[Apologies for cross posting]

1st Call for Papers

12th International Global Wordnet Conference

Donostia / San Sebastian, Basque Country

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*

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

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)

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

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

Standardization, distribution and availability of wordnets and wordnet tools.

* Submissions*

Submissions will fall into one of the following categories (page limits exclude references): * long papers: 8 pages max, 30 minutes presentation * short papers: 5 pages max; 15 minutes presentation * project reports: 5 pages max., 10 minutes presentation * demonstrations : 5 pages max, with an additional 3 pages screen dumps or images; 20 minutes 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 submission site will be online soon.

Paper submissions must use the official ACL style templates, which are available from here (Latex and Word). Please follow the paper formatting guidelines general to “*ACL” conferences available here. Authors may not modify these style files or use templates designed for other conferences.

* Important Dates*

September 30, 2022 Deadline for paper submission November 18, 2022 Notification of acceptance December 1, 2022 Registration opens December 23, 2022 Deadline author registration, final version paper 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 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, Wroclaw University 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