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Date: 27-Oct-2010
From: Bolette Pedersen [bspedersen at hum.ku.dk]
Subject: Language Resources and Evaluation
 

	
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Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 10:30:48
From: Bolette Pedersen [bspedersen at hum.ku.dk]
Subject: Language Resources and Evaluation

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Full Title: Language Resources and Evaluation 


Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Lexicography; Semantics 

Call Deadline: 31-May-2011 

'Language Resources and Evaluation', special issue on wordnets and 
relations

Call for papers

The building of wordnets, a world-wide preoccupation now, comes with the 
inevitable fragmentation of effort, and with multiplicity of methods and 
underlying theories. It is not enough merely to translate WordNet 
(wordnet.princeton.edu/). Customization is required. Some teams have 
decided to steer altogether clear of this largest wordnet, so as better to reflect 
all the specificity of language structures and of culture. The Global Wordnet 
Grid (www.globalwordnet.org/gwa/gwa_grid.htm) is a still-rare attempt to bring 
some order into the fast-growing thicket of incompatible ideas.

Among the defining properties of a wordnet, perhaps the most central are the 
lexical-semantic relations which make up the net. Hypernymy and hyponymy 
are the backbone. Synonymy and antonymy are the cornerstone. In WordNet, 
there are four types each of meronymy and holonymy. Beyond that, WordNet 
has only a handful of relations.

The community has put a good deal of effort into adding instances to wordnet 
relations, notably to hypernymy and (to a lower degree) meronymy. Very 
seldom, however, do people question the relation list itself or evaluate 
relations on the basis of the data collected. Yet this is precisely what 
distinguishes wordnets, and -- more important -- languages which such 
wordnets are meant to model. There is an urgent need to assemble a body of 
research results, not absent thus far but not organized in a systematic 
manner either. 


This is a call for papers to a special issue of the journal 'Language Resources 
and Evaluation' 
www.springer.com/education+%26+language/linguistics/journal/10579, to 
appear early in 2012. It will group together work on wordnet and relations. The 
following topics will be of particular interest:

a) lexico-semantic relations in linguistics and in wordnets,
b) wordnet versus other types of thesauri, and relations therein,
c) the lexicographic theories and practices versus wordnet-creation practices,
d) mono-lingual and multi-lingual considerations in the creation of a wordnet,
e) the issues around translating a wordnet into another language,
f) comparing wordnets for one language and between languages from the 
standpoint of relation sets,
g) automatic extraction of lexical semantic relations and the role of large 
corpora in practical wordnet development,
h) evaluation of lexico-semantic relations in wordnets -- consistency, 
coverage, relevance for applications.

Papers supported by rich practical experience in large-scale wordnet 
development will be especially welcome: neat theories often fray at the edges 
when confronted with rich language data.


We invite original contributions, not published before and not under 
consideration for publication elsewhere. Each paper will be reviewed by two 
readers appointed by the journal's editors and two appointed by guest editors. 
After the initial review phase, the authors of accepted papers will have an 
opportunity to look at all successful submissions in order to extend their 
papers with elements of discussion and to cross-reference all contributions 
accordingly.

Important dates:

call for papers broadcast by October 31, 2010;
submissions due by May 31, 2011;
reviews to authors by September 30, 2011;
revisions of accepted papers due by November 30, 2011;
(in parallel) discussion between the authors of accepted papers till November 
30, 2011;
final editorial decisions by December 31, 2011.

Guest editors:

Bolette Sandford Pedersen, University of Copenhagen 
Maciej Piasecki, Wroclaw University of Technology
Stan Szpakowicz, University of Ottawa
Christiane Fellbaum, Princeton University




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