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<div align="center">1st Call for Papers of COGALEX<br>
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3rd Workshop on "<b>Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon</b>"<br>
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post-conference workshop of COLING 2012 <br>
(December 15, Mumbai, India)<br>
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<b>Submission deadline</b>: October 15, 2012<br>
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<b>AIMS</b> and <b>TARGET AUDIENCE</b><br>
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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.<br>
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<b>MOTIVATION</b><br>
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The way we look at dictionaries, their creation and use, has changed
dramatically over the past 30 years. (1°) While being considered as
an appendix to grammar in the past, they have in the meantime moved
to centre stage. Indeed, there is hardly any task in NLP which can
be conducted without them. (2°) Also, many lexicographers work
nowadays with huge digital corpora, using language technology to
build and to maintain the lexicon. (3°) Last, but not least, rather
than being static entities (data-base view), dictionaries are now
viewed as graphs, whose nodes and links (connection strengths) may
change over time. Interestingly, properties concerning topology,
clustering and evolution known from other disciplines (society,
economy, human brain) also apply to dictionaries: everything is
linked, hence accessible, and everything is evolving. Given these
similarities, one may wonder what we can learn from these
disciplines.<br>
<br>
In this 3rd edition of the CogALex workshop we therefore intend to
also invite scientists working in these fields, our goals being to
broaden the picture, i.e. to gain a better understanding concerning
the mental lexicon and to integrate these findings into our
dictionaries in order to support navigation. Given recent advances
in neurosciences, it appears timely to seek inspiration from
neuroscientists studying the human brain. There is also a lot to be
learned from other fields studying graphs and networks, even if
their object of study is something else than language, for example
biology, economy or society.<br>
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TOPICS OF INTEREST<br>
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This workshop is about possible enhancements of existing electronic
dictionaries. To perform the groundwork for the next generation of
electronic dictionaries we invite researchers involved in the
building of such dictionaries. The idea is to discuss modifications
of existing resources by taking the users' needs and knowledge
states into account, and to capitalize on the advantages of the
digital media. For this workshop we invite papers including but not
limited to the following topics which can be considered from various
points of view: linguistics, neuro- or psycholinguistics
(associations, tip-of-the-tongue problem), network-related sciences
(complex graphs, network topology, small-world problem), etc.<br>
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1) Analysis of the conceptual input of a dictionary user<br>
<br>
- What does a language producer start from (bag of words)?<br>
- What is in the authors' minds when they are generating a message
and looking for a word?<br>
- What does it take to bridge the gap between this input and the
desired output (target word)?<br>
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2) The meaning of words<br>
<br>
- Lexical representation (holistic, decomposed)<br>
- Meaning representation (concept based, primitives)<br>
- Revelation of hidden information (vector-based approaches:
LSA/HAL)<br>
- Neural models, neurosemantics, neurocomputational theories of
content representation.<br>
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3) Structure of the lexicon<br>
<br>
- Discovering structures in the lexicon: formal and semantic point
of view (clustering, topical structure)<br>
- Creative ways of getting access to and using word associations <br>
- Evolution, i.e. dynamic aspects of the lexicon (changes of
weights)<br>
- Neural models of the mental lexicon (distribution of information
concerning words, organisation of the mental lexicon)<br>
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4) Methods for crafting dictionaries or indexes<br>
<br>
- Manual, automatic or collaborative building of dictionaries and
indexes (distributional semantics, crowd-sourcing, serious games,
etc.)<br>
- Impact and use of social networks (Facebook, Twitter) for building
dictionaries, for organizing and indexing the data (clustering of
words), and for allowing to track navigational strategies, etc.<br>
- (Semi-) automatic induction of the link type (e.g. synonym,
hypernym, meronym, association, collocation, ...)<br>
- Use of corpora and patterns (data-mining) for getting access to
words, their uses, and combinations (associations)<br>
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5) Dictionary access (navigation and search strategies), interface
issues<br>
<br>
- Semantic-based search<br>
- Search (simple query vs multiple words)<br>
- Context-dependent search (modification of usersí goals during
search)<br>
- Recovery<br>
- Navigation (frequent navigational patterns or search strategies
used by people)<br>
- Interface problems, data-visualisation<br>
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<b>IMPORTANT DATES</b><br>
<br>
- Deadline for paper submissions: October 15, 2012<br>
- Notification of acceptance: November 5, 2012<br>
- Camera-ready papers due: November 15, 2012<br>
- Workshop date: December 15, 2012<br>
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<b>SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS</b><br>
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see: <font color="#000099"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://pageperso.lif.univ-mrs.fr/~michael.zock/cogalex-3.html">http://pageperso.lif.univ-mrs.fr/~michael.zock/cogalex-3.html</a></font><br>
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<b>INVITED SPEAKER</b>: <br>
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Pushpak Bhattacharyya (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay) <br>
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<b>PROGRAM COMMITTEE</b><br>
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* Barbu, Eduard (Universidad de Jaén, Spain)<br>
* Barrat, Alain (Centre de physique théorique, CNRS &
Aix-Marseille University)<br>
* Bilac, Slaven (Google Tokyo, Japan)<br>
* Bel Enguix, Gemma (LIF, Aix-Marseille University, France)<br>
* Bouillon, Pierrette (TIM, Faculty of Translation and
Interpretating, Geneva, Switzerland)<br>
* Cook, Paul (The University of Melbourne, Australia)<br>
* Cristea, Dan (University of Iasi, Romania)<br>
* Fairon, Cedrick (CENTAL, Université catholique de Louvain,
Belgium)<br>
* Fazly, Afsaneh (University of Toronto, Canada)<br>
* Fellbaum, Christiane (University of Princeton, USA)<br>
* Ferret, Olivier (CEA LIST, Palaiseau, France)<br>
* Fontenelle, Thierry (Translation Centre for the Bodies of the
European Union, Luxemburg)<br>
* Granger, Sylviane (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium)<br>
* Grefenstette, Gregory (3DS Exalead, Paris, France)<br>
* Hansen-Schirra, Silvia (University of Mainz, FTSK, Germany) <br>
* Heid, Ulrich (University of Hildesheim, Germany)<br>
* Hirst, Graeme (University of Toronto, Canada)<br>
* Hovy, Ed (ISI, Los Angeles, USA)<br>
* Joyce, Terry (Tama University, Kanagawa-ken, Japan)<br>
* Kwong, Olivia (City University of Hong Kong, China)<br>
* L'Homme, Marie Claude (OLST, University of Montreal, Canada)<br>
* Lapalme, Guy (RALI, University of Montreal, Canada)<br>
* Mititelu, Verginica (RACAI, Bucharest, Romania)<br>
* Pirrelli, Vito (ILC, Pisa, Italy)<br>
* Polguère, Alain (Université de Lorraine & ATILF CNRS, France)<br>
* Rapp, Reinhard (University of Leeds, UK)<br>
* Ruette, Tom (KU Leuven, Belgium)<br>
* Schwab, Didier (LIG, Grenoble, France)<br>
* Serasset, Gilles (IMAG, Grenoble, France)<br>
* Sharoff, Serge (University of Leeds, UK)<br>
* Sinopalnikova, Anna (FIT, BUT, Brno, Czech Republic)<br>
* Sowa, John (VivoMind Research, LLC, USA)<br>
* Tiberius, Carole (Institute for Dutch Lexicology, The Netherlands)<br>
* Tokunaga, Takenobu (TITECH, Tokyo, Japan)<br>
* Tufis, Dan (RACAI, Bucharest, Romania)<br>
* Valitutti, Alessandro (University of Helsinki and HIIT, Finland)<br>
* Vossen, Piek (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)<br>
* Wehrli, Eric (LATL, University of Geneva, Switzerland)<br>
* Zock, Michael (LIF, CNRS, Aix-Marseille University, France)<br>
* Zweigenbaum, Pierre (LIMSI - CNRS, Orsay & ERTIM - INALCO,
Paris, France)<br>
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<b>WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS</b> and <b>CONTACT PERSONS</b><br>
<br>
Michael Zock (LIF-CNRS, Marseille, France), michael.zock AT
lif.univ-mrs.fr<br>
Reinhard Rapp (University of Leeds, UK), reinhardrapp AT gmx.de<br>
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For <b>more details</b> see: <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://pageperso.lif.univ-mrs.fr/~michael.zock/cogalex-3.html">http://pageperso.lif.univ-mrs.fr/~michael.zock/cogalex-3.html</a><br>
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LIF (Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale)
UMR 7279, CNRS & Aix-Marseille Université
Parc Scientifique et Technologique de Luminy
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