Corpora: LREC 2002 Workshop on Wordnet Structures

[Claudia Kunze]

"Workshop on Wordnet Structures and Standardization and how these
affect Wordnet Applications and Evaluation"
http://www.cti.gr/nlp/

Workshop held in conjunction with the Third Language Resources and
Evaluation
Conference (LREC2002) in Las Palmas, Spain
http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2002/index.html

                **28th of May, 2002**

Organizing Committee:

Dimitris N. Christodoulakis, Patras University, Greece
Claudia Kunze / Lothar Lemnitzer, University of Tuebingen, Germany
Karel Pala, Brno University, Czech Republic



 8:30 - 13:30   Morning Session: Wordnet Applications, Evaluation
                and Standardization
                (Chairs: Claudia Kunze, Lothar Lemnitzer)

 8:30 -  8:45   Welcome & Introduction; Overview about the workshop

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 8:45 -  9:30   **KEYNOTE SPEECH**

                Christiane Fellbaum (University of Princteon):
                Going global: Issues in the standardization of wordnets
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 9:30 - 11:00   Session I: Evaluation and Applications of Wordnets
                (3 papers: 20 min presentation, 10 min discussion each)

                 9:30 - 10:00 Neeme Kahusk (University of Tartu):
                A Lexicographer's Tool for Word Sense Tagging according
                to Wordnet

                10:00 - 10:30 Piklu Gupta & Lothar Rostek (Fraunhofer
                Institut Darmstadt):
                Evaluation and Consistency Checking of Semantic Relations
                in GermaNet

                10:30 - 11:00 Graham Katz, Jahn-Takeshi Saito, Joachim
		Wagner, Philip Reuter, Sabine Reinhard & Michael Burke
                (University of Osnabrueck):
                Evaluation of GermaNet: Problems using GermaNet for
                Automatic Word Sense Disambiguation

11:00 - 11:30   Coffee break

11:30 - 13:00   Session II: Standardization of Wordnets and Wordnet
                Representations
                (3 papers: 20 min presentation, 10 min discussion each)

                11:30 - 12:00 Karel Pala & Pavel Smrz (University of Brno):
                Glosses in WordNet 1.5 and their Standardization

                12:00 - 12:30 Lothar Lemnitzer & Claudia Kunze
                (University of Tuebingen):
                Standardizing GermaNet for web-based Applications

                12:30 - 13:00 Tomas Pavelek & Karel Pala
		(University of Brno):
                Wordnet Standardization from a practical point of view


13:00 - 13:30   Overall Discussion and Conclusion for 1st Part of
                the Workshop:

                * standardization and compatibility guidelines
                * application and evaluation scenarios envisaged
                * future actions


13:30 - 14:30   Lunch break


14:30 - 19:30   Afternoon Session: Wordnet Structures and Applications
                for the less-studied Languages
                (Chairs: Dimitris N. Christodoulakis, Karel Pala)

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14:30 - 15:00   **Introduction Speech**

                Prof. Dimitris N. Christodoulakis (University of Patras):
                Structures of Semantic Networks
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15:00 - 15:30   Dan Tufis (Romania Academy) & Dan Cristea (A.I. Cuza
                University): Methodological issues in building the
		Romanian Wordnet and consistency checks in Balkanet

15:30 - 16:00   Gabor Proszeky (MorfoLogic & Marton Mihaltz (Eotvos Lorand
                University, Budapest):
                Automatism and User Interaction: Building a Hungarian
		Wordnet

16:00 - 16:00   D. Avramidis, M. Kyriakopoulou, G. Kourousias, S. Stamou &
                M. Tzagarakis (University of Patras, CTI Patras):
                Viewing Semantic Networks as Hypermedia

16:30 - 17:00   Coffee break

17:00 - 17:30   I. - D. Koutsoumpos, M. Tzagkarakis & D. Christodoulakis
                (University of Patras, CTI Patras):
                Requirements for Domain-Specific Wordnets

17:30 - 18:00   Kadri Vider (University of Tartu):
                Notes about labeling semantic relations in Estonian
		Wordnet

18:00 - 18:30   Irina V. Azarova, Olga A. Mitrofanova, Anna Sinopalnikova
		& Ilya Oparin (State University St-Petersburg):
                Building the Lexical Database for the Russian Language

18:30 - 19:00   Natalia V. Loukachevitch & Boris V. Dordov (Moscow
                State University):
                Development and Use of Thesaurus of Russian Language
		RuThes


19:00 - 19:30   Overall Discussion and Conclusion for the 2nd Part of the
                Workshop