26.2918, Calls: Computational Ling, Lexicography, Psycholing, Text/Corpus Ling, Semantics/Romania

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Subject: 26.2918, Calls: Computational Ling, Lexicography, Psycholing, Text/Corpus Ling, Semantics/Romania

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Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2015 14:15:03
From: Verginica Mititelu [vergi at racai.ro]
Subject: Global WordNet Conference

 
Full Title: Global WordNet Conference 
Short Title: GWC 

Date: 27-Jan-2016 - 30-Jan-2016
Location: Bucharest, Romania 
Contact Person: Verginica Mititelu
Meeting Email: vergi at racai.ro
Web Site: http://gwc2016.racai.ro/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Lexicography; Psycholinguistics; Semantics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 06-Sep-2015 

Meeting Description:

The eighth meeting of the Global WordNet Conference is organized by the Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence “Mihai Drăgănescu” of the Romanian Academy and the Global WordNet Association.

The Global WordNet Conferences offer the researchers and developers the possibility to present and discuss their latest results on the development, enrichment and exploitation of wordnets for various languages around the world.

Call for Papers:

8th International Global Wordnet Conference 2016
 
Bucharest, Romania, January 27-30, 2016

The conference will be hosted by Research Institute for Artificial
Intelligence “Mihai Drăgănescu” of the Romanian Academy.

We invite papers addressing the topics listed, but not limited to, the ones
below:

Linguistics and lexical semantics, including:
- In depth analysis of semantic relations
- Determining and representing word meanings (definitions, relations, semantic
components, co-occurrence statistics, etc.)
- Necessity and completeness issues
- Ontologies and wordnets
- The lexicon and wordnets

Architecture of lexical databases, including:
- Language independent and language dependent components
- Integration of multi-wordnets in research infrastructures (like CLARIN) and
LT networks (like META-NET)

Tools and Methods for wordnet Development, including:
- User and Data entry interface, organization
- Extending and enriching wordnets
- Combining wordnets with other resources, such as Wikipedia and DBPedia
- Combining wordnets with other modalities such as images and sounds

WordNet as a lexical resource and component of NLP and MT, including:
- Word sense disambiguation using wordnet
- Ontologies and wordnet
- The lexicon and wordNet
- The Semantic Web and wordNet

Applications of wordnets, including:
- Information extraction and retrieval
- Deep reading and semantic parsing
- Similarity and relatedness measurements
- Document structuring and categorization
- Automatic hyperlinking
- Language teaching
- Psycholinguistic applications

Standardization, distribution and availability of wordnets and wordnet tools

Proposals for tutorials on building wordnets and demonstrations of wordnet
databases, and wordnet-based software are welcome too.

Final papers should be submitted in electronic form (PDF only):

- Long papers should be limited to 8 pages,
- Demonstration papers must be at most 5 pages text and can have additional 3
pages screen dumps or images;
- Short papers and project descriptions should be limited to 5 pages.

Important Dates:

- 6 Sept 2015: Paper Submission Due
- 18 Oct 2015: Authors' Notification
- 31 Oct 2015: Final Paper Due
- 1 Nov - 30 Nov 2015: Registration of Authors with Papers in the Proceedings
- 1 Nov - 31 Dec 2015: Registration of the Participants without Papers in the
Proceedings
- 27 - 30 Jan 2016: 8th Edition of the Global WordNet Conference

Conference Chairs:

Christiane Fellbaum: fellbaum at princeton.edu
Piek Vossen: piek.vossen at vu.nl

Local Organizing Chairs:

Verginica Mititelu: vergi at racai.ro
Corina Forăscu: corinfor at info.uaic.ro

Conference Website: http://gwc2016.racai.ro/




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