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<br>
Call for papers<br>
Workshop on “Semantic Relations-II. Enhancing Resources and
Applications”<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.racai.ro/SemRel2012/">http://www.racai.ro/SemRel2012/</a><br>
<br>
22nd May, Lütfi Kirdar Istanbul Exhibition and Congress Centre,
Istanbul, Turkey<br>
Held in conjunction with LREC2012<br>
<b><br>
Workshop description</b><br>
Building on the interest in semantic relations manifested by the
participants to the first workshop<br>
Semantic Relations. Theory and Applications (held in conjunction
with LREC2010), we organize a<br>
second edition, Semantic Relations-II. Enhancing Resources and
Applications, in line with current<br>
interests shown by various journals, conferences, international
projects, the recent Multilingual<br>
European Technological Alliance and the synergic projects MetaNet,
MetaNet4u (supporting this<br>
workshop), MetaNord and CESAR.<br>
Lexical-semantic relations are organizing principles of the lexicon.
Linguists have been more<br>
concerned with the definition, characterization and classification
of semantic relations, the focus being<br>
on their paradigmatic aspects. Corpus linguistics offers the
material and tools for grounding theories of<br>
semantic relations in the empirical analysis of usage and
phraseology, for investigating syntagmatic<br>
aspects of semantic relations, which are exploited for various tasks
in computational linguistics, such<br>
as Information Retrieval, Information Extraction, Question
Answering, summarization, text generation<br>
and others.<br>
Recently, semantic relations within compounds, between simplex and
compounds, between stems and<br>
derived words have been dedicated in-depth analyses due to their
importance for natural language<br>
understanding, rephrasing and generation.<br>
In this workshop we will highlight the interrelation between
theoretical and practical aspects in the<br>
study of semantic relations, a theme with important benefits for
both theoretical and computational<br>
linguistics.<br>
The intended audience for our workshop is represented by both
linguists and computer scientists<br>
interested in theoretical and practical aspects of semantic
relations. The aim is to highlight the various<br>
ways in which lexical-semantic relations can enhance language
resources and the results of various<br>
applications using them.<br>
<b><br>
Topics</b><br>
Topics of the workshop will include, but are not limited to:<br>
<ul>
<li>Co-occurrence and semantic relations</li>
<li>Semantic resources for discourse analysis</li>
<li>Extraction of semantic relations from various sources</li>
<li>Exploitation of semantic relations in NLP applications</li>
<li>Knowledge representation and semantic relations</li>
<li>Lexical semantics and word sense</li>
<li>Semantic relations and word formation (compounding and
derivation)</li>
<li>Semantic relations and language learning and acquisition</li>
<li>Semantic relations in Natural Language Generation applications</li>
<li>Semantic relations and terminology</li>
<li>WordNet and WordNet-like resources</li>
</ul>
<b>Invited speaker</b><br>
Our invitated speaker, professor Patrick Hanks, will deliver a
presentation on the Theory of Norm and<br>
Explotation with the title Mapping Semantic Relations onto Pattern
of Word Use using Corpus<br>
Evidence.<br>
<br>
<b>Submission information</b><br>
Papers will be submitted to the workshop via the START LREC
Conference Manager, under<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.softconf.com/lrec2012/SemRel2012/">https://www.softconf.com/lrec2012/SemRel2012/</a>.<br>
Authors should submit a PDF file of no more than 10 pages, following
the LREC conference<br>
formatting details. Papers will be blind reviewed by three members
of the Program Committee, that is<br>
why the author(s)’s names and affiliation(s) should not appear in
the paper.<br>
Accepted papers will be published in the workshop Proceedings.<br>
When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked
to provide essential information<br>
about resources (in a broad sense, i.e. also technologies,
standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been<br>
used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of your
research.<br>
For further information on this new initiative, please refer to <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2012/?LREMap">http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2012/?LREMap</a>-<br>
2012.<br>
<br>
<b>Important dates</b><br>
Paper submission: 2nd March 2012<br>
Notification of acceptance: 23rd March 2012<br>
Camera-ready papers: 30th March 2012<br>
Workshop: 22nd May 2012<br>
<br>
<b>Program Committee</b><br>
Eduard Barbu, CIMEC (Italy)<br>
Antonio Branco, FCL (Portugal)<br>
Elena Cabrio, LIMSI (France)<br>
Corina Forascu, UAIC (Romania)<br>
Nuria Gala, LIF-CNRS (France)<br>
Patrick Hanks, UWE (UK)<br>
Amac Herdagdelen, New England Complex Systems Institute (UK)<br>
Diana Inkpen, University of Ottawa (Canada)<br>
Radu Ion, RACAI (Romania)<br>
Elisabetta Jezek , PAVIA (Italy)<br>
Svetla Koeva, Institute for Bulgarian Language (Bulgaria)<br>
Claudia Kunze, Qualisys GmbH (Germany)<br>
Gerhard Kremer, Institut fuer Computerlinguistik, Universitaet
Heidelberg (Germany)<br>
Hristina Kukova, Institute for Bulgarian Language (Bulgaria)<br>
Svetlozara Leseva, Institute for Bulgarian Language (Bulgaria)<br>
Bernardo Magnini, FBK-IRST (Italy)<br>
Emanuela Pianta, FBK-IRST (Italy)<br>
Reinhard Rapp, University of Leeds (UK)<br>
Didier Schwab, Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble (France)<br>
Carlo Strapparava, FBK-IRST (Italy)<br>
Sara Tonelli, FBK-IRST (Italy)<br>
Dan Tufis, RACAI (Romania)<br>
Michael Zock, CNRS&LIF (France)<br>
<br>
<b>Contact person</b><br>
Please email vergi AT racai DOT ro if you have any questions
regarding this workshop.<br>
<br>
<b>Organizing Committee</b><br>
Verginica Barbu Mititelu<br>
Romanian Academy Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence<br>
E-mail: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:verginicabm@gmail.com">verginicabm@gmail.com</a><br>
Octavian Popescu<br>
Human Language Technology Group, Fondazione Bruno Kessler<br>
E-mail: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:popescu@fbk.eu">popescu@fbk.eu</a><br>
Viktor Pekar<br>
Dictionaries Dept, Academic Division, Oxford University Press<br>
E-mail: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:v.pekar@gmail.com">v.pekar@gmail.com</a>
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