LINGUIST List 21.4270 Wed Oct 27 2010 Calls: Comp Ling/Semantics/Lexicography/Language Resources and... (Jrnl) Editor for this issue: Justin Petro <justinlinguistlist.org> LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Directory         1.     Bolette Pedersen , Language Resources and Evaluation Message 1: Language Resources and Evaluation Date: 27-Oct-2010 From: Bolette Pedersen <bspedersenhum.ku.dk> Subject: Language Resources and Evaluation E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: Language Resources and Evaluation Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Lexicography; Semantics Call Deadline: 31-May-2011 'Language Resources and Evaluation', special issue on wordnets and relations Call for papers The building of wordnets, a world-wide preoccupation now, comes with the inevitable fragmentation of effort, and with multiplicity of methods and underlying theories. It is not enough merely to translate WordNet (wordnet.princeton.edu/). Customization is required. Some teams have decided to steer altogether clear of this largest wordnet, so as better to reflect all the specificity of language structures and of culture. The Global Wordnet Grid (www.globalwordnet.org/gwa/gwa_grid.htm) is a still-rare attempt to bring some order into the fast-growing thicket of incompatible ideas. Among the defining properties of a wordnet, perhaps the most central are the lexical-semantic relations which make up the net. Hypernymy and hyponymy are the backbone. Synonymy and antonymy are the cornerstone. In WordNet, there are four types each of meronymy and holonymy. Beyond that, WordNet has only a handful of relations. The community has put a good deal of effort into adding instances to wordnet relations, notably to hypernymy and (to a lower degree) meronymy. Very seldom, however, do people question the relation list itself or evaluate relations on the basis of the data collected. Yet this is precisely what distinguishes wordnets, and -- more important -- languages which such wordnets are meant to model. There is an urgent need to assemble a body of research results, not absent thus far but not organized in a systematic manner either. This is a call for papers to a special issue of the journal 'Language Resources and Evaluation' www.springer.com/education+%26+language/linguistics/journal/10579, to appear early in 2012. It will group together work on wordnet and relations. The following topics will be of particular interest: a) lexico-semantic relations in linguistics and in wordnets, b) wordnet versus other types of thesauri, and relations therein, c) the lexicographic theories and practices versus wordnet-creation practices, d) mono-lingual and multi-lingual considerations in the creation of a wordnet, e) the issues around translating a wordnet into another language, f) comparing wordnets for one language and between languages from the standpoint of relation sets, g) automatic extraction of lexical semantic relations and the role of large corpora in practical wordnet development, h) evaluation of lexico-semantic relations in wordnets -- consistency, coverage, relevance for applications. Papers supported by rich practical experience in large-scale wordnet development will be especially welcome: neat theories often fray at the edges when confronted with rich language data. We invite original contributions, not published before and not under consideration for publication elsewhere. Each paper will be reviewed by two readers appointed by the journal's editors and two appointed by guest editors. After the initial review phase, the authors of accepted papers will have an opportunity to look at all successful submissions in order to extend their papers with elements of discussion and to cross-reference all contributions accordingly. Important dates: call for papers broadcast by October 31, 2010; submissions due by May 31, 2011; reviews to authors by September 30, 2011; revisions of accepted papers due by November 30, 2011; (in parallel) discussion between the authors of accepted papers till November 30, 2011; final editorial decisions by December 31, 2011. Guest editors: Bolette Sandford Pedersen, University of Copenhagen Maciej Piasecki, Wroclaw University of Technology Stan Szpakowicz, University of Ottawa Christiane Fellbaum, Princeton University Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 27-Oct-2010       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.