[Corpora-List] Announcement and Call for Workshops: IWCS 2015

[Matthew Purver]

ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS

11th International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS)
Queen Mary University of London, UK
14-17th April 2015 (workshops on 14th)

Proposal deadline: 10th October 2014

The International Conference for Computational Semantics (IWCS) invites 
proposals for one-day or half-day workshops, to be held in conjunction 
with the 2015 IWCS conference. IWCS 2015 will take place on 15th-17th 
April 2015 at Queen Mary University of London, UK. Workshops will take 
place on the day immediately preceding the conference: 14th April 2015.

The aim of the IWCS conference is to bring together researchers 
interested in any aspects of the computation, annotation, extraction, 
and representation of meaning in natural language, whether this is from 
a lexical or structural semantic perspective. IWCS embraces both 
symbolic and statistical approaches to computational semantics, and 
everything in between.

TOPICS OF INTEREST:

Topics of interest for the workshops include all those topics relevant 
to the main conference, including but not limited to:

* representation of meaning
* syntax-semantics interface
* representing and resolving semantic ambiguity
* shallow and deep semantic processing and reasoning
* hybrid symbolic and statistical approaches to representing semantics
* alternative approaches to compositional semantics
* inference methods for computational semantics
* recognizing textual entailment
* learning by reading
* methodologies and practices for semantic annotation
* machine learning of semantic structures
* statistical semantics
* computational aspects of lexical semantics
* semantics and ontologies
* semantic web and natural language processing
* semantic aspects of language generation
* semantic relations in discourse and dialogue
* semantics and pragmatics of dialogue acts
* multimodal and grounded approaches to computing meaning
* semantics-pragmatics interface

SUBMISSION INFORMATION

Proposals for workshops should contain:

* A title and brief (2-page max) description of the workshop topic and 
content.
* An estimate of the audience size

* The names, postal addresses, and email addresses of the organizers, 
with one-paragraph statements of their research interests and areas of 
expertise.
* A list of potential members of the program committee, with an 
indication of which members have already agreed.
* A description of special requirements for technical needs.

Proposals should be submitted by email to

       iwcs2015 at gmail.com

as soon as possible, but no later than 10th October 2014.

Notification of acceptance of workshop proposals will occur no later 
than 17th October 2014.

AFTER ACCEPTANCE

Organizers of accepted workshops must provide descriptions of their 
workshops, for inclusion in the conference registration material, by 1st 
December 2014. The description must be provided in two formats: an ASCII 
version that can be included with the email announcement, and an HTML 
version that can be included on the conference home page. These 
descriptions should be mailed to: iwcs2015 at gmail.com

The final workshop materials must be received by the IWCS organizers by 
1st March 2015. This includes the detailed proceedings (camera-ready 
versions of papers), which will be made available electronically, as 
well as a short workshop program, which will be printed together with 
the main conference program.

FINANCES

Workshops must be financially self-supporting. The conference organizers 
will establish registration rates so as to provide the room, 
audio-visual equipment, internet access, snacks for breaks, and the 
workshop proceedings.

IMPORTANT DATES

10th October 2014    Workshop proposal submissions due
17th October 2014    Workshop proposal notification of acceptance
1st December 2014    Workshop description mailed to IWCS organizers
1st March 2015        Workshop material due to IWCS organizers
14th April 2015        Workshop date

--
The chairs of IWCS 2015:
Matthew Purver, Queen Mary University of London
Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, Queen Mary University of London
Matthew Stone, Rutgers University

-- 
Matthew Purver - http://www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/~mpurver/

Senior Lecturer / Postgraduate Admissions Tutor

Cognitive Science Research Group
School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science
Queen Mary, University of London, London E1 4NS, UK

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