isa-10 :
Tenth Joint ACL - ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation

Reykjavik, Iceland, May 26, 2014, in conjunction with LREC 2014

isa-10, the Tenth Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation, is the ninth edition of a series of joint workshops of the ACL SIGSEM Working Group "The Representation of Multimodal Semantic Information" and ISO TC 37/SC 4 (Language Resources) WG 2: Semantic annotation.

These workshops bring together experts in the annotation of semantic information as expressed in text, speech, gestures, graphics, video, images, and in multiple modalities combined. Examples of semantic annotation include the markup of events, time, space, dialogue acts, discourse relations, and semantic roles, for which the ISO organization pursues the establishment of annotation standards, in order to support the creation of interoperable semantic resources.

See also the most recent previous ISA workshops: ISA-8 in Pisa, October 2012; ISA-7 in Istanbul, May 2012; ISA-6 in Oxford, 2011; and ISA-5 in Hong Kong, 2010.
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PROGRAM

08:30 - 08:50 On-site registration
08:50 - 09:00 Opening (Harry Bunt, workshop chair)
09:00 - 10:30 Session A
09:00 - 09:30 Hans-Ulrich Krieger: A Detailed Comparison of Seven Approaches for the Annotation of Time-Dependent Factual Knowledge in RDF and OWL
09:30 - 10:00 Antske Fokkens, Aitor Soroa, Zuhaitz Beloki, Niels Ockeloen, Piek Vossen, German Rigau and Willem-Robert van Hage: NAF and GAF: Linking Linguistic Annotations
10:00 - 10:15 Johan Bos: Semantic Annotation Issues in Parallel Meaning Banking
10:15 - 10:30 Assaf Toledo, Stavroula Alexandropoulou, Sophie Chesney, Robert Grimm, Pepijn Kokke, Benno Kruit, Kyriaki Neophytou, Antony Nguyen and Yoad Winter: A Proof-Based Annotation Platform of Textual Entailment

10:30 - 11:00 coffee break

11:00 - 13:00 Session B
11:00 - 11:15 Bolette Pedersen, Sanni Nimb, Sussi Olsen, Anders Soegaard and Nnicola Soerensen: Semantic Annotation of the Danish CLARIN Reference Corpus
11:15 - 11:45 Kiyong Lee: Semantic Annotation of Anaphoric Links in Language
11:45 - 12:00 Laurette Pretorius and Sonja Bosch: Towards extending the ISOcat Data Category Registry with Zulu Morphosyntax
12:00 - 13:00 Harry Bunt, Kiyong Lee, Martha Palmer, Rashmi Prasad, James Pustejovsky and Annie Zaenen: ISO Projects developing international standards for the annotation of various types of semantic information

13:00 - 14:00 lunch break

14:00 - 16:00 Session C
14:00 - 14:30 Volha Petukhova: Understanding questions and finding answers: semantic relation annotation to compute the Expected Answer Type
14:30 - 14:45 Susan Windisch Brown: From Visual Prototypes of Action to Metaphors: Extending the IMAGACT Ontology of Action to Secondary Meanings
14:45 - 15:15 Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski and Kerstin Anna Kunz: Annotating Cohesion for Multillingual Analysis
15:15 - 16:00 poster session: flash presentations followed by poster visits:

- Leon Derczynski and Kalina Bontcheva: Spatio-temporal grounding of claims made on the web with Pheme
- Sungho Shin, Hanmin Jung, Inga Hannemann and Mun Yong Yi: Lessons learned form manual evaluation of NER results by domain expeerts
- Milan Tofiloski, Fred Popowich and Evan Zhang: Annotating discourse zones in medical encounters
- Mathieu Roche: How to exploit paralinguistic features to identify acronyms in text
- Yu Ji Seah and Francis Bond: Annotating pronouns in a mutilingual corpus of Mandarin Chines, English, and Japanese

16:00 - 16:30 tea break

16:30 - 18:00 Session D
16:30 - 17:00 Elisabetta Jezek, Laure Vieu, Fabio Massimo Zanzotto, Guido Vetere, Alessandro Oltramari, Aldo Gangemi and Rossella Vanvara: Extending 'Senso Comune' with Semantic Role Sets
17:00 - 17:30 Paulo Quaresma, Amalia Mendes, Iris Hendrickx and Teresa Goncalves Automatic tagging of modality: identifying triggers and modal values
17:30 - 18:00 Rui Correia, Nuno Mamede, Jorge Baptista and Maxine Eskenazi Using the Crowd to Annotate Metadiscursive Acts
18:00 Closing



10:30 - 11:00 coffee break

11:00 - 13:00 Session B
11:00 - 11:15 Bolette Pedersen, Sanni Nimb, Sussi Olsen, Anders Soegaard and Nnicola Soerensen: Semantic Annotation of the Danish CLARIN Reference Corpus
11:15 - 11:45 Kiyong Lee: Semantic Annotation of Anaphoric Links in Language
11:45 - 12:00 Laurette Pretorius and Sonja Bosch: Towards extending the ISOcat Data Category Registry with Zulu Morphosyntax
12:00 - 13:00 Harry Bunt, Kiyong Lee, Martha Palmer, Rashmi Prasad, James Pustejovsky and Annie Zaenen: ISO Projects developing international standards for the annotation of various types of semantic information

13:00 - 14:00 lunch break

14:00 - 16:00 Session C
14:00 - 14:30 Volha Petukhova: Understanding questions and finding answers: semantic relation annotation to compute the Expected Answer Type
14:30 - 14:45 Susan Windisch Brown: From Visual Prototypes of Action to Metaphors: Extending the IMAGACT Ontology of Action to Secondary Meanings
14:45 - 15:15 Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski and Kerstin Anna Kunz: Annotating Cohesion for Multillingual Analysis
15:15 - 16:00 poster session: flash presentations followed by poster visits:
- Leon Derczynski and Kalina Bontcheva: Spatio-temporal grounding of claims made on the web with Pheme
- Sungho Shin, Hanmin Jung, Inga Hannemann and Mun Yong Yi: Lessons learned form manual evaluation of NER results by domain expeerts
- Milan Tofiloski, Fred Popowich and Evan Zhang: Annotating discourse zones in medical encounters
- Mathieu Roche: How to exploit paralinguistic features to identify acronyms in text
- Yu Ji Seah and Francis Bond: Annotating pronouns in a mutilingual corpus of Mandarin Chines, English, and Japanese

16:00 - 16:30 tea break

16:30 - 18:00 Session D
16:30 - 17:00 Elisabetta Jezek, Laure Vieu, Fabio Massimo Zanzotto, Guido Vetere, Alessandro Oltramari, Aldo Gangemi and Rossella Vanvara: Extending 'Senso Comune' with Semantic Role Sets
17:00 - 17:30 Paulo Quaresma, Amalia Mendes, Iris Hendrickx and Teresa Goncalves Automatic tagging of modality: identifying triggers and modal values
17:30 - 18:00 Rui Correia, Nuno Mamede, Jorge Baptista and Maxine Eskenazi Using the Crowd to Annotate Metadiscursive Acts
18:00 Closing



10:30 - 11:00 coffee break

11:00 - 13:00 Session B
11:00 - 11:15 Bolette Pedersen, Sanni Nimb, Sussi Olsen, Anders Soegaard and Nnicola Soerensen: Semantic Annotation of the Danish CLARIN Reference Corpus
11:15 - 11:45 Kiyong Lee: Semantic Annotation of Anaphoric Links in Language
11:45 - 12:00 Laurette Pretorius and Sonja Bosch: Towards extending the ISOcat Data Category Registry with Zulu Morphosyntax
12:00 - 13:00 Harry Bunt, Kiyong Lee, Martha Palmer, Rashmi Prasad, James Pustejovsky and Annie Zaenen: ISO Projects developing international standards for the annotation of various types of semantic information

13:00 - 14:00 lunch break

14:00 - 16:00 Session C
14:00 - 14:30 Volha Petukhova: Understanding questions and finding answers: semantic relation annotation to compute the Expected Answer Type
14:30 - 14:45 Susan Windisch Brown: From Visual Prototypes of Action to Metaphors: Extending the IMAGACT Ontology of Action to Secondary Meanings
14:45 - 15:15 Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski and Kerstin Anna Kunz: Annotating Cohesion for Multillingual Analysis
15:15 - 16:00 poster session: flash presentations followed by poster visits:
- Leon Derczynski and Kalina Bontcheva: Spatio-temporal grounding of claims made on the web with Pheme
- Sungho Shin, Hanmin Jung, Inga Hannemann and Mun Yong Yi: Lessons learned form manual evaluation of NER results by domain expeerts
- Milan Tofiloski, Fred Popowich and Evan Zhang: Annotating discourse zones in medical encounters
- Mathieu Roche: How to exploit paralinguistic features to identify acronyms in text
- Yu Ji Seah and Francis Bond: Annotating pronouns in a mutilingual corpus of Mandarin Chines, English, and Japanese

16:00 - 16:30 tea break

16:30 - 18:00 Session D
16:30 - 17:00 Elisabetta Jezek, Laure Vieu, Fabio Massimo Zanzotto, Guido Vetere, Alessandro Oltramari, Aldo Gangemi and Rossella Vanvara: Extending 'Senso Comune' with Semantic Role Sets
17:00 - 17:30 Paulo Quaresma, Amalia Mendes, Iris Hendrickx and Teresa Goncalves Automatic tagging of modality: identifying triggers and modal values
17:30 - 18:00 Rui Correia, Nuno Mamede, Jorge Baptista and Maxine Eskenazi Using the Crowd to Annotate Metadiscursive Acts
18:00 Closing



Registration
Registration is via the on-line registration site of the LREC conference.

Accomodation and travel:
For travel and accomodation information see the LREC 2014 website.

VENUE:
The Harpa Conference Center at the harbour of Reykjavik, where LREC 2014 is held.

IMPORTANT DATES:

7 January 2013: Deadline for submitting papers (PASSED)
4 February 2013: Notification of acceptance (PASSED)
25 February 2013: Submission of camera-ready papers (PASSED)
19-20 March 2013: isa-10 Workshop


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
Harry Bunt
Kiyong Lee
James Pustejovsky
Laurent Romary
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:
Jan Alexandersson
Collin Baker
Harry Bunt (chair)
Nicoletta Calzolari
Jae-Woong Choe
Thierry Declerck
Alex Fang
Robert Gaizauskas
Koiti Hasida
Nancy Ide
Aravind Joshi
Michael Kipp
Kiyong Lee
Inderjeet Mani
Martha Palmer
Volha Petukhova
Andrei Popescu-Belis
Rashmi Prasad
James Pustejovsky
Laurent Romary
Ted Sanders
Thorsten Trippel
Piek Vossen


MORE INFORMATiON:
For background information see also the websites of recent workshops in the ISA-series, such as
ISA-8, October 2012, Pisa
ISA-7, May 2012, Istanbul
ISA-6, January 2011, Oxford
ISA-5: January 2010, Hong Kong

For any questions contact the workshop chair: harry.bunt@uvt.nl