12-14 Jan 2011
Oxford, U.K.
------------------------------------------------------------------ Ninth International Conference on COMPUTATIONAL SEMANTICS (IWCS 2011) January 12-14, 2011, Oxford, UK http://www.meaningfactory.com/iwcs2011/ ------------- Endorsed by SIGSEM, the ACL Special Interest Group in Computational Semantics ------------- Organisers: Johan Bos & Stephen Pulman ------------------------------------------------------------------ FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS The University of Oxford will host the Ninth International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS-2011), which will take place at the Computing Laboratory on 12-14 January 2011. 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 this is from a lexical or structural semantic perspective. IWCS embraces both symbolic and statistical approaches to computational semantics, and everything in between. TOPICS OF INTEREST Areas of special interest for the conference will be computational aspects of meaning of natural language within written, spoken, or multimodal communication. Papers are invited that are concerned with topics in these and closely related areas, including the following: * representation of meaning * syntax-semantics interface * modelling and context in semantic interpretation * representing and resolving semantic ambiguity * shallow and deep semantic processing and reasoning * inference methods for computational semantics * recognising textual entailment * 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 * computing meaning in multimodal interaction * semantics-pragmatics interface PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Rodrigo Agerri Marco Baroni Anja Belz Patrick Blackburn Antonio Branco Harry Bunt Aljoscha Burchardt Nicoletta Calzolari Rui Chaves Philipp Cimiano Peter Clark Ariel Cohen Robin Cooper Ann Copestake Rodolfo Delmonte Markus Egg Katrin Erk Raquel Fernandez Anette Frank Claire Gardent Jonathan Ginzburg Jerry Hobbs Laura Kallmeyer Lauri Karttunen Ralf Klabunde Alexander Koller Emiel Krahmer Alex Lascarides Shalom Lappin Kiyong Lee Leonardo Lesmo Bernd Ludwig Bill MacCartney Katja Markert Paul Mc Kevitt Sergei Nirenburg Malvina Nissim Sebastian Pado Vincenzo Pallotta Martha Palmer Manfred Pinkal Paul Piwek Massimo Poesio Sylvain Pogodalla Richard Power James Pustejovsky Allan Ramsay German Rigau Rolf Schwitter Jennifer Spenader Manfred Stede Mary Swift Stefan Thater Peter Turney Kees van Deemter Benjamin Van Durme Jan van Eijck Josef van Genabith Carl Vogel SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS Two types of submission are solicited: long papers and short papers. All papers will be reviewed by the PC. Please refer to the IWCS-2011 website for submission instructions. Long papers ----------- Long papers should describe original research and must not exceed 10 pages. They will be published in the conference proceedings and will have a full oral presentation of about 30 minutes at the conference. Short papers ------------ Short papers (typically system or project descriptions, or ongoing research) must not exceed 5 pages. They will be published in the conference proceedings, and will have a brief oral presentation (5 minutes) at the conference, followed by a poster/demo session for discussion. IMPORTANT DATES 30 September 2010 Submission: long and short papers 31 October 2010 Notification of acceptance: long and short papers 19 November 2010 Due: camera-ready long and short papers 1 December 2010 Early registration deadline 12 January 2011 Pre-Conference Workshops 13-14 January 2011 Main Conference