2nd International Wordnet Conference
Masaryk University, Brno (Czech Republic)
http://www.fi.muni.cz/gwc2004/
20-23 January 2004

The Global Wordnet Association is pleased to announce the Second International Conference of the Global WordNet Association (GWC'04). The conference will be held at Masaryk University, Brno (Czech Republic), January, 20 - 23, 2004.

Details about the conference can be found on the conference website:

http://www.fi.muni.cz/gwc2004/

Details about the Association can be found on the GWA website:

http://www.globalwordnet.org/

Topics of the GWC'2004 conference will include (but are not limited to):

1. Linguistics and WordNet:
   • In depth analysis of Semantic Relations,
   • Theoretical definitions of word meaning,
   • Necessity and Completeness issues.
2. Architecture of WordNet:
   • Language independent and language dependent components
3. Tools and Methods for Wordnet Development:
   • User and Data entry interface, organization,
   • Extending and enriching wordnets
4. WordNet as a lexical resource and component of NLP and MT:
   • Word sense disambiguation using wordnet,
   • Ontologies and WordNet,
   • The Lexicon and WordNet
5. Applications of WordNet:
   • Information Extraction and Retrieval,
   • Document Structuring and Categorization,
   • Automatic Hyperlinking
   • Language Teaching,
   • Psycholinguistic Applications
6. Standardization, distribution and availability of wordnets and wordnet tools.

Authors are invited to submit a full paper not exceeding 6 pages.

The presentations will be categorized as:

• oral presentation
• poster presentation (in special Poster session)

Submissions will have to state the preferred presentation category. Acceptance may be subject to changes in the presentation format following the recommendation of the reviewers.

Papers submitted to GWC 2004 must not be under review by any other conference or publication during the GWC review cycle, and must not be previously published or accepted for publication elsewhere.

Final papers should be submitted in electronic form (Word or LaTeX in the LNCS style). Style sheets can be dowloaded from: < href = "http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html#Proceedings">http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html#Proceedings

The conference program will include oral presentations and two special sessions -- Poster session (for parallel poster presentations) and Demonstration session, where authors are invited to present actual projects, developed software or interesting material relevant to the topics of the conference. The demonstrations presented will not appear in the printed version of the Proceedings of GWC'2004. The authors of the demonstrations should provide an abstract, which will be included in the CD version of the Proceedings.

The extended deadline for submissions is September 10th, 2003. Proposals for demonstrations are accepted until the registration deadline (December 5). Decisions regarding acceptance will be announced to the authors in early October, the deadline for the final papers is 1st of November.

The Proceedings will be published by Masaryk University in both paper and CD format.

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Early Conference fee information:

All payments will be accepted in CZK, the current exchange rate is cca EUR 1 = CZK 33

• Students: CZK 3300 (cca EUR 100)
• Regular participants: CZK 4000 (cca EUR 120)

Conference fee includes proceedings, CD with proceedings and demonstrations abstracts, coffee breaks and local transport. Participation in the Conference also presupposes GWA registration (see http://www.globalwordnet.org/gwa/gwa_member_form.htm).

Late registration fees (after the Deadline for early registration) are advanced to CZK 5300 (cca EUR 160) for students and CZK 6000 (cca EUR 180) for regular participants.

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Early Accommodation information:

Student and low budget accommodation (limited number of rooms available):

• CZK 700/bed if one person occupies the room,
• CZK 400/bed, if two persons are in the room.

• CZK 1100/bed for one person in the room,
• CZK 800/bed for two persons in the room.

• CZK 1400 or more (to be booked by the participant)

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Early Registration information:

• Early registration: until October 20th;
• Final registration (bank or card transfers should have been received): December 5th;
• Fees and prices cannot be guaranteed for on site registration;

1. 10-Sep-2003 Extended Deadline for paper submission
2. 20-Oct-2003 Deadline for early registration
3. 01-Nov-2003 Final Papers
4. 05-Dec-2003 Deadline for Registration (bank payments should have been received)
5. 20/23-Jan-2004 Conference

Conference Chairs:

Christiane Fellbaum

Fellbaum@clarity.Princeton.edu

Piek Vossen

Piek.Vossen@irion.nl

Local Organizing Chair:

Karel Pala

pala@informatics.muni.cz

• Pushpak Bhattacharya (IIT Mumbai, India)
• Orhan Bilgin (Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey)
• Paul Buitelaar (DFKI Saarbruecken, Germany)
• Dan Cristea (University of Iasi, Romania)
• Bento Carlos Dias da Silva (UNESP, Soa Paolo, Brasil)
• Dominique Dutoit (University of Caen and Memodata, France)
• Ales Horak (Brno University, Czech Republic)
• Chu-Ren Huang (Academica Sinica, Taipei, Republic of China)
• Adam Kilgarriff (University of Brighton, England)
• Karin Kipper (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
• Claudia Kunze (Tuebingen University, Germany)
• Bernardo Magnini (IRST, Trento, Italy)
• Palmira Marrafa (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
• Simonetta Montemagni (ILC-CNR, Pisa, Italy)
• Grace Ngai (Polytechnical University, Hong Kong)
• Karel Pala (Brno University, Czech Republic)
• German Rigau (Basque Country University, Spain)
• Pavel Smrz (Brno University, Czech Republic)
• Sofia Stamou (University of Patras, Greece)
• Felisa Verdejo (U.N.E.D. Madrid, Spain)
• Michael Zock (LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay, France)

Please watch the Conference www site for further information and announcements.

1. WordNet
2. EuroWordNet
3. Global Wordnet Association
4. ACL-SIGLEX