Welcome

Welcome to ISA-19, the Nineteenth Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation. This is the 2023 edition of a series of joint workshops of the ACL Special Interest Group on Computational Semantics (SIGSEM) and ISO TC 37/SC 4 (Language Resources) WG 2: Semantic annotation.

These workshops bring together researchers who produce or consume annotations 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, semantic roles, coreference, quantification, visualisation and motion, and people and objects participating in activities and events. The ISO organization pursues the establishment of standardised annotation methods and representation schemes for these and related areas, in support of the creation of interoperable semantic resources.

The ISA workshops provide a forum for researchers to identify and discuss challenges in effective manual or automatic semantic annotation, and to critically examine and compare new and existing approaches and frameworks.

Proceedings available now, also in the format in which it will be published in the ACL Anthology - look here!

Program

Tuesday, June 20

Call For Papers

Topics

• methodological aspects of semantic annotation
• design and evaluation of semantic annotation schemas
• innovative mthods for automated and manual annotation
• context-aware annotation learning
• integration of semantic annotation and other linguistic annotations
• considerations for merging annotations of different phenomena
• multi-layered annotations and representations
• semantic annotation, representation and their interrelatedness
• experiments in semantic annotation
• levels of granularity in annotation schemes
• use of context in semantic annotation processes
• applications of semantic annotation
• generating scenes from annotated text
• events and participants in annotation and visualisation
• uncertainty and ambiguity in annotations
• semantic annotation and ontologies
• comparative studies of semantic annotation schemes
• annotator agreement and other metrics for evaluating semantic annotations
• qualitative evaluation of semantic annotations
• applications of semantic annotation
• best practices for semantic annotation procedures
• combining annotations from different schemes
• semantic annotation, interpretation, and inference
• application and evaluation of standards for semantic annotation
• software tools to support semantic annotation
• lanugage- or application-specific aspects of semantic annotation
• capturing semantic information in images and video
• issues in the annotation of semantic information in specific domains, such as:
• events, states, processes, circumstances, facts
• space, motion events and 3D objects as participants
• relations in discourse and dialogue
• modality, polarity, and factuality
• quantification and modification
• coreference relations
• semantic roles and predicate-argument structures
• reference and named entities
• attribution, sentiment, attitudes, and emotions

Important Dates

Registration

Registration is through the IWCS 2023 registration site.

Venue

The ISA-19 workshop is hosted by the IWCS 2023 conference in Nancy, France, see the IWCS 2023 conference website.