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Monday, August 10, 2020 by Chris Wellekens |
Call for Papers
CogALex Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon
Workshop co-located with COLING Paper submission deadline: May 14, 2020
deadline for shared-task papers : May 20, 2020 For latest information always look here https://sites.google.com/view/cogalex-2020 1 Background Supporting us in many tasks (thinking, searching, memorizing and communicating) words are important. Hence, one may wonder how to build tools supporting their learning and usage (access/navigation). Alas the answer is not quite as straightforward as it may seem. It depends on various factors: the questioner's background (lexicography, psychology, computer science), the task (production/reception), and the material support (hardware). Words in books, computers and the human brain are not the same. Obviously, being aware of this, different communities have focused on different issues ?(dictionary building; creation of navigational tools; representation and organization of words; time course for accessing a word, etc.)? yet, their views and respective goals have changed considerably over time. Rather than considering the lexicon as a static entity, where discrete units (words) are organized alphabetically (database view), dictionaries are now viewed dynamically, i.e., as lexical graphs, whose entities are linked in various ways (topical relations; associations) and whose weight links may vary over time. While lexicographers view words as products (holistic entities), psychologists and neuroscientists view them as processes (decomposition), involving various steps or layers (representations) between an input and an output. Computational linguists have their own ways to look at words, and their proposals have also changed quite a bit during the last decade. Discrete count-based vector representations have successively been replaced by continuous vectors (i.e., word embeddings) and then by language-model-based contextualized representations. These latter are more powerful than any of the other forms, as they are able to account for context ambiguity, outperforming the static models (including word-embeddings) in a broad range of tasks. As one can see, different communities look at words from different angles, which can be an asset, as complementary views may help us to broaden and deepen our understanding of this fundamental cognitive resource. Yet, this diversity of perspectives can also a problem, in particular if the field is rapidly moving on, as in our case. Hence it becomes harder and harder for everyone, including experts, to remain fully informed about the latest changes (state of the art). This is one of the reasons why we organize this workshop. More precisely, our goal is not only to keep people informed without getting them crushed by the information glut, but also to help them to perceive clearly what is new, relevant, hence important. Last, but not least, we would like to connect people from different communities in the hope that this may help them to gain new insights or inspirations.
2 Scope and Topics This workshop is about possible enhancements of lexical resources (representation, organization of the data, etc.). To allow for this we invite researchers to submit their contributions. The idea is to discuss the limitations of existing resources and to explore possible enhancements that take into account the users? and the engineers' needs (computational aspects). Also, just like in the past we propose again a 'shared task'. This time the goal is to provide a common benchmark for testing lexical representations for the automatic identification of lexical semantic relations (synonymy, antonymy, hypernymy, part-whole meronymy) in various languages (English, Chinese, and so on). For this workshop we solicit papers including but not limited to the following topics, each of which can be considered from various points of view: linguistics (lexicography, computational- or corpus linguistics), neuro- or psycholinguistics (tip-of-the-tongue problem, word associations), network-related sciences (vector-based approaches, graph theory, small-world problem), and so on. 1 Organization, i.e. structure of the lexicon ? Search based on sound (rhymes), meaning or contextually related words (associations);
The workshop features two tracks:
The regular research track submissions should follow one of the 2 formats:
Submissions must be anonymized, conform to the style sheet of COLING (https://coling2020.org/pages/call_for_papers), and be submitted via their website (https://www.softconf.com/coling2020/CogALex/). While some papers may be accepted only as posters, in the proceedings no distinction will be made between them and full papers.
4 Important Dates Workshop papers
5 Invited Speaker Alex Arenas (http://deim.urv.cat/~alexandre.arenas/) Alephsys Lab, Computer Science & Mathematics, Universidad Rovira i Virgili, 43007 Tarragona, Spain 6 Workshop Organizers
see : https://sites.google.com/view/cogalex-2020/home/programme-committee 8 Contacts For general questions, please get in touch with Michael Zock e-mail: michael.zock@lis-lab.fr Homepage: http://pageperso.lif.univ-mrs.fr/~michael.zock/ Concerning the shared task, please contact Enrico Santus (esantus@gmail.com), or Emmanuele Chersoni (emmanuelechersoni@gmail.com)
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