Sunday
09:00 Registration open
09:20 Opening ceremony
09:40 Invited Talk Dong Zhen Dong — HowNet
10:10 coffee-break
10:30 Vossen, Rigau, Alegria, Agirre, Farwell, Fuentes Meaningful results for information retrieval in the MEANING project Delft, Netherlands
11:00 Keyvan, Borjian, Kasheff, Fellbaum Developing PersiaNet Princeton, USA
11:15 Famian & Aghajaney Towards building a wordnet for Persian adjectives Tehran, Iran
11:30 Agarwal & Bhattacharya Augmenting WN with Polarity Information on Adjectives Mumbai, India
12:00 Lunch
14:00 Srinivas & Bhattacharya Prepositional phrase attachments through semantic association using connectionist approach Mumbai, India
14:20 Graves & Gutierrez Data representations for WordNet: A case for RDF Santiago, Chile
14:40 Lee, Yoon, Kwon Passive verb sense distinction in Korean Wordnet Pusan, Korea
15:00 Tufis, Barbu Mititelu, Bozianu, Mihaila Romanian WordNet Bucarest, Romania
15:30 tea-break
16:00 Jung, Sung, Park Korean Science & Technology Thesaurus Construction Based on Concept/Relation Facets Taejon, Korea
16:15 Hwang & Yoon Inheritance revisited for building Korean lexical semantic network: a case study using sex features Pusan, Korea
16:30 Takasaki PictNet: Semantic infrastructure for pictogram communication Tokyo, Japan
16:50 Closing
Monday
09:15 Cuadros, Padro, Rigau An empirical study for automatic acquisition of topic signatures Barcelona, Spain
09:45 Kahusk & Vider Semantic relations in Glosses and Explanantions: Do they help? Tartu, Estonia
10:05 Marinelli & Spadoni Some considerations in structuring a terminological database Pisa, Italy
10:25 Kim, Chen, Veale Analogical reasoning with a synergy of WordNet and HowNet Dublin, Ireland
10:45 coffee-break
11:15 Buscaldi, Rosso, Arnal Wordnet as a geographical information resource Valencia, Spain
11:45 Sundheim, Mardis, Burger Gazetteer Linkage to WordNet SPAWAR, USA
12:00 Sanfilippo, Tratz, Gregory, Chappell, Whitney, Posse, Paulson, Baddeley, Hohimer, White Automating Ontological Annotation with WordNet Richland, USA
12:30 Lunch
14:00 Sinha, Reddy, Bhattacharya An Approach towards applying and constructing Multi-Lingual Indo-WN Mumbai, India
14:20 Mendes Adjectives in Portuguese WN Lisbon, Portugal
14:40 Bae, Chi, Choi A study on a conceptual map of Korean words KAIST, Korea
15:00 Chakrabarti, Sarma, Bhattacharya Hindi Verb Knowledge Base and Noun Incorporation in Hindi Mumbai, India
15:30 tea-break
16:00 Guerra-Filho & Aloimonos Towards a sensorimotor WordNet: Closing the semantic gap Maryland, USA
16:15 Horak, Pala, Rambousek, Povolny DebVisDic Brno, Czech Republic
16:30 Black, Elkateb, Rodriguez, Alkhalifa, Vossen, Pease, Fellbaum Arabic Wordnet Manchester, UK
16:45 Jung & Young Grapheme-to-Phoneme conversion of Arabic Numerals using Wordnet for improving Korean TTS Taejon, Korea
17:00 Closing
Tuesday
09:00 Azarova & Sinapalkova RussNet as a semantic component of the Text Analyzer for Russian St. Petersburg, Russia
09:30 Oh & Choi Recognizing Transliteration Equivalents for Enriching Domain-Specific Thesaurus KAIST, Korea
09:50 Huang, Lin, Su, Hong The Nature of Cross-lingual lexical semantic relations Taipei, Taiwan
10:10 Orav Lexical knowledge of personality traits Tartu, Estonia
10:30 coffee-break
11:00 Agarwal & Bhattacharya Adding Dense, Weighted Connections to WordNet Princeton, USA
11:30 Pedersen, Nimb, Asmussen, Sorensen, Trap-Jensen, Lorentzen Dannet--a wordnet project for Danish Copenhagen, Denmark
11:45 Agirre, Aldezabal, Exteberria, Izagirre, Mendizabal, Pociello, Quintian Improving the Basque Wordnet by corpus annotation Donostia, Spain
12:00 Excursion
Wednesday
09:00 Yang & Powers Verb similarity on the taxonomy of WordNet Adelaide, Australia
09:30 Roventini & Ruimy Linking and harmonizing differnt lexical resources: a comparison of verbal entries in ITALWordnet and Parole/Simple Pisa, Italy
09:50 Sinopalkova Knowing a word versus Accessing a word St. Petersburg, Russia
10:10 Choe, Lee, Oh Research on processing a multiple nominative case construction in Korean-English Machine Translation by using WordNet Korea
10:30 coffee-break
11:00 Ryu, Kim, Nam, Huang, Shin, Lee, Choi Towards Domain-Specific Thesaurus Construction: Divide and Conquer method KAIST, Korea
11:30 Mohanty, Santi, Mishra, Mohapatra, Swain Semantic-based Text classification using Wordnets: Indian language perspective Bhubaneswar, India
11:45 Erjacev & Fiser Building the Slovene Wordnet: first steps, first problems Ljubljana, Slovenia
12:00 Amaro Wordnet as a base lexicon model for the computation of verbal predicates Lisbon, Portugal
12:30 Lunch
14:00 Haskell, Barnett, Fellbaum A proposal for the Automatic Distinction of Homomorphic Idiomatic and Non-idiomatic Phrases in WordNet Princeton/Pasadena, USA
14:20 Agirre, Aldezabal, Pociello Lexicalization and multi-word expressions in WordNet Donostia, Spain
14:40 Aherne & Vogel Crossing WordNet with Crosswords... Dublin, Ireland
15:00 Stevenson & Greenwood Learning information extraction patterns using Wordnet Sheffield, UK
15:30 tea-break
16:00 Marrafa WN Portuguese: New directions Lisbon, Portugal
16:15 Dias WordNet Brazil: An exercise of Human Language Technology research Sao Paolo, Brazil
16:30 Alexin, Csirik, Kocsor, Mihaltz, Szarvas Construction of the Hungarian EWN ontology and its application to Information Extraction Szeged, Hungary
16:45 Sukhonogov & Yablonsky Semi-Automated English-Russian WordNet Construction St. Petersburg, Russia
17:00 tea-break
17:30 Business meeting
18:00 Closing
Thursday
09:00 Invited Talk Ikehara — NTT semantic vocabulary dictionary
09:45 Kang, Li, Cha, Oh, Choi Research of Multi-Lingual Information Processing Methodologies and Database Development for Globalizing Korean Studies KAIST, Korea
10:00 Hong & Huang WordNet Based Comparison of Language Variation -- A study based on CCD and CWN Taipei, Taiwan
10:30 coffee-break
11:00 Veale & Hayes A typology of lexical analogy in WordNet Dublin, Ireland
11:30 Dutoit Alexandria as a result of the integration of WordNet and LDI Caen, France
11:45 Smrz Using WordNet for Opinion Mining Brno, Czech Republic
12:00 Bi, Choi, Xiong, Liu Some Issues in the Construction of a Multi-lingual Lexical-semantic Net Korea, Luoyang/Beijing, China
12:15 Lunch
13:30 Closing