[Corpora-List] Call For Papers: Global Wordnet Conference 2012

Tue Aug 30 02:25:25 UTC 2011

Abbreviated Title:  GWC2012
Call for Papers
Submission Deadline: 23 Sep 2011
Event Dates: 9 Jan 2012 - 13 Jan 2012
Location: Kunibiki Messe (www.kunibikimesse.jp/en/index.html)
City: Matsue
Country: Japan
Website: http://lang.cs.tut.ac.jp/gwc2012/

Global Wordnet Conference 2012

Call for papers 6th International Global Wordnet Conference (GWC2012)
DEADLINE EXTENDED TO SEPTEMBER 23!!!!

Announcement
6th International Global Wordnet Conference,
Matsue, Japan
January, 9-13, 2012

First Call for papers 6th International Global Wordnet Conference.

The Global Wordnet Association is pleased to announce the 6th
International Global Wordnet Conference (GWC2012).

The conference will be held at Kunibiki Messe
(www.kunibikimesse.jp/en/index.html), Matsue, Japan, in January 2012.
It is organized by the Global Wordnet Association, the Toyohashi
University of Technology and the National Institute of Japanese
Language and Linguistics. Matsue is located in the west part of Japan,
about 1000km west from Tokyo.

Local organization: Hitoshi Isahara (Toyohashi University of
Technology) and Kyoko Kanzaki (National Institute of Japanese Language
and Linguistics).

Details about the Association and the full announcement for the
conference can be found on the GWA website (www.globalwordnet.org) and
on the conference website (to be launched).

We invite papers addressing the topics listed below. Proposals for
tutorials on building wordnets and demonstrations of wordnet
databases, and wordnet-based software are welcome too.

    Linguistics and lexical semantics, including:
        In depth analysis of Semantic Relations,
        Determining and representing word meanings (definitions,
relations, semantic components, co-occurrence statistics, etc.)
        Necessity and Completeness issues.
        Ontologies and wordnets.
        The lexicon and wordnets.
    Architecture of lexical databases, including:
        Language independent and language dependent components
    Tools and Methods for Wordnet Development, including:
        User and Data entry interface, organization,
        Extending and enriching wordnets
    WordNet as a lexical resource and component of NLP and MT, including:
        Word sense disambiguation using wordnet,
        Ontologies and WordNet,
        The Lexicon and WordNet
    Applications of WordNet, including:
        Information Extraction and Retrieval,
        Document Structuring and Categorization,
        Automatic Hyperlinking
        Language Teaching,
        Psycholinguistic Applications
    Standardization, distribution and availability of wordnets and
wordnet tools.

Presentations will fall into one of the following categories:

    long papers (30 mins)
    short papers (15 mins)
    project reports (10 mins)
    demonstrations (20 mins)

Submissions will have to state one of the preferred categories.
Acceptance may be subject to changes in the category of the
presentation, e.g. a long paper submission may be accepted as a short
paper.

Final papers should be submitted in electronic form (PDF only):

    Long papers should be limited to 8 pages,
    Demonstration papers must be at most 5 pages text and can have
additional 3 pages screen dumps or images;
    Short papers and project descriptions should be limited to 5 pages.

Papers need to be submitted to the EasyChair website:

The format of the paper is in ACL format (PDF)

The conference program will include oral presentations and
demonstration sessions with sufficient time for discussions of the
issues raised.

The deadline for submissions is September 23rd, 2011. Decisions
regarding acceptance will be announced to the authors by end of
September. Final papers are due at October 10th.

Important note: Inclusion of accepted submissions into the final
program and the proceedings is contingent upon at least one author's
registration. Late registration and on site registration for
participants is possible without inclusion of the paper and without
presentation.

Important dates:

    September-23-2011 Deadline for paper submission
    October-24-2011 Notification of acceptance of papers
    November-11-2011 Final papers by authors
    November-21-2011
    November-18-2011 PC checks final papers and contact authors, if
    necessary.
    November-21-2011 LOC gets all camera readies from PC
    November-15-2011 Registration is open
    November-30-2011 Registration closes for author(s) to be included
in the proceedings
    January 9-13, 2011 Conference

Please note that traveling to Japan may require a Visa. Please,
consult the Japan National Tourist Organization:
http://www.jnto.go.jp/eng/arrange/essential/visa.html

Also visit the conference website (to be launched) for relevant information.

Conference Chairs:

Christiane Fellbaum
Fellbaum at Princeton.edu

Piek Vossen
P.Vossen at let.vu.nl

Local Organizing Chairs:

Hitoshi Isahara
Toyohashi University of Technology
Email: isahara at tut.jp

Kyoko Kanzaki
National Institute of Japanese Language and Linguistics
Email: kanzaki at ninjal.ac.jp

Program committee

    Hitoshi Isahara
    Kyoko Kanzaki
    Christiane Fellbaum, Princeton University
    Piek Vossen, Free University of Amsterdam
    Adam Kilgarriff, Lexical Computing Ltd
    Adam Pease, Rearden Commerce
    Ales Horak
    Darja Fiser, University of Ljubljana
    Bernardo Magnini
    Gloria Vasquez
    Agata Cybulska
    Attila Gorog
    Pushpak Bhattacharyya, IIT Bombay
    Peter Schulam
    Eneko Agirre, University of the Basque Country
    Karel Pala, Masaryk University
    Ted Pedersen
    Francis Bond, Nanyang Technological University
    Shu-Kai Hsieh, National Taiwan University
    Monica Monachini
    Heili Orav
    Claudia Soria
    Andrea Marchetti
    Bolette Pedersen
    German Rigau, University of the Basque Country
    Horacio Rodriguez
    Axel Herold
    Virach Sornlertlamvanich, NECTEC
    Chu-Ren Huang, Hong Kong Polytechnic U.
    Maciej Piasecki
    Zygmunt Vetulani
    Sonja Bosch
    Kow Kuroda
    Yoshihiko Hayashi
    Toru Ishida
    Takanobu Tokunaga
    Naoyuki Ono, Tohoku University
    Peter Schulam, Carnegie Mellon University

-- 
Francis Bond <http://www3.ntu.edu.sg/home/fcbond/>
Division of Linguistics and Multilingual Studies
Nanyang Technological University

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