Connectionists: CogALex, 1st cfp (COLING-2020, Barcelona)
Michael Zock
michael.zock at lis-lab.fr
Wed Jan 1 15:02:16 EST 2020
Apologies for cross-postings, and, happy new year!
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CogALex-VI, a Workshop on "Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon"
Co-located with COLING 2020
(https://sites.google.com/view/cogalex-2020/home)
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Call for Papers
**
***CogALex*
*Cog*nitive*A*spects**of the*Lex*icon
*Workshop*co-located with *COLING*
(28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics),
Barcelona, Spain, *September 13, 2020
*
Paper submission deadline: May 14, 2020
deadline for shared-task papers : May 20, 2020
For latest information always look here
https://sites.google.com/view/cogalex-2020
*1 Background
*
Supporting us in many tasks (/thinking, searching/, /memorizing/ and
/communicating)/ words are important. Hence, one may wonder how to build
tools supporting their learning and usage (access/navigation). Alas the
answer is not quite as straightforward as it may seem. It depends on
various factors: the questioner's /background/ (lexicography,
psychology, computer science), the /task /(production/reception), and
the /material support/ (hardware). Words in books, computers and the
human brain are not the same. Obviously, being aware of this, different
communities have focused on different issues —(dictionary building;
creation of navigational tools; representation and organization of
words; time course for accessing a word, etc.)— yet, their views and
respective goals have changed considerably over time.
Rather than considering the lexicon as a static entity, where discrete
units (words) are organized alphabetically (database view), dictionaries
are now viewed dynamically, i.e., as lexical graphs, whose entities are
linked in various ways (topical relations; associations) and whose
weight links may vary over time. While lexicographers view words as
products (holistic entities), psychologists and neuroscientists view
them as processes (decomposition), involving various steps or layers
(representations) between an input and an output.
Computational linguists have their own ways to look at words, and their
proposals have also changed quite a bit during the last decade./Discrete
count-based vector representations /have successively been replaced by
/continuous vectors/ (i.e., word embeddings) and then by
/language-model-based contextualized representations/. These latter are
more powerful than any of the other forms, as they are able to account
for context ambiguity, outperforming the static models (including
word-embeddings) in a broad range of tasks.
As one can see, different communities look at words from different
angles, which can be an asset, as complementary views may help us to
broaden and deepen our understanding of this fundamental cognitive
resource. Yet, this diversity of perspectives can also a problem, in
particular if the field is rapidly moving on, as in our case. Hence it
becomes harder and harder for everyone, including experts, to remain
fully informed about the latest changes (state of the art). This is one
of the reasons why we organize this workshop. More precisely, our goal
is not only to keep people informed without getting them crushed by the
information glut, but also to help them to perceive clearly what is new,
relevant, hence important. Last, but not least, we would like to connect
people from different communities in the hope that this may help them to
gain new insights or inspirations.
*2 Scope and Topics*
This workshop is about possible /enhancements/ of /lexical resources/
(representation, organization of the data, etc.). To allow for this we
invite researchers to submit their contributions. The idea is to discuss
the limitations of existing resources and to explore possible
enhancements that take into account the users’ and the engineers' needs
(computational aspects).
Also, just like in the past we propose again a 'shared task'. This time
the goal is to provide a common benchmark for testing lexical
representations for the automatic identification of lexical semantic
relations (synonymy, antonymy, hypernymy, part-whole meronymy) in
various languages (English, Chinese, and so on).
For this workshop we solicit papers including but not limited to the
following *topics*, each of which can be considered from various points
of view: /linguistics /(lexicography, computational- or corpus
linguistics), /neuro/- or /psycholinguistics/ (tip-of-the-tongue
problem, word associations), /network/-related sciences (vector-based
approaches, graph theory, small-world problem), and so on.
1 Organization, i.e. structure of the lexicon
• Micro- and macrostructure of the lexicon;
• Indexical categories (taxonomies, thesaurus-like topical
structures, etc.);
• Map of the lexicon (topology) and relations between words (word
associations).
2 The meaning of words and how to reveal it
• Lexical representation (holistic, decomposed);
• Meaning representation (concept based, primitives);
• Distributional semantics (count models, neural embeddings, etc. )
3 Analysis of the conceptual input given by a dictionary user
• What information do language producers typically provide when
looking for a word (terms, relations)?
• What kind of relational information do they give: typed or untyped
relations?
• Which relations are typically used?
4 Methods for crafting dictionaries or indexes
• Manual, automatic or collaborative building of dictionaries and
indexes (crowdsourcing, serious games, etc.);
• Extraction of associations from corpora to build semantic networks
supporting navigation;
• (Semi-) automatic induction of the link type (e.g., synonym,
hypernym, meronym, ...).
5 Creation of new types of dictionaries
• Concept dictionary;
• Dictionary of larger segments than words (clauses, phrasal elements);
• Dictionary of patterns or concept-patterns;
• Dictionary of syllables.
6 Dictionary access (navigation and search strategies), interface issues
• Search based on sound (rhymes), meaning or contextually related
words (associations);
• Determination of appropriate search space based on the user’s
cognitive state (information available at the onset: query) and
meta-knowledge (knowledge concerning the relationship between the input
and the target word), ...
• Identification of typical word access strategies (navigational
patterns) used by people;
• Interface problems, data visualization.
*3 Workshop Submissions*
**
The workshop features two tracks:
* A*regular research track*, where the submissions must be
substantially original.
* A *shared task track*, with submissions consisting of system
description papers.
The regular research track submissions should follow one of the 2 formats:
* *Long papers*(9 content pages + references) should report on solid
and finished research including new experimental results, resources
and/or techniques.
* *Short papers*(4 content pages + references) should report on small
experiments, focused contributions, ongoing research, negative
results and/or philosophical discussion.
Submissions must be anonymized, conform to the style sheet of COLING
(https://coling2020.org/pages/call_for_papers), and be submitted via
their website (https://www.softconf.com/coling2020/CogALex/
<https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.softconf.com%2Fcoling2020%2FCogALex%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNEAUzHo0vS4_MVdi-nlx1qIxrCpUA>).
While some papers may be accepted only as posters, in the proceedings no
distinction will be made between them and full papers.
*4 Important Dates*
*Workshop papers*
* Paper *submission deadline*: May 14, 2020
* Notification of acceptance: June 24, 2020
* Camera-ready papers due: July 11, 2020
* Workshop date: September 13, 2020
*
**Shared task*
* Release of development data : March 1, 2020
* Release of test data April: 20-24, 2020
* Announcement of winners May 1, 2020
* Shared task papers due: May 20, 2020
*5 Invited Speaker***
//*Alex Arenas*//(http://deim.urv.cat/~alexandre.arenas/
<http://deim.urv.cat/%7Ealexandre.arenas/>)
Alephsys Lab, Computer Science & Mathematics,
Universidad Rovira i Virgili, 43007 Tarragona, Spain
*6 Workshop Organizers*
* Michael Zock (LIS, CNRS, Aix-Marseille University, Marseille, France)
* Alessandro Lenci (Comput. Linguistics Laboratory, University of
Pisa, Italy)
* Enrico Santus (MIT Computer Science & AI Lab, Boston, USA)
* Emmanuele Chersoni (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China)
*
7 Program Committee*
see : https://sites.google.com/view/cogalex-2020/home/programme-committee**
*8 Contacts*
For *general questions*, please get in touch with /Michael Zock/
e-mail:michael.zock at lis-lab.fr <mailto:michael.zock at lis-lab.fr>
Homepage: http://pageperso.lif.univ-mrs.fr/~michael.zock/
<http://pageperso.lif.univ-mrs.fr/%7Emichael.zock/>
Concerning the*shared task*,**please contact*
*
Enrico Santus (esantus at gmail.com
<mailto:esantus at gmail.com>), or
Emmanuele Chersoni (emmanuelechersoni at gmail.com
<mailto:emmanuelechersoni at gmail.com>)
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Michael ZOCK
Directeur de Recherche Émérite
LIS UMR CNRS 7020 (Groupe TALEP)
Aix Marseille Université
163 Avenue de Luminy - case 901
F-13288 Marseille/France
Mail: michael.zock at lis-lab.fr
Tel.: +33 (0)4.86.09.06.85
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+33 (0)4.86.09.06.75
http://pageperso.lif.univ-mrs.fr/~michael.zock/<http://pageperso.lif.univ-mrs.fr/%7Emichael.zock/>
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