Full Title: Eighth Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon
Short Title: Cogalex-VIII

Date: 20-May-2024 - 20-May-2024
Location: Turino, Italy
Contact Person: Michael Zock
Meeting Email: [email protected]
Web Site: https://lrec-coling-2024.org/about-lrec-coling/

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics; Lexicography; Neurolinguistics; Psycholinguistics

Call Deadline: 23-Feb-2024

Meeting Description:

The way we look at the lexicon has changed dramatically over the last few decades. While in the past being considered as an appendix to grammar, the lexicon has now moved to the center stage. Indeed, there is hardly any task in NLP that can be conducted without it. This has provoked two consequences: every year there are a great number of new proposals, and (b), it is harder and harder to remain up to date or to stay on top of the wave. Hence the reason for organizing events like this.
The goal of this workshop is to provide builders and users of lexical resources (researchers in NLP, psychologists, computational lexicographers) a forum to share their knowledge and needs concerning the construction, organization, and use of a lexicon by people (lexical access) and machines (NLP, IR, data mining).
Like in the past, we invite researchers to address unsolved problems concerning the lexicon, by considering this time however also Large Language Models (LLMs). More precisely, we would like to explore their potential for building and using lexical resources as well as their ability to deal with the cognitive aspects of the lexicon.

We solicit contributions including, but not limited to, the topics listed below, topics, which can be considered from any of the following points of view:
• traditional-, computational- or corpus linguistics,
• neuro- or psycholinguistics (tip of the tongue problem, word associations),
• mathematics (vector-based approaches, graph theory, small-world problems), etc.

Possible Topics
• The potential of Large Language Models for the creation and use of lexical resources;
• Organization, i.e., structure of the lexicon;
• The meaning of words and how to reveal it;
• Analysis of the conceptual input given by a dictionary user;
• Methods for crafting dictionaries or indexes;
• Creation of new types of dictionaries;
• Dictionary access (navigation and search strategies), interface issues