AMCR 2013 - The 1st International Workshop on Advances in Multilingual Coreference Resolution

The 1st International Workshop on Advances in Multilingual Coreference Resolution (AMCR 2013) to be held on September 12th/13th, 2013 at the International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2013), Hissar, Bulgaria.
In the last couple of years, the interest in the area of Multilingual Coreference Resolution (MCR) has increased immensely. Two shared tasks (SemEval-2 Shared Task 1: Coreference Resolution in Multiple Languages in 2010 and the CoNLL Shared Task: Modeling Multilingual Unrestricted Coreference in OntoNotes in 2012) have set an excellent benchmark by releasing datasets for 8 different languages (SemEval: Catalan, Dutch, English, German, Italian and Spanish; CoNLL: Arabic, Chinese and English). Moreover, a wide range of multilingual systems have been developed within the framework of the tasks. We see a necessity for future research on the topic of MCR. The lack of existing workshops on the topic motivates our attempt to provide a possibility for the researchers interested specifically on multilinguality with respect to Coreference Resolution to present their work and results.
The 1st International Workshop on Advances in Multilingual Coreference Resolution (AMCR 2013) workshop will welcome both theoretical and applied computational work regarding MCR. The submissions are expected to discuss theories, applications, evaluation, limitations, system development and techniques relevant to the AMCR topics. Papers that critically evaluate approaches or existing strategies will be especially welcome, as will new and innovative MCR system implementations. There will be a decisive focus on multilinguality for this workshop. Thus, submitted papers should cover at least one language other than English, preferably more. The scope of topics includes, but is not limited, to:
Statistical and rule-based approaches to Multilingual CR
Availability of resources for Multilingual CR
New resources for Multilingual CR
CR for languages other than English
Acquisition of world knowledge for improving Multilingual CR
Empirical data analysis and comparison of the various annotation CR schemes
CR across language families
Event coreference for MCR
Knowledge-poor and knowledge-rich approaches to Multilingual CR
Mention detection for entities and events for Multilingual CR
Language specific issues within the Multilingual CR task
Parallel corpora for CR