[Corpora-List] Deadline extension and final CfP: NoDaLiDa 2013 workshop on Lexical semantic resources for NLP

[Lars Borin]

Pre-conference workshop at NoDaLiDa 2013, Oslo, 22nd May 2013
Lexical semantic resources for NLP

WS website: <http://spraakbanken.gu.se/eng/nodalida-lexsem-ws-2013>

Final call for papers
High-quality lexical semantic resources with sufficiently large 
vocabularies still prove to be a serious bottleneck not only in purely 
rule-based NLP applications but also in supervised corpus-based 
approaches. The oldest widely-known lexical semantic resource, Princeton 
WordNet (PWN), has been around for over two decades. While PWN and the 
numerous wordnet projects for other languages that it has inspired 
adhere fairly closely to the traditional dictionary in their conception 
and organization, there are also lexical-semantic resources where a 
closer integration of lexical data information and corpus data is 
attempted. Such resources can be seen either as extremely richly 
exemplified lexicons or extremely deeply annotated corpora, depending on 
your outlook. Berkeley FrameNet, VerbNet, PropBank and several others 
can be mentioned in this connnection. A recent trend in the wake of the 
increased awareness of the importance of standardization and 
interoperability of language resources, is the development towards 
large-scale integration of lexical resources (variously referred to as 
“lexical cores”, “lexical macroresources”, “lexical resource networks”, 
and the like) both within and across languages, the ultimate expression 
of which is at the moment the linked open data in linguistics movement.

For largely extraneous reasons, English-language resources tend to 
receive most attention in the LT literature, but there is an increasing 
number of lexical semantic resources under development for many other 
languages, including Nordic, Baltic and other languages of the NEALT area.

In parallel to this development of new lexical semantic resources, much 
effort is put into exploring how such resources and formal ontologies 
can be made to work together in knowledge-based systems. The workshop – 
a follow-up on the succesful Nodalida 2009 workshop where the focus was 
on wordnets – intends to bring together researchers involved in building 
and integrating lexical semantic resources for NLP as well as 
researchers that are more theoretically interested in investigating the 
interplay between lexical semantics, lexicography, terminology and 
formal ontologies.

We invite papers presenting original research relating to lexical 
semantic resources for NLP on topics such as:

      representation of lexical-semantic knowledge for computational use
      the interplay between formal ontologies and lexical resources
      corpus-based approaches to lexical semantic resources
      terminology and lexical semantics: concept-based vs lexical 
semantic approaches
      monolingual vs. multilingual approaches to lexical-semantic 
resources and ontologies
      word-space models for building and expanding ontologies
      domain-specific classification: taxonomy and ontology – 
computational aspects
      quality assessment of lexical-semantic resources: criteria, methods
      computational use of lexical-semantic resources (information 
retrieval, semantic tagging of corpora, MT, etc.)
      traditional lexicography and NLP lexicons: re-use and differences
      cognitive aspects: computational lexical models as opposed to the 
‘mental lexicon’


Submission
Papers should conform to the main Nodalida stylesheet .

Submissions must be anonymous, i.e. not reveal author(s) on the title 
page or through self-references. Papers must be submitted digitally, in 
PDF, and uploaded through the on-line conference system. Paper 
submissions that violate either of these requirements will be returned 
without review.

The page limit for submissions is up to fourteen pages of text, plus 
unlimited additional pages with bibliographic references. Please note 
that NoDaLiDa 2013 adapts a single-column, smaller page format, 
optimized for on-screen reading. In terms of actual word counts, this 
page limit corresponds to approximately eight pages in a ‘classic’, 
two-column conference proceedings layout.

All submissions to the workshop must be uploaded electronically, 
following the above requirements. All submissions will be reviewed by 
the program committee. All accepted papers will be collected into a 
proceedings volume to be submitted for publication in the NEALT 
Proceeding Series (Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings).

Important dates
      24th March (extended deadline): paper submission to EasyChair
      11th April: notification of acceptance
      25th April: camera-ready papers for publication. You are also 
required to submit the NEALT transfer of copyright agreement with your 
final submission.
      22nd May: Workshop


Invited speaker
      Graeme Hirst (University of Toronto)

Workshop organizers
      Lars Borin (University of Gothenburg; Organizing chair)
      Ruth E. Vatvedt Fjeld (University of Oslo)
      Markus Forsberg (University of Gothenburg)
      Sanni Nimb (Association for Danish Language and Literature)
      Pierre Nugues (Lund University)
      Bolette Sandford Pedersen (University of Copenhagen)


Program committee
      Lars Borin (University of Gothenburg)
      Ruth E. Vatvedt Fjeld (University of Oslo)
      Markus Forsberg (University of Gothenburg)
      Karin Friberg Heppin (University of Gothenburg)
      Richard Johansson (University of Gothenburg)
      Rune Lain Knudsen (University of Oslo)
      Dimitrios Kokkinakis (University of Gothenburg)
      André Lynum (University of Oslo)
      Sanni Nimb (Association for Danish Language and Literature)
      Pierre Nugues (Lund University)
      Bolette Sandford Pedersen (University of Copenhagen)
      Joel Priestley (University of Oslo)


For all inquiries, please email Lars Borin <lars dot borin at svenska 
dot gu dot se>.


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