31.2289, Calls: Applied Ling, Comp Ling, Lexicography, Semantics/South Africa

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LINGUIST List: Vol-31-2289. Thu Jul 16 2020. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 31.2289, Calls: Applied Ling, Comp Ling, Lexicography, Semantics/South Africa

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Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2020 12:35:59
From: Marissa Griesel [griesm at unisa.ac.za]
Subject: 11th International Global Wordnet Conference

 
Full Title: 11th International Global Wordnet Conference 
Short Title: GWC2021 

Date: 18-Jan-2021 - 21-Jan-2021
Location: Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa 
Contact Person: Marissa Griesel
Meeting Email: griesm at unisa.ac.za
Web Site: http://www.globalwordnet.co.za/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Computational Linguistics; Lexicography; Semantics 

Call Deadline: 18-Sep-2020 

Meeting Description:

The Global Wordnet Association is pleased to announce that the 11th
International Global Wordnet Conference (GWC2021) will be held from 18 to 21
January 2021 in Pretoria, South Africa. The conference will be hosted by the
South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR).  Due to the
uncertainty of what will be the circumstances during the conference as a
result of COVID-19, the venue and format of conference presentation will be
announced in due course. 


Call for Papers: 

Conference Topics: 
Contributions are invited on all aspects of wordnets, including but not
limited to:
1. Lexical semantics and meaning representation
2. Architecture of lexical databases
3. Tools and Methods for wordnet development
4. Applications of wordnet
5. Standardization, distribution and availability of wordnets and wordnet
tools.

Submission Guidelines: 
Submissions will fall into one of the following categories (page limits
exclude references):
 - long papers: 8 pages max, 30 minutes presentation
 - short papers: 5 pages max; 15 minutes presentation
 - project reports: 5 pages max., 10 minutes presentation
 - demonstrations: 5 pages max, with an additional 3 pages screen dumps or
images; 20 minutes presentation
 - work in progress: 5 pages max., poster presentation

Submissions should be anonymous and any identifying information must be
removed. Authors must state the preferred category, though acceptance may be
subject to change in the category of the presentation, e.g. a long paper
submission may be accepted as a short paper.
Papers must be submitted to the EasyChair website:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gwc2021
The format of the paper is in ACL format (PDF) and a template can be found at
http://acl2010.org/authors_final.html

Important Dates: 
 - 18 September 2020: Deadline for paper submission
 - 23 October 2020: Notification of acceptance
 - 23 October 2020: Registration opens
 - 20 November 2020: Deadline for author registration, final paper due
 - 18-21 January 2021: Conference

Proceedings: 
Conference proceedings will be open access and downloadable from the GWA
website. The proceedings will have an ISBN and be published in the ACL
anthology.
Papers are only included in the proceedings if at least one author has
registered by 20 November 2020.

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

Local Organising Committee: 
Sonja Bosch – University of South Africa (UNISA)
Mampaka Lydia Mojapelo – University of South Africa (UNISA)
Marissa Griesel – University of South Africa (UNISA) (contact person:
griesm at unisa.ac.za)
Elsabé Taljard – University of Pretoria (UP)
Juan Steyn – SADiLaR
Liané van den Berg – SADiLaR




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