Call For Papers

Topics

Topics include, but are not llimited to:

• methodological aspects of semantic annotation
• design and evaluation of semantic annotation schemas
• combining annotations from different schemes
• 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
• levels of granularity in annotation schemes
• use of context in semantic annotation processes
• semantic annotation and representation and their interrelatedness
• uncertainty and ambiguity in annotations
• semantic annotation and ontologies
• comparison of semantic annotation schemes
• annotation experiments
• alternative approaches to the syntax and semantics of annotations
• annotator agreement and other metrics for evaluating semantic annotations
• qualitative evaluation of semantic annotations
• applications of semantic annotation
• best practices for semantic annotation procedures
• events and participants in annotation and visualisation
• application and evaluation of ISO 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
• annotation, interpretation, and inference
• issues in the annotation of semantic information in specific domains, such as:
• events, states, processes, circumstances, facts
• space, motion event, dynamic scenes, 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 and Style Files

Papers should be formatted following the common two-column structure as used by IWCS 2021 (borrowed from ACL 2021). Please use these specific style-files or the Overleaf template.

Style files:
https://iwcs2021.github.io/download/iwcs2021-templates.zip.

Overleaf template:
https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/instructions-for-iwcs-2021-proceedings/fpnsyxqqpfbw

Submission of papers is in PDF form using the ISA-21 submission link.

Please indicate the type of submission by adding "(full paper)", "(short paper)", or "(project note)" to the title.

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

Further information:

For any questions contact the workshop chair, harry.bunt@tilburguniversity.edu or check the workshop website.