21.3796, Calls: Comp Ling, Semantics/United Kingdom

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Subject: 21.3796, Calls: Comp Ling, Semantics/United Kingdom

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Date: 27-Sep-2010
From: Johan Bos < bos at meaningfactory.com >
Subject: 9th International Conference on Computational Semantics

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Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 12:02:46
From: Johan Bos [bos at meaningfactory.com]
Subject: 9th International Conference on Computational Semantics

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Full Title: 9th International Conference on Computational Semantics 
Short Title: IWCS-2011 

Date: 12-Jan-2011 - 14-Jan-2011
Location: Oxford, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Johan Bos
Meeting Email: bos at meaningfactory.com
Web Site: http://www.meaningfactory.com/iwcs2011/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Semantics 

Call Deadline: 08-Oct-2010 

Meeting Description:

The aim of the IWCS conference is to bring together researchers interested 
in any aspects of the computation, annotation, extraction, and 
representation of meaning in natural language, whether this is from a lexical 
or structural semantic perspective. IWCS embraces both symbolic and 
statistical approaches to computational semantics, and everything in 
between. 

2nd Call For Papers

The University of Oxford will host the Ninth International Conference on 
Computational Semantics (IWCS-2011), which will take place at the 
Computing Laboratory on 12-14 January 2011.  The aim of the IWCS 
conference is to bring together researchers interested in any aspects of the 
computation, annotation, extraction, and representation of meaning in 
natural language, whether this is from a lexical or structural semantic 
perspective. IWCS embraces both symbolic and statistical approaches to 
computational semantics, and everything in between.

Topics of Interest

Areas of special interest for the conference will be computational aspects of 
meaning of natural language within written, spoken, or multimodal 
communication. Papers are invited that are concerned with topics in these 
and closely related areas, including the following:

- representation of meaning
- syntax-semantics interface
- modelling and context in semantic interpretation
- representing and resolving semantic ambiguity
- shallow and deep semantic processing and reasoning
- inference methods for computational semantics
- recognising textual entailment
- methodologies and practices for semantic annotation
- machine learning of semantic structures
- statistical semantics
- computational aspects of lexical semantics
- semantics and ontologies
- semantic web and natural language processing
- semantic aspects of language generation
- semantic relations in discourse and dialogue
- semantics and pragmatics of dialogue acts
- computing meaning in multimodal interaction
- semantics-pragmatics interface 

Programme Committee

Rodrigo Agerri
Marco Baroni
Anja Belz
Patrick Blackburn
António Branco
Harry Bunt
Aljoscha Burchardt
Nicoletta Calzolari
Rui Chaves
Philipp Cimiano
Peter Clark
Ariel Cohen
Robin Cooper
Ann Copestake
Rodolfo Delmonte
Markus Egg
Katrin Erk
Raquel Fernández
Anette Frank
Claire Gardent
Jonathan Ginzburg
Jerry Hobbs
Laura Kallmeyer
Lauri Karttunen
Ralf Klabunde
Alexander Koller
Emiel Krahmer
Shalom Lappin
Alex Lascarides
Kiyong Lee
Leonardo Lesmo
Bernd Ludwig
Bill MacCartney
Katja Markert
Paul Mc Kevitt
Sergei Nirenburg
Malvina Nissim
Sebastian Padó
Vincenzo Pallotta
Martha Palmer
Manfred Pinkal
Paul Piwek
Massimo Poesio
Sylvain Pogodalla
Richard Power
James Pustejovsky
Allan Ramsay
German Rigau  
Mike Rosner
Rolf Schwitter
Jennifer Spenader
Manfred Stede
Mary Swift
Stefan Thater
Peter Turney
Kees van Deemter
Benjamin Van Durme
Jan van Eijck
Josef van Genabith
Carl Vogel

Submission Requirements

Two types of submission are solicited: long papers and short papers. All 
papers will be reviewed by the PC. Please refer to the IWCS-2011 website 
for submission instructions.

Long papers
Long papers should describe original research and must not exceed 10 
pages. They will be published in the conference proceedings and will have 
a full oral presentation of about 30 minutes at the conference.

Short papers 
Short papers (typically system or project descriptions, or ongoing research) 
must not exceed 5 pages. They will be published in the conference 
proceedings, and will have a brief oral presentation (5 minutes) at the 
conference, followed by a poster/demo session for discussion.

Publication
The IWCS proceedings will be published in a printed volume with an
ISBN number. In addition, all articles will be archived as PDF format
in the ACL Anthology.

Important Dates
8 October 2010 Submission: long and short papers
31 October 2010 Notification of acceptance: long and short papers
19 November 2010 Due: camera-ready long and short papers
1 December 2010 Early registration deadline
12 January 2011 Pre-Conference Workshops
13-14 January 2011 Main Conference

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