Call for papers
Call for Papers
13th International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS)
University of Gothenburg, Sweden
23-27th May 2019
https://sites.google.com/view/iwcs2019/home
Important dates:
- Submission deadline (long, short, and student papers): 15th January, 2019. Abstract by 15th January. Full version by 22nd January.
Please submit at least an abstract by 15 January so that we can procede with paper bidding and reviewer assignment. Submit the full version of your paper by 22nd January. Please also note that the first submission must be made by 15 January and completely new submissions will not be possible after this date.
- Notification of acceptance: 1st March 2019
- Camera-ready due: 1st April 2019
All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 ("anywhere on Earth").
IWCS is the bi-yearly meeting of SIGSEM, http://sigsem.org the ACL special interest group on semantics [2]; this year's edition is hosted by the Centre of Linguistic Theory and Studies in Probability (CLASP), http://clasp.gu.se at the Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science (FLoV), http://flov.gu.se/english and will be held at the Wallenberg Conference Centre of University of Gothenburg https://www.gu.se/english/conferences/conference-packages/wallenberg .
The aim of the IWCS conference is to bring together researchers interested in any aspects of the computation, annotation, extraction, and representation of meaning in natural language, whether from a lexical or structural semantic perspective. IWCS embraces both symbolic and machine learning approaches to computational semantics, and everything in between. The main conference will be run from 25-27 May 2019, preceded by workshops on 23-24 May.
Submission Deadline
Authors must submit by 15th January; however, we will allow resubmission of updated versions until 18th January. Please submit at least a sufficient abstract to allow sensible reviewer assignment by the 15th. See Instructions for Authors https://sites.google.com/view/iwcs2019/instructions-for-authors for full instructions.
Topics of interest
The areas of interest for the conference include all computational aspects of meaning of natural language within written, spoken, or multimodal communication. Papers are invited on topics in these and closely related areas, including the following:
* representation of meaning
* syntax-semantics interface
* representing and resolving semantic ambiguity
* shallow and deep semantic processing and reasoning
* hybrid symbolic and statistical approaches to representing semantics
* alternative approaches to compositional semantics
* inference methods for computational semantics
* recognising textual entailment
* learning by reading
* methodologies and practices for semantic annotation
* machine learning of semantic structures
* statistical semantics
* computational aspects of lexical semantics
* semantics and ontologies
* semantic web and natural language processing
* semantic aspects of language generation
* semantic relations in discourse and dialogue
* semantics and pragmatics of dialogue acts
* multimodal and grounded approaches to computing meaning
* semantics-pragmatics interface
Workshops
https://sites.google.com/view/iwcs2019/workshops
Submission Requirements
Three types of submission are solicited: long papers, student papers and short papers. All types of papers should be submitted not later than 15th January, 2019.
Long papers should describe original research and must not exceed 10 pages plus references. They will be published in the conference proceedings and in the ACL Anthology, and will have a full oral presentation at the conference.
Student papers should describe original research but the first author must be a student or at least 2/3 of the work on a paper should be completed by students. Papers should not exceed 8 pages plus references. In contrast to long papers, the reviewers will give special support to authors in terms of mentoring and guidance. The papers will have a full oral presentation at the conference in a special student session and will be published in the conference proceedings and in the ACL Anthology.
Short papers (typically system or project descriptions, or ongoing research) must not exceed 5 pages plus references. They will be published in the conference proceedings and in the ACL Anthology, and will have a lightning talk at the conference, followed by a poster/demo session for discussion.
Papers should be electronically submitted in PDF format via the EasyChair system at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwcs2019. Please make sure that you select the right track when submitting your paper. Contact the organisers if you have problems using EasyChair.
Please follow the information for authors for instructions on formatting your paper, given on the conference webpage https://sites.google.com/view/iwcs2019/instructions-for-authors
Programme co-chairs
Stergios Chatzikyriakidis, University of Gothenburg
Simon Dobnik, University of Gothenburg
Vera Demberg, Saarland University
Program Committee
Jean-Philippe Bernardy
Carl Vogel
Martin Riedl
Sandro Pezzelle
Vera Demberg
Lasha Abzianidze
Maxime Amblard
Moritz Maria
Martha Lewis
Justyna Grudzinska
Gianluca Lebani
Richard Moot
Simon Dobnik
Christian Retoré
Alessandro Lenci
Marco S. G. Senaldi
Giulia Rambelli
Sebastian Pado
Ludovica Pannitto
Jonathan Ginzburg
Ivan Vulić
Shalom Lappin
Katrin Erk
Alessandro Bondielli
James Pustejovsky
Ruth Kempson
Elisabetta Jezek
Johan Bos
Raffaella Bernardi
Louise McNally
Lucia C. Passaro
Harry Bunt
Philipp Cimiano
Aurelie Herbelot
Bonnie Webber
Julian Hough
Eleni Gregoromichelaki
Emily M. Bender
Zhaohui Luo
Roberto Zamparelli
Lauri Karttunen
Matthew Purver
Staffan Larsson
Sabine Schulte Im Walde
Robin Cooper
Devdatt Dubhashi
Arash Eshghi
Rasmus Blanck
Christine Howes
Aljoscha Burchardt
Stephen Mcgregor
Ivandre Paraboni
Stephen Clark
Gabriella Lapesa
Bruno Mery
Christopher Potts
Matthew Stone
Richard Johansson
Paul Piwek
Iryna Gurevych
Matthew Gotham
Kiyong Lee
Manfred Pinkal
Raquel Fernández
Mehdi Mirzapour
Krasimir Angelov
Nicoletta Calzolari
Gemma Boleda
Manfred Stede
Kees Van Deemter
Laura Aina
Alexandre Kabbach
Emmanuele Chersoni
Allan Ramsay
Sharid Loáiciga
Tatjana Scheffler
Diarmuid O Seaghdha
Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh
Lars Borin
Stephen Pulman
Allan Third
Alessandro Raganato
Philippe de Groote
Alessandro Moschitti
Asad Sayeed
Aleksandre Maskharashvili
Gözde Gül Şahin
Maria Liakata
Massimo Poesio
Aarne Ranta
Sylvain Pogodalla
Eva Maria Vecchi
Ellen Breitholtz
Mathieu Lafourcade
Larry Moss
Roland Roller
Dag Haug
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