Corpora: LREC 2002 Workshop on Wordnet Structures and Standardization (2nd Call)

[Maltesh S Badiger]

Hello all

I am working in Indian Institute of Science Bangalore India,
I am working on Natural Language Processing project, Developing a
Question Answering application....
If any body knows any good algorithm's for doing the above said in NLP ,
pls forward me.

with thanx & rgds,

Maltesh Badiger
R&D Assistant
CADL/CEDT
JNCASR & IISc
Bangalore-12
Karnataka.
India.

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On Sun, 3 Feb 2002, Claudia Kunze wrote:

>
> Workshop on Wordnet Structures and Standardization and how
> these affect Wordnet Applications and Evaluation
>
>             Workshop held in conjunction with the
> Third Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2002)
>                     in Las Palmas, Spain
>
>                         May 28, 2002
>
>
>                    SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS
>
> Wordnets, which are structured along the lines of the Princeton
> WordNet, have become popular lexical-semantic resources in the
> field of language technology. Various initiatives to monolingual
> and multilingual wordnet construction have been launched
> (EuroWordNet, BalkaNet, Portuguese Wordnet etc.), and numerous
> language processing tasks rely on wordnet resources and their
> implicit knowledge structures.
>
> Existing wordnets vary as with respect to their stage of
> development, coverage of concepts, encoding principles of
> linguistic contents and semantic relations, and thus their
> applicability in different NLP tasks.
> Furthermore, language-specific peculiarities of wordnets
> have to be considered in the field of cross-lingual applications.
> Recently attempts have been made towards the construction of
> wordnets for the less-studied languages, which are in need of
> reliable standards, yielding at the same time new perspectives
> on wordnet construction.
>
> This one-day workshop emphasizes two major topics: wordnet
> structures for less-studied languages on the one hand, and wordnet
> standardization, evaluation and application on the other hand.
> The workshop aims at bringing together wordnet builders and wordnet
> appliers from academia and industries in order to integrate the
> efforts being made by different sites.
>
> One major topic focuses on wordnets for less-studied languages,
> i.e. Eastern European and Scandinavian languages which have
> recently started developing sementic networks in order to exchange
> new approaches for linguistic structures and architectures of
> semantic networks and communicate their preliminary results to a
> wider research community.
>
> The other major topic discusses standardization issues for wordnets
> and wordnet-related tools, as well as evaluation of wordnet
> resources and the information encoded in them, and experiences
> with wordnet applications in the area of information retrieval
> and sense tagging.
>
> Conference topics:
>
> - guidelines and methodologies for building wordnets;
> - new approaches to wordnet construction;
> - building of wordnets for less-studied languages;
> - architecture of semantic networks and its relationship
> to the language type;
> - semantic relations of less-studied languages and
> their representations;
> - structure as language-independent module;
> - applicability of WordNet assumptions to other language types;
> - standardization of wordnet specifications including the
> Interlingual Index as a universal index of meaning;
> - standardization of wordnet representations as with respect to
> metalanguages (XML, etc.);
> - compatibility issues with regard to different formal representations;
> - criteria and methods for verifying the content encoded in wordnets;
> - consistency checking, comparison and evaluation of wordnet modules;
> - evaluation of the value being added by integrating wordnets in
> natural language processing tasks;
> - experiences from sense-tagging with wordnets.
>
>
> Submissions
>
> Papers are invited that will describe existing research
> connected to the topics of the workshop. Each presentation
> will be 20 minutes long (15 minutes and 5 minutes of discussion).
> Each submission should indicate: title; author(s); affiliation(s);
> and contact author's e-mail address, postal address, telephone
> and fax numbers. Abstracts (maximum 1.500 words, plain-text
> format) should be sent to the respective contact persons:
>
> Papers related to Wordnet Structures and Applications
> for the Less-Studied Languages should be submitted to:
> mathiou at ceid.upatras.gr
>
> Papers related to Wordnet Applications, Standardization &
> Evaluation should be submitted to: kunze at sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de
>
> All submissions will be reviewed by an international programme
> committee. Accepted papers will be published in the Workshop
> Proceedings.
>
> The final version of the accepted papers should be no
> longer than 4,000 words or 10 A4 pages. Instructions for
> formatting and presentation of the final version will
> be sent to authors upon notification of acceptance.
>
>
> Important Dates
>
> Deadline for abstract submission:               10th of February 2002
> Notification of acceptance:  			10th of March 2002
> Final version of paper for workshop proceedings: 5th of April 2002
>
> Pre-conference Workshop: 			28th of May 2002
>
>
> Organizing Committee
>
> Dimitris N. Christodoulakis (Patras University, Greece)
> Claudia Kunze/ Lothar Lemnitzer (University of Tuebingen, Germany)
> Karel Pala (Masaryk University Brno, Czech Republic)
>
>
> Contact Persons
>
> Prof. Dimitris N. Christodoulakis
> Databases Laboratory of Computer Engineering & Informatics Department
> Patras University
> GR 26500 Greece
> Phone: +30 61 960 385
> Fax:   +30 61 960 438
> Email: dxri at cti.gr
>
> Claudia Kunze
> Seminar fuer Sprachwissenschaft
> Universitaet Tuebingen
> Wilhelmstr. 113
> D-72074 Tuebingen
> Germany
> Phone:  +49 7071 29 77474
> Fax:    +49 7071 551335
> Email: kunze at sfs.uni-tuebingen.de
>
>
> Programme Committee
>
> Christiane Fellbaum (Princeton University, USA)
> Piek Vossen (Irion Technology Delft, The Netherlands)
> Kemal Oflazer (Sabanci University Istanbul, Turkey)
> Sofia Stamou (CTI Patras, Greece)
> Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)
> Randee Tengi (Princeton University, USA)
> Wim Peters (Sheffield University, GB)
> Kadri Vider (Universtiy of Tartu, Estonia)
> Julio Gonzales (UNED Madrid, Spain)
> Palmira Marrafa (University of Lisboa, Portugal)
> Paul Buitelaar (DFKI Saarbruecken, Germany)
> Andreas Wagner (University of Tuebingen, Germany)
> Erhard Hinrichs (University of Tuebingen, Germany)
> Simonetta Montemagni (University of Pisa, Italy)
> R.J.H.M Ermers (Almaty, Kazakhstan)
>
> Workshop Fee
>
> for Conference participants: 90 EURO
> for others:                 140 EURO
>
> To obtain further information about the workshop please visit
> http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2002/index.html or
> http://www.cti.gr/nlp/
>
>