26.3908, Calls: Computational Ling, Lexicography, Psycholing, Semantics, Text/Corpus Ling/Romania

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Subject: 26.3908, Calls: Computational Ling, Lexicography, Psycholing, Semantics, Text/Corpus Ling/Romania

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Date: Thu, 03 Sep 2015 10:32:23
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: 14-Sep-2015 

Meeting Description:

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

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

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.

Invited speaker: Erhard Hinrichs

Transport to Bucharest:

Those participants from outside Romania wishing to take part to the Global WordNet Conference 2016 in Bucharest can use special discounts offered by our partner Qatar Airways. For more information, please check the conference website.

Final Call for Papers:

New deadline for paper submission: 14 September 2015

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

1. 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

2. 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)

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. Standardization, distribution and availability of wordnets and wordnet tools.

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

Presentations will fall into one of the following categories:

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

Important Dates:

14 September 2015: Submission on papers due ***extended deadline***
18 October 2015: Authors' notification
31 October 2015: Final paper due
1 November - 30 November 2015: Registration of authors with papers in the proceedings
1 November - 31 December 2015: Registration of the participants without papers in the proceedings
27 - 30 January 2016: The 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




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