[iva] Call for workshops: IWCS 2019, second round

[Asad Sayeed]

[We have space in our conference facility for more workshops, so here is 
another call due Dec 10.  Sorry for the spam to those who are on 
multiple of the above lists.]

CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS -- SECOND ROUND


13th International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS)

University of Gothenburg, Sweden

23-27th May 2019


https://sites.google.com/view/iwcs2019/home 
<https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fsites.google.com%2Fview%2Fiwcs2019%2Fhome&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNHYfxfmhz6qGRSpvN3QeQPAi92oog>



IWCS is the bi-yearly meeting of SIGSEM [1], the ACL special interest 
group on semantics [2]; this year's edition is hosted by the Centre of 
Linguistic Theory and Studies in Probability (CLASP) [3] at the 
Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science (FLoV) [4] 
and will be held at the Wallenberg Conference Centre of University of 
Gothenburg [5].


[1] http://sigsem.org/ 
<http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fsigsem.org%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNGuDEg93KODtKr3rVXCdFTfbNNp-g>

[2] http://aclweb.org/ 
<http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Faclweb.org%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNGSUdQ4knnnAPOwKlQtj456tCwd8Q>

[3] https://clasp.gu.se/ 
<https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fclasp.gu.se%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNHwbiKKXk4pLM9bOJh7DxveihO_kw>

[4] https://flov.gu.se/english 
<https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fflov.gu.se%2Fenglish&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNEGHjmH5ez7hFpAEnt8bH9BOyGXJg>

[5] https://www.gu.se/english/conferences/conference-packages/wallenberg 
<https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gu.se%2Fenglish%2Fconferences%2Fconference-packages%2Fwallenberg&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNGZtOjyhTPoWG_uL5_Req4b2S4Bgg>


The aim of the IWCS conference is to bring together researchers 
interested in any aspects of the computation, annotation, extraction, 
and representation of meaning in natural language, whether from a 
lexical or structural semantic perspective. IWCS embraces both symbolic 
and machine learning approaches to computational semantics, and 
everything in between. The main conference will be run from 25-27 May 
2019, preceded by workshops on 23-24 May.

Topics of interest


The areas of interest for the conference include all computational 
aspects of meaning of natural language within written, spoken, or 
multimodal communication. Papers are invited on topics in these and 
closely related areas, including the following:


* representation of meaning

* syntax-semantics interface

* representing and resolving semantic ambiguity

* shallow and deep semantic processing and reasoning

* hybrid symbolic and statistical approaches to representing semantics

* alternative approaches to compositional semantics

* inference methods for computational semantics

* recognising textual entailment

* learning by reading

* methodologies and practices for semantic annotation

* machine learning of semantic structures

* statistical semantics

* computational aspects of lexical semantics

* semantics and ontologies

* semantic web and natural language processing

* semantic aspects of language generation

* semantic relations in discourse and dialogue

* semantics and pragmatics of dialogue acts

* multimodal and grounded approaches to computing meaning

* semantics-pragmatics interface



SUBMISSION INFORMATION


Proposals for workshops should contain:


* A title and brief (2-page max) description of the workshop topic and 
content.

* An estimate of the audience size


* The names, postal addresses, and email addresses of the organisers, 
with one-paragraph statements of their research interests and areas of 
expertise.

* A list of potential members of the program committee, with an 
indication of which members have already agreed.

* A description of special requirements for technical needs.

* Whether you prefer a half or a full day workshop



Proposals should be submitted by email to


iwcs2019 at easychair.org <mailto:iwcs2019 at easychair.org>


as soon as possible, but no later than 10th December 2018.


Notification of acceptance of workshop proposals will occur no later 
than 20th December 2018.


AFTER ACCEPTANCE


Organisers of accepted workshops must provide descriptions of their 
workshops, for inclusion in the conference registration material, by 
20th January 2019. The description must be provided in two formats: an 
ASCII version that can be included with the email announcement, and an 
HTML version that can be included on the conference home page. These 
descriptions should be mailed to: iwcs2019 at easychair.org 
<mailto:iwcs2019 at easychair.org>


The final workshop materials must be received by the IWCS organisers by 
2nd May 2019. This includes the detailed proceedings (camera-ready 
versions of papers), which will be made available electronically, as 
well as a short workshop program, which will be printed together with 
the main conference program.


FINANCES


Workshops must be financially self-supporting. The conference organisers 
will establish registration rates so as to provide the room, 
audio-visual equipment, internet access, snacks for breaks, and the 
workshop proceedings.


IMPORTANT DATES


10th December 2018 Workshop proposal submissions due

20th December 2018 Workshop proposal notification of acceptance

20th January 2019 Workshop description mailed to IWCS organisers

2nd May 2019 Workshop material due to IWCS organisers

23rd-24th May 2019 Workshop date



Local organisation


Local Chairs: Stergios Chatzikyriakidis, Simon Dobnik

Workshops: Asad Sayeed

Student Track: Vlad Maraev and Kathrein Abu Kwaik

Hackathon: TBA

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