IWCS 2011

Oxford, UK

January 12–14

International Conference on Computational Semantics

Call for papers

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 this is from a lexical or structural semantic perspective. IWCS embraces both symbolic and statistical approaches to computational semantics, and everything in between.

Topics of interest

Areas of special interest for the conference will be computational aspects of meaning of natural language within written, spoken, or multimodal communication. Papers are invited that are concerned with topics in these and closely related areas, including the following:

  • representation of meaning
  • syntax-semantics interface
  • modelling and context in semantic interpretation
  • representing and resolving semantic ambiguity
  • shallow and deep semantic processing and reasoning
  • inference methods for computational semantics
  • recognising textual entailment
  • 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
  • computing meaning in multimodal interaction
  • semantics-pragmatics interface

Submission Requirements

Two types of submission are solicited: long papers and short papers. Both types of papers should be submitted not later than 30 September 8 October 2010.

Long papers should describe original research and must not exceed 10 pages. They will be published in the conference proceedings and will have a full oral presentation of about 30 minutes at the conference.

Short papers (typically system or project descriptions, or ongoing research) must not exceed 5 pages. They will be published in the conference proceedings, and will have a brief oral presentation (5 minutes) at the conference, followed by a poster/demo session for discussion.

Papers should be electronically submitted in PDF format via the EasyChair system. Please contact the organisers if you have problems using EasyChair. All papers will be reviewed by at least three members of the PC. Please follow the information for authors for instructions on formatting your paper.