NODALIDA 2009 workshop:
WordNets and other Lexical
Semantic Resources
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Lexical Semantics, Lexicography, Terminology and Formal Ontologies
FINAL PROGRAMME is now available! (click here for .doc version)
Half-day workshop (12.00-17.30) on
May 14 at Nodalida
2009,
Submission deadline February 23,
2009
Nodalida Main Conference: May 15-16, 2009
Nodalida Website: http//beta.visl.sdu.dk/nodalida2009
TOPIC/PURPOSE:
High-quality lexical semantic
resources with sufficiently large vocabularies still prove to be the bottleneck
not only in purely rule-based NLP applications but also in supervised
corpus-based approaches. Princeton WordNet has been
around for about two decades and is the first and largest lexical semantic
resource built around the concept of synonym sets (synsets)
and conceptual relations between them. All over the world new WordNet projects are constantly being initiated exploring
new ways of constructing and enriching these resources, the Danish WordNet (DanNet), and the Norwegian WordNet
(NorNett), being two Scandinavian examples of this
(See also Global WordNet
Association).
In parallel to this development of
new lexical semantic resources, much effort is put into exploring how WordNets and formal ontologies
can be made to work together in knowledge-based systems. The workshop intends
to bring together researchers involved in building and integrating lexical
semantic resources as well as researchers that are more theoretically
interested in investigating the interplay between lexical semantics,
lexicography, terminology and formal ontologies.
Examples of topics to discuss:
·
Representation of lexical-semantic knowledge for
computational use
·
The interplay between formal ontologies
and lexical resources
·
Corpus-based approaches to lexical semantic resources
·
Terminology and lexical semantics: concept-based vs lexical semantic approaches
·
Monolingual vs. multilingual approaches to
lexical-semantic resources and ontologies
·
Word-space models for building and expanding ontologies
·
Domain-specific classification: taxonomy and ontology
– computational aspects
·
Quality assessment of lexical-semantic resources:
criteria, methods
·
Computational use of lexical-semantic resources
(information retrieval, semantic tagging of corpora, MT, etc.)
·
Traditional lexicography
and NLP lexicons: re-use and differences
·
Cognitive aspects:
computational lexical models as opposed to the ‘mental lexicon’
SUBMISSION
AND REQUIREMENTS:
Extended abstracts of 3-5 pages
should be submitted for review by the workshop organizers. Each presentation
will be approx. 30 minutes long including discussion.
Submissions should follow the
two-column format of EACL proceedings and must either be in LaTeX
style files or Microsoft Word document template that is available from the NodaLida Conference website, courtesy of the Association of
Computational Linguistics. Only PDF-files are accepted. Submissions should be
submitted to Bolette Sandford
Pedersen, bspedersen at hum.ku.dk.
IMPORTANT
DATES:
·
Submission of extended
abstract (3-5 pages): February 23, 2009
·
Notification of
acceptance: March 26, 2009
·
Submission of
camera-ready papers/revised extended abstract: April 13, 2009.
WORKSHOP
ORGANIZERS:
Bolette Sandford Pedersen, PhD in computational
linguistics
Senior Researcher at Center for
Sprogteknologi, University of
Project manager of DanNet. Board member of Global WordNet
Association.
Anna Braasch,
Senior Researcher at Center for Sprogteknologi, University of Copenhagen.
Project manager of Sprogteknologisk Ordbase. Board
member of Euralex. Editor of DanNet.
Ruth Vatvedt
Fjeld, Professor at Department of Linguistics and
Scandinavian Studies,
Board member of Euralex
and the editorial committee of LexicoNordica.
Project manager of lexical
documentation of modern Norwegian bokmål. Involved with the Norwegian NordNett.
Sanni Nimb, PhD in computational lexicography,
Senior Editor at
Det
Danske Sprog- og Litteraturselskab (Society for Danish Language and
Literature).
Editor of DanNet
and Ordnet (involved in the online publishing of The
Danish Dictionary).
Board member of Leksikografer
i Danmark
PROGRAMME
COMMITTEE:
Claudia Kunze
Helge Dyvik
Janne Bondi Johannesen
Maria Toporowska
Gronostaj
Tamás Váradi
Heili Orav
Jørgen Fischer Nilsson
Hanne Erdmann Thomsen
Ruth Vatvedt
Fjeld
Anna Braasch
Bolette
Sandford Pedersen
Sanni
Nimb
Lars
Trap-Jensen
Henrik
Lorentzen
Jørg Asmussen
Bodil
Nistrup Madsen