Final Call for Papers Global WordNet Conference 2023 - Deadline extension

[Apologies for cross posting]

Call for Papers

12th International Global Wordnet ConferenceDonostia / San Sebastian, Basque Country

January 23-27, 2023

Global Wordnet Association: www.globalwordnet.org

Conference website: https://hitz.eus/gwc2023

The Global Wordnet Association is pleased to announce the 12th International Global Wordnet Conference (GWC2023) in Donostia / San Sebastian (Spain) hosted by HiTZ, Basque Center for Language Technology at the University of the Basque Country.

NOTE: COVID-19 allowing, the conference will be in person only.

Organisers: Begoña Altuna, Itziar Aldabe, Xabier Arregi, Itziar Gonzalez-Dios, Aritz Farwell and Esther Miranda.

Details about the association and the full announcement for the conference can be found on the conference website: https://hitz.eus/gwc2023

We invite submissions with original contributions addressing, but not limited to, the topics listed below. Proposals for tutorials are welcome as well.

Conference Topics

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Lexical semantics and meaning representation

* Critical analysis and applications of lexical and semantic relations

* Proposed new relations

* Definitions, semantic components, co-occurrence and frequency statistics

* Word, Sense and Context Embeddings

* Necessity and completeness issues

* Ontology and wordnet

* Other lexicographical and lexicological questions pertaining to wordnet-style meaning representation

* Wordnets and other modalities

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Architecture of lexical databases

* Language independent and language dependent components

* Integration of multi-wordnets in research infrastructures (like CLARIN, ELG, etc.)

* Wordnets and Linked Open Data (LOD)

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Tools and methods for wordnet development

* User and Data entry interfaces

* Methods for constructing, extending and enriching wordnets

* Methods for linking wordnets to other lexical and semantic resources

* Methods for leveraging existing wordnets and semantic networks with large language models

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Applications of wordnet

* Word sense disambiguation

* Text generation

* Commonsense reasoning

* Machine translation

* Information extraction and retrieval

* Document structuring and categorisation

* Automatic hyperlinking

* Language pedagogy

* Psycholinguistic applications

* Embeddings and pretrained language models

* Probing large neural language models

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Standardization, distribution and availability of wordnets and wordnet tools.

Submissions will fall into one of the following categories (page limits exclude references):

* long papers: 8 pages max, 30 minute presentation

* short papers: 5 pages max; 15 minute presentation

* project reports: 5 pages max., 10 minute presentation

* demonstrations : 5 pages max, with an additional 3 pages screen dumps or images; 20 minute presentation

Submissions should be anonymous and any identifying information must be removed. Authors must state the preferred category, though acceptance may be subject to change in the category of the presentation, e.g. a long paper submission may be accepted as a short paper.

Final papers should be submitted in electronic form (PDF only).

Paper submissions must use the official ACL style templates, which are available from here https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files (Latex and Word). Please follow the paper formatting guidelines general to “*ACL” conferences available here https://acl-org.github.io/ACLPUB/formatting.html. Authors may not modify these style files or use templates designed for other conferences.

Authors are kindly requested to submit a tentative abstract of their work (not assessed) for reviewer assignment purposes.

Submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gwc2023

Important Dates (NEW DATES!!!)

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Still open for abstract submissions! 2.

October 21, 2022 (Deadline extension) Deadline for paper submission

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November 25, 2022 Notification of acceptance

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December 1, 2022 Registration opens

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December 23, 2022 Deadline author registration, final version paper

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January 23-27, 2023 Conference

Proceedings

Conference proceedings will be open access and downloadable from the GWA website. The proceedings will have an ISBN and be published in the ACL anthology.

Papers are only included in the proceedings if at least one author has registered.

Inclusion of accepted submissions into the final program and the proceedings is contingent upon at least one author’s registration. Late registration and on-site registration for participants is possible without inclusion of the paper and without presentation.

Conference Chairs

German Rigau - german.rigau@ehu.eus

Francis Bond - bond@ieee.org

Local Organizing Chairs

Begoña Altuna - begona.altuna@ehu.eus

Itziar Aldabe - itziar.aldabe@ehu.eus

Xabier Arregi - xabier.arregi@ehu.eus

Itziar Gonzalez-Dios - itziar.gonzalezd@ehu.eus

Aritz Farwell - asfarwell@ehu.eus

Esther Miranda - esther.miranda@ehu.eus

Program Committee (to be confirmed and extended)

Adam Pease, Articulate Software

Ales Horak, Masaryk University

Alexandre Rademaker, IBM Research Brazil and EMAp/FGV

Bolette Pedersen, University of Copenhagen

Christiane Fellbaum, Princeton University

Darja Fiser, University of Ljubljana

David Lindemann, IWiSt, University of Hildesheim

Diptesh Kanojia, IIT Bombay

Eneko Agirre, University of the Basque Country

Ewa Rudnicka, Wrocław University of Science and Technology

Francis Bond, Palacký University

Gerard De Melo, Rutgers University

German Rigau, IXA Group, UPV/EHU

Haldur Oim, University of Tartu

Heili Orav, University of Tartu

Hugo Gonçalo-Oliveira, Department of Informatics Engineering of the University of Coimbra

Janos Csirik, University of Szeged

John Mccrae, National University of Ireland, Galway

Kadri Vider, University of Tartu

Kevin Scannell, Saint Louis University

Kyoko Kanzaki, Otemon Gakuin University

Maciej Piasecki, Department of Computational Intelligence, Wrocław University of Science and Technology

Marten Postma, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Paul Buitelaar, National University of Ireland, Galway

Piek Vossen, VU University Amsterdam.

Sanni Nimb, The Danish Society for Language and Literature

Shan Wang, The Education University of Hong Kong

Shu-Kai Hsieh, National Taiwan Normal University

Sonja Bosch, Department of African Languages, University of South Africa

Thierry Declerck, DFKI, Saarbruecken

Tim Baldwin, The University of Melbourne

Tomaž Erjavec, Dept. of Knowledge Technologies, Jožef Stefan Institute

Umamaheswari Vasanthakumar, Nanyang Technological University

Valeria Depaiva, Natural Language and AI Research Laboratory of Nuance Communications, Inc.

Verginica Mititelu, Romanian Academy Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence

Sponsors

Keler https://www.keler.eus/en