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                      <b>                      SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS
                        for</b><b><br>
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                                            <b>*SEM 2014  </b></font><font face="Courier New"><b><font face="Courier New"><b>(pronounced

                            STARSEM)</b></font></b></font><font face="Courier New"><b><font face="Courier New"><b><br>
                          </b><b>    THE THIRD JOINT CONFERENCE ON
                            LEXICAL AND COMPUTATIONAL SEMANTICS</b></font></b><b>
                      </b><b>                   <br>
                                            August 23-24, Dublin,
                        Ireland</b><b><br>
                      </b><b> </b><b><br>
                      </b><b>                       Co-located with
                        COLING 2014</b><b><br>
                      </b><b> </b><b><br>
                      </b><b>           Paper submission deadline: 11
                        April 2014 (GMT -12)</b><b><br>
                      </b><b> </b><br>
                                       <a href="http://gmb.let.rug.nl/starsem/" target="_blank">http://gmb.let.rug.nl/starsem/</a><br>
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                      <b>Second Call for Papers</b><br>
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                      We are pleased to announce that the ACL special
                      interest groups SIGLEX and SIGSEM <br>
                      are organizing the third joint conference on
                      lexical and computational semantics: <br>
                      *SEM (pronounced starsem). This time *SEM will be
                      collocated with COLING in Dublin.<br>
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                      The event will provide two days filled with
                      presentations about state-of-the-art <br>
                      research on semantics and serve as an important
                      forum for the lexical & computational <br>
                      semantics community.<br>
                      *SEM brings together researchers interested in
                      various aspects of semantic processing <br>
                      of human language. The conference embraces both
                      symbolic and probabilistic approaches, <br>
                      and everything in between; theoretical
                      contributions as well as practical applications <br>
                      exploiting semantic processing are welcome. <br>
                      <br>
                      The long-term goal of *SEM is to provide a stable
                      forum for the growing number of NLP <br>
                      researchers working on all aspects of semantics.<br>
                      <br>
                      <br>
                      <b>Topics of Interest</b><br>
                      <br>
                      Topics of interest include, but are not limited
                      to:<br>
                      <br>
                      * Data-driven semantics<br>
                      * Word sense disambiguation and induction<br>
                      * (Named) Entity linking<br>
                      * Distributional and statistical semantics<br>
                      * Multiword and idiomatic expressions<br>
                      * Semantic parsing and interpretation<br>
                      * Frames and semantic role labeling<br>
                      * Formal approaches to semantics<br>
                      * Semantic ambiguity and underspecification<br>
                      * Mathematical methods for semantics<br>
                      * Temporal entities and relations<br>
                      * Pronouns and coreference<br>
                      * Single- and cross-document coreference<br>
                      * Discourse structure and presupposition<br>
                      * Rhetorical relations<br>
                      * Sentiment analysis<br>
                      * Extra-propositional aspects of meaning <br>
                      * Semantic annotation and evaluation<br>
                      * Textual inference and question answering<br>
                      * Generation and summarization<br>
                      * Semantics for social media<br>
                      * Knowledge mining and acquisition<br>
                      * Semantic web and ontologies<br>
                      * Ontology learning and population<br>
                      * Grounding and wikification<br>
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                        <br>
                      </b><b>Submissions</b><br>
                      <br>
                      Submissions to *SEM-2014 must describe unpublished
                      work and be written in English. <br>
                      We solicit both long and short papers. <br>
                      Long papers may consist of up to nine (9) pages of
                      content, plus at most two extra <br>
                      pages for references. Short papers may consist of
                      up to five (5) pages, plus one extra <br>
                      page for references. <br>
                      Long papers typically describe original research
                      and will be presented orally. Short <br>
                      papers (typically: ongoing research, project or
                      system description, opinion piece) will <br>
                      be presented as a poster.<br>
                      Each submission will be reviewed by at least three
                      program committee members. <br>
                      Final versions should take into account the
                      comments from the reviewers.<br>
                      <br>
                      As the reviewing will be blind, the paper must not
                      include the authors' names and <br>
                      affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that
                      reveal the author's identity, e.g., <br>
                      "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ..." must be
                      avoided. Instead, use citations such <br>
                      as "Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...".
                      Papers that do not conform to these <br>
                      requirements will be rejected without review. <br>
                      In addition, please do not post your submissions
                      on the web until after the review <br>
                      process is complete. For a paper to be include in
                      the conference proceedings, at least <br>
                      one of the authors must be registered as
                      participant for the *SEM conference.<br>
                      <br>
                      Papers will be submitted <a href="https://www.softconf.com/coling2014/WS-12/" target="_blank">using
                        the START system</a>, which is  accessible from
                      the <br>
                      <a href="http://starsem.webhosting.rug.nl/wp/" target="_blank">conference
                        web page</a>. Double submission of papers will
                      have to be notified at submission.<br>
                      <br>
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                      <b>Formatting instructions</b><br>
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                      Instructions are available at the <a href="http://starsem.webhosting.rug.nl/wp/?page_id=22" target="_blank">conference
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                      <b>IMPORTANT DATES </b>(all deadlines GMT -12)<br>
                      <br>
                       *SEM papers due:                    April 11th
                      2014<br>
                       *SEM Notification of acceptance:    May   28th
                      2014<br>
                       *SEM Camera-ready deadline:         June  13th
                      2014<br>
                       *SEM Conference:                    August
                      23-24th 2014<br>
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                      <b>Organization and Program Committee</b><br>
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                      General Chair <br>
                          Johan Bos<br>
                      Program Co-chairs<br>
                          <span><span><span class="">Anette</span></span></span>
                      Frank<br>
                          Roberto Navigli<br>
                      Area Chairs<br>
                          Anna Korhonen<br>
                          Bernardo Magnini<br>
                          Katja Markert<br>
                          Gerard de Melo<br>
                          Stephen Pulman<br>
                          Sabine Schulte im Walde<br>
                          Yannick Versley<br>
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                      Valerio Basile<br>
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                    <font face="Courier New">    Kilian Evang</font></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr">=====================================<br>Roberto Navigli<br>Dipartimento di Informatica<br>Sapienza University of Rome<br>

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