Call for papers
1st International Wordnet Conference
Mysore, India
http://www.ciil.org/gwn
21-25 January 2002

The Global Wordnet Association together with CIIL Mysore, IIT Bombay and
IIIT Hyderabad are very pleased to announce the first International
Conference on Wordnets. The conference will be held at the Central Institute
of Indian Languages, Mysore (Karnataka State), India
(http://www.ciil.org/gwn).

Details about the Association and the full announcement for the conference
can be found on the GWA website (http://www.hum.uva.nl/~ewn/gwa.htm).

The conference will include tutorials on building wordnets, demonstrations
of wordnet databases and wordnet-based software, wordnet project
presentations and scientific papers on any issue related to wordnets,
including but not limited to:

A.      Linguistics and WordNet:
        a.      In depth analysis of Semantic Relations,
        b.      Theoretical definitions of word meaning,
        c.      Necessity and Completeness issues.
B.      Architecture of the WordNet:
        a.      Language independent and language dependent components
C.      Tools and Methods for Wordnet Development:
        a.      User and Data entry interface, organization,
        b.      Extending and enriching wordnets
D.      WordNet as a lexical resource and component of NLP and MT system:
        a.      Word sense disambiguation using wordnet,
        b.      Ontologies and WordNet,
        c.      The Lexicon and WordNet
E.      Applications of WordNet:
        a.      Information Extraction and Retrieval,
        b.      Document Structuring and Categorization,
        c.      Automatic Hyperlinking
        d.      Language Teaching,
        e.      Psycholinguistic Applications
F.      Standardization, distribution and availability of wordnets and wordnet
tools.


Presentations will fall into one of the following categories:

--long papers (30 mins) (9 pages)
--short papers (15 mins) (6 pages)
--project reports (10 mins) (4 pages)
--demonstrations (10 mins) (4 pages)


Submissions will have to state the preferred format. Acceptance may be
subject to changes in the format or length of the presentation.
(E.g., a long paper submission may be accepted as a short paper.)

Long papers should contain approximately 5,00 words (9 pages);  short papers
should be approx. 3,000 words long (6 pages). Project reports and
transcripts of demos
will be limited to approx. 2,000 words (4 pages of text). The papers should
largely follow
the ACL-style sheets. Style sheets and examples can be downloaded from the
conference web site:
http://www.ciil.org/gwn

Papers should be submitted in electronic form (Word). Author(s) should
register as a submitter and email their paper to:
secretary_gwn@ciil.stpmy.soft.net.

The deadline for submissions is October 1, 2001. Decisions regarding
acceptance will be announced to the authors in early November.

The host institution (CIIL) has stated their intent to publish the
Proceedings
both in paper and CD format.


Program Committee:

Christiane Fellbaum (Chair), Princeton University (USA)
Piek Vossen, Irion, NL (President of the GWA)
Eneko Agirre, University of the Basque Country (ES)
Pushpak Bhattacharya,  IIT Bombay (India)
Pierrette Bouillon, University of Geneva (CH)
Nicoletta Calzolari, University of Pisa (IT)
Phil Edmonds, Sharp (GB)
Charles Fillmore, University of California at Berkeley (USA)
Sandiway Fong, NECI Princeton (USA)
Fernando Gomez, University of Central Florida (USA)
Julio Gonzalo, UNED (ES)
Maria Gronostaj, University of Goteborg (SW)
Sanda Harabagiu, University of TX at Austin (USA)
Yoshihiko Hayashi, NTT (Japan)
Erhard Hinrichs, University of Tuebingen (D)
Hideki Hirakawa, Toshiba (Japan)
Graeme Hirst, University of Toronto (CA)
B.D. Jayaram, CIIL, Mysore (India)
Adam Kilgarriff, University of Brighton (GB)
Bernardo Magnini, IRST Povo (IT)
Yanis Maistros, New Technical University of Athens (GR)
Palmira Marrafa, University of Lisbon (PT)
S. P. Mudur, NCST, Mumbai (India)
Karel Pala, University of Brno (CZ)
Martha Palmer, University of Pennsylvania (USA)
Bolette Pedersen, Center for Sprogteknologi, Copenhagen (DK)
Wim Peters, University of Sheffield (GB)
German Rigau, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (ES)
Antonio Sanfilippo, LingoMotors (USA)
Rajeev Sangal, IIT, Hyderabad (India)
Frederique Segond, Xerox Grenoble (F)
U. N. Singh, Director of the CIIL, Mysore (India)
Philip Resnik, University of Maryland (USA)
Virach Sornlertlamvanich, NECTEC (Thailand)
Kadri Vider, University of Tartu (Estonia)
Evelyne Viegas, Microsoft (USA)

National Committee: Udaya Narayana Singh(Chair), Rajeev Sangal,
Durgesh Rao, Pushpak Bhattacharya, K.V. Narayana Murthy,
C.N. Krishnan, Laxmithathachar.

Local Organising Committee: Udaya Narayana Singh (Chair), B.D. Jayaram
(Secretary), K.S. Rajyashree, A.K. Basu, Jennifer Bayer, R. Krishnamurthy,
Tony McEnery.

Important dates:

01-09-2001              Call for papers and 2nd announcement
01-10-2001              Deadlines for submissions
01-11-2001              Acceptance of papers
01-12-2001              Final papers, registration is open
21/25-01-2002           Conference

Please watch the wordnet www sites for further information and
announcements.

WordNet
EuroWordNet
Global Wordnet Association
CIIL Mysore
IIT Bombay
IIIT Hyderabad
ACL-SIGLEX