31.731, Calls: Comp Ling, Semantics/France

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Subject: 31.731, Calls: Comp Ling, Semantics/France

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Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2020 16:21:21
From: Harry Bunt [Harry.Bunt at tilburguniversity.edu]
Subject: 16th Joint ACL - ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation

 
Full Title: 16th Joint ACL - ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation 
Short Title: ISA-16 

Date: 12-May-2020 - 12-May-2020
Location: Marseille, France 
Contact Person: Harry Bunt
Meeting Email: Harry.Bunt at tilburguniversity.edu
Web Site: http://sigsem.uvt.nl/isa16/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Semantics 

Call Deadline: 01-Mar-2020 

Meeting Description:

isa-16, the Sixteenth Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation, is the
most recent edition of a series of joint workshops of the ACL Special Interest
Group on Computational Semantics (SIGSEM) and ISO TC 37/SC 4 (Language
Resources) WG 2: Semantic annotation.

These workshops bring together experts in the annotation of semantic
information as expressed in text, speech, gestures, graphics, video, images,
and in multiple modalities combined. Examples of semantic annotation include
the markup of events, time, space, dialogue acts, discourse relations,semantic
roles, reference relations, and quantification for which the ISO organization
pursues the establishment of annotation standards, in order to support the
creation of interoperable semantic resources. 

Besides a main track, ISA-16 will feature two specialised tracks, focused on
(a) the annotation of quantification (and quantified modification) in natural
language and (b) the design and representation of data structures for
generating visualisations of linguistically represented objects, properties,
and events. These topics relate to a recently started project on developing an
ISO annotation standard for quantification (ISO/WD 24617-12, 'QuantML'), and a
proposal for developing an ISO standard for the representation of visual
information ('VoxML'), respectively.

Both specialised tracks consist of a pre-conference on-line portion and an
on-site portion during the ISA-16 workshop on Tuesday, May 12. For the
pre-conference on-line portion participants are invited to submit their
commented annotations and representations for a batch of example items that
are provided with documentation and guidelines of the envisaged annotation and
representation schemes. Please see our website for more information on each
track.


Call for Papers: 

The general topics of the two tracks (quantification and vizualization) are
also topics for submissions to the main track of the workshop, which
furthermore include, but are not limited to:
 - methodological aspects of semantic annotation
 - experiments in semantic annotation
 - context in semantic annotation
 - applications of semantic annotation
 - generating scenes from annotated text
 - events and participants in annotation and visualisation
 - uncertainty and ambiguity in annotations
 - combining annotations from different schemes
 - semantic annotation, interpretation, and inference
 - granularity in annotation schemes
 - evaluation and comparison of semantic annotations
 - semantic annotation in specialised domains
 - issues in the modelling of semantic information in specific areas, such as:
         - events, states, processes, circumstances, facts
         - space, motion events and 3D objects as participants
         - modality, factuality, polarity and negation
         - quantification and modification
         - relations in discourse and dialogue
         - referential relations
         - attribution, sentiment, attitudes, and emotions 

Three types of submission are invited:
 - Research papers, describing original research in the area of semantic
annotation; these can be either long (6-8 pages, with additional pages for
references references) or short (3-5 pages, plus references);
 - Project notes, describing recent, ongoing or planned projects involving
semantic annotation (2-4 pages including references);
 - Commented annotations/representations for the specialised tracks. 

Submission of papers is in PDF form through the ISA-16 submission site
(https://www.softconf.com/lrec2020/ISA16/). All submitted papers should be
formatted in the same way as submissions to the LREC 2020 conference, see the
LREC Author's Kit (available on the conference website).




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