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<div class="moz-text-html" lang="x-western"><big>Dear colleagues<br>
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Please distribute the following Call for Papers among colleagues, and
accept our apologies for multiple
postings.</big>
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<big><br>
First Call for Papers</big><br>
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<b><big><big>Cognitive Aspects
of the Lexicon</big><i><big> </big></i></big></b><big><big>(</big></big><big><big>Cogalex<small>-2</small></big></big><big><big>)</big></big><br>
<big><small>2nd SIGLEX endorsed COLING Workshop </small></big><big><small>(August
22,
2010, </small></big>Beijing)<big> <big> </big></big><br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://pageperso.lif.univ-mrs.fr/%7Emichael.zock/cogalex-2.html">http://pageperso.lif.univ-mrs.fr/~michael.zock/cogalex-2.html</a><br>
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Submission <b>deadline</b>: May 30, 2010<br>
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<big><b>AIMS</b> and <b>TARGET AUDIENCE</b><br>
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</big>
<div align="justify"><big>The aim of this workshop is to bring together
researchers involved in the construction and application of electronic
dictionaries to discuss modifications of existing resources in line
with the users' needs, thereby fully exploiting the advantages of the
digital form. Given the breadth of the questions, we welcome reports on
work from many perspectives, including but not limited to:
computational lexicography, psycholinguistics, cognitive psychology,
language learning and ergonomics.</big><br>
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<big><br>
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<b>MOTIVATION</b><br>
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</big>
<div align="justify"><big>Whenever we read a book, write a letter or
launch a query on a search engine, we always use words, the shorthand
labels and concrete forms of abstract notions (concepts, ideas and more
or less well specified thoughts). Yet, words are not only vehicles to
express thoughts, they are also means to conceive them. They are
mediators between language and thought, allowing us to move quickly
from one idea to another, refining, expanding or illustrating our
possibly underspecified thoughts. Only words have these unique
capabilities, which is why they are so important.</big><br>
<br>
<big>Obviously, a good dictionary should contain many entries and a lot
of information associated with each one of them. Yet, the quality of a
dictionary depends not only on coverage, but also on accessibility of
information. Access strategies vary with the task (text understanding
vs. text production) and the knowledge available at the moment of
consultation (word, concept, speech sounds). Unlike readers who look
for meanings, writers start from them, searching for the corresponding
words. While paper dictionaries are static, permitting only limited
strategies for accessing information, their electronic counterparts
promise dynamic, proactive search via multiple criteria (meaning,
sound, related words) and via diverse access routes. Navigation takes
place in a huge conceptual lexical space, and the results are
displayable in a multitude of forms (e.g. as trees, as lists, as
graphs, or sorted alphabetically, by topic, by frequency).</big><br>
<br>
<big>Many lexicographers work nowadays with huge digital corpora, using
language technology to build and to maintain the lexicon. But access to
the potential wealth of information in dictionaries remains limited for
the common user. Yet, the new possibilities of electronic media in
terms of comfort, speed and flexibility (multiple inputs, polyform
outputs) are enormous. Computational resources are not prone to the
same limitations as paperbound dictionaries. The latter were limited in
scope, being confined to a specific task (translation, synonyms, ...)
due to economical reasons, but this limitation is not justified anymore.</big><br>
<br>
<big>Today we can perform all tasks via one single resource, which may
comprise a dictionary, a thesaurus and even more. The goal of this
workshop is to perform the groundwork for the next generation of
electronic dictionaries, that is, to study the possibility of
integrating the different resources, as well as to explore the
feasibility of taking the user's needs, knowledge and access strategies
into account.</big><br>
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<big><br>
<br>
<b>TOPICS</b><br>
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</big>
<div align="justify"><big>For this workshop we invite papers including
but not limited to the following topics:</big><br>
<br>
<blockquote><b><big>Conceptual input of a dictionary user. </big></b><big>What
is in the authors' minds when they are generating a message
and looking for a word? Do they start from partial definitions, i.e.
underspecified input (bag of words), conceptual primitives,
semantically related words, something akin to synsets, or something
completely different? What does it take to bridge the gap between this
input, incomplete as it may be, and the desired output (target word)?</big><br>
<br>
<big><b>Organizing the lexicon and indexing words</b>. </big><big>Concepts,
words and multi-word expressions can be organized and
indexed in many ways, depending on the task and language type. For
example, in Indo-European languages words are traditionally organized
in alphabetical order, whereas in Chinese they are organized by
semantic radicals and stroke counts. The way words and multi-word
expressions are stored and organized affects indexing and access. Since
knowledge states (i.e. knowledge available when initiating search) vary
greatly and in unpredictable ways, indexing must allow for multiple
ways of navigation and access. Hence the question: what organizational
principles allow the greatest flexibility for access?</big><br>
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<big><b>Access, navigation and search strategies based on various
entry types</b> (modalities) and <b>knowledge states</b>. </big><big>Words
are composed of meanings, forms and sounds. Hence, access
should be possible via any of these components: via meanings (bag of
words), via forms, simple or compound ('hot, dog' vs. 'hot-dog'), and
via sounds (syllables). Access should even be possible, if input is
given in an incomplete, imprecise or degraded form. Furthermore, to
allow for natural and efficient access, we need to take the users'
knowledge into account (search space reduction) and provide adequate
navigational tools, metaphorically speaking, a map and a compass. How
do existing tools address these needs, and what could be done to go
further?</big><br>
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<big><b>NLP applications</b>: </big><big>Contributors can also
demonstrate how such enhanced
dictionaries, once embedded in existing NLP applications, can boost
performance and help solve lexical and textual-entailment problems,
such as those evaluated in SEMEVAL 2007, or, more generally, generation
problems encountered in the context of summarization,
question-answering, interactive paraphrasing or translation.</big><br>
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<big><br>
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<b>IMPORTANT DATES</b><br>
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</big>
<blockquote>
<ul>
<li><big><i>Deadline</i> for paper submissions: May 30, 2010</big></li>
<li><big>Notification of acceptance: June 30, 2010</big></li>
<li><big>Camera-ready papers due: July 10, 2010</big></li>
<li><big><i>Cogalex workshop</i>: August 22, 2010</big></li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
<big><br>
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<b>SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS</b><br>
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</big>
<div align="justify"><big>Authors are invited to submit original,
unpublished work on any of the topic areas of the workshop. As
reviewing will be blind, the paper should not include the authors'
names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references revealing the
authors' identity, should be avoided. Further details concerning the
paper submission will be announced closer to the May 30 submission
deadline.</big><br>
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<big><br>
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<b>RELATED CONFERENCES</b> in <b>BEIJING</b><br>
<br>
Next to COLING 2010 there are two conferences workshop participants may
be interested in:<br>
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</big>
<blockquote>
<div align="justify"><big>The 7th International Conference on
Cognitive Science (ICCS) which takes place August 17 to 20, 2010, just
before COLING. It is our hope that this unique opportunity will foster
scientific exchange between the scientific communities of Computational
Linguistics and Cognitive Science. The ICCS' venue is the China
National Convention Center (CNCC) which is close to COLING's site, the
Beijing International Convention Center (BICC), located on the other
side of the China National Stadium ('Bird Nest').</big><br>
<br>
<big>Also somewhat related is the 6th IEEE International Conference
on Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Engineering (IEEE
NLP-KE'10). Yet, as it is scheduled for August 21 to 23, 2010, it
overlaps with our workshop.</big><br>
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</blockquote>
<big><br>
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<b>PROGRAM COMMITTEE</b><br>
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</big>
<blockquote><big>- Slaven Bilac (Google Tokyo, Japan)</big><br>
<big>- Pierrette Bouillon (ISSCO, Geneva, Switzerland)</big><br>
<big>- Dan Cristea (University of Iasi, Romania)</big><br>
<big>- Katrin Erk (University of Texas, USA)</big><br>
<big>- Olivier Ferret (CEA LIST, France)</big><br>
<big>- Thierry Fontenelle (EU Translation Centre, Luxemburg)</big><br>
<big>- Sylviane Granger (Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium)</big><br>
<big>- Gregory Grefenstette (Exalead, Paris, France)</big><br>
<big>- Ulrich Heid (IMS, University of Stuttgart, Germany)</big><br>
<big>- Erhard Hinrichs (University of Tuebingen, Germany)</big><br>
<big>- Graeme Hirst (University of Toronto, Canada)</big><br>
<big>- Ed Hovy (ISI, University of Southern California, Los
Angeles, USA)</big><br>
<big>- Chu-Ren Huang (Hongkong Polytechnic University, China)</big><br>
<big>- Terry Joyce (Tama University, Kanagawa-ken, Japan)</big><br>
<big>- Philippe Langlais (DIRO/RALI, University of Montreal,
Canada)</big><br>
<big>- Marie Claude L'Homme (University of Montreal, Canada)</big><br>
<big>- Verginica Mititelu (RACAI, Bucharest, Romania)</big><br>
<big>- Alain Polguere (Nancy-Universite & ATILF CNRS, France)</big><br>
<big>- Reinhard Rapp (University of Tarragona, Spain)</big><br>
<big>- Sabine Schulte im Walde (University of Stuttgart, Germany)</big><br>
<big>- Gilles Serasset (IMAG, Grenoble, France)</big><br>
<big>- Serge Sharoff (University of Leeds, UK)</big><br>
<big>- Anna Sinopalnikova (FIT, BUT, Brno, Czech Republic)</big><br>
<big>- Carole Tiberius (Institute for Dutch Lexicology, The
Netherlands)</big><br>
<big>- Takenobu Tokunaga (TITECH, Tokyo, Japan)</big><br>
<big>- Dan Tufis (RACAI, Bucharest, Romania)</big><br>
<big>- Piek Vossen (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)</big><br>
<big>- Yorick Wilks (Oxford Research Institute, UK)</big><br>
<big>- Michael Zock (LIF-CNRS, Marseille, France)</big><br>
<big>- Pierre Zweigenbaum (LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay, France)</big><br>
</blockquote>
<big><br>
<br>
<b>WEBSITE, WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS</b> and <b>CONTACT PERSONS</b><br>
</big>
<blockquote>
<ul>
<li><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://pageperso.lif.univ-mrs.fr/%7Emichael.zock/cogalex-2.html">http://pageperso.lif.univ-mrs.fr/~michael.zock/cogalex-2.html</a></li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
<blockquote>
<ul>
<li><big>Michael Zock <small>(LIF-CNRS, Marseille, France)</small>,
michael.zock AT
lif.univ-mrs.fr</big></li>
<li><big>Reinhard Rapp (<small>University of Tarragona, Spain),</small>
reinhard.rapp AT urv.cat</big></li>
</ul>
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Michael ZOCK
Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale (LIF)
CNRS, UMR 6166
Parc Scientifique et Technologique de Luminy
Case 901 - 163 Avenue de Luminy
Bât. TPR1, entrées G et H, 6ème étage
F-13288 Marseille Cedex 9
Mail: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:michael.zock@lif.univ-mrs.fr">michael.zock@lif.univ-mrs.fr</a>
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