35.280, FYI: Invitation for Bids to Host the Global Wordnet Conference 2025

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Subject: 35.280, FYI: Invitation for Bids to Host the Global Wordnet Conference 2025

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Date: 19-Jan-2024
From: Begoña Altuna [begona.altuna at ehu.eus]
Subject: Invitation for Bids to Host the Global Wordnet Conference 2025


The Global Wordnet Association welcomes bids from potential organizers
of the 13th Global Wordnet Conference in January 2025.

The deadline for submitting a proposal is March 31th, 2024.

Bids will be considered by the GWA Board and a decision will be
announced April 30th, 2022.

Proposals must consider and, where appropriate, address the following
criteria:

* Expected size: 50-100 people
* Logistics
– Convenient and reasonably priced international flight connections
– Inexpensive lodging for participants on small budgets
* Date
– Projected date: January 2025
– Conference length of 4 days
* Participants/Content
– We encourage efforts to expand participation beyond the current
wordnet community
– We encourage co-located tutorials, workshops, panels, hackathons,
shared tasks and other events
* Proceedings
– Local organizers are the main editors of the proceedings
– Proceedings must get an ISBN number and must be freely downloadable
from the GWA website
– Proceedings should be registered in the ACL Anthology (the GWA board
will help with this).
* Budget and Fees (this is a model; variations can be proposed and
discussed)
– Fee structure:
  – Aim to keep to 200 EUROs maximum for regular participants
  – Reduced fee for students and participants from countries with
little funding
  – Fees include GWA membership to be transferred to GWA (see below)–
Participants fees also cover:
  – proceedings (electronic & ISBN)
  – coffee breaks
  – lunches (depending on local costs),
– Fees do not necessarily cover:
  – accommodation
  – dinners
  – local transport from hotel pick-up points to conference

– Optional additional fee to cover:
  – banquet
  – excursion
* Costs to be borne by the local organizer:
– meeting rooms and equipment rental
– local support staff
* Sponsorship: the organizer is encouraged to find sponsors
– Invited speaker(s) from the international community, to be selected
by the organizers in consultation with the GWA board.
* Board and the local organizers:
– Number of speakers determined by the availability of financial
support.
– Local organizers may additionally invite and sponsor one or more
local speakers, in consultation with the GWA Board.
* Financial responsibility:
– The GWA cannot contribute financially or assume any financial
responsibility
– Financial responsibility rests entirely with the local organizer
– Early registration to reduce risk is encouraged
– Enforce policy of inclusion of papers in proceedings after early
registration of at least one author
* Program committee:
– GWA Board
– Chairs: German Rigau and Francis Bond
– The reviewing will include a best paper award
– Program Committee to be composed before Call for Papers

Please send your bids to German Rigau <german.rigau at ehu.eus> and
Francis Bond <bond at ieee.org>

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics
                     General Linguistics
                     Semantics
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics




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