20.3030, Calls: Cognitive Science, Computational Linguistics, Semantics/India

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Date: 08-Sep-2009
From: Rajat Mohanty < moharajat at gmail.com >
Subject: 5th International Global Wordnet Conference

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Date: Wed, 09 Sep 2009 14:29:44
From: Rajat Mohanty [moharajat at gmail.com]
Subject: 5th International Global Wordnet Conference

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Full Title: 5th International Global Wordnet Conference 
Short Title: GWC2010 

Date: 31-Jan-2010 - 04-Feb-2010
Location: Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India 
Contact Person: Pushpak Bhattacharyya
Meeting Email: pb at cse.iitb.ac.in
Web Site: http://www.cfilt.iitb.ac.in/~gwc2010/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics; Semantics 

Call Deadline: 01-Oct-2009 

Meeting Description:

The Global Wordnet Association is pleased to announce the Fifth
International Conference of the Global WordNet Association (GWA2010). The
conference will be held at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay,
Mumbai, India in January, 2010. Details about the Global WordNet
Association and the full announcement for the conference can be found on
the GWA website: http://www.globalwordnet.org. 

Call for Papers:

We invite papers addressing the topics listed below. Proposals for
tutorials on building wordnets and demonstrations of wordnet databases, and
wordnet-based software are welcome, too.

1. Linguistics and Lexical Semantics:

-In depth analysis of Semantic Relations,
-Theoretical definitions of word meaning,
-Necessity and Completeness issues.
-Ontologies and wordnets.
-The lexicon and wordnets.

2. Architecture of Lexical Databases:

-Language independent and language dependent components

3. Tools and Methods for Wordnet Development:

-User and Data entry interface, organization,
-Extending and enriching wordnets

4. WordNet as a Lexical Resource and Component of NLP and MT:

-Word sense disambiguation using wordnet,
-Ontologies and WordNet,
-The Lexicon and WordNet

5. Applications of WordNet:

-Information Extraction and Retrieval,
-Document Structuring and Categorization,
-Automatic Hyperlinking
-Language Teaching,
-Psycholinguistic Applications

6. Standardization, Distribution and Availability of Wordnets and Wordnet
Tools.

Presentations will fall into one of the following categories:

-Long papers (30 mins)
-Short papers (15 mins)
-Project reports (10 mins)
-Demonstrations (20 mins)

Submissions will have to state one of the preferred categories. Acceptance
may be subject to changes in the category of the presentation. (e.g., a
long paper submission may be accepted as a short paper.)

Final papers should be submitted in electronic form (Word or TeX):

-Long papers should contain approximately 4,000 words (8 pages),
-Demonstration papers must be at most 5 pages text (2,500 words long) and
can have additional 3 pages screen dumps or images;
-Short papers and project descriptions should be approx. 2,500 words long
(5 pages).

Papers need to be submitted to the EasyChair website:

https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=gwa10

The format of the paper is in ACL format (Word and LaTex):

ACL 2009 paper formats: http://www.acl-ijcnlp-2009.org/main/paperformat.html

The conference program will include oral presentations and
poster/demonstration sessions with sufficient time for discussions on the
issues raised.

The deadline for submissions is October 1st, 2009. Decisions regarding
acceptance will be announced to the authors by early November. Final papers
are due at November 15th.

Important note: papers are only accepted after registration. Registration
for at least one of the authors is required at the time of the final papers
to be included in the proceedings. Later registration and on site
registration for participants is possible without inclusion of the paper
and without presentation.

Important Dates:

October-1-2009: Deadline for paper submission
November-1-2009: Acceptance of papers
November-1-2009: Registration is open
November-15-2009: Final Papers
November-15-2009: Registration closes for author(s) to be included in the
proceedings
January 31 - February 4, 2010: Conference

Please note that traveling to India may require a Visa. Please, consult the
national authorities to arrange for your Visa in time. Also visit the
website of the conference for relevant information.

Conference Chairs:

Christiane Fellbaum, Fellbaum at clarity.Princeton.edu
Piek Vossen, P.Vossen at let.vu.nl

Organizing Chair:

Pushpak Bhattacharyya
pb at cse.iitb.ac.in

Program Committee:

German Rigau (San SebastianSpain) german.rigau at ehu.es
Dominique Dutoit, Crisco, Univ.de Caen, Memodata. do.dutoit at gmail.com
Adam Kilgarriff (BrightonUK),adam at lexmasterclass.com
Adam Pease (San FranciscoUS),apease at articulatesoftware.com
Ales Horak (BrnoCzech Republic), hales at fi.muni.cz
Darja Fiser (Ljubljana, Slovenia), darja.fiser at guest.arnes.si
Bernado Magnini (TrentoItaly), magnini at itc.it
Shu-kai Hsieh (Academia Sinica, Taiwan) shukai at gmail.com
William Black (Manchester, UK) black at cs.man.ac.uk
Gloria Vasquez (Barcelona, Spain) gvazquez at dal.udl.cat
Ana Fernandez (Barcelona, Spain) ana.fernandezmontraveta at gmail.com
Piek Vossen (AmsterdamNetherlands) p.vossen at let.vu.nl
Roxane Segers (AmsterdamNetherlands) r.segers at let.vu.nl
Pushpak Bhattacharyya (MumbaiIndia), pb at cse.iitb.ac.in
Christiane Fellbaum (PrincetonUS), fellbaum at clarity.princeton.edu
Hitoshi Isahara (KyotoJapan), isahara at nict.go.jp
Eneko Agirre (San SebastianSpain), eneko at si.ehu.es
Karel Pala (BrnoCzech Republic), pala at fi.muni.cz
Kyoko Kanzaki (KyotoJapan), kanzaki at nict.go.jp
Ted Pedersen (MinneapolisUS), tpederse at umn.edu
Francis Bond bond at ieee.org
Monica Monachini (PisaItaly) monica.monachini at ilc.cnr.it
Claudia Soria (PisaItaly) claudia.soria at ilc.cnr.it
Andrea Marchetti (PisaItaly) Andrea.Marchetti at iit.cnr.it
Maurizio Tesconi (PisaItaly) maurizio.tesconi at iit.cnr.it
Francesco Ronzano (PisaItaly)francesco.ronzano at iit.cnr.it
Eli Pocielo eli at elhuyar.com
Wauter Bosma w.bosma at let.vu.nl
Bolette Pedersen (CopenhagenDenmark), bolette at cst.dk
Jordan Boyd-Graber (PrincetonUS), jbg at princeton.edu
Horacio Rodriguez (BarcelonaSpain), horacio at lsi.upc.es
Axel Herold (Berlin, Germany) herold at bbaw.de
Thomas Pfuhl (Berlin, Germany) pfuhl at bbaw.de
Amanda Hicks (Berlin, Germany) hicks at bbaw.de
Yannick Mathieu (Paris, France) ymathieu at linguist.fr
B. Mallikarjun, CIIL Mysore (mallikarjun/ciil at ciil.stpmy.soft.net)
Sudeshna Sarkar, IIT Kharagpur (sudeshna at cse.iitkgp.ernet.in)
S. Arulmozi, Dravidian University (arulmozi at gmail.com)
Girish Nath Jha, Jawaharlal Nehru University (girishjha at gmail.com)
S.Rajendran, Tamil University (raj_ushush at yahoo.com)
Prabhakar Pandey, IIT Bombay (pande at cse.iitb.ac.in)
Rajat Mohanty, AOL, (moharajat at gmail.com)
Dipti Mishra Sharma, IIIT Hyderabad (dipti at iiit.ac.in)

Involved Organisations:

WordNet
EuroWordNet
Global Wordnet Association
Central Institute of Indian Languages
Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, Govt. of India
Ministry of Human Resource Development, Govt. of India

Dr. Pushpak Bhattacharyya
Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology
Mumbai- 400 076
India.

Tel: 91-22-25764729 (o), 25768718 (r), 25721955 (r)
Fax: 91-22-25720290/25723480
email: pb at cse.iitb.ac.in
homepage: http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~pb

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