21.1896, Calls: Cognitive Science, Lexicography, Computational Ling/China

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Subject: 21.1896, Calls: Cognitive Science, Lexicography, Computational Ling/China

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Date: 19-Apr-2010
From: Michael Zock < zock at free.fr >
Subject: Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon

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Full Title: Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon 
Short Title: Cogalex-2 

Date: 22-Aug-2010 - 22-Aug-2010
Location: Beijing, China 
Contact Person: Michael Zock
Meeting Email: michael.zock at lif.univ-mrs.fr
Web Site: http://pageperso.lif.univ-mrs.fr/~michael.zock/cogalex-2.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics; Lexicography;
Neurolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 30-May-2010 

Meeting Description:

Cogalex-II, 2nd Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon (August 22, 2010)
pre-conference workshop of COLING 2010 (Beijing, China)

endorsed by the Special Interest Group on the Lexicon of the Association for
Computational Linguistics (SIGLEX)
Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon (Cogalex-2) 

2nd Call for Paper 

Submission deadline: May 30, 2010

Aims and Target Audience

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.

Motivation
Whenever we read a book, write a letter or launch a query on a search engine, we
always use words, the shorthand labels and concrete forms of abstract notions
(concepts, ideas and more or less well specified thoughts). Yet, words are not
only vehicles to express thoughts, they are also means to conceive them. They
are mediators between language and thought, allowing us to move quickly from one
idea to another, refining, expanding or illustrating our possibly underspecified
thoughts. Only words have these unique capabilities, which is why they are so
important.

Obviously, a good dictionary should contain many entries and a lot of
information associated with each one of them. Yet, the quality of a dictionary
depends not only on coverage, but also on accessibility of information. Access
strategies vary with the task (text understanding vs. text production) and the
knowledge available at the moment of consultation (word, concept, speech
sounds). Unlike readers who look for meanings, writers start from them,
searching for the corresponding words. While paper dictionaries are static,
permitting only limited strategies for accessing information, their electronic
counterparts promise dynamic, proactive search via multiple criteria (meaning,
sound, related words) and via diverse access routes. Navigation takes place in a
huge conceptual lexical space, and the results are displayable in a multitude of
forms (e.g. as trees, as lists, as graphs, or sorted alphabetically, by topic,
by frequency).

Many lexicographers work nowadays with huge digital corpora, using language
technology to build and to maintain the lexicon. But access to the potential
wealth of information in dictionaries remains limited for the common user. Yet,
the new possibilities of electronic media in terms of comfort, speed and
flexibility (multiple inputs, polyform outputs) are enormous. Computational
resources are not prone to the same limitations as paperbound dictionaries. The
latter were limited in scope, being confined to a specific task (translation,
synonyms, ...) due to economical reasons, but this limitation is not justified
anymore.

Today we can perform all tasks via one single resource, which may comprise a
dictionary, a thesaurus and even more. The goal of this workshop is to perform
the groundwork for the next generation of electronic dictionaries, that is, to
study the possibility of integrating the different resources, as well as to
explore the feasibility of taking the user's needs, knowledge and access
strategies into account.

Topics
For this workshop we invite papers including but not limited to the following
topics:

- Conceptual input of a dictionary user. 
What is in the authors' minds when they are generating a message and looking for
a word? Do they start from partial definitions, i.e. underspecified input (bag
of words), conceptual primitives, semantically related words, something akin to
synsets, or something completely different? What does it take to bridge the gap
between this input, incomplete as it may be, and the desired output (target word)?

- Organizing the lexicon and indexing words. 
Concepts, words and multi-word expressions can be organized and indexed in many
ways, depending on the task and language type. For example, in Indo-European
languages words are traditionally organized in alphabetical order, whereas in
Chinese they are organized by semantic radicals and stroke counts. The way words
and multi-word expressions are stored and organized affects indexing and access.
Since knowledge states (i.e. knowledge available when initiating search) vary
greatly and in unpredictable ways, indexing must allow for multiple ways of
navigation and access. Hence the question: what organizational principles allow
the greatest
flexibility for access?

- Access, navigation and search strategies based on various entry types
(modalities) and knowledge states. 
Words are composed of meanings, forms and sounds. Hence, access should be
possible via any of these components: via meanings (bag of words), via forms,
simple or compound ('hot, dog' vs. 'hot-dog'), and via sounds (syllables).
Access should even be possible if input is given in an incomplete, imprecise or
degraded form. Furthermore, to allow for natural and efficient access, we need
to take the users' knowledge into account (search space reduction) and provide
adequate navigational tools, metaphorically speaking, a map and a compass. How
do existing tools address these needs, and what could be done to go further?

- NLP applications: 
Contributors can also demonstrate how such enhanced dictionaries, once embedded
in existing NLP applications, can boost performance and help solve lexical and
textual-entailment problems, such as those evaluated in SEMEVAL 2007, or, more
generally, generation problems encountered in the context of summarization,
question-answering, interactive paraphrasing or translation.

Important Dates
- Deadline for paper submissions: May 30, 2010
- Notification of acceptance: June 30, 2010
- Camera-ready papers due: July 10, 2010
- Cogalex workshop: August 22, 2010

Submission Instructions
Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished work on any of the topic
areas of the workshop. As reviewing will be blind the paper should not include
the authors' names and affiliations. Furthermore self-references revealing the
authors' identity should be avoided.

The submitted papers can be of any of the following two types:

1. Long papers should present completed work and should not exceed 10 pages
(including data, tables, figures, and references).
2. Short papers can present work in progress (up to 6 pages)

Please include a one-paragraph abstract of the work (about 200 words). While the
paper length may differ, the format will be the same as the one of the main
conference. Hence we suggest that you get hold of the adequate style sheets
(LATEX or MS Word) which can be found
here:http://www.coling-2010.org/SubmissionGuideline.htm. 

1. Submission will be electronic (PDF format only) via the START conference
management software 
(https://www.softconf.com/coling2010/COGALEX2010/). 
2. Double submission policy: Authors may submit the same paper at several
meetings, but a paper published at this workshop cannot be published elsewhere.
In case of double submission, you must notify the workshop organizers in a
separate e-mail, so we know that the paper might be withdrawn depending on the
results elsewhere.

Related Conferences in Beijing
Next to COLING 2010 there are two conferences workshop participants may be
interested in:

- the 7th International Conference on Cognitive Science (ICCS) which takes place
August 17 to 20, 2010, just before COLING. It is our hope that this unique
opportunity will foster scientific exchange between the scientific communities
of Computational Linguistics and Cognitive Science. The ICCS' venue is the China
National Convention Center (CNCC) which is close to COLING's site, the Beijing
International Convention Center (BICC), located on the other side of the China
National Stadium ('Bird Nest').

- Also somewhat related is the 6th IEEE International Conference on Natural
Language Processing and Knowledge Engineering (IEEE NLP-KE'10). Yet, as it is
scheduled for August 21 to 23, 2010, it overlaps 
with our workshop.

Program Committee
Slaven Bilac (Google Tokyo, Japan)
Pierrette Bouillon (ISSCO, Geneva, Switzerland)
Dan Cristea (University of Iasi, Romania)
Katrin Erk (University of Texas, USA)
Olivier Ferret (CEA LIST, France)
Thierry Fontenelle (EU Translation Centre, Luxemburg)
Sylviane Granger (Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
Gregory Grefenstette (Exalead, Paris, France)
Ulrich Heid (IMS, University of Stuttgart, Germany)
Erhard Hinrichs (University of Tuebingen, Germany)
Graeme Hirst (University of Toronto, Canada)
Ed Hovy (ISI, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA)
Chu-Ren Huang (Hongkong Polytechnic University, China)
Terry Joyce (Tama University, Kanagawa-ken, Japan)
Philippe Langlais (DIRO/RALI, University of Montreal, Canada)
Marie Claude L'Homme (University of Montreal, Canada)
Verginica Mititelu (RACAI, Bucharest, Romania)
Alain Polguere (Nancy-Universite & ATILF CNRS, France)
Reinhard Rapp (University of Tarragona, Spain)
Sabine Schulte im Walde (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
Gilles Serasset (IMAG, Grenoble, France)
Serge Sharoff (University of Leeds, UK)
Anna Sinopalnikova (FIT, BUT, Brno, Czech Republic)
Carole Tiberius (Institute for Dutch Lexicology, The Netherlands)
Takenobu Tokunaga (TITECH, Tokyo, Japan)
Dan Tufis (RACAI, Bucharest, Romania)
Piek Vossen (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Yorick Wilks (Oxford Research Institute, UK)
Michael Zock (LIF-CNRS, Marseille, France)
Pierre Zweigenbaum (LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay, France)

Workshop Organizers and Contact Persons
Michael Zock (LIF-CNRS, Marseille, France), michael.zock AT lif.univ-mrs.fr
Reinhard Rapp (University of Tarragona, Spain), reinhardrapp AT gmx.de

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