[AISWorld] Fwd: Call for papers (CogAlex-V)
Michael Zock
Michael.Zock at lif.univ-mrs.fr
Fri Jul 22 05:00:23 EDT 2016
*Cog*nitive *A*spects of the *Lex*icon (*C**og**AL**ex*-v)
https://sites.google.com/site/cogalex2016/home
Workshop co-lated with coling (the 26th International Conference on
Computational Linguistics, Osaka, Japan), December 12, 2016
Invited speaker : /Chris Biemann/(Technische Universität, Darmstadt)
//
We are pleased to announce the 5th Workshop on 'Cognitive Aspects of the
Lexicon' (Cogalex-V), taking place just before coling (Osaka, Japan),
december 12, 2016.
1Context and background
The way we look at the /lexicon/ (creation and use) has changed
dramatically over the past 30 years. While in the past being considered
as an appendix to /grammar/, the lexicon has now moved to centre stage.
Indeed, there is hardly any task in NLP which can be conducted without
it. Also, rather than considering it as a static entity (database view),
dictionaries are now viewed as dynamic networks, akin to the human
brain, whose nodes and links (connection strengths) may change over time.
Linguists work on /products/, while psychologists and computer
scientists deal with /processes/. They decompose the task into a set of
subtasks, i.e. modules betweenwhich information flows. There are inputs,
outputs and processes in between. A typical task in language processing
is to go from meanings to sound or vice versa, the two extremes of
language production and language understanding. Since this mapping is
hardly ever direct, various intermediate steps or layers (syntax,
morphology) are necessary.
Most of the work done by psycholinguists has dealt with the information
flow from /meaning/ (or concepts) to /sound/ or the other way around.
What has not been addressed though is the creation of a map of the
/mental lexicon/, that is arepresention of the way how words are
organized or connected.
In this respect WordNet and Roget's Thesaurus are probably closest to
what one can expect these days. This being said, to find a word in a
resource one has to reduce the search space (entire lexicon) and this is
done via the knowledge one has at the onset of search. While the
information stored in the lexicon is a /product/, its access is clearly
a (cognitive, i.e. knowledge-based) /process/.
1.1Goal
The goal of Cogalexis to provide a forum for researchers in NLP,
psychologists, computational lexicographers and users of lexical
resources 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 (2004, 2008, 2010, 2012 and 2014), we will invite
researchers to address various unsolved problems, by putting this time
stronger emphasis though on /distributional semantics/ (DS). Indeed, we
would like to see work showing the relevance of DS as a cognitive model
of the lexicon. The interest in distributional approaches has grown
considerably over the last few year, both in computational linguistics
and cognitive sciences. A further boost has been provided by the recent
hype around /deep learning /and /neural/ /embeddings/. While all these
approaches seem to have great potential, their added value to address
cognitive and semantic aspects of the lexicon still needs to be shown.
This workshop is about possible enhancements of lexical resources and
electronic dictionaries, as well as on any aspect relevant to the
achieve a better understanding of the mental lexicon and semantic
memory.We solicit contributions including but not limited to the topics
listed here below, topics, which can be considered from any of the
following points of view:
* (computational, corpus) linguistics,
* neuro- or psycholinguistics (tip of the tongue problem, associations),
* network related sciences (sociology, economy, biology),
* mathematics (vector-based approaches, graph theory, small-world
problem), etc.
Wealso plan to organize a "friendly competition" for corpus-based models
of lexical networks and navigation, i.e. lexical access (see below).
1.2Possible Topics
1.2.1Analysis of the conceptual input of a dictionary user
·What does a language producer start out with and how does this input
relate to the target form? (meaning, collocation, topically related, etc.)
·What is in the authors' minds when they are generating a message and
looking for a word?
·What does it take to bridge the gap between this input and the desired
output (target word)?
1.2.2The meaning of words
·Lexical representation (holistic, decomposed)
·Meaning representation (concept based, primitives)
·Distributional semantics (count models, neural embeddings, etc. )
·Neurocomputational theories of content representation.
1.2.3Structure of the lexicon
·Discovering structures in the lexicon: formal and semantic point of
view (clustering, topical structure)
·Evolution, i.e. dynamic aspects of the lexicon (changes of weights)
·Neural models of the mental lexicon (distribution of information
concerning words, organization of words)
1.2.4Methods for crafting dictionaries or indexes
·Manual, automatic or collaborative building of dictionaries and indexes
(crowd-sourcing, serious games, etc.)
·Impact and use of social networks (Facebook, Twitter) for building
dictionaries, for organizing and indexing the data (clustering of
words), and for allowing to track navigational strategies, etc.
·(Semi-) automatic induction of the link type (e.g. synonym, hypernym,
meronym, association, collocation, ...)
·Use of corpora and patterns (data-mining) for getting access to words,
their uses, combinations and associations
1.2.5Dictionary access (navigation and search strategies),
interface issues,
·Search based on sound, meaning or associations
·Search (simple query vs. multiple words)
·Search-space determination based on user's knowledge, meta-knowledge
and cognitive state (information available at the onset, knowledge
concerning the relationship between the input and the target word, ...)
·Context-dependent search (modification of users' goals during search)
·Navigation (frequent navigational patterns or search strategies used by
people)
·Interface problems, data-visualization
·Creative ways of getting access to and using word associations (reading
between the lines, subliminal communication).
2Description of the shared tasks associated with the workshop.
We plan to organize a "friendly competition" of corpus-based models of
lexical access and semantic/associative relations between words. This
competition will be based on an existing, publicly available data set.
We provide an official separation of the data set into training,
development and test data as well as a detailed specification of the
task and evaluation metrics (implemented as easy-to-use scripts), so
that the results obtained by different participants can be compared
directly.
The precise design of the task has not been finalized yet, but it will
be based on one or more of the following data sets:
·free association norms from the Edinburgh Associative Thesaurus (EAT
<http://www.eat.rl.ac.uk/>)
·free association norms from the University of South Florida (USF
<http://w3.usf.edu/FreeAssociation/>)
·prime-target pairs from the Semantic Priming Project (SPP
<http://spp.montana.edu/>)
·semantically related word pairs from EVALution 1.0
(https://github.com/esantus/EVALution)
3INVITED SPEAKER
/Chris Biemann/, leader of the LT research group in Darmstadt, and well
known for his work on graph-based-approaches for NLP, has kindly
accepted to give the invited presentation.
4Deadlines.
* September 25: Submission deadline
* October 16: Author notification
* October 30: Camera ready due by Authors
* November 6: Proceedings due by Workshop Organisers to Workshop &
Publication Chairs.
* December 12 : Workshop
5Submission
The submissions should be written in English and be anonymized for
review. They must comply with the style-sheets provided by Coling:
http://coling2016.anlp.jp/#instructions
* Long papers may consist of 8 pages of content, plus 2 pages for
references;
* Short paper may consist of up to 4 pages of content, plus 2 pages
for references
* The respective final versions may be up to 9 pages for long papers
and 5 pages for short ones. In both cases the number of pages for
references is limited to 3 pages
Papers should be in PDF format and have to be submitted electronically
via the START submission system
(https://www.softconf.com/coling2016/CogALex-V/). You probably have to
register first, and then choose: submission, i.e.
(https://www.softconf.com/coling2016/CogALex-V/user/scmd.cgi?scmd=submitPaperCustom&pageid=0
<https://www.softconf.com/coling2016/CogALex-V/user/scmd.cgi?scmd=submitPaperCustom&pageid=0>).
6Organizers.
* Michael Zock (LIF, CNRS, Aix-Marseille University, Marseille, France)
* Alessandro Lenci (Computational Linguistics Laboratory, University
of Pisa,, Italy)
* Stefan Evert (FAU, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany)
7Contact persons
For general questions, please get in touch with Michael Zock
(michael.zock at lif.univ-mrs.fr <mailto:michael.zock at lif.univ-mrs.fr>),
for questions concerning the shared task, send an e-mail to Stefan Evert
(stefan.evert at fau.de <mailto:stefan.evert at fau.de>)
8Program committee
Bieman Chris (Technische Universität, Darmstadt, Germany)
Babych, Bogdan (University of Leeds, UK)
Brysbaert, Marc (Experimental Psychology, Ghent University, Belgium)
Cristea Dan ("Al. I. Cuza" University, Iasi, Romania)
deDeyne Simon (University of Adelaide, Australia)
de Melo Gerard (IIIS, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China)
Evert, Stefan (University of Erlangen, Germany)
Ferret Olivier (CEA LIST, France)
Fontenelle Thierry (CDT, Luxemburg)
Gala Nuria (University of Aix-Marseille, France)
Geeraerts Dirk (University of Leuven, Belgium)
Granger Sylviane (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
Grefenstette Gregory (Inria, Paris, France)
Hirst Graeme (University of Toronto, Canada)
Hovy Ed (CMU, Pittsburgh, USA)
Hsieh, Shu-Kai (National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan)
Joyce Terry (Tama University, Kanagawa-ken, Japan)
Lafourcade, Matthieu (LIRMM, université de Montepellier, France
Lapalme Guy (RALI, University of Montreal, Canada
Lebani Gianluca (University of Pisa, Italy)
Lenci Alessandro (University of Pisa, Italy)
L'Homme Marie Claude (University of Montreal, Canada)
Mititelu Verginica (RACAI, Bucharest, Romania)
Navigli, Roberto(Sapienza, Rome, Italy)
Paradis Carita (Centre for Languages and Literature Lund University, Sweden)
Pihlevar, Taher(university of Cambridge, UK)
Pirrelli, Vito (ILC, Pisa, Italy)
Polguère Alain (ATILF-CNRS, Nancy, France)
Purver, Matthew (King's College, London, UK)
Ramisch Carlos (AMU, Marseille, France)
Rayson Paul (UCREL, university of Lancaster, UK
Rosso, Paol (NLEL, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain)
Sahlgren, Magnus (Gavagai Inc. & SICS, Sweden)
Schulte im Walde Sabine (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
Schwab Didier (LIG, Grenoble, France)
Sharoff Serge (University of Leeds, UK)
Stella Massimo (Institute for Complex Systems Simulation, university of
Southhampton, UK)
Tokunaga Takenobu (TITECH, Tokyo, Japan)
Tufis Dan (RACAI, Bucharest, Romania)
Zarcone, Alessandra (Saarland University, Germany)
Zock Michael (LIF-CNRS, Marseille, France)
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Michael ZOCK
Aix-Marseille Université,
CNRS & LIF, UMR 7279,
163 Avenue de Luminy
F-13288 Marseille / France
Mail: michael.zock at lif.univ-mrs.fr
Tel.: +33 (0) 4 91 82 94 88
Secr.: +33 (0) 4 91 82 90 70
Fax: +33 (0) 4 91 82 92 75
Web: http://pageperso.lif.univ-mrs.fr/~michael.zock/
------------------------------------------------
: Chris Biemann, /Chris Biemann/(Technische Universität, Darmstadt)
//
We are pleased to announce the 5th Workshop on 'Cognitive Aspects of the
Lexicon' (Cogalex-V), taking place just before coling (Osaka, Japan),
december 12, 2016.
1Context and background
The way we look at the /lexicon/ (creation and use) has changed
dramatically over the past 30 years. While in the past being considered
as an appendix to /grammar/, the lexicon has now moved to centre stage.
Indeed, there is hardly any task in NLP which can be conducted without
it. Also, rather than considering it as a static entity (database view),
dictionaries are now viewed as dynamic networks, akin to the human
brain, whose nodes and links (connection strengths) may change over time.
Linguists work on /products/, while psychologists and computer
scientists deal with /processes/. They decompose the task into a set of
subtasks, i.e. modules betweenwhich information flows. There are inputs,
outputs and processes in between. A typical task in language processing
is to go from meanings to sound or vice versa, the two extremes of
language production and language understanding. Since this mapping is
hardly ever direct, various intermediate steps or layers (syntax,
morphology) are necessary.
Most of the work done by psycholinguists has dealt with the information
flow from /meaning/ (or concepts) to /sound/ or the other way around.
What has not been addressed though is the creation of a map of the
/mental lexicon/, that is arepresention of the way how words are
organized or connected.
In this respect WordNet and Roget's Thesaurus are probably closest to
what one can expect these days. This being said, to find a word in a
resource one has to reduce the search space (entire lexicon) and this is
done via the knowledge one has at the onset of search. While the
information stored in the lexicon is a /product/, its access is clearly
a (cognitive, i.e. knowledge-based) /process/.
1.1Goal
The goal of Cogalexis to provide a forum for researchers in NLP,
psychologists, computational lexicographers and users of lexical
resources 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 (2004, 2008, 2010, 2012 and 2014), we will invite
researchers to address various unsolved problems, by putting this time
stronger emphasis though on /distributional semantics/ (DS). Indeed, we
would like to see work showing the relevance of DS as a cognitive model
of the lexicon. The interest in distributional approaches has grown
considerably over the last few year, both in computational linguistics
and cognitive sciences. A further boost has been provided by the recent
hype around /deep learning /and /neural/ /embeddings/. While all these
approaches seem to have great potential, their added value to address
cognitive and semantic aspects of the lexicon still needs to be shown.
This workshop is about possible enhancements of lexical resources and
electronic dictionaries, as well as on any aspect relevant to the
achieve a better understanding of the mental lexicon and semantic
memory.We solicit contributions including but not limited to the topics
listed here below, topics, which can be considered from any of the
following points of view:
* (computational, corpus) linguistics,
* neuro- or psycholinguistics (tip of the tongue problem, associations),
* network related sciences (sociology, economy, biology),
* mathematics (vector-based approaches, graph theory, small-world
problem), etc.
Wealso plan to organize a "friendly competition" for corpus-based models
of lexical networks and navigation, i.e. lexical access (see below).
1.2Possible Topics
1.2.1Analysis of the conceptual input of a dictionary user
·What does a language producer start out with and how does this input
relate to the target form? (meaning, collocation, topically related, etc.)
·What is in the authors' minds when they are generating a message and
looking for a word?
·What does it take to bridge the gap between this input and the desired
output (target word)?
1.2.2The meaning of words
·Lexical representation (holistic, decomposed)
·Meaning representation (concept based, primitives)
·Distributional semantics (count models, neural embeddings, etc. )
·Neurocomputational theories of content representation.
1.2.3Structure of the lexicon
·Discovering structures in the lexicon: formal and semantic point of
view (clustering, topical structure)
·Evolution, i.e. dynamic aspects of the lexicon (changes of weights)
·Neural models of the mental lexicon (distribution of information
concerning words, organization of words)
1.2.4Methods for crafting dictionaries or indexes
·Manual, automatic or collaborative building of dictionaries and indexes
(crowd-sourcing, serious games, etc.)
·Impact and use of social networks (Facebook, Twitter) for building
dictionaries, for organizing and indexing the data (clustering of
words), and for allowing to track navigational strategies, etc.
·(Semi-) automatic induction of the link type (e.g. synonym, hypernym,
meronym, association, collocation, ...)
·Use of corpora and patterns (data-mining) for getting access to words,
their uses, combinations and associations
1.2.5Dictionary access (navigation and search strategies),
interface issues,
·Search based on sound, meaning or associations
·Search (simple query vs. multiple words)
·Search-space determination based on user's knowledge, meta-knowledge
and cognitive state (information available at the onset, knowledge
concerning the relationship between the input and the target word, ...)
·Context-dependent search (modification of users' goals during search)
·Navigation (frequent navigational patterns or search strategies used by
people)
·Interface problems, data-visualization
·Creative ways of getting access to and using word associations (reading
between the lines, subliminal communication).
2Description of the shared tasks associated with the workshop.
We plan to organize a "friendly competition" of corpus-based models of
lexical access and semantic/associative relations between words. This
competition will be based on an existing, publicly available data set.
We provide an official separation of the data set into training,
development and test data as well as a detailed specification of the
task and evaluation metrics (implemented as easy-to-use scripts), so
that the results obtained by different participants can be compared
directly.
The precise design of the task has not been finalized yet, but it will
be based on one or more of the following data sets:
·free association norms from the Edinburgh Associative Thesaurus (EAT
<http://www.eat.rl.ac.uk/>)
·free association norms from the University of South Florida (USF
<http://w3.usf.edu/FreeAssociation/>)
·prime-target pairs from the Semantic Priming Project (SPP
<http://spp.montana.edu/>)
·semantically related word pairs from EVALution 1.0
(https://github.com/esantus/EVALution)
3INVITED SPEAKER
/Chris Biemann/, leader of the LT research group in Darmstadt, and well
known for his work on graph-based-approaches for NLP, has kindly
accepted to give the invited presentation.
4Deadlines.
* September 25: Submission deadline
* October 16: Author notification
* October 30: Camera ready due by Authors
* November 6: Proceedings due by Workshop Organisers to Workshop &
Publication Chairs.
* December 12 : Workshop
5Submission
The submissions should be written in English and be anonymized for
review. They must comply with the style-sheets provided by Coling:
http://coling2016.anlp.jp/#instructions
* Long papers may consist of 8 pages of content, plus 2 pages for
references;
* Short paper may consist of up to 4 pages of content, plus 2 pages
for references
* The respective final versions may be up to 9 pages for long papers
and 5 pages for short ones. In both cases the number of pages for
references is limited to 3 pages
Papers should be in PDF format and have to be submitted electronically
via the START submission system
(https://www.softconf.com/coling2016/CogALex-V/). You probably have to
register first, and then choose: submission, i.e.
(https://www.softconf.com/coling2016/CogALex-V/user/scmd.cgi?scmd=submitPaperCustom&pageid=0
<https://www.softconf.com/coling2016/CogALex-V/user/scmd.cgi?scmd=submitPaperCustom&pageid=0>).
6Organizers.
* Michael Zock (LIF, CNRS, Aix-Marseille University, Marseille, France)
* Alessandro Lenci (Computational Linguistics Laboratory, University
of Pisa,, Italy)
* Stefan Evert (FAU, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany)
7Contact persons
For general questions, please get in touch with Michael Zock
(michael.zock at lif.univ-mrs.fr <mailto:michael.zock at lif.univ-mrs.fr>),
for questions concerning the shared task, send an e-mail to Stefan Evert
(stefan.evert at fau.de <mailto:stefan.evert at fau.de>)
8Program committee
Bieman Chris (Technische Universität, Darmstadt, Germany)
Babych, Bogdan (University of Leeds, UK)
Brysbaert, Marc (Experimental Psychology, Ghent University, Belgium)
Cristea Dan ("Al. I. Cuza" University, Iasi, Romania)
deDeyne Simon (University of Adelaide, Australia)
de Melo Gerard (IIIS, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China)
Evert, Stefan (University of Erlangen, Germany)
Ferret Olivier (CEA LIST, France)
Fontenelle Thierry (CDT, Luxemburg)
Gala Nuria (University of Aix-Marseille, France)
Geeraerts Dirk (University of Leuven, Belgium)
Granger Sylviane (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
Grefenstette Gregory (Inria, Paris, France)
Hirst Graeme (University of Toronto, Canada)
Hovy Ed (CMU, Pittsburgh, USA)
Hsieh, Shu-Kai (National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan)
Joyce Terry (Tama University, Kanagawa-ken, Japan)
Lafourcade, Matthieu (LIRMM, université de Montepellier, France
Lapalme Guy (RALI, University of Montreal, Canada
Lebani Gianluca (University of Pisa, Italy)
Lenci Alessandro (University of Pisa, Italy)
L'Homme Marie Claude (University of Montreal, Canada)
Mititelu Verginica (RACAI, Bucharest, Romania)
Navigli, Roberto(Sapienza, Rome, Italy)
Paradis Carita (Centre for Languages and Literature Lund University, Sweden)
Pihlevar, Taher(university of Cambridge, UK)
Pirrelli, Vito (ILC, Pisa, Italy)
Polguère Alain (ATILF-CNRS, Nancy, France)
Purver, Matthew (King's College, London, UK)
Ramisch Carlos (AMU, Marseille, France)
Rayson Paul (UCREL, university of Lancaster, UK
Rosso, Paol (NLEL, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain)
Sahlgren, Magnus (Gavagai Inc. & SICS, Sweden)
Schulte im Walde Sabine (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
Schwab Didier (LIG, Grenoble, France)
Sharoff Serge (University of Leeds, UK)
Stella Massimo (Institute for Complex Systems Simulation, university of
Southhampton, UK)
Tokunaga Takenobu (TITECH, Tokyo, Japan)
Tufis Dan (RACAI, Bucharest, Romania)
Zarcone, Alessandra (Saarland University, Germany)
Zock Michael (LIF-CNRS, Marseille, France)
--
------------------------------------------------
Michael ZOCK
Aix-Marseille Université,
CNRS & LIF, UMR 7279,
163 Avenue de Luminy
F-13288 Marseille / France
Mail: michael.zock at lif.univ-mrs.fr
Tel.: +33 (0) 4 91 82 94 88
Secr.: +33 (0) 4 91 82 90 70
Fax: +33 (0) 4 91 82 92 75
Web: http://pageperso.lif.univ-mrs.fr/~michael.zock/
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