[Corpora-List] 2nd Call for Papers, Cogalex-II: Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon (pre-conference workshop of COLING 2010)

[Michael Zock]

Apologies for multiple postings
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2nd Call for Paper Submissions

Cogalex-II, 2nd Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon (August 22, 
2010)
pre-conference workshop of COLING 2010 (Beijing, China)

endorsed by the Special Interest Group on the Lexicon of the
Association for Computational Linguistics (SIGLEX)

Submission deadline: May 30, 2010

http://pageperso.lif.univ-mrs.fr/~michael.zock/cogalex-2.html

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AIMS and TARGET AUDIENCE

The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers involved in 
the construction and application of electronic dictionaries to discuss 
modifications of existing resources in line with the users' needs, 
thereby fully exploiting the advantages of the digital form. Given the 
breadth of the questions, we welcome reports on work from many 
perspectives, including but not limited to: computational lexicography, 
psycholinguistics, cognitive psychology, language learning and ergonomics.


MOTIVATION

Whenever we read a book, write a letter or launch a query on a search 
engine, we always use words, the shorthand labels and concrete forms of 
abstract notions (concepts, ideas and more or less well specified 
thoughts). Yet, words are not only vehicles to express thoughts, they 
are also means to conceive them. They are mediators between language and 
thought, allowing us to move quickly from one idea to another, refining, 
expanding or illustrating our possibly underspecified thoughts. Only 
words have these unique capabilities, which is why they are so important.

Obviously, a good dictionary should contain many entries and a lot of 
information associated with each one of them. Yet, the quality of a 
dictionary depends not only on coverage, but also on accessibility of 
information. Access strategies vary with the task (text understanding 
vs. text production) and the knowledge available at the moment of 
consultation (word, concept, speech sounds). Unlike readers who look for 
meanings, writers start from them, searching for the corresponding 
words. While paper dictionaries are static, permitting only limited 
strategies for accessing information, their electronic counterparts 
promise dynamic, proactive search via multiple criteria (meaning, sound, 
related words) and via diverse access routes. Navigation takes place in 
a huge conceptual lexical space, and the results are displayable in a 
multitude of forms (e.g. as trees, as lists, as graphs, or sorted 
alphabetically, by topic, by frequency).

Many lexicographers work nowadays with huge digital corpora, using 
language technology to build and to maintain the lexicon. But access to 
the potential wealth of information in dictionaries remains limited for 
the common user. Yet, the new possibilities of electronic media in terms 
of comfort, speed and flexibility (multiple inputs, polyform outputs) 
are enormous. Computational resources are not prone to the same 
limitations as paperbound dictionaries. The latter were limited in 
scope, being confined to a specific task (translation, synonyms, ...) 
due to economical reasons, but this limitation is not justified anymore.

Today we can perform all tasks via one single resource, which may 
comprise a dictionary, a thesaurus and even more. The goal of this 
workshop is to perform the groundwork for the next generation of 
electronic dictionaries, that is, to study the possibility of 
integrating the different resources, as well as to explore the 
feasibility of taking the user's needs, knowledge and access strategies 
into account.


TOPICS

For this workshop we invite papers including but not limited to the 
following topics:

* Conceptual input of a dictionary user.
What is in the authors' minds when they are generating a message and 
looking for a word? Do they start from partial definitions, i.e. 
underspecified input (bag of words), conceptual primitives, semantically 
related words, something akin to synsets, or something completely 
different? What does it take to bridge the gap between this input, 
incomplete as it may be, and the desired output (target word)?

* Organizing the lexicon and indexing words.
Concepts, words and multi-word expressions can be organized and indexed 
in many ways, depending on the task and language type. For example, in 
Indo-European languages words are traditionally organized in 
alphabetical order, whereas in Chinese they are organized by semantic 
radicals and stroke counts. The way words and multi-word expressions are 
stored and organized affects indexing and access. Since knowledge states 
(i.e. knowledge available when initiating search) vary greatly and in 
unpredictable ways, indexing must allow for multiple ways of navigation 
and access. Hence the question: what organizational principles allow the 
greatest flexibility for access?

* Access, navigation and search strategies based on various entry types 
(modalities) and knowledge states.
Words are composed of meanings, forms and sounds. Hence, access should 
be possible via any of these components: via meanings (bag of words), 
via forms, simple or compound ('hot, dog' vs. 'hot-dog'), and via sounds 
(syllables). Access should even be possible if input is given in an 
incomplete, imprecise or degraded form. Furthermore, to allow for 
natural and efficient access, we need to take the users' knowledge into 
account (search space reduction) and provide adequate navigational 
tools, metaphorically speaking, a map and a compass. How do existing 
tools address these needs, and what could be done to go further?

* NLP applications:
Contributors can also demonstrate how such enhanced dictionaries, once 
embedded in existing NLP applications, can boost performance and help 
solve lexical and textual-entailment problems, such as those evaluated 
in SEMEVAL 2007, or, more generally, generation problems encountered in 
the context of summarization, question-answering, interactive 
paraphrasing or translation.


IMPORTANT DATES

- Deadline for paper submissions: May 30, 2010
- Notification of acceptance: June 30, 2010
- Camera-ready papers due: July 10, 2010
- Cogalex workshopˇ: August 22, 2010


SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished work on any of the 
topic areas of the workshop. As reviewing will be blind the paper should 
not include the authors' names and affiliations. Furthermore 
self-references revealing the authors' identity should be avoided.
The submitted papers can be of any of the following two types:

1. Long papers should present completed work and should not exceed 10 
pages (including data, tables, figures, and references).
2. Short papers can present work in progress (up to 6 pages)

Please include a one-paragraph abstract of the work (about 200 words). 
While the paper length may differ, the format will be the same as the 
one of the main conference. Hence we suggest that you get hold of the 
adequate style sheets (LATEX or MS Word) which can be found 
here:http://www.coling-2010.org/SubmissionGuideline.htm.

Submission will be electronic (PDF format only) via the START 
conference management software 
(https://www.softconf.com/coling2010/COGALEX2010/).

Double submission policy: Authors may submit the same paper at several 
meetings, but a paper published at this workshop cannot be published 
elsewhere. In case of double submission, you must notify the workshop 
organizers in a separate e-mail, so we know that the paper might be 
withdrawn depending on the results elsewhere.


RELATED CONFERENCES in BEIJING

Next to COLING 2010 there are two conferences workshop participants may 
be interested in:

- the 7th International Conference on Cognitive Science (ICCS) which 
takes place August 17 to 20, 2010, just before COLING. It is our hope 
that this unique opportunity will foster scientific exchange between the 
scientific communities of Computational Linguistics and Cognitive 
Science. The ICCS' venue is the China National Convention Center (CNCC) 
which is close to COLING's site, the Beijing International Convention 
Center (BICC), located on the other side of the China National Stadium 
('Bird Nest').

- Also somewhat related is the 6th IEEE International Conference on 
Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Engineering (IEEE NLP-KE'10). 
Yet, as it is scheduled for August 21 to 23, 2010, it overlaps with our 
workshop.


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Slaven Bilac (Google Tokyo, Japan)
Pierrette Bouillon (ISSCO, Geneva, Switzerland)
Dan Cristea (University of Iasi, Romania)
Katrin Erk (University of Texas, USA)
Olivier Ferret (CEA LIST, France)
Thierry Fontenelle (EU Translation Centre, Luxemburg)
Sylviane Granger (Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
Gregory Grefenstette (Exalead, Paris, France)
Ulrich Heid (IMS, University of Stuttgart, Germany)
Erhard Hinrichs (University of Tuebingen, Germany)
Graeme Hirst (University of Toronto, Canada)
Ed Hovy (ISI, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA)
Chu-Ren Huang (Hongkong Polytechnic University, China)
Terry Joyce (Tama University, Kanagawa-ken, Japan)
Philippe Langlais (DIRO/RALI, University of Montreal, Canada)
Marie Claude L'Homme (University of Montreal, Canada)
Verginica Mititelu (RACAI, Bucharest, Romania)
Alain Polguere (Nancy-Universite & ATILF CNRS, France)
Reinhard Rapp (University of Tarragona, Spain)
Sabine Schulte im Walde (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
Gilles Serasset (IMAG, Grenoble, France)
Serge Sharoff (University of Leeds, UK)
Anna Sinopalnikova (FIT, BUT, Brno, Czech Republic)
Carole Tiberius (Institute for Dutch Lexicology, The Netherlands)
Takenobu Tokunaga (TITECH, Tokyo, Japan)
Dan Tufis (RACAI, Bucharest, Romania)
Piek Vossen (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Yorick Wilks (Oxford Research Institute, UK)
Michael Zock (LIF-CNRS, Marseille, France)
Pierre Zweigenbaum (LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay, France)


WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS and CONTACT PERSONS

Michael Zock (LIF-CNRS, Marseille, France), michael.zock AT lif.univ-mrs.fr
Reinhard Rapp (University of Tarragona, Spain), reinhardrapp AT gmx.de

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Michael ZOCK
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CNRS,  UMR 6166
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