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mmwn 2020 : Multimodal wordnets workshop @ LREC 2020

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Link: http://hitz.eus/multimodalwordnets2020/
 
When May 11, 2020 - May 11, 2020
Where Marseille, France
Submission Deadline Feb 14, 2020
Notification Due Mar 13, 2020
Final Version Due Apr 2, 2020
Categories    NLP   artificial intelligence
 

Call For Papers

Multimodal wordnets workshop @ LREC 2020

Date: 11th May, 2020
Venue: Palais du Pharo, Marseille, France; LREC 2020
Website: http://hitz.eus/multimodalwordnets2020/
Submission Deadline: 14th Feb., 2020
Submission page: https://www.softconf.com/lrec2020/MMW2020/
Hashtag: #mmwn20


Workshop Description
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Nowadays, data can be found in many different formats and multimodal
approaches are gaining attention in many natural language processing tasks
such as text generation, machine translation or sentiment analysis. Indeed,
many research areas are moving from a single modality to full-fledged
multimodality research, e.g. multimodal corpora, multimodal lexicons,
etc. For instance, efforts are being made to integrate images, sign
languages, sounds, etc. into existing wordnets. As the exchange of
information among modalities can be crucial for lexical databases, we want
to address this interdisciplinary research area in the first Workshop on
“Multimodal wordnets”, co-located with LREC 2020.

The workshop is organized by the Global WordNet Association (GWA). GWA is a
free, public and non-commercial organization that provides a platform for
discussing, sharing and connecting wordnets for all languages in the world.
The GWA has created in 2019 a Working Group dedicated to multimodal wordnets
in order to extend the development and use of wordnets to other modalities
than just text: some well known examples of multimodal approaches and
wordnets are ImageNet, an image database structured according to WordNet
hierarchy and ASLNet, A Wordnet for American Sign Language, and the
Suggested Upper Merged Ontology (SUMO).


Topics of Interest
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- The workshop aims at studying the interaction and cross-fertilization
between wordnets and existing multimodal resources. We invite submissions
with original contributions addressing, but not limited to, the topics
listed below.

- What are the benefits/drawbacks of multimodal wordnets? How can wordnets
help in the transmission and characterization of multimedia information?

- To what extent is it possible to create wordnets in other modalities?

- Which new multimodal initiatives and projects are being carried out
involving distinct modalities (written, spoken, audio-visual, signs,
pictograms, emojis, geographical and spatio-temporal data...) and
knowledge representations (wordnets, lexicons, ontologies, terminologies,
dictionaries, corpora, wikipedias, distributional representations,
cultural artifacts, books...)?

- What are (can be) the practical applications of multimodal wordnets? How
to exploit existing multimodal wordnets, such as Visual Genome,
ConceptNet, ImageNet, Imagact, etc.? Sense disambiguation on corpora,
images, space role labeling, multimodal knowledge acquisition, commonsense
reasoning and inference, distributed concept representation, integration
of distributional (corpus-based) and knowledge-based embeddings...

- Which approaches are being developed to create these multimodal resources?
How can they be best represented?

- How to automatically map existing resources? How can we deal with
similarity and relatedness across modality? How can we deal with
specificity? Image, sound, smell, touch, video are all infinitely specific
but words are not.

- What is the added value of wordnet hierarchies to other modalities? Which
is the role of the multimodal wordnets? Which is the expected format of the
resources? Which standards to adopt or to develop? How can we feed and feed
back the algorithms with multimodal wordnets?

- Which ethical policies should be followed? (see for instance,
https://www.excavating.ai/)


Important Dates
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Submission deadline: February 14, 2020
Notification of acceptance: March 13, 2020
Deadline for camera-ready versions: April 2, 2020
Workshop day: May 11, 2020


Submission details
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Submissions will fall into one of the following categories (page limits
exclude references):
Long papers: 8 pages max; 30 minutes presentation
Short papers: 5 pages max; 15 minutes presentation
Poster presentations

Papers must be compliant with the stylesheet adopted for the main conference
Proceedings: https://lrec2020.lrec-conf.org/en/submission2020/authors-kit/

Follow this link (https://www.softconf.com/lrec2020/MMW2020/) in START
Conference Manager to submit your paper.


Identify, Describe and Share your LRs!
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Describing your LRs in the LRE Map is now a normal practice in the
submission procedure of LREC (introduced in 2010 and adopted by other
conferences). To continue the efforts initiated at LREC 2014 about “Sharing
LRs” (data, tools, web-services, etc.), authors will have the possibility,
when submitting a paper, to upload LRs in a special LREC repository. This
effort of sharing LRs, linked to the LRE Map for their description, may
become a new “regular” feature for conferences in our field, thus
contributing to creating a common repository where everyone can deposit and
share data.

As scientific work requires accurate citations of referenced work so as to
allow the community to understand the whole context and also replicate the
experiments conducted by other researchers, LREC 2020 endorses the need to
uniquely Identify LRs through the use of the International Standard Language
Resource Number (ISLRN, www.islrn.org), a Persistent Unique Identifier to be
assigned to each Language Resource. The assignment of ISLRNs to LRs cited in
LREC papers will be offered at submission time.


Organizing Committee
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Itziar Gonzalez-Dios, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU
Francis Bond, Nanyang Technological University
Thierry Declerk, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Saarbrücken
Christiane Fellbaum, Princeton University
Alexandre Rademaker, IBM Research Brazil and EMAp/FGV
German Rigau, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU
Piek Vossen, VU University Amsterdam


Programme Committee (in alphabetical order)
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Manex Agirrezabal, University of Copenhagen
Izaskun Aldezabal, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU
Jan Alexandersson, DFKI Saarbrücken, Germany
Gorka Azkune, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU
Sonja Bosch, Department of African Languages, University of South Africa
Federico Boschetti, ILC-CNR, Italy
Luis Chiruzzo, Universidad de la República de Uruguay
Francesca Frontini, Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier, France
Xavier Gómez Guinovart, Universidade de Vigo
Fahad Khan, ILC-CNR, Italy
Maria Koutsombogera, Trinity College Dublin
Robert Krovetz, Lexical Research
Claudia Loreto Martínez Araneda, Universidad Católica de la Santísima, Chile
John P. McCrae, National University of Ireland
Gerard de Melo, Rutgers University
Verginica Mititelu, Romanian Academy Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence
Terhi Nurmikko-Fuller, Australian National University
Ahti Lohk, Tallinn University of Technology
Petya Osenova, Sofia University
Patrizia Paggio, Copenhagen University
Bolette Pedersen, University of Copenhagen
Maciej Piasecki, Wrocław University of Technology
Ronald Poppe, Utrecht University
Andrea Amelio Ravelli, University of Florence
Paolo Rosso, Universitat Politècnica de València
Kevin Scannell, Saint Louis University
Chantal van Son, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Aitor Soroa, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU


Contact
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Itziar.gonzalezd[at]ehu[dot]eus

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