28.4977, Calls: Cog Sci, Comp Ling, Lexicography, Semantics, Text/Corpus Ling/Japan

Tue Nov 28 17:34:28 UTC 2017

LINGUIST List: Vol-28-4977. Tue Nov 28 2017. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 28.4977, Calls: Cog Sci, Comp Ling, Lexicography, Semantics, Text/Corpus Ling/Japan

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Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2017 12:34:20
From: Tiago Torrent [tiago.torrent at ufjf.edu.br]
Subject: International FrameNet Workshop 2018

Full Title: International FrameNet Workshop 2018 
Short Title: IFNW 2018 

Date: 12-May-2018 - 12-May-2018
Location: Miyazaki, Japan 
Contact Person: Tiago Torrent
Meeting Email: tiago.torrent at ufjf.edu.br
Web Site: http://www.ufjf.br/ifnw 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics; Lexicography; Semantics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 15-Jan-2018 

Meeting Description:

The International FrameNet Workshop 2018: Multilingual FrameNets and
Constructicons, collocated with LREC, in Miyazaki, Japan, will bring together
researchers in Frame Semantics and Construction Grammar, two areas which have
traditionally been interrelated, but which have been developing somewhat
independently in recent years. It is also addressed at language technology
researchers working with language resources based on Frame Semantics or
Construction Grammar. IFNW 2018 follows from two previous editions, one in
2016, held in Juiz de Fora, Brazil, and one in 2013, held in Berkeley, USA,
and will cover the rapidly unfolding developments in both areas and recent
research on their interconnections.

Charles J. Fillmore and Paul Kay and their students and colleagues developed
the theories of Frame Semantics and Construction Grammar in parallel over a
period of several decades.  Both have been of interest to many linguists,
psychologists, computer scientists, and others, with most people tending to be
more interested in one than the other.  This workshop will attempt to bring
together researchers working on Construction Grammar with those working on
Frame Semantics, both from a theoretical (linguistic) and more practical
(language technology) perspective, highlighting the interconnections of the
two theories, their relation to other theories of semantics and syntax, as
well as their deployment in concrete natural language processing applications.
 This workshop will also provide a forum for reporting on cross-lingual and
multilingual research on Frame Semantics and Construction Grammar around the
world.

Call for Papers:

We welcome (1) submissions discussing theoretical questions related to Frame
Semantics and Construction Grammar (CxnG), especially in a multilingual
context, and preferably empirically based (on corpus studies and/or natural
language processing applications), such as the following:

- What counts as a construction? What counts as a frame?
- Are the schemas of CxnG necessarily different from FrameNet frames? If so,
how and why?  Are Frames/Schemas an adequate semantic representation for CxnG?
What constructions are implicit in ordinary FrameNet-style annotation? Are
relations between constructions basically the same as relations between
frames?
- To what extent are semantic frames language universals? How should
cross-linguistic differences in frames be represented and studied?
- To what extent are constructions the same across languages?  How can we make
useful cross-linguistic comparisons between semantically similar constructions
such as correlatives,  conditionals, causatives, etc.?
- How can research devoted mainly to either Frame Semantics or Construction
Grammar contribute to the growth of both approaches?

We also welcome (2) reports on language resources based on Frame Semantics
(FrameNets) or Construction Grammar (constructicons) being developed and made
freely available in any language; this will include reports on annotation
using the new Multilingual FrameNet annotation tool described below. 
In addition, we especially welcome (3) reports on applications of Frame
Semantics and Construction Grammar, including both Frame Semantic
parsers/semantic role labeling systems and Construction Grammar parsers and
end-to-end systems.    

The organizers have also been developing a web-based tool for Frame Semantic
annotation in any language, chosen a series of texts to be annotated in a
variety of languages, and begun to annotate them.   We plan to make this
system freely available well before the workshop and we will solicit papers
from those who have tried annotating one of these texts.  Please contact the
organizers as early as possible if you are interested in participating in this
annotation project.

Submission will be via the START system used for the main conference. Initial
submissions should be in the form of extended abtracts (3–4 pages, excluding
references) in pdf format only, and must strictly adhere to the standard
format for LREC 2018 (see instructions at
lrec2018.lrec-conf.org/en/submission/authors-kit/).

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