28.5153, Calls: Computational Linguistics, Semantics/USA

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Subject: 28.5153, Calls: Computational Linguistics, Semantics/USA

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Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2017 12:22:32
From: Johannes Bjerva [bjerva at di.ku.dk]
Subject: 7th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics

Full Title: 7th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics 
Short Title: *SEM 2018 

Date: 05-Jun-2018 - 06-Jun-2018
Location: New Orleans, LA, USA 
Contact Person: Johannes Bjerva
Meeting Email: starsem2018-chairs at googlegroups.com
Web Site: https://sites.google.com/view/starsem2018/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Semantics 

Call Deadline: 02-Mar-2018 

Meeting Description:

*SEM 2018: The Seventh Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics
June 5-6 2018, New Orleans (USA) 
Co-located with NAACL 2018
https://sites.google.com/view/starsem2018/

We are pleased to announce that SIGLEX and SIGSEM, special interest groups of
the ACL, are organizing the 7th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational
Semantics: *SEM. This time *SEM will be co-located with NAACL 2018 in New
Orleans (USA), and it will take place on the 5-6 of June 2018.

*SEM brings together researchers interested in the semantics of natural
languages and its computational modeling. The conference embraces symbolic and
probabilistic approaches, and everything in between; theoretical contributions
as well as practical applications are welcome. The long-term goal of *SEM is
to provide a stable forum for the growing number of NLP researchers working on
all aspects of semantics.

Organizers:

General Chair: 
Malvina Nissim, University of Groningen,The Netherlands
Program Chairs:
Jonathan Berant, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
Alessandro Lenci, University of Pisa, Italy
Publication chair:
Emmanuele Chersoni, University of Pisa, Italy / Aix-Marseille University,
France
Publicity chair:
Johannes Bjerva, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Contact:

Contact email: starsem2018-chairs at googlegroups.com

Conference website: https://sites.google.com/view/starsem2018/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/starsem2018

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/starsem2018/

*SEM is pronounced ''starsem''.

Call for Papers:

We are pleased to announce that SIGLEX and SIGSEM, special interest groups of
the ACL, are organizing the 7th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational
Semantics: *SEM. *SEM brings together researchers interested in the semantics
of natural languages and its computational modeling. The conference embraces
symbolic and probabilistic approaches, and everything in between; theoretical
contributions as well as practical applications are welcome. 

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Data-driven semantics
- Word sense disambiguation and induction
- Distributional and statistical semantics
- Meaning Representations
- Multiword and idiomatic expressions
- Semantic parsing and interpretation
- Frames and semantic role labeling
- Formal approaches to semantics
- Semantic ambiguity and underspecification
- Mathematical methods for semantics
- Temporal entities and relations
- Extraction of events and causal and temporal relations
- (Named) Entity linking
- Pronouns and coreference
- Single- and cross-document coreference
- Discourse semantics
- Discourse structure and presupposition
- Rhetorical relations
- Sentiment analysis
- Extra-propositional aspects of meaning
- Metaphor, irony, and figurative meaning
- Semantic annotation and evaluation
- Textual inference and question answering
- Generation and summarization
- Semantics for social media
- Knowledge mining and acquisition
- Semantic web and ontologies
- Ontology learning and population
- Grounding and wikification
- Multimodal computational semantics
- Comparative computational semantics

Submissions to *SEM-2018 must describe unpublished work and be written in
English. We solicit both long and short papers.

Long papers describe original research and may consist of up to eight (8)
pages of content, plus at most two extra pages for references. Final versions
of long papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 9 pages) so
that reviewers' comments can be taken into account. Long papers will be
presented orally.

Short papers describe original focused research, project or system
description, and may consist of up to four (4) pages, plus one extra page for
references. Upon acceptance, short papers will be given five (5) content pages
in the proceedings. Authors are encouraged to use this additional page to
address reviewers comments in their final versions. Short papers will be
presented as posters.

Each submission will be reviewed by at least three reviewers. Final versions
should take into account the comments from the reviewers.

As the reviewing will be blind, the paper must not include the authors' names
and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's
identity, e.g., ''We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...'' must be avoided.
Instead, use citations such as ''Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...''.
As for online paper sharing, at *SEM, we adopt the ACL policy for submission,
which can be found here:
https://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Policies_for_Submission,_Revi
ew_and_Citation . Papers that do not conform to requirements will be rejected
without review. For a paper to be included in the conference proceedings, at
least one of the authors must be registered as a participant at the *SEM
conference.

Papers will be submitted using the START system, which will be made available
in due time.

Please note that double submission of papers will need to be notified at
submission.

Important Dates:

Papers submission due: March 2, 2018
Notification of acceptance:  April 2, 2018
Camera-ready: April 16, 2018
*SEM conference: June 5-6, 2018

Submissions to *SEM-2018 must describe unpublished work and be written in
English. We solicit both long and short papers.

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