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Subject: 31.307, Confs: Applied Linguistics, Cognitive Science, Computational Linguistics, Discipline of Linguistics, General Linguistics, Lexicography, Ling & Literature, Linguistic Theories, Neurolinguistics, Psycholinguistics, Semantics, Text/Corpus Linguistics/Spain

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Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2020 17:04:34
From: Michael Zock [michael.zock at lis-lab.fr]
Subject: Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon

Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon 
Short Title: CogALex 

Date: 13-Sep-2020 - 13-Sep-2020 
Location: Barcelona, Spain 
Contact: Michael Zock 
Contact Email: michael.zock at lis-lab.fr 
Meeting URL: https://sites.google.com/view/cogalex-2020/home 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics; Discipline of Linguistics; General Linguistics; Lexicography; Ling & Literature; Linguistic Theories; Neurolinguistics; Psycholinguistics; Semantics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Meeting Description: 

Supporting us in many tasks (thinking, searching, memorizing and
communicating) words are important. Hence, one may wonder how to build tools
supporting their learning and usage (access/navigation). Alas the answer is
not quite as straightforward as it may seem. It depends on various factors:
the questioner's background (lexicography, psychology, computer science), the
task (production/reception), and the material support (hardware). Words in
books, computers and the human brain are not the same. Obviously, being aware
of this, different communities have focused on different issues --(dictionary
building; creation of navigational tools; representation and organization of
words; time course for accessing a word, etc.)-- yet,  their views and 
respective goals have changed considerably over time.  

Obviously, different communities look at words from different angles, which
can be an asset, as complementary views may help us to broaden and deepen our
understanding of this fundamental cognitive resource. Yet, this diversity of
perspectives can also a problem, in particular if the field is rapidly moving
on, as in our case. Hence it becomes harder and harder for everyone, including
experts, to remain fully informed about the latest changes (state of the art).
This is one of the reasons why we organize this workshop. More precisely, our
goal is not only to keep people informed without getting them crushed by the
information glut, but also to help them to perceive clearly what is new,
relevant, hence important. Last, but not least, we would like to connect
people from different communities in the hope that this may help them to gain
new insights or inspirations.

This workshop is about possible enhancements of lexical resources
(representation, organization of the data, etc.). To allow for this we invite
researchers to submit their contributions. The idea is to discuss the
limitations of existing resources and to explore possible enhancements that
take into account the users' and the engineers' needs (computational aspects).

Also, just like in the past we propose again a 'shared task'. This time the
goal is to provide a common benchmark for testing lexical representations for
the automatic identification of lexical semantic relations (synonymy,
antonymy, hypernymy, part-whole meronymy) in various languages (English,
Chinese, and so on).

For this workshop we solicit papers including but not limited to the following
topics, each of which can be considered from various points of view:
linguistics (lexicography, computational- or corpus linguistics), neuro- or
psycholinguistics (tip-of-the-tongue problem, word associations),
network-related sciences (vector-based approaches, graph theory, small-world
problem), and so on. For more details, see the Cogalex website. 

The workshop features two tracks: 
    A regular research track, where the submissions must be substantially
original.
    A shared task track, with submissions consisting of system description
papers.

Invited Speaker: Alex Arenas (http://deim.urv.cat/~alexandre.arenas/)

For general questions, please get in touch with Michael Zock
(michael.zock at lis-lab.fr)

Concerning the shared task, please contact Enrico Santus (esantus at gmail.com),
or Emmanuele Chersoni (emmanuelechersoni at gmail.com)

Call for Papers: 

The workshop features two tracks:

- A regular research track, where the submissions must be substantially
original.
- A shared task track, with submissions consisting of system description
papers.

The regular research track submissions should follow one of the 2 formats:
- Long papers (9 content pages + references) should report on solid and
finished research including new experimental results, resources and/or
techniques.
- Short papers (4 content pages + references) should report on small
experiments, focused contributions, ongoing research, negative results and/or
philosophical discussion.

Submissions must be anonymized, conform to the style sheet of the main
conference (Download the MS Word and LaTeX templates here:
https://coling2020.org/coling2020.zip), and be submitted via the Coling
website (https://www.softconf.com/coling2020/CogALex/). While some papers may
be accepted only as posters, in the workshop proceedings no distinction will
be made between them and full papers.

We invite submissions of up to nine (9) pages maximum, plus bibliography for
long papers and four (4) pages, plus bibliography, for short papers. The
COLING’2020 templates must be used; these are provided in LaTeX and also
Microsoft Word format. Submissions will only be accepted in PDF format.
Deviations from the provided templates will result in rejections without
review. Submit papers by the end of the deadline day (timezone is UTC-12). 

Important Dates: 

Workshop papers: 
    Paper submission deadline: May 14, 2020
    Notification of acceptance: June 24, 2020
    Camera-ready papers due: July 11, 2020
    Workshop date: September 13, 2020

Shared task: 
    Release of development data : March 20, 2020
    Release of test data April: 20-24, 2020 
    Announcement of winners May 1, 2020
    Shared task papers due: May 20, 2020

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