30.4191, Calls: Cog Sci, Comp Ling, Semantics, Text/Corpus Ling/Hong Kong

Wed Nov 6 12:17:57 UTC 2019

LINGUIST List: Vol-30-4191. Wed Nov 06 2019. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 30.4191, Calls: Cog Sci, Comp Ling, Semantics, Text/Corpus Ling/Hong Kong

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Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2019 07:17:21
From: Yingying Ye [yingyye3 at cityu.edu.hk]
Subject: 21st Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop

Full Title: 21st Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop 
Short Title: CLSW2020 

Date: 28-May-2020 - 31-May-2020
Location: City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 
Contact Person: Meichun Liu
Meeting Email: clsw2020.lt at cityu.edu.hk
Web Site: http://clsw2020.lt.cityu.edu.hk 

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

Call Deadline: 20-Jan-2020 

Meeting Description:

Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop (CLSW) is one of the most important
international conferences on Chinese Lexical Semantics and related fields,
starting from the turn of the century in year 2000, under the auspices of the
Academic Advisory Committee of CLSW conference. This workshop series is
dedicated to various approaches to lexical semantic research with the goal to
integrate linguistics, corpus linguistics, cognitive linguistics,
psycholinguistics, and computational linguistics. It has been held in
different Asia Pacific cities, including Hong Kong, Beijing, Taipei,
Singapore, Xiamen, Hsin Chu, Yantai, Suzhou, Wuhan, Zhengzhou, Leshan, Macao
and Chiayi, etc. CLSW has become one of the most influential and
internationally known platforms for cross-disciplinary research exchange,
dialogue, and collaboration. Over the past 20 years, it has been attended by
an average of 250 participants with a diverse range of scholars from China,
Singapore, US, UK and EU.

The 21st Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop (CLSW2020) will be held on May
28-31, 2020, in City University of Hong Kong, organized by Department of
Linguistics and Translation at City University of Hong Kong, and co-organized
by Department of Linguistics and Modern Language at Chinese University of Hong
Kong, The Linguistic Society of Hong Kong and Hong Kong Academy of the
Humanities. Scholars all over the world are cordially invited to submit papers
to CLSW2020 at CityU of HK!

CLSW2020 Conference Theme
Lexical Semantics, Artificial Intelligence, and Cognitive Science
CLSW2020 features in SIX world-renowned keynote speakers on the thematic
topics and FOUR special pre-conference parallel sessions to facilitate
scholarly exchanges.

Keynote Speakers:

Prof. Adele E. Goldberg, Princeton University
Prof. Kenneth Ward Church, Baidu Research
Prof. Martin Hilpert, University of Neuchâtel
Prof. Ping Li, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Dr. Ming Zhou, Microsoft Research Asia
Prof. Weiguang Qu, Nanjing Normal University

Special Pre-conference Parallel Sessions:

- Lexical Semantics and Chinese Linguistics
- Computational Lexical Semantics
- Formal Approaches to Lexical Semantics
- Chinese Language Acquisition, Teaching, and Testing

Important Dates:

Paper submission deadline (4-8 pages): Jan. 20, 2020
Notification of acceptance: Mar. 02, 2020
Final paper submission deadline: Mar. 31, 2020
Dates of conference: May 28-31, 2020

Submission Topics:

CLSW welcomes submissions on any aspect of Chinese lexical semantics in
general, as well as related fields more broadly concerned with language. It
aims to cover a wide range of research topics including, but not limited to,
the following:

- Recent advancements in Lexical Semantics, including theories and
methodologies;
- Lexical Semantics and AI;
- Lexical Semantics and Cognitive Science;
- Lexical Semantics and Chinese Linguistics;
- Lexical vs. constructional approaches to linguistic inquiries or data
probing;
- Lexical semantic representation and processing models for cognition and
computation;
- Construction of Chinese lexical resources, such as dictionaries, thesauri,
ontology and wordnet as well as semantically tagged corpora;
- Theories, technologies, tools, methods, and guidelines for semantic
annotation;
- Applications of Chinese lexical semantics on natural language processing,
include but not limited to emotion, fake news, humor, irony, lying, metaphor,
etc.
- Inter-disciplinary studies on lexical semantics involving any of the
following and/or other fields: big data, clinical linguistics, cognitive
linguistics, corpus linguistics, deep/machine learning, digital humanities,
distributional semantics, information retrieval, intercultural communication,
knowledge representation, language acquisition, language variations, machine
translation, neuro-/psycho-linguistics, semantic computing, theory of mind
etc.

Submission Guidelines:

- Language: papers can be written in either Chinese or English and should be
limited to 4 to 8 pages, excluding references. Authors please submit
electronic files in Adobe Acrobat PDF or Microsoft Word format. Paper
submission templates are available at the workshop website.
- Anonymous review: All submissions for review must be anonymous. Information
that may reveal the identities of the authors must be removed from the paper.
- Submission website: All papers are to be submitted to Easychair
(https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=clsw2020).

CLSW2020 Organisers:

Organiser: Dept. of Linguistics and Translation, City University of Hong Kong
Co-organisers: Dept. of Linguistics and Modern Languages, Chinese University
of Hong Kong; The Linguistic Society of Hong Kong; Hong Kong Academy of the
Humanities

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