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<b> FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS for</b><b><br>
</b><br>
<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>
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August 23-24, Dublin, Ireland</b><b><br>
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</b><b> Co-located with COLING 2014</b><b><br>
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</b><b> Paper submission deadline: 11 April 2014 (GMT
-12)</b><b><br>
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href="http://gmb.let.rug.nl/starsem/">http://gmb.let.rug.nl/starsem/</a><br>
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<b>First Call for Papers</b><br>
<br>
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>
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<br>
<b>Topics of Interest</b><br>
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Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:<br>
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* 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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</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 using the START system, which will be
accessible from the <br>
conference web page. Double submission of papers will have to be
notified at submission.<br>
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<br>
<b>Formatting instructions</b><br>
<br>
will be made available on the conference web page.<br>
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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>
<br>
General Chair <br>
Johan Bos<br>
Program Co-chairs<br>
Anette 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</font><br>
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