WOLER 2011 - WoLeR 2011 : International Workshop on Lexical Resources

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Category WOLER 2011

Deadline: February 15, 2011 | Date: August 08, 2011-August 13, 2011

Venue/Country: Ljubljana, Slovenia

Updated: 2011-01-01 20:17:49 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

Ljubljana, Slovenia, August 8-12, 2011

held in conjunction with ESSLLI 2011

http://alpage.inria.fr/~sagot/woler2011/

--- First Call for Papers ---

Submission deadline: February 15, 2011

Lexical resources are one of the main sources of linguistic information for

research and applications in Natural Language Processing and related fields. In

recent years advances have been achieved in both symbolic aspects of lexical

resource development (lexical formalisms, rule-based tools) and statistical

techniques for the acquisition and enrichment of lexical resources, both

monolingual and multilingual. The latter have allowed for faster development of

large-scale morphological, syntactic and/or semantic resources, for widely-used

as well as resource-scarce languages. Moreover, the notion of dynamic lexicon is

used increasingly for taking into account the fact that the lexicon undergoes a

permanent evolution.

This workshop aims at sketching a large picture of the state of the art in the

domain of lexical resource modeling and development. It is also dedicated to

research on the application of lexical resources for improving corpus-based

studies and language processing tools, both in NLP and other language-related

fields, such as linguistics, translation studies and didactics.

A non-exclusive list of topics covered by this workshop is:

? lexical resources involving information from one or more description

levels, such as morphology, syntax (e.g. valency), semantics

(e.g. wordnets), named entity databases and terminologies

? models, frameworks and architectures for representing lexical

information

? comparing, merging and coupling lexical resources

? (offline) acquisition of lexical information, e.g. from raw, tagged or

parsed corpora

? dynamic lexicons, processing of unknown words, neologisms

? lexicons of multi-word units, idioms, derived lexemes and other complex

lexical units

? multilingual lexicons

? issues specific to developing lexical resources for less-resourced

languages

? issues specific to developing lexical resources for issues specific to

developing lexical resources for typologically or genetically

(un)related languages

? lexical resources for improving language-related research and

applications in areas such as NLP (parsing, text generation, automatic

translation, information extraction…), linguistic research, translation

studies, language teaching

? evaluation methods for lexical resources

? issues on standardization and distribution of lexical resources

Submission Details

Authors are invited to submit full papers describing original and unpublished

work. Submissions should be anonymous, and have 4 to 8 pages using the LREC

stylesheets available at

http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2010/?Author-s-Kit-and-Templates (the submission

procedure shall be provided shortly on the Workshop web page)

Each submission will be anonymously reviewed by three members of the program

committee, and possibly by additional reviewers. The accepted papers will appear

in the workshop electronic proceedings. A post-workshop publication, e.g., in

the form of an Springer LNCS/LNAI series volume, will be considered.

Workshop Format

The workshop is part of ESSLLI and is open to all ESSLLI participants. It will

consist of five 90-minute sessions held over five consecutive days in the first

week of ESSLLI, i.e., from August 1 to August 5, 2011. There will be 3 slots for

paper presentation and discussion per session. As usual for ESSLLI workshop, the

workshop organizer will give an introduction to the topic during the first

session. Invited talks are to be announced soon.

Further information about the workshop will be on the Workshop web page, at the

following URL: http://alpage.inria.fr/~sagot/woler2011/

Important dates

Submission deadline: February 15, 2011

Notification: April 15, 2011

Final papers for proceedings: May 9, 2011

Workshop dates: August 1-5, 2011

Practical Information

All workshop participants including the presenters will be required to register

for ESSLLI. The registration fee for authors presenting a paper will correspond

to the early student/workshop speaker registration fee. Moreover, additional fee

waiver grants might be made available by the ESSLLI Organizing Committee on a

competitive basis and workshop participants are eligible to apply for

those. There will be no reimbursement for travel costs and

accommodation. Workshop speakers who have difficulty in finding funding should

contact the local organizing committee to ask for the possibilities for a grant.

Further Information about ESSLLI: http://esslli2011.ijs.si/

The workshop is endorsed by FlareNet (http://www.flarenet.eu/), and will be

supported by the French national grant EDyLex (ANR-09-CORD-008) and the Alpage

team (INRIA & University Paris 7).

Workshop Organizer

Benoît Sagot (Alpage, INRIA & University Paris 7)

Workshop Program Committee

Afra Alishahi, Saarland University, Germany

Marianna Apidianaki, INRIA, France

Núria Bel, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain

Francis Bond, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Paul Buitelaar, National University of Ireland - Galway, Ireland

Béatrice Daille, Université de Nantes, France

Laurence Danlos, Université Paris 7, France

Helge Dyvik, Bergen University, Norway

Tomaž Erjavec, Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia

Christiane Fellbaum, Princeton University, USA

Jennifer Foster, Dublin City University, Ireland

Yoav Goldberg, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

Shu-Kai Hsieh, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Philippe Langlais, Université de Montréal, Canada

Éric Laporte, Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, France

Linlin Li, Saarland University, Germany

Piet Mertens, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

Karel Pala, Masaryk University, Czech Republic

Stelios Piperidis, Institute for Language and Speech Processing, Greece

Adam Przepiórkowski, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland

Francis Tyers, Universitat d’Alacant, Spain

Duško Vitas, University of Belgrade, Serbia

Piek Vossen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands

Pierre Zweigenbaum, LIMSI, France