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mmwn 2020 : Multimodal wordnets workshop @ LREC 2020

Marseille, France

Event Date:	May 11, 2020 - May 11, 2020
Submission Deadline:	February 24, 2020
Notification of Acceptance:	March 20, 2020
Camera Ready Version Due:	April 02, 2020

About

Nowadays, data can be found in many different formats and multimodal approaches are gaining attention in many natural language processing tasks such as text generation, machine translation or sentiment analysis. Indeed, many research areas are moving from a single modality to full-fledged multimodality research, e.g. multimodal corpora, multimodal lexicons, etc. For instance, efforts are being made to integrate images, sign languages, sounds, etc. into existing wordnets. As the exchange of information among modalities can be crucial for lexical databases, we want to address this interdisciplinary research area in the first Workshop on “Multimodal wordnets”, co-located with LREC 2020.

The workshop is organized by the Global WordNet Association (GWA). GWA is a free, public and non-commercial organization that provides a platform for discussing, sharing and connecting wordnets for all languages in the world. The GWA has created in 2019 a Working Group dedicated to multimodal wordnets in order to extend the development and use of wordnets to other modalities than just text: some well known examples of multimodal approaches and wordnets are ImageNet, an image database structured according to WordNet hierarchy and ASLNet, A Wordnet for American Sign Language, and the Suggested Upper Merged Ontology (SUMO).

Call for Papers

Topics of Interest

The workshop aims at studying the interaction and cross-fertilization between wordnets and existing multimodal resources. We invite submissions with original contributions addressing, but not limited to, the topics listed below.

What are the benefits/drawbacks of multimodal wordnets? How can wordnets help in the transmission and characterization of multimedia information?
To what extent is it possible to create wordnets in other modalities?
Which new multimodal initiatives and projects are being carried out involving distinct modalities (written, spoken, audio-visual, signs, pictograms, emojis, geographical and spatio-temporal data...) and knowledge representations (wordnets, lexicons, ontologies, terminologies, dictionaries, corpora, wikipedias, distributional representations, cultural artifacts, books...)?
What are (can be) the practical applications of multimodal wordnets? How to exploit existing multimodal wordnets, such as Visual Genome, ConceptNet, ImageNet, Imagact, etc.? Sense disambiguation on corpora, images, space role labeling, multimodal knowledge acquisition, commonsense reasoning and inference, distributed concept representation, integration of distributional (corpus-based) and knowledge-based embeddings ...
Which approaches are being developed to create these multimodal resources? How can they be best represented?
How to automatically map existing resources? How can we deal with similarity and relatedness across modality? How can we deal with specificity? Image, sound, smell, touch, video are all infinitely specific but words are not.
What is the added value of wordnet hierarchies to other modalities? Which is the role of the multimodal wordnets? Which is the expected format of the resources? Which standards to adopt or to develop?
How can we feed and feed back the algorithms with multimodal wordnets?
Which ethical policies should be followed? (see for instance, https://www.excavating.ai/)

Summary

mmwn 2020 : Multimodal wordnets workshop @ LREC 2020 will take place in Marseille, France. It’s a 1 day event starting on May 11, 2020 (Monday) and will be winded up on May 11, 2020 (Monday).

mmwn 2020 falls under the following areas: NLP, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, etc. Submissions for this Workshop can be made by Feb 24, 2020. Authors can expect the result of submission by Mar 20, 2020. Upon acceptance, authors should submit the final version of the manuscript on or before Apr 02, 2020 to the official website of the Workshop.

Please check the official event website for possible changes before you make any travelling arrangements. Generally, events are strict with their deadlines. It is advisable to check the official website for all the deadlines.

Other Details of the mmwn 2020

Short Name: mmwn 2020
Full Name: Multimodal wordnets workshop @ LREC 2020
Timing: 09:00 AM-06:00 PM (expected)
Fees: Check the official website of mmwn 2020
Event Type: Workshop
Website Link: http://hitz.eus/multimodalwordnets2020/
Location/Address: Marseille, France

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