NAACL-HLT 2009

Workshop Description

The main purpose of this workshop is to review, analyse and discuss the latest developments in semantic analysis of text. The fact that this workshop happens between the last Semantic Evaluation exercise
(SemEval-2007) and the preparation for the next SemEval in 2010, presents an exciting opportunity to discuss practical and foundational aspects of semantic processing of text.  The workshop targets papers describing both semantic processing systems and evaluation exercises, with special attention to foundational issues in both lexical and propositional semantics, including semantic representation and semantic corpus construction problems.

Topics

The workshop invites original submissions of papers on systems for semantic processing and evaluable evaluation exercises on semantic processing in general, including, but not limited to, the following
topics:

    * foundational issues in both lexical and propositional  semantics
    * semantic corpus construction problems
    * shallow and deep semantic analysis
    * word sense disambiguation
    * semantic role labelling
    * named-entity classification
    * analysis and disambiguation of prepositions
    * metonymy resolution
    * lexical substitution and paraphrasing
    * textual entailment
    * semantics in applications: IR, IE, MT, Summarisation, etc.

We welcome papers on the above from all theoretical, practical, algorithmic and corpus construction perspectives.


Submissions

Authors are invited to submit two kinds of papers:

* full: for papers on original, unpublished work in the topic area of
   this workshop.

* short: for papers on semantic evaluation tasks (especially those
   from SemEval-2010) and papers describing ongoing work, possibly with
   preliminary results.