[HPSG-L] ISA-13: Joint ACL-ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation

[Harry Bunt]

FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS


                                   ISA-13

           13th Joint ACL - ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation

   Montpellier (France), September 19, 2017, at IWCS 2017


ISA-13 is the thirteenth edition of a series of joint workshops of the ACL Special Interest Group in Semantics (SIGSEM)
and the International Organisation for Standardisation ISO. The first workshop in this series was held in conjunction with
the IWCS 2003 conference in Tilburg (Netherlands); the latest workshop was held in 2016 as part of the LREC conference
in Portoroz (Slovenia).

ISA-workshops bring together experts in the annotation of semantic information as expressed in text, speech, gestures,
graphics, video, images, and in communicative behaviour where multiple modalities are combined. Examples of semantic
annotation include the markup of events, time, space, dialogue acts, discourse relations, semantic roles, coreference, and
quantification, for which the ISO organisation pursues the establishment and exploitation of standardised annotation methods
and representation schemes in order to support the creation of interoperable semantic resources.


Topics for submissions include, but are not limited to:

* methodological aspects of semantic annotation
* semantic annotation and semantic interpretation
* experiments in semantic annotation
* comparative studies of semantic annotation schemes
* semantic annotation and ontologies
* evaluation of annotation schemes
* context-dependence in semantic annotations
* applications of semantic annotation
* integration of semantic annotation and other linguistic annotations
* issues in the annotation of specific domains of semantic information, such as:
 - events, states, processes, circumstances, facts
 - relations in discourse and dialogue
 - time and space
 - modality,  polarity and factuality,
 - quantification and modification
 - coreference relations
 - semantic roles and predicate-argument structures
* integration of annotations of different domains of semantic annotation
* annotation of cross-domain phenomena such as negation, attribution and sentiment
* levels of granularity in annotation schemes
* cross-domain issues in semantic annotation, such as language- and application-dependence
* best practices in semantic annotation

Three types of submission are invited:

- Research papers, describing original research in the area of semantic annotation; these can be either long (6-8 pages,
  not including references) or short (3-4 pages, not including references);
- Project notes, describing recent, ongoing or planned projects involving semantic annotation (2-4 pages including references;
- Demonstration notes, accompanying demonstration of software tools to support manual semantic annotation, or systems
   for automatic semantic annotation (2-4 pages including references),


ORGANIZERS
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Harry Bunt (chair)
Nancy Ide
Kiyong Lee
James Pustejovsky
Laurent Romary


PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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Jan Alexandersson
Harry Bunt (chair)
Nicoletta Calzolari
Jae-Woong Choe
Robin Cooper
Thierry Declerck
Liesbeth Degand
Alex Fang
Robert Gaizauskas
Koiti Hasida
Nancy Ide
Elisabetta Jezek
Michael Kipp
Kiyong Lee
Philippe Muller
Malvina Nissim
Silvia Pareti
Volha Petukhova
Paola Pietrandrea
Andrei Popescu-Belis
Rashmi Prasad
James Pustejovsky
Laurent Romary
Ted Sanders
Manfred Stede
Matthew Stone
Thorsten Trippel
Piek Vossen
Annie Zaenen
Sandrine Zufferey


IMPORTANT DATES
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June 23:    Deadline for submitting papers
July 22:    Notification of acceptance
August 12:  Submission of camera-ready papers
September 19:  ISA-13 workshop


MORE INFORMATION
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For more information see the workshop page at https://sigsem.uvt.nl/isa13/ <https://sigsem.uvt.nl/isa13/or> or contact the workshop chair
Harry Bunt (harry.bunt at uvt.nl<mailto:harry.bunt at uvt.nl>)