Index of WordNet and Other Lexical Resources Workshop

WordNet and Other Lexical Resources Workshop Program

		SUNDAY, JUNE 3
09:00	09:15	Welcome and Introduction
09:15	10:15	KEYNOTE SPEECH: Prof. George Miller
		Session I: Word Sense Disambiguation
10:45	-	Invited Paper: Manual and Automatic Semantic Annotation with WordNet
10:45	-	Christiane Fellbaum, Martha Palmer, Hoa Trang Dang, Lauren Delfs and Susanne Wolf
-	-	Word Sense Disambiguation with an Integrated Lexical Resource
-	-	Oi Yee Kwong
-	-	Word Sense Disambiguation in Roget's Thesaurus Using WordNet
-	-	Vivi Nastase and Stan Szpakowicz
-	12:15	Enriching WordNet Concepts with Topic Signatures
-	12:15	Eneko Agirre, Olatz Ansa, David Martinez and Eduard Hovy
12:15	02:30	LUNCH
		Session II: Semantic Relations and Their Applications
02:30	-	Semantic Distance in WordNet: An Experimental, Application-Oriented Evaluation of Five Measures
02:30	-	Alexander Butanitsky and Graeme Hirst
-	-	Automatic Generation of a Coarse Grained WordNet
-	-	Rada Mihalcea and Dan I. Moldovan
-	-	Synonymy in Collocation Extraction
-	-	Darren Pearce
-	04:00	Building a Lexical Knowledge-Base of Near-Synonym Differences
-	04:00	Diana Zaiu Inkpen and Graeme Hirst
04:00	04:30	BREAK
		Session III: Frame Representations
04:30	-	On Mending a Torn Dress: The Frame Problem and WordNet
04:30	-	Sandiway Fong
-	-	Frame Semantics for Text Understanding
-	-	Charles J. Fillmore and Collin F. Baker
-	05:30	Extracting Dependency Frames from Existing Lexical Resources
-	05:30	Gosse Bouma

MONDAY, JUNE 4

Session IV: Resource Integration

09:00 - Lexical Resource Integration across the Syntax-Semantics Interface

Rebecca Green, Lisa Pearl, Bonnie J. Dorr and Philip Resnik

- - Comparing Terms, Concepts and Semantic Classes in WordNet and the Unified Medical Language System

Anita Burgun and Olivier Bodenreider

- - A Complete WN1.5 to WN1.6 Mapping

J. Daudé, L. Padró and G. Rigau

- 10:15 Alignment of Ontologies: WordNet and Goi-Taikei

Naoki Asanoma

10:15 10:45 BREAK

Session V: WordNet Extensions

10:45 - eXtended WordNet: Progress Report

Rada Mihalcea and Dan I. Moldovan

- - WordNet Enrichment with Classification Systems

Andrés Montoyo, Manuel Palomar and German Rigau

- 12:00 Enriching WordNet with Qualia Information

Sara Mendes and Rui Pedro Chaves

12:00 02:30 LUNCH

Session VI: Multilanguage WordNets

02:30 - Monolingual and Bilingual Dictionary Approaches to the Enrichment of the Spanish WordNet with Adjectives

Irina Chugur, Anselmo Peñas, Julio Gonzalo and Felisa Verdejo

- - Ranking and Selecting Synsets by Domain Relevance

Paul Buitelaar and Bogdan Sacaleanu

- - Extending, Trimming and Fusing WordNet for Technical Documents

Piek Vossen

- 04:00 Using WordNet to Improve User Modelling in a Web Document Recommender System

Bernardo Magnini and Carlo Strapparava

04:00 04:30 BREAK

Session VII: WordNet Applications

04:30 - The Informative Role of WordNet in Open-Domain Question Answering

Marius Pasca and Sanda M. Harabagiu

- - Using Lexical Knowledge to Evaluate the Novelty of Rules Mined from Text

Sugato Basu, Raymond J. Mooney, Krupakar Pasupuleti and Joydeep Ghosh

- - Event Tracking Using WordNet Meronyms

Yoshimi Suzuki, Fumiyon Fukumoto and Yoshihiro Sekiguchi

- 06:00 Learning Lexical Representation for Text Categorization

Fumiyo Fukumoto and Yoshimi Suzuki

	MONDAY, JUNE 4
	Session IV: Resource Integration
09:00	-	Lexical Resource Integration across the Syntax-Semantics Interface
Rebecca Green, Lisa Pearl, Bonnie J. Dorr and Philip Resnik
-	-	Comparing Terms, Concepts and Semantic Classes in WordNet and the Unified Medical Language System
Anita Burgun and Olivier Bodenreider
-	-	A Complete WN1.5 to WN1.6 Mapping
J. Daudé, L. Padró and G. Rigau
-	10:15	Alignment of Ontologies: WordNet and Goi-Taikei
Naoki Asanoma
10:15	10:45	BREAK
	Session V: WordNet Extensions
10:45	-	eXtended WordNet: Progress Report
Rada Mihalcea and Dan I. Moldovan
-	-	WordNet Enrichment with Classification Systems
Andrés Montoyo, Manuel Palomar and German Rigau
-	12:00	Enriching WordNet with Qualia Information
Sara Mendes and Rui Pedro Chaves
12:00	02:30	LUNCH
	Session VI: Multilanguage WordNets
02:30	-	Monolingual and Bilingual Dictionary Approaches to the Enrichment of the Spanish WordNet with Adjectives
Irina Chugur, Anselmo Peñas, Julio Gonzalo and Felisa Verdejo
-	-	Ranking and Selecting Synsets by Domain Relevance
Paul Buitelaar and Bogdan Sacaleanu
-	-	Extending, Trimming and Fusing WordNet for Technical Documents
Piek Vossen
-	04:00	Using WordNet to Improve User Modelling in a Web Document Recommender System
Bernardo Magnini and Carlo Strapparava
04:00	04:30	BREAK
	Session VII: WordNet Applications
04:30	-	The Informative Role of WordNet in Open-Domain Question Answering
Marius Pasca and Sanda M. Harabagiu
-	-	Using Lexical Knowledge to Evaluate the Novelty of Rules Mined from Text
Sugato Basu, Raymond J. Mooney, Krupakar Pasupuleti and Joydeep Ghosh
-	-	Event Tracking Using WordNet Meronyms
Yoshimi Suzuki, Fumiyon Fukumoto and Yoshihiro Sekiguchi
-	06:00	Learning Lexical Representation for Text Categorization
Fumiyo Fukumoto and Yoshimi Suzuki

Poster session

- - Integrating WordNet with NL-Soar

Deryle Lonsdale and C. Anton Rytting

- - Customizing GermaNet for the Use in Deep Linguistic Processing

Melanie Siegel, Feiyu Xu and Günter Neumann

- - Using Data Integration Techniques in a Federation of Heterogeneous Lexical Databases

X. Artola and A. Soroa

- - Fully Automatic Bilingual Lexical Acquisition from EuroWordNet

Davide Turcato, Dan Fass, Gordon Tisher and Fred Popowich

- - Toward a Hungarian WordNet

Gábor Prószéky, Márton Miháltz and Dániel Nagy

- - ItalWordNet: extending and exploiting an existing resource for computational tasks

Ornella Corazzari, Antonietta Alonge, Francesca Bertagna, Nicoletta Calzolari and Adriana Roventini

- - Creating a Knowledge Base from partially structured encyclopedia information

David Trotzig

- - Semantic tests and supporting tools for the Greek WordNet

Eleni Galiotou, Giannoula Giannoulopoulou, Maria Grigoriadou, Angela Ralli, Christopher Brewster, Arjiris Arhakis, Evangelos Papakitsos and Anastasia Pantelidou

- - Roget's Thesaurus: a Lexical Resource to Treasure

Mario Jarmasz and Stan Szpakowicz

- - Reducing ambiguity by cross-category connections

Barbara Gawronska and Björn Erlendsson

		Poster session
-	-	Integrating WordNet with NL-Soar
		Deryle Lonsdale and C. Anton Rytting
-	-	Customizing GermaNet for the Use in Deep Linguistic Processing
		Melanie Siegel, Feiyu Xu and Günter Neumann
-	-	Using Data Integration Techniques in a Federation of Heterogeneous Lexical Databases
		X. Artola and A. Soroa
-	-	Fully Automatic Bilingual Lexical Acquisition from EuroWordNet
		Davide Turcato, Dan Fass, Gordon Tisher and Fred Popowich
-	-	Toward a Hungarian WordNet
		Gábor Prószéky, Márton Miháltz and Dániel Nagy
-	-	ItalWordNet: extending and exploiting an existing resource for computational tasks
		Ornella Corazzari, Antonietta Alonge, Francesca Bertagna, Nicoletta Calzolari and Adriana Roventini
-	-	Creating a Knowledge Base from partially structured encyclopedia information
		David Trotzig
-	-	Semantic tests and supporting tools for the Greek WordNet
		Eleni Galiotou, Giannoula Giannoulopoulou, Maria Grigoriadou, Angela Ralli, Christopher Brewster, Arjiris Arhakis, Evangelos Papakitsos and Anastasia Pantelidou
-	-	Roget's Thesaurus: a Lexical Resource to Treasure
		Mario Jarmasz and Stan Szpakowicz
-	-	Reducing ambiguity by cross-category connections
		Barbara Gawronska and Björn Erlendsson