (MT), text simplification, language learning and assessment, social media mining, and abusive language detection

● *Testing developed systems on the latest dataset versions*

MWE-UD2024 features both long and short research papers, archival and non-archival papers, oral and poster presentations, “Best Paper Awards”, and keynote speakers of rising-star successful scientists including Dr N.G. Levshina (Natalia) https://www.ru.nl/en/people/levshina-n Assistant professor - Centre for Language Studies - Department of Language and Communication, Radboud Universiteit, NL and Dr. Harish Tayyar Madabushi https://www.harishtayyarmadabushi.com/ Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence, University of Bath, UK.

MWE-UD is proud of its *gender balance* feature among STEM conferences, e.g. this year we have confirmed PC members (reviewers) 26 females and 23 males with a ratio of almost 50% each, from 22 countries across most continents.

MWE-UD2024 offers a variety of sponsorship opportunities suitable for organizations of all sizes. Sponsors of the MWE-UD2024 workshop at LREC-COLING gain *visibility* for their companies and institutes at an *international and well-known venue* and contribute to the success of the event. Sponsorship will support increasing the in-person attendance and engagement of the WS, increasing the diversity of attendances (e.g., regions, levels of seniority, gender), through grants, delegates and organizers reimbursement (e.g., waiving registration fees) especially for those with limited funds. Sponsors receive more visibility in the MWE-UD workshop and the LREC-COLING conference, by having their names and logos in our website, having posters/desks/flags/leaflets in the venue, etc.

For more information about the Level of Sponsorship available at MWE-UD2024 and their benefits, please reach out to e-mail at mweud2024-organizers@uni-duesseldorf.de including details of the person to contact, e.g. e-mail address, level of sponsorship desired.

*Organizing Committee*

Archna Bhatia (Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, USA)

Gosse Bouma (Groningen University, NL)

Kilian Evang (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, DE)

Marcos Garcia (University of Santiago de Compostela, Galiza, Spain)

Voula Giouli (Institute for Language & Speech Processing, ATHENA RC, Greece)

Lifeng Han (University of Manchester, UK)

Joakim Nivre (Uppsala University and Research Institutes of Sweden, Sweden)

*Standing by | At Large Members (SIGLEX-MWE):*

● A. Seza Doğruöz https://research.flw.ugent.be/en/as.dogruoz (Ghent University) - SIGLEX-MWE nominated officer in 2023-2025

● Alexandre Rademaker http://arademaker.github.io/ (IBM Research and FGV EMAp) - SIGLEX-MWE nominated officer in 2023-2025

Best regards,

We look forward to seeing you at MWE-UD2024 in Italia! The MWE-UD 2024 organizing committee

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