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LINGUIST List: Vol-16-744. Fri Mar 11 2005. ISSN: 1068 - 4875.

Subject: 16.744, Calls: Computational Ling/Korea; Semantics/Syntax/France

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1)
Date: 10-Mar-2005
From: Christiane Fellbaum < fellbaum at princeton.edu >
Subject: 3rd Global WordNet Meeting

2)
Date: 10-Mar-2005
From: Patricia Cabredo Hofherr < cabredo at ccr.jussieu.fr >
Subject: 6th Syntax and Semantics Conference in Paris


Full Title: 3rd Global WordNet Meeting
Short Title: GWA 06

Date: 23-Jan-2006 - 27-Jan-2006
Location: Jenju Island, Korea, Republic of
Contact Person: Christiane Fellbaum
Meeting Email: fellbaum at princeton.edu
Web Site: http://www.globalwordnet.org

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics

Call Deadline: 01-Jul-2005

Meeting Description:

Announcement and  Call for Papers
3rd International Conference of the Global WordNet Association
Jeju Island, Republic of Korea

The Global Wordnet Association is pleased to announce the Third International
Conference of the Global WordNet Association (GWA'06),  organized by KAIST.

The conference will be held on Jeju Island, Korea, January, 23-27, 2006.

More information can be found on the GWA website:

        http://www.globalwordnet.org

Deadline for Submissions: July 1, 2005

We invite papers addressing the questions listed below.  Proposals for tutorials
on building wordnets and demonstrations of wordnet databases and wordnet-based
software on any issue related to wordnets are welcome, too.

A.      Linguistics and WordNet:
        a.        In depth analysis of Semantic Relations,
        b.        Theoretical definitions of word meaning,
        c.        Necessity and Completeness issues.

B.      Architecture of WordNet:
        a.        Language independent and language dependent
                   components

C.      Tools and Methods for Wordnet Development:
        a.        User and Data entry interface, organization,
        b.        Extending and enriching wordnets
        c.        Integrating WordNet with other linguistic resources
                   (SUMO, Top ontologies, VerbNet, FrameNet, etc.)

D.      WordNet as a lexical resource and component of NLP and MT:
        a.        Word sense disambiguation using wordnet(s)
        b.        Ontologies and WordNet(s)
        c.        The Lexicon and WordNet(s)
        d.        Semantic interpretation and WordNet(s)

E.      Applications of WordNet:
        a.        Information Extraction and Retrieval,
        b.        Document Structuring and Categorization,
        c.        Automatic Hyperlinking
        d.        Language Teaching,
        e.        Psycholinguistic Applications
        F.        Standardization, distribution and availability of wordnets
                   and = wordnet tools

Presentations will fall into one of the following categories:

--long papers (30 mins)
--short papers (15 mins)
--project reports (10 mins)
--demonstrations (20 mins)

Submissions will have to state the preferred format. Acceptance may be subject
to changes in the format or length of the presentation.  (E.g., a long paper
submission may be accepted as a short paper.)

Final papers should be submitted in electronic form (Postscript or PDF) Long
papers should contain approximately 7,500 words (~ 15 pages); short papers and
demonstrations should be approx. 4,000 words long.  Project reports will be
limited to approx. 1,000 words (2 pages of text).

Send papers to
Christiane Fellbaum (fellbaum at princeton.edu)
Piek Vossen (piek.vossen at irion.nl)

The deadline for submissions is July 1st, 2005. Decisions regarding acceptance
will be announced to the authors in early September.

We anticipate publishing the Proceedings both in paper and CD format.

Conference Chairs:
        Piek Vossen and Christiane Fellbaum

Local Organizing Committee Chair:

Key-Sun Choi (kschoi at cs.kaist.ac.kr)
Dept. of Computer Science
Bank of Language Resources
Korea Terminology Research Center for Language & Knowledge Engineering (KAIST)

Program Committee (as of March 7)

Eneko Agirre (Donostia, Spain)
Antonietta Alonge (Perugia, Italy)
Pushpak Bhattacharyya (Mumbai, India)
Bill Black (Manchester, England)
Paul Buitelaar (Saarbruecken, Germany)
Key-Sun Choi (KAIST, Korea)
Salvador Climent (Barcelona, Spain)
Bento Diaz (Sao Paolo, Brazil)
Christiane Fellbaum (Princeton, U.S.A./Berlin (Germany)
Julio Gonzalo (Madrid, Spain)
Ben Haskell (Princeton, U.S.A.)
Andreas Hotho (Kassel, Germany)
Chu Ren Huang (Taipei, Republic of China)
Adam Kilgarriff (England)
Claudia Kunze (Tuebingen, Germany)
Lothar Lemnitzer (Tuebingen, Germany)
Birte Loennecker (Hamburg , Germany)
Bernardo Magnini (Trento, Italy)
Toni Marti (Barcelona, Spain)
David Martinez (Donostia, Spain)
Rada Mihalcea (Texas, U.S.A.)
Karel Pala (Brno, Czech Republic)
Adam Pease (U.S.A.)
Ted Pedersen (Minnesota, U.S.A.)
German Rigau (Donostia, Spain)
Horacio Rodriguez (Barcelona, Spain
Sofia Stamou (Patras, Greece)
Mark Stevenson (Sheffield, England)
Dan Tufis (Bucarest, Romania)
Kadri Vider (Estonia)
Piek Vossen (Netherlands)
Shuly Wintner (Haifa, Israel)


Important dates:

03-2005   1st Announcement
05-2005   2nd Announcement
07-2005   Deadline for paper submission
09-2005   Author notification
10-2005   Final Papers due
11-2005   Registration is open
01-2006   Meeting




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