Re: Corpora: LREC 2002 Workshop on Wordnet Structures and Standardization (2nd Call)

From: Maltesh S Badiger (malteshbadiger@cadl.iisc.ernet.in)
Date: Mon Feb 04 2002 - 06:44:56 MET

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    I am working in Indian Institute of Science Bangalore India,
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    Maltesh Badiger
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    On Sun, 3 Feb 2002, Claudia Kunze wrote:

    >
    > Workshop on Wordnet Structures and Standardization and how
    > these affect Wordnet Applications and Evaluation
    >
    > Workshop held in conjunction with the
    > Third Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2002)
    > in Las Palmas, Spain
    >
    > May 28, 2002
    >
    >
    > SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS
    >
    > Wordnets, which are structured along the lines of the Princeton
    > WordNet, have become popular lexical-semantic resources in the
    > field of language technology. Various initiatives to monolingual
    > and multilingual wordnet construction have been launched
    > (EuroWordNet, BalkaNet, Portuguese Wordnet etc.), and numerous
    > language processing tasks rely on wordnet resources and their
    > implicit knowledge structures.
    >
    > Existing wordnets vary as with respect to their stage of
    > development, coverage of concepts, encoding principles of
    > linguistic contents and semantic relations, and thus their
    > applicability in different NLP tasks.
    > Furthermore, language-specific peculiarities of wordnets
    > have to be considered in the field of cross-lingual applications.
    > Recently attempts have been made towards the construction of
    > wordnets for the less-studied languages, which are in need of
    > reliable standards, yielding at the same time new perspectives
    > on wordnet construction.
    >
    > This one-day workshop emphasizes two major topics: wordnet
    > structures for less-studied languages on the one hand, and wordnet
    > standardization, evaluation and application on the other hand.
    > The workshop aims at bringing together wordnet builders and wordnet
    > appliers from academia and industries in order to integrate the
    > efforts being made by different sites.
    >
    > One major topic focuses on wordnets for less-studied languages,
    > i.e. Eastern European and Scandinavian languages which have
    > recently started developing sementic networks in order to exchange
    > new approaches for linguistic structures and architectures of
    > semantic networks and communicate their preliminary results to a
    > wider research community.
    >
    > The other major topic discusses standardization issues for wordnets
    > and wordnet-related tools, as well as evaluation of wordnet
    > resources and the information encoded in them, and experiences
    > with wordnet applications in the area of information retrieval
    > and sense tagging.
    >
    > Conference topics:
    >
    > - guidelines and methodologies for building wordnets;
    > - new approaches to wordnet construction;
    > - building of wordnets for less-studied languages;
    > - architecture of semantic networks and its relationship
    > to the language type;
    > - semantic relations of less-studied languages and
    > their representations;
    > - structure as language-independent module;
    > - applicability of WordNet assumptions to other language types;
    > - standardization of wordnet specifications including the
    > Interlingual Index as a universal index of meaning;
    > - standardization of wordnet representations as with respect to
    > metalanguages (XML, etc.);
    > - compatibility issues with regard to different formal representations;
    > - criteria and methods for verifying the content encoded in wordnets;
    > - consistency checking, comparison and evaluation of wordnet modules;
    > - evaluation of the value being added by integrating wordnets in
    > natural language processing tasks;
    > - experiences from sense-tagging with wordnets.
    >
    >
    > Submissions
    >
    > Papers are invited that will describe existing research
    > connected to the topics of the workshop. Each presentation
    > will be 20 minutes long (15 minutes and 5 minutes of discussion).
    > Each submission should indicate: title; author(s); affiliation(s);
    > and contact author's e-mail address, postal address, telephone
    > and fax numbers. Abstracts (maximum 1.500 words, plain-text
    > format) should be sent to the respective contact persons:
    >
    > Papers related to Wordnet Structures and Applications
    > for the Less-Studied Languages should be submitted to:
    > mathiou@ceid.upatras.gr
    >
    > Papers related to Wordnet Applications, Standardization &
    > Evaluation should be submitted to: kunze@sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de
    >
    > All submissions will be reviewed by an international programme
    > committee. Accepted papers will be published in the Workshop
    > Proceedings.
    >
    > The final version of the accepted papers should be no
    > longer than 4,000 words or 10 A4 pages. Instructions for
    > formatting and presentation of the final version will
    > be sent to authors upon notification of acceptance.
    >
    >
    > Important Dates
    >
    > Deadline for abstract submission: 10th of February 2002
    > Notification of acceptance: 10th of March 2002
    > Final version of paper for workshop proceedings: 5th of April 2002
    >
    > Pre-conference Workshop: 28th of May 2002
    >
    >
    > Organizing Committee
    >
    > Dimitris N. Christodoulakis (Patras University, Greece)
    > Claudia Kunze/ Lothar Lemnitzer (University of Tuebingen, Germany)
    > Karel Pala (Masaryk University Brno, Czech Republic)
    >
    >
    > Contact Persons
    >
    > Prof. Dimitris N. Christodoulakis
    > Databases Laboratory of Computer Engineering & Informatics Department
    > Patras University
    > GR 26500 Greece
    > Phone: +30 61 960 385
    > Fax: +30 61 960 438
    > Email: dxri@cti.gr
    >
    > Claudia Kunze
    > Seminar fuer Sprachwissenschaft
    > Universitaet Tuebingen
    > Wilhelmstr. 113
    > D-72074 Tuebingen
    > Germany
    > Phone: +49 7071 29 77474
    > Fax: +49 7071 551335
    > Email: kunze@sfs.uni-tuebingen.de
    >
    >
    > Programme Committee
    >
    > Christiane Fellbaum (Princeton University, USA)
    > Piek Vossen (Irion Technology Delft, The Netherlands)
    > Kemal Oflazer (Sabanci University Istanbul, Turkey)
    > Sofia Stamou (CTI Patras, Greece)
    > Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)
    > Randee Tengi (Princeton University, USA)
    > Wim Peters (Sheffield University, GB)
    > Kadri Vider (Universtiy of Tartu, Estonia)
    > Julio Gonzales (UNED Madrid, Spain)
    > Palmira Marrafa (University of Lisboa, Portugal)
    > Paul Buitelaar (DFKI Saarbruecken, Germany)
    > Andreas Wagner (University of Tuebingen, Germany)
    > Erhard Hinrichs (University of Tuebingen, Germany)
    > Simonetta Montemagni (University of Pisa, Italy)
    > R.J.H.M Ermers (Almaty, Kazakhstan)
    >
    > Workshop Fee
    >
    > for Conference participants: 90 EURO
    > for others: 140 EURO
    >
    > To obtain further information about the workshop please visit
    > http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2002/index.html or
    > http://www.cti.gr/nlp/
    >
    >



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