Call for Papers – deadline extension – 9th Global Wordnet Conference, Singapore January 2018

Call for Papers, deadline extension!!!!
New paper submission deadline is now September 20.

9th Global Wordnet Conference, Singapore

January 8-12, 2018

Global Wordnet Association: www.globalwordnet.org

Conference website: http://compling.hss.ntu.edu.sg/events/2018-gwc/

The Global Wordnet Association is pleased to announce the 9th
International Global Wordnet Conference (GWC2018). The conference
will be hosted by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Conference venue: the School of Humanities at Nanyang Technological
University.

Sub Events:
- Shared Task on Sense Annotation 
We invite participants to annotate translations of The Adventure of the Speckled Band (Doyle, 1892) 
If you are interested in this task, please email Francis Bond <bond@ieee.org>
- Workshop on Wordnets and Word-Embeddings (Jan 11, Thursday)
- Workshop on Technology Enhanced Learning (Jan 12, Friday)

Details about the association and the full announcement for the conference can be found on the conference website. 

We invite papers addressing the topics listed, but not limited to, the ones below. Proposals for tutorials on building wordnets and demonstrations of wordnet databases, and wordnet-based software are welcome too.


      1. Linguistics and lexical semantics, including:

             * In depth analysis of semantic relations

             * Determining and representing word meanings (definitions, relations, semantic components, co-occurrence statistics, etc.)

             * Necessity and completeness issues

             * Ontologies and wordnets

             * The lexicon and wordnets

             * Distributional semantic approaches

             * Cross-lingual representation of meaning

             * Similarity and relatedness

      2. Architecture of lexical databases, including:

             * Language independent and language dependent components
          
             * Integration of multi-wordnets in research infrastructures (like CLARIN) and LT networks (like META-NET)

      3. Tools and Methods for wordnet Development, including:

             * User and Data entry interface, organization

             * Extending and enriching wordnets 

      4. Wordnet and applications including:

             * Word sense disambiguation using wordnet

             * Information extraction and retrieval

             * Document structuring and categorization

              * Sentiment Analysis

             * Automatic hyperlinking

             * Language teaching

      5. Standardization, distribution and availability of wordnets and wordnet tools. 


In conjunction with the conference we intend to hold two workshops:
one on distributional semantics and one on technology enhanced learning.


Presentations will fall into one of the following categories:

   * long papers (30 mins)

   * short papers (15 mins)

   * project reports (10 mins)

   * demonstrations (20 mins) 

Submissions should be anonymous and will have to state one of the preferred categories. Acceptance may be subject to changes in the category of the presentation, e.g. a long paper submission may be accepted as a short paper.

In addition, we will reserve some time for lightning talks and discussions.

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

 * Long papers should be limited to 8 pages,
 * Demonstration papers must be at most 5 pages text and can have additional 3 pages screen dumps or images;
 * Short papers and project descriptions should be limited to 5 pages.

Page limits do not include references.

Papers need to be submitted to the EasyChair website:

GWA 2018 Easy Chair site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gwc2018

The format of the paper is in ACL format (PDF):

ACL 2010 paper formats: http://acl2010.org/authors_final.html

The conference program will include oral presentations and demonstration sessions with sufficient time for discussions of the issues raised.

The deadline for submissions is September 6, 2013. Decisions regarding acceptance will be announced to the authors by end of September. Final papers are due at October 11.

Important note: 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.

Important dates:

  1. September 20 (extended), 2017 Deadline for paper submission

  2. October 15, 2017 Notification of acceptance

  3. October 29, 2017 Final version due

  4. October 29, 2017 Registration opens

  5. December 10, 2017 Registration closes for author(s) of papers to be included in the proceedings

  6. January 8-12, 2018 Conference 

Conference Chairs:

Christiane Fellbaum, fellbaum@princeton.edu 
Piek Vossen, piek.Vossen@vu.nl 


Local Organizing Chair:

 Francis Bond, Luís Morgado da Costa, Franti?ek Kratochvíl, Takayuki Kuribayashi

Program committee

Eneko   Agirre  University of the Basque Country
Tim Baldwin The University of Melbourne
Magnini Bernardo FBK-irst
Francis Bond    Nanyang Technological University
Sonja   Bosch   Department of African Languages, University of South Africa
Key-Sun Choi    KAIST
Dan Cristea Faculty of Computer Science Iasi
Janos   Csirik  University of Szeged
Gerard  de Melo Rutgers University
Tomaž   Erjavec Dept. of Knowledge Technologies, Jožef Stefan Institute
Christiane  Fellbaum    Princeton University
Darja   Fiser   Faculty of Arts
Corina  Forăscu Romanian Academy Institute for Research in Artificial Intelligence
Antoni  Gonzales Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
Isahara Hitoshi Toyohasi University of Technology
Ales    Horak   Masaryk University
Shu-Kai Hsieh   National Taiwan Normal University
Diptesh Kanojia IIT Bombay
Kyoko   Kanzaki Toyohasi University of Technology
Kyoko   Kanzaki Toyohashi University of Technology
John P. Mccrae  National University of Ireland, Galway
Rada Mihalcea   University of North Texas / Oxford University
Verginica   Mititelu    Romanian Academy Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence
Haldur  Oim University of Tartu
Heili   Orav    University of Tartu
Adam    Pease   Articulate Software
Ted Pedersen    University of Minnesota, Duluth
Bolette Pedersen    Centre for Language Technology, Department of Nordic Research
Maciej  Piasecki    Institute of Informatics, Wroclaw University of Technology
Marten  Postma  VU University Amsterdam.
Alexandre   Rademaker   IBM Research Brazil and EMAp/FGV
German  Rigau   IXA Group, UPV/EHU
Ewa Rudnicka    Wrocław University of Technology
Kevin   Scannell    Saint Louis University
Roxane  Segers  VU University Amsterdam
Emiel   van Miltenburg  Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Kadri   Vider   University of Tartu
Piek    Vossen  VU University Amsterdam.
Shan    Wang    The Education University of Hong Kong