Workshop on Wordnet Structures and Standardization and how these affect Wordnet Applications and Evaluation Workshop held in conjunction with the Third Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2002) in Las Palmas, Spain May 28, 2002 CALL FOR PAPERS Wordnets, which are structured along the lines of the Princeton WordNet, have become popular lexical-semantic resources in the field of language technology. Various initiatives to monolingual and multilingual wordnet construction have been launched (EuroWordNet, BalkaNet, Portuguese Wordnet etc.), and numerous language processing tasks rely on wordnet resources and their implicit knowledge structures. Existing wordnets vary as with respect to their stage of development, coverage of concepts, encoding principles of linguistic contents and semantic relations, and thus their applicability in different NLP tasks. Furthermore, language-specific peculiarities of wordnets have to be considered in the field of cross-lingual applications. Recently attempts have been made towards the construction of wordnets for the less-studied languages, which are in need of reliable standards, yielding at the same time new perspectives on wordnet construction. This one-day workshop emphasizes two major topics: wordnet structures for less-studied languages on the one hand, and wordnet standardization, evaluation and application on the other hand. The workshop aims at bringing together wordnet builders and wordnet appliers from academia and industries in order to integrate the efforts being made by different sites. One major topic focuses on wordnets for less-studied languages, i.e. Eastern European and Scandinavian languages which have recently started developing sementic networks in order to exchange new approaches for linguistic structures and architectures of semantic networks and communicate their preliminary results to a wider research community. The other major topic discusses standardization issues for wordnets and wordnet-related tools, as well as evaluation of wordnet resources and the information encoded in them, and experiences with wordnet applications in the area of information retrieval and sense tagging. Conference topics: - guidelines and methodologies for building wordnets; - new approaches to wordnet construction; - building of wordnets for less-studied languages; - architecture of semantic networks and its relationship to the language type; - semantic relations of less-studied languages and their representations; - structure as language-independent module; - applicability of WordNet assumptions to other language types; - standardization of wordnet specifications including the Interlingual Index as a universal index of meaning; - standardization of wordnet representations as with respect to metalanguages (XML, etc.); - compatibility issues with regard to different formal representations; - criteria and methods for verifying the content encoded in wordnets; - consistency checking, comparison and evaluation of wordnet modules; - evaluation of the value being added by integrating wordnets in natural language processing tasks; - experiences from sense-tagging with wordnets. Submissions Papers are invited that will describe existing research connected to the topics of the workshop. Each presentation will be 20 minutes long (15 minutes and 5 minutes of discussion). Each submission should indicate: title; author(s); affiliation(s); and contact author's e-mail address, postal address, telephone and fax numbers. Abstracts (maximum 1.500 words, plain-text format) should be sent to the respective contact persons: Papers related to Wordnet Structures and Applications for the Less-Studied Languages should be submitted to: mathiou@ceid.upatras.gr Papers related to Wordnet Applications, Standardization & Evaluation should be submitted to: kunze@sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de All submissions will be reviewed by an international programme committee. Accepted papers will be published in the Workshop Proceedings. The final version of the accepted papers should be no longer than 4,000 words or 10 A4 pages. Instructions for formatting and presentation of the final version will be sent to authors upon notification of acceptance. Important Dates Deadline for abstract submission: 10th of February 2002 Notification of acceptance: 10th of March 2002 Final version of paper: 5th of April 2002 Pre-conference Workshop: 28th of May 2002 Organizing Committee Dimitris N. Christodoulakis (Patras University, Greece) Claudia Kunze/ Lothar Lemnitzer (University of Tuebingen, Germany) Karel Pala (Masaryk University Brno, Czech Republic) Contact Persons Prof. Dimitris N. Christodoulakis Databases Laboratory of Computer Engineering & Informatics Department Patras University GR 26500 Greece Phone: +30 61 960 385 Fax: +30 61 960 438 Email: dxri@cti.gr Claudia Kunze Seminar fuer Sprachwissenschaft Universitaet Tuebingen Wilhelmstr. 113 D-72074 Tuebingen Germany Phone: +49 7071 29 77474 Fax: +49 7071 551335 Email: kunze@sfs.uni-tuebingen.de Programme Committee Christiane Fellbaum (Princeton University, USA) Piek Vossen (Irion Technology Delft, The Netherlands) Kemal Oflazer (Sabanci University Istanbul, Turkey) Sofia Stamou (CTI Patras, Greece) Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers (Tilburg University, The Netherlands) Randee Tengi (Princeton University, USA) Wim Peters (Sheffield University, GB) Kadri Vider (Universtiy of Tartu, Estonia) Julio Gonzales (UNED Madrid, Spain) Palmira Marrafa (University of Lisboa, Portugal) Paul Buitelaar (DFKI Saarbruecken, Germany) Andreas Wagner (University of Tuebingen, Germany) Erhard Hinrichs (University of Tuebingen, Germany) Simonetta Montemagni (University of Pisa, Italy) R.J.H.M Ermers (Almaty, Kazakhstan) Workshop Fee for Conference participants: 90 EURO for others: 140 EURO To obtain further information about the workshop please visit http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2002/index.html or http://www.cti.gr/nlp/