Welcome

Welcome to ISA-20, the Twentieth Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation. This is the 2024 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:

The workshop proceedings, in the format in which they will be published in the ACL Anthology, are now available here.

Program:

The workshop program is now available here.

Presentation and Poster format:

Oral presentations of long papers may take up to 30 minutes, including at least 5 minutes for questions and discussion.
Oral flash presentations introducing posters have a length of 5 minutes. The poster boards are 90 x 150 cm and have vertical (portrait) format. Posters should be somewhat smaller than the poster boards; recommended is printing the poster in portait format with A0 size (84,1 x 118,9 cm).

Call For Papers

Topics

Topics include, but are not llimited to:

• 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

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Submission of papers is in PDF form to the ISA-20 submission page.

All submissions should be formatted using the LREC-COLING 2024 style sheet, available at the LREC-COLING 2024 website.

Reviewing will be double blind, so please make sure to anonymise your submission.

Important Dates

March 12: Deadline for submission
March 25: Notification of acceptance
April 8: Camera-ready paper submission
May 20: ISA-20 Workshop

Registration and venue

The ISA-20 workshop is hosted by the LREC-COLING 2024 conference in Turin, Italy, see the LREC-COLING 2024 conference website. Registration is through the LREC-COLING 2024 registration site. Note that it is possible to register for the workshop only