36.1103, Calls: 21st Joint ACL - ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation (ISA-21) (Germany)

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Subject: 36.1103, Calls: 21st Joint ACL - ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation (ISA-21) (Germany)

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Date: 30-Mar-2025
From: Harry Bunt [harry.bunt at tilburguniversity.edu]
Subject: 21st Joint ACL - ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation (ISA-21)


Full Title: 21st Joint ACL - ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic
Annotation (ISA-21)
Theme: Co-located with the 2025 International Conference on
Computational Semantics (IWCS 2025)

Date: 24-Sep-2025 - 24-Sep-2025
Location: Düsseldorf, Germany
Contact Person: Harry Bunt
Meeting Email: harry.bunt at tilburguniversity.edu
Web Site: https://sigsem.uvt.nl/isa21/

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

Call Deadline: 13-Jun-2025

ISA-21 will be the 2025 edition of a series of joint workshops of the
ACL Special Interest Group in Semantics (SIGSEM) and the International
Organisation for Standardisation ISO. This edition will be held at the
2025 International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS 2025,
https://iwcs2025.github.io), Düsseldorf, September 24. Workshop
website: https://sigsem.uvt.nl/isa21/
The annual ISA workshops bring together researchers who produce or
consume annotations of semantic information as expressed in text,
speech, gestures, graphics, video, images, and in communicative
behaviour where multiple modalities are combined. Examples of semantic
annotation include the markup of time and events, dialogue acts,
discourse relations, semantic roles, coreference, space and motion,
and people and objects participating in activities and events.
The ISO organisation pursues the establishment and exploitation of
standardised annotation methods and representation schemes in these
and related areas in support of the creation of interoperable semantic
resources. The ISA workshops provide a forum  for researchers to
identify and discuss challenges in effective semantic annotation and
to critically examine and compare existing approaches and frameworks.
SUBMISSIONS 
Topics for submissions include, but are not limited to:
* methodological aspects of semantic annotation
* design and evaluation of semantic annotation schemas
* innovative methods for automated and manual annotation
* integration of semantic annotation and other linguistic annotations
* considerations for merging annotations of distinct phenomena
* multi-layered annotations and representations
* semantic annotation, representation, and their interrelatedness
* context-aware annotation learning
* levels of granularity in annotation schemes
* use of context in semantic annotation procedures
* uncertainty and ambiguity in semantic annotations
* semantic annotation and ontologies
* comparison of semantic annotation schemes
* alternative approaches to the syntax and semantics of annotations
* annotator agreement and other metrics for evaluating semantic
annotations
* qualitative evaluation of semantic annotations 
* experiments in semantic annotation
* applications of semantic annotation
* best practices for semantic annotation procedures
* application and evaluation of standards for semantic annotation
* language- or application-specific aspects of semantic annotation 
* capturing semantic information in images and video
* issues in the annotation of specific domains of semantic
information, such as:
 - events, states, processes, circumstances, facts
 - relations in discourse and dialogue
 - time, space and motion
 - modality, polarity and factuality 
 - quantification and modification
 - coreference relations
 - semantic roles and predicate-argument structures
 - reference and named entities
 - attribution, sentiment, attitudes and emotions
SUBMISSION DETAILS:
We invite two types of submission:
1. Research papers, describing original research; these can be
either: 
   a. long (6-8 pages, with additional pages for references if needed)
or 
   b. short (3-5 pages plus references);
   Accepted long papers are allowed one additional page of content to
accommodate review comments.
2. Project notes, describing recent, ongoing or planned projects (3-5
pages including references).
Submission of papers is in PDF form to the ISA-21 submission page. All
submissions should be formatted following the two-column structure
used by  IWCS 2021 {borrowed from ACL 2021). Please use these specific
style files or the Overleaf template. 
Style fles: https://iwcs2021.github.io/download/iwcs2021-templates.zip
Overleaf
template: https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/instructions-for-iwcs-2021-proceedings/fpnsyxqqpfbw 
Submission of papers is in PDF form using the ISA-21 submission
website:
 https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=isa21
Please indicate the type of your submission by adding “(full paper)”,
“(short paper)” or “(project note)” to the title. 
Reviewing will be double blind, so please make sure to anonymise your
submission. 
The accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings on
the ISA-21 website as well as in the ACL Anthology. 
IMPORTANT DATES
June 13: submission deadline
August 1: notification of acceptance
August 22: camera-ready papers due
September 24: ISA-21 workshop
ORGANIZERS
Harry Bunt 
Nancy Ide
Kiyong Lee 
Volha Petukhova
James Pustejovsky
Laurent Romary
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Jan Alexandersson
Mxime Amblard
Johan Bos
Harry Bunt (chair)
Stergios Chatzykriakidis
Jae-Woong Choe
Robin Cooper
Rodolfo Delmonte
David DeVault
Simon Dobnik
Jens Edlund
Alex Fang
Robert Gaizauskas
Koiti Hasida
Nancy Ide
Elisabetta Jezek
Nikhil Krishnaswamy
Kiyong Lee
Philippe Muller
Rainer Osswald
Catherine Pelachaud
Volha Petukhova 
Massimo Poesio
Laurent Prevot
Stephen Pulman
James Pustejovsky
Laurent Romary
Merel Scholman
Purificação Silvano
Manfred Stede
Thorsten Trippel
Carl Vogel
Menno van Zaanen
Annie Zaenen
Heike Zinsmeister



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