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The Global Wordnet Association welcomes bids from potential organizers of the 13th Global Wordnet Conference in January 2025.
The deadline for submitting a proposal is March 31th, 2024.
Bids will be considered by the GWA Board and a decision will be announced April 30th, 2022.
Proposals must consider and, where appropriate, address the following criteria:
* Expected size: 50-100 people
* Logistics
– Convenient and reasonably priced international flight connections
– Inexpensive lodging for participants on small budgets
* Date
– Projected date: January 2025
– Conference length of 4 days
* Participants/Content
– We encourage efforts to expand participation beyond the current wordnet community
– We encourage co-located tutorials, workshops, panels, hackathons, shared tasks and other events
* Proceedings
– Local organizers are the main editors of the proceedings
– Proceedings must get an ISBN number and must be freely downloadable from the GWA website
– Proceedings should be registered in the ACL Anthology (the GWA board will help with this).
* Budget and Fees (this is a model; variations can be proposed and discussed)
– Fee structure:
– Aim to keep to 200 EUROs maximum for regular participants
– Reduced fee for students and participants from countries with little funding
– Fees include GWA membership to be transferred to GWA (see below)– Participants fees also cover:
– proceedings (electronic & ISBN)
– coffee breaks
– lunches (depending on local costs),
– Fees do not necessarily cover:
– accommodation
– dinners
– local transport from hotel pick-up points to conference
– Optional additional fee to cover:
– banquet
– excursion
* Costs to be borne by the local organizer:
– meeting rooms and equipment rental
– local support staff
* Sponsorship: the organizer is encouraged to find sponsors
– Invited speaker(s) from the international community, to be selected by the organizers in consultation with the GWA board.
* Board and the local organizers:
– Number of speakers determined by the availability of financial support.
– Local organizers may additionally invite and sponsor one or more local speakers, in consultation with the GWA Board.
* Financial responsibility:
– The GWA cannot contribute financially or assume any financial responsibility
– Financial responsibility rests entirely with the local organizer
– Early registration to reduce risk is encouraged
– Enforce policy of inclusion of papers in proceedings after early registration of at least one author
* Program committee:
– GWA Board
– Chairs: German Rigau and Francis Bond
– The reviewing will include a best paper award
– Program Committee to be composed before Call for Papers
Please send your bids to German Rigau german.rigau@ehu.eus and Francis Bond <bond@ieee.orgmailto:bond@ieee.org>