LINGUIST List 21.4603 Wed Nov 17 2010 Calls: Computational Ling/Language Resources and Evaluation (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.     Carlo Strapparava , Language Resources and Evaluation Message 1: Language Resources and Evaluation Date: 17-Nov-2010 From: Carlo Strapparava <strappafbk.eu> Subject: Language Resources and Evaluation E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: Language Resources and Evaluation Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics Call Deadline: 31-Mar-2011 LANGUAGE RESOURCE AND EVALUATION Journal Special Issue on Computational Semantic Analysis of Language: SemEval-2010 CALL FOR PAPERS SemEval-2010 (http://semeval2.fbk.eu), an ACL SigLex event, hosted 16 shared tasks for evaluating semantic analysis systems. Over 130 teams participated with more than 230 submitted systems. It took place in July 15-16 2010, as a co-located event with the 48th Annual Meeting of the ACL, held in Uppsala, Sweden. It was the fifth international evaluation exercise following the series of successful Senseval/SemEval workshops. Senseval-1 (1998), Senseval-2 (2001), Senseval-3 (2004) were more oriented toward word sense disambiguation tasks. For the fourth edition, the name was changed to SemEval-2007, motivated by a desire to broaden the spectrum of tasks to all aspects of computational semantic analysis of language. SemEval-2010 continued in this vein, with some continuations of existing tasks but also many new tasks for a wider variety of semantic phenomena. TOPICS OF INTEREST We invite submissions of papers describing in-depth evaluation on computational semantics of text. A natural candidate is an extended 'task description' paper from SemEval-2010 (especially the novel tasks), which includes a broad description of the problem, resources used, system comparative, analysis of results, and some novel conclusions. But we do not limit the contributions to SemEval-related works. Instead, other works presenting substantial experimental evaluation on natural language semantics are also welcome. Finally, papers describing concrete NLP systems/approaches on one of those semantic tasks are welcome too, provided they present relevant evaluation on the task at hand and highlight important properties of the problem, resources, etc. System description papers which don't add insights on the specific problem they tackled, as well descriptions of already known and established tasks, are out of the scope of this issue. The list of topics of interest includes but is not limited to: * Cross-lingual and multilingual approaches to semantic analysis * Domain adaptation * Deeper semantic analysis: tasks and approaches * Grounding meaning in extralinguistic knowledge * Different approaches for describing word meaning * The inclusion of discourse context in semantic analysis * Automatic recognition of semantic relations IMPORTANT DATES Call for papers 15 November 2010 Submissions of papers 31 March 2011 Preliminary decisions to authors July 2011 (preliminary) Submission of revised articles August 2011 (preliminary) Final decisions to authors October 2011 (preliminary) Final versions due from authors November 2011 (preliminary) SUBMISSION OF WORKS To prepare the papers, please follow the style guidelines provided by the LRE journal. To submit papers: - Go to http://www.editorialmanager.com/lrev/ - Register and login as an author - Select 'SemEval-2010 Special Issue' as Paper Type - Follow instructions and submit paper GUEST EDITORS Katrin Erk University of Texas at Austin (katrin.erk at mail.utexas.edu) Carlo Strapparava FBK-irst, Italy (strappa at fbk.eu) WEB SITE Updated information on the Special Issue at: http://semeval2.fbk.eu Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 17-Nov-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.