32.1124, Calls: Comp Ling/Netherlands
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Subject: 32.1124, Calls: Comp Ling/Netherlands
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Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2021 15:36:47
From: Harry Bunt [harry.bunt at uvt.nl]
Subject: 17th Joint ACL - ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation
Full Title: 17th Joint ACL - ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation
Short Title: ISA-17
Date: 14-Jun-2021 - 18-Jun-2021
Location: Groningen, Netherlands
Contact Person: Harry Bunt
Meeting Email: harry.bunt at uvt.nl
Web Site: https://sigsem.uvt.nl/isa17/
Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics
Call Deadline: 02-Apr-2021
Meeting Description:
ISA-17 is the seventeenth edition of a series of joint workshops of the ACL
Special Interest Group in Semantics (SIGSEM) and the International
Organisation for Standardisation ISO. ISA (Interoperable Semantic Annotation)
workshops bring together experts in the annotation of semantic information as
expressed in text, speech, gestures, graphics, video, images, and in
communicative behaviour where multiple modalities are 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 organisation pursues the establishment of annotation methods
and representation schemes to support the creation of interoperable semantic
resources.
Besides a main track, ISA-17 will feature two specialized tracks, focused on:
1. the annotation of quantification (and quantified modification) in natural
language, and
2. the design and representation of data structures for generating
visualizations of linguistically represented objects, properties, and events.
Call for Papers:
ISA-17, 17th Joint ACL - ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation
Full-day workshop at at IWCS 2021, Groningen (Netherlands), 14-18 May 2021
Submission date: April 2, 2021
Homepage: https://sigsem.uvt.nl/isa17/
Submission page: https://www.softconf.com/iwcs2021/ISA17/
DESCRIPTION:
ISA-17 is the seventeenth edition of a series of joint workshops of the ACL
Special Interest Group in Semantics (SIGSEM) and the International
Organisation for Standardisation ISO. The first workshop in this series took
part in conjunction with the IWCS 2003 conference in Tilburg (Netherlands);
the latest editions were held as part of COLING 2018 in Santa Fé (New Mexico),
of IWCS 2019 in Gothenburg, and of LREC 2020 in Marseille (canceled due to
Covid-19).
ISA 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, motion, dialogue acts, discourse relations,
semantic roles, coreference, and quantification phenomena, for which the ISO
organisation pursues the establishment of standardized annotation methods and
representation schemes, to support the creation of interoperable semantic
resources.
Besides a main track, ISA-17 will feature two specialized 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 are inspired by a recently started project on
developing an ISO annotation standard for quantification (ISO/WD 24617-12) and
a proposal for developing an ISO standard for the representation of visual
information ('VoxML'). Both specialized tracks will consist of a
pre-conference on-line portion and an on-site portion during the workshop. For
the pre-conference on-line portion participants are invited to take part in a
shared task, submitting their commented annotations and observations for a
batch of example items that are provided with documentation and guidelines of
the envisaged annotation and representation schemes.
Quantification track: for the pre-conference on-line work, we make the current
version of the QuantML annotation scheme and markup language available, under
development as ISO Working Draft 24617-12, and a batch of example sentences.
Participants in the shared task are asked to annotate as many of the example
sentences as they can using QuantML, and to submit a short project note (up to
4 pages) covering the adequacy of the QuantML scheme and representations, of
the annotation guidelines, problems encountered in annotating the example
sentences or related examples, and optionally other properties that should be
included, relations to recently proposed representations of quantification
such as those in the Groningen MeaningBank or using AMR annotation or frame
representation. These will be reviewed for presentation at the on-site portion
of the workshop.
Visual representation track: for the pre-conference on-line work, we supply a
new VoxML annotation interface and a batch of images of objects and people
participating in activities and events. Participants in the shared task of
this track are asked to annotate as many of the images as they can using the
provided tool, and to submit a short project note (up to 4 pages) covering the
adequacy of the annotation guidelines, functionality of the annotation tool,
properties observed in the raw image data while annotating, and optional
deeper investigations into other things that would be interesting to annotate
(other data, other properties we should have included, problems pertaining to
standardization, etc.) These will be reviewed for presentation at he on-site
portion of the workshop.
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