IBERAMIA2004 WSDWorkshop

Call for Papers

IBERAMIA 2004

Tonantzintla - Puebla, México
http://www.inaoep.mx/iberamia2004/

Workshop on:
LEXICAL RESOURCES AND THE WEB FOR WORD SENSE DISAMBIGUATION

AIM

The purpose of the Workshop is to provide an international forum for
discussion in order to promote an exchange of ideas:

- To solve the knowledge-acquisition bottleneck of WSD
- To acquire extra lexical information using different ontologies,
machine-readable dictionaries and the Web

We invite papers which explore the above topics of interest.
 

DESCRIPTION

The problem of the resolution of the lexical ambiguity that appears when a
given word in a context has several different meanings is commonly referred
as Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD). WSD is a difficult problem which is
receiving a great deal of attention from the research community because its
resolution can help other Natural Language Processing tasks as: Information
Retrieval, Information Extraction, Text Processing, Machine Translation,
Grammatical Analysis, hypertext navigation and so forth.

Both supervised and not supervised paradigms for WSD seem to be stuck
because of the knowledge acquisition bottleneck. It is worthwhile to
investigate the possibility to use the Web as source for WSD. Moreover,
mining lexical information from the Web, could turn out to be the most
promising way to automatically acquire a corpus in order to solve the
unavailability of data. Last but not least, the use of semantic lexical
resources (lSUMO, WASP, Sensus, Cyc, EDR, etc.) and machine-readable
dictionaries (LDOCE, Webster's, Cambridge Advanced Learner's, OALDC etc.)
should be exploited in order to enrich WordNet senses and their glosses.
 

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Adam Kilgarriff (The Lexicography Masterclass)
Alexander Gelbukh (CIC-Instituto Politécnico Nacional)
Andrés Montoyo(Univ. Alicante) co-chair
Anselmo Peñas (UNED)
Armando Suarez (Univ. Alicante)
Bernardo Magnini (IRST-Trento)
Eneko Agirre (EHU)
German Rigau (EHU)
Julio Gonzalo (UNED)
Mª Antonia Martí (Univ. Barcelona)
Paolo Rosso (Univ. Politécnica Valencia) co-chair
Rada Mihalcea (Univ. North Texas)
Rafael Muñoz (Univ. Alicante)
Ruslan Mitkov (Univ. of Wolverhampton)
 

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission of papers: 6th August 2004
Notification of acceptance of papers: 20th August 2004
Camera-ready for all papers: 30th August 2004
Workshop date: 22nd November 2004
 

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS

By e-mail to: wsdIBERAMIA@dsic.upv.es
Authors should format their papers according to the LNCS template, with a
length of four to eight pages.
 

OFFICIAL LANGUAGES

Papers must be written in English, Spanish or Portuguese.
 

WORKSHOP REGISTRATION FEES

Normal: 100 USD - Student:  50 USD