32.1784, Calls: Computational Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics, Semantics, Text/Corpus Linguistics, Lexicography, Cognitive Science / Frontiers in Psychology (Jrnl)

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Subject: 32.1784, Calls:  Computational Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics, Semantics, Text/Corpus Linguistics, Lexicography, Cognitive Science / Frontiers in Psychology (Jrnl)

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Date: Fri, 21 May 2021 13:24:06
From: Pilar León Araúz [pleon at ugr.es]
Subject: Computational Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics, Semantics, Text/Corpus Linguistics, Lexicography, Cognitive Science / Frontiers in Psychology (Jrnl)

 
Full Title: Frontiers in Psychology 


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

Call Deadline: 31-Jul-2021 

Context is a slippery customer. It has been vaguely defined as the parts of
discourse surrounding a word, sentence, or passage, the set of situational
elements that includes the object being processed or what surrounds and gives
meaning to something else. Nevertheless, despite the difficulty of pinning
down context, all of us are extremely sensitive to it. We are intuitively
aware of which features of context make our utterances meaningful. We are also
adept at contextualizing what we read or hear in order to understand it. Yet,
the specification and representation of context remain elusive, as reflected
in the disparity and scarcity of contextual information in general and
specialized dictionaries, termbases, etc. Nonetheless, the systematic
inclusion of contextual data would greatly benefit these resources, especially
those related to Natural Language Processing (NLP) and domain ontologies. This
would significantly enrich entries, facilitate knowledge acquisition, and also
provide computers with a greater capacity to interpret context-specific data.

Even though researchers acknowledge the importance of context, there is no
consensus on how it should be specified or even extracted. This is thus a
challenge that should be addressed since both general and specialized concepts
(along with their designations) are more easily identified and understood when
they are represented in context. Specific proposals for context representation
in dictionaries and knowledge bases include frames; contextonyms; semantic
relations and networks; and context-aware ontologies, among others. In fact,
to date, there is no cohesive body of literature that can serve as a reference
for knowledge resource designers. Even though the inclusion of context is a
priority in such resources, more empirical and practical research is needed to
discover how this can be systematically accomplished on a larger scale.

The scope of this article collection encompasses the design of knowledge
resources and the inclusion of contextual information from the perspective of
Lexicography and Terminography. Research on different types of context is
relevant as well as optimal ways of representing context types. Also of
interest are the measurement, specification, and visualization of semantic
relations and semantic relatedness. Additional topics are the semi-automatic
or automatic extraction of contextual data from corpora as well as the
configuration of this information to highlight knowledge-rich contexts.
Research topics include but are not limited to the following:

- Representation of contextual information in knowledge resources
- Use of contextual information for knowledge representation (disambiguation,
conceptual and semantic relations, etc.)
- Contextual variation and specification
- Context analysis, identification, and extraction
- Context selection and relevance

Keywords: context representation, contextual information, contextual
variation, contextual specification, context analysis, context identification,
context extraction, context selection, context relevance

Submission deadlines:
Abstract: July 31, 2021
Manuscript: November 30, 2021

Important Note: All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the
scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in
their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an
out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of
peer review.




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