Corpora: LREC 2002 Workshop on Wordnet Structures and Standardization

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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


                        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:                 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/