GWC 2019

The 10th Global WordNet Conference

23 – 27 July, 2019

Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland

Welcome to the 10th Global WordNet Conference – GWC 2019!

Proceedings are available from the CLARIN-PL repository: http://hdl.handle.net/11321/718


GWC 2019 The 10th Global WordNet Conference 23 – 27 July, 2019 Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland Caption: New/Enhanced Resources Ontology Linking to Wiki
Applications Annotations Events
Embeddings Wordnet(s) Lexical Semantics
7/23/2019 (Tuesday) 7/24/2019 (Wednesday) 7/25/2019 (Thursday) 7/26/2019 (Friday) 7/27/2019 (Saturday)
New/Enhanced Resources Applications Wordnet(s)
9:00 Opening  

Invited speaker Simon Krek

Lexicography meets Linguistic Linked (Open) Data  

Szymon Rutkowski, Piotr Rychlik and Agnieszka Mykowiecka

Estimating senses with sets of lexically related words for Polish word sense disambiguation  

Thierry Declerck, Melanie Siegel and Dagmar Gromann

OntoLex as a possible Bridge between WordNets and full lexical Descriptions  

Tomasz Naskręt

A collaborative system for building and maintaining wordnets.
 

9:30

Joanna Ut-Seong Sio and Luis Morgado Da Costa Building the Cantonese Wordnet Loïc Vial, Benjamin Lecouteux and Didier Schwab Sense Vocabulary Compression through the Semantic Knowledge of WordNet for Neural Word Sense Disambiguation Eric Kafe Fitting Semantic Relations to Word Embeddings Diptesh Kanojia, Kevin Patel, Malhar Kulkarni, Pushpak Bhattacharyya and Gholemreza Haffari Utilizing Wordnets for Cognate Detection among Indian Languages
10:00 Laura Slaughter, Luis Morgado Da Costa, So Miyagawa, Marco Büchler, Amir Zeldes, Hugo Lundhaug and Heike Behlmer The Making of Coptic Wordnet Coffee Mohamed Ali Batita and Mounir Zrigui The Extended Arabic WordNet: a Case Study and an Evaluation using a Word Sense Disambiguation System Bolette Sandford Pedersen, Sanni Nimb, Ida Rørmann Olsen and Sussi Olsen Merging DanNet with Princeton Wordnet Francis Bond, Arkadiusz Janz, Marek Maziarz and Ewa Rudnicka Testing Zipf’s meaning-frequency law with wordnets as sense inventories
10:30 Coffee  

Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira and Alexandre Rademaker

Fast developing of a Natural Language Interface for a Portuguese WordNet: Leveraging on Sentence Embeddings Coffee Coffee Coffee
New/Enhanced Resources Embeddings Applications Events Linking to Wiki
 

11:00

Khuyagbaatar Batsuren, Amarsanaa Ganbold, Altangerel Chagnaa and Fausto Giunchiglia Building the Mongolian WordNet Filip Klubička, Alfredo Maldonado, Abhijit Mahalunkar and John Kelleher Synthetic, yet natural: Properties of WordNet random walk corpora and the impact of rare words on embedding performance  

Francis Bond, Arkadiusz Janz and Maciej Piasecki

A Comparison of Sense-level Sentiment Scores  

Seohyun Im

Semi-automatic Annotation of Event Structure, Argument Structure, and Opposition Structure to WordNet by Using Event Structure Frame  

Finn Årup Nielsen

Danish in Wikidata lexemes
11:30 Marissa Griesel, Sonja Bosch and Mampaka Lydia Mojapelo Thinking globally, acting locally – Progress in the African Wordnet Project Yu-Hsiang Tseng and Shu-Kai Hsieh Augmenting Chinese WordNet semantic relations with contextualized embeddings Itziar Gonzalez-Dios and German Rigau Textual genre based approach to use WordNet in language-for-specific-purpose classroom as dictionary Łukasz Kobyliński and Michał Wasiluk Deep Learning in Event Detection in Polish Kiril Simov, Petya Osenova, Laska Laskova, Ivajlo Radev and Zara Kancheva Aligning the Bulgarian BTB WordNet with the Bulgarian Wikipedia
12:00 Natalia Loukachevitch and Anastasia Gerasimova Linking Russian Wordnet RuWordNet to WordNet Castle Excursion with lunch Tomasz Jastrząb and Grzegorz Kwiatkowski Enriching Keywords Database UsingWordnets – a Case Study Csaba Veres Making Sense of schema.org with WordNet Antoni Oliver Aligning Wikipedia with WordNet: a review and evaluation of different techniques
12:30 Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch
New/Enhanced Resources Applications Ontology Lexical Semantics
 

14:00

Verginica Mititelu and Maria Mitrofan Leaving No Stone Unturned When Identifying and Classifying Verbal Multiword Expressions in the Romanian Wordnet  

Colin Lualdi, Jack Hudson, Christiane Fellbaum and Noah Buchholz

Building ASLNet, A Wordnet for American Sign Language  

Javier Álvez, Itziar Gonzalez-Dios and German Rigau

Commonsense Reasoning Using WordNet and SUMO: a Detailed Analysis  

Tsvetana Dimitrova and Valentina Stefanova

On Hidden Semantic Relations between Nouns in WordNet
14:30 Agnieszka Dziob, Maciej Piasecki and Ewa Rudnicka plWordNet 4.1 – a Linguistically Motivated, Corpus-based Bilingual Resource Jumi Sarmah, Shikhar Kumar Sarma and Anup Kumar Barman Development of Assamese Rule based Stemmer using WordNet Jan Kocoń, Arkadiusz Janz, Monika Riegel, Małgorzata Wierzba, Artur Marchewka, Agnieszka Czoska, Damian Grimling, Barbara Konat, Konrad Juszczyk, Katarzyna Klessa and Maciej Piasecki Propagation of emotions, arousal and polarity in WordNet using Heterogeneous Structured Synset Embeddings Kyoko Kanzaki and Hitoshi Isahara Towards linking synonymous expressions of compound verbs to Japanese WordNet
15:00 John P. McCrae, Alexandre Rademaker, Francis Bond, Ewa Rudnicka and Christiane Fellbaum English WordNet 2019 — An Open-Source WordNet for English Eva Huber and Erhard Hinrichs Including Swiss Standard German in GermaNet Özge Bakay, Begüm Avar and Olcay Taner Yıldız Comparing Sense Categorization Between English PropBank and English WordNet Ahti Lohk, Heili Orav, Kadri Vare, Francis Bond and Rasmus Vaik New Polysemy Structures in Wordnets Induced by Vertical Polysemy
15:30 Coffee Coffee Coffee Closing
New/Enhanced Resources Embeddings Annotations
 

16:00

Svetlozara Leseva and Ivelina Stoyanova Enhancing Conceptual Description through Resource Linking and Exploration of Semantic Relations  

Elena Irimia, Maria Mitrofan and Verginica Mititelu

Evaluating the Wordnet and CoRoLa-based Word Embedding Vectors for Romanian as Resources in the Task of Microworlds Lexicon Expansion  

Bilge Nas Arıcan, Özge Bakay, Begüm Avar, Olcay Taner Yıldız and Özlem Ergelen

English-Turkish Parallel Semantic Annotation of Penn-Treebank
16:30 Ewa Geller, Michał Gajek, Agata Reibach and Zuzanna Łapa Applicability of Wordnets in Lexical Borrowing Studies Natalia Loukachevitch and Ekaterina Parkhomenko Using Distributional Similarities for Thesaurus Check up Alexandre Rademaker, Bruno Cuconato, Alessandra Cid, Alexandre Tessarollo and Henrique Andrade Completing the Princeton Annotated Gloss Corpus Project
17:00 Elżbieta Hajnicz and Tomasz Bartosiak Connections between the semantic layer of Walenty valency dictionary and PlWordNet Pia Sommerauer, Antske Fokkens and Piek Vossen Towards interpretable, data-derived distributional meaning representations for reasoning: A dataset of properties and concepts Ilya Azerkovich Using Thesaurus Data to Improve Coreference Resolution for Russian
17:30 Valeria de Paiva and Alexandre Rademaker Portuguese Manners of Speaking Ruben Branco, João Rodrigues, Chakaveh Saedi and António Branco Assessing Wordnets with WordNet Embeddings Business Meeting
17:45 Kishore Kashyap, Shikhar Kr Sarma and Kumari Sweta Spoken WordNet
18:00 Francis Bond and Arthur Bond GeoNames Wordnet (geown): extracting wordnets from GeoNames Jean-Philippe Bernardy and Aleksandre Maskharashvili Two experiments for embedding Wordnet hierarchy into vector spaces
18:15 Francis Bond OMW/CILI [18:30] Csaba Veres Visualising WordNet Embeddings: some preliminary results
19:00 Welcome Drink&Snack (Riverside Tavern at the University Campus) Boat trip and banquet (a banquet on the boat)

 

This is an opportunity for researchers and developers to present and discuss their latest results on the development, enrichment and exploitation of wordnets for various languages around the world. This conference is hosted by the Language Technology Research Group G4.19 at Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland and the Global WordNet Association.

Proceedings

Proceedings are available from the CLARIN-PL repository: http://hdl.handle.net/11321/718

Programme

GWC 2019 The 10th Global WordNet Conference 23 – 27 July, 2019 Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland Caption: New/Enhanced Resources Ontology Linking to Wiki
Applications Annotations Events
Embeddings Wordnet(s) Lexical Semantics
7/23/2019 (Tuesday) 7/24/2019 (Wednesday) 7/25/2019 (Thursday) 7/26/2019 (Friday) 7/27/2019 (Saturday)
New/Enhanced Resources Applications Wordnet(s)
9:00 Opening  

Invited speaker Simon Krek

Lexicography meets Linguistic Linked (Open) Data  

Szymon Rutkowski, Piotr Rychlik and Agnieszka Mykowiecka

Estimating senses with sets of lexically related words for Polish word sense disambiguation  

Thierry Declerck, Melanie Siegel and Dagmar Gromann

OntoLex as a possible Bridge between WordNets and full lexical Descriptions  

Tomasz Naskręt

A collaborative system for building and maintaining wordnets.
 

9:30

Joanna Ut-Seong Sio and Luis Morgado Da Costa Building the Cantonese Wordnet Loïc Vial, Benjamin Lecouteux and Didier Schwab Sense Vocabulary Compression through the Semantic Knowledge of WordNet for Neural Word Sense Disambiguation Eric Kafe Fitting Semantic Relations to Word Embeddings Diptesh Kanojia, Kevin Patel, Malhar Kulkarni, Pushpak Bhattacharyya and Gholemreza Haffari Utilizing Wordnets for Cognate Detection among Indian Languages
10:00 Laura Slaughter, Luis Morgado Da Costa, So Miyagawa, Marco Büchler, Amir Zeldes, Hugo Lundhaug and Heike Behlmer The Making of Coptic Wordnet Coffee Mohamed Ali Batita and Mounir Zrigui The Extended Arabic WordNet: a Case Study and an Evaluation using a Word Sense Disambiguation System Bolette Sandford Pedersen, Sanni Nimb, Ida Rørmann Olsen and Sussi Olsen Merging DanNet with Princeton Wordnet Francis Bond, Arkadiusz Janz, Marek Maziarz and Ewa Rudnicka Testing Zipf’s meaning-frequency law with wordnets as sense inventories
10:30 Coffee  

Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira and Alexandre Rademaker

Fast developing of a Natural Language Interface for a Portuguese WordNet: Leveraging on Sentence Embeddings Coffee Coffee Coffee
New/Enhanced Resources Embeddings Applications Events Linking to Wiki
 

11:00

Khuyagbaatar Batsuren, Amarsanaa Ganbold, Altangerel Chagnaa and Fausto Giunchiglia Building the Mongolian WordNet Filip Klubička, Alfredo Maldonado, Abhijit Mahalunkar and John Kelleher Synthetic, yet natural: Properties of WordNet random walk corpora and the impact of rare words on embedding performance  

Francis Bond, Arkadiusz Janz and Maciej Piasecki

A Comparison of Sense-level Sentiment Scores  

Seohyun Im

Semi-automatic Annotation of Event Structure, Argument Structure, and Opposition Structure to WordNet by Using Event Structure Frame  

Finn Årup Nielsen

Danish in Wikidata lexemes
11:30 Marissa Griesel, Sonja Bosch and Mampaka Lydia Mojapelo Thinking globally, acting locally – Progress in the African Wordnet Project Yu-Hsiang Tseng and Shu-Kai Hsieh Augmenting Chinese WordNet semantic relations with contextualized embeddings Itziar Gonzalez-Dios and German Rigau Textual genre based approach to use WordNet in language-for-specific-purpose classroom as dictionary Łukasz Kobyliński and Michał Wasiluk Deep Learning in Event Detection in Polish Kiril Simov, Petya Osenova, Laska Laskova, Ivajlo Radev and Zara Kancheva Aligning the Bulgarian BTB WordNet with the Bulgarian Wikipedia
12:00 Natalia Loukachevitch and Anastasia Gerasimova Linking Russian Wordnet RuWordNet to WordNet Castle Excursion with lunch Tomasz Jastrząb and Grzegorz Kwiatkowski Enriching Keywords Database UsingWordnets – a Case Study Csaba Veres Making Sense of schema.org with WordNet Antoni Oliver Aligning Wikipedia with WordNet: a review and evaluation of different techniques
12:30 Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch
New/Enhanced Resources Applications Ontology Lexical Semantics
 

14:00

Verginica Mititelu and Maria Mitrofan Leaving No Stone Unturned When Identifying and Classifying Verbal Multiword Expressions in the Romanian Wordnet  

Colin Lualdi, Jack Hudson, Christiane Fellbaum and Noah Buchholz

Building ASLNet, A Wordnet for American Sign Language  

Javier Álvez, Itziar Gonzalez-Dios and German Rigau

Commonsense Reasoning Using WordNet and SUMO: a Detailed Analysis  

Tsvetana Dimitrova and Valentina Stefanova

On Hidden Semantic Relations between Nouns in WordNet
14:30 Agnieszka Dziob, Maciej Piasecki and Ewa Rudnicka plWordNet 4.1 – a Linguistically Motivated, Corpus-based Bilingual Resource Jumi Sarmah, Shikhar Kumar Sarma and Anup Kumar Barman Development of Assamese Rule based Stemmer using WordNet Jan Kocoń, Arkadiusz Janz, Monika Riegel, Małgorzata Wierzba, Artur Marchewka, Agnieszka Czoska, Damian Grimling, Barbara Konat, Konrad Juszczyk, Katarzyna Klessa and Maciej Piasecki Propagation of emotions, arousal and polarity in WordNet using Heterogeneous Structured Synset Embeddings Kyoko Kanzaki and Hitoshi Isahara Towards linking synonymous expressions of compound verbs to Japanese WordNet
15:00 John P. McCrae, Alexandre Rademaker, Francis Bond, Ewa Rudnicka and Christiane Fellbaum English WordNet 2019 — An Open-Source WordNet for English Eva Huber and Erhard Hinrichs Including Swiss Standard German in GermaNet Özge Bakay, Begüm Avar and Olcay Taner Yıldız Comparing Sense Categorization Between English PropBank and English WordNet Ahti Lohk, Heili Orav, Kadri Vare, Francis Bond and Rasmus Vaik New Polysemy Structures in Wordnets Induced by Vertical Polysemy
15:30 Coffee Coffee Coffee Closing
New/Enhanced Resources Embeddings Annotations
 

16:00

Svetlozara Leseva and Ivelina Stoyanova Enhancing Conceptual Description through Resource Linking and Exploration of Semantic Relations  

Elena Irimia, Maria Mitrofan and Verginica Mititelu

Evaluating the Wordnet and CoRoLa-based Word Embedding Vectors for Romanian as Resources in the Task of Microworlds Lexicon Expansion  

Bilge Nas Arıcan, Özge Bakay, Begüm Avar, Olcay Taner Yıldız and Özlem Ergelen

English-Turkish Parallel Semantic Annotation of Penn-Treebank
16:30 Ewa Geller, Michał Gajek, Agata Reibach and Zuzanna Łapa Applicability of Wordnets in Lexical Borrowing Studies Natalia Loukachevitch and Ekaterina Parkhomenko Using Distributional Similarities for Thesaurus Check up Alexandre Rademaker, Bruno Cuconato, Alessandra Cid, Alexandre Tessarollo and Henrique Andrade Completing the Princeton Annotated Gloss Corpus Project
17:00 Elżbieta Hajnicz and Tomasz Bartosiak Connections between the semantic layer of Walenty valency dictionary and PlWordNet Pia Sommerauer, Antske Fokkens and Piek Vossen Towards interpretable, data-derived distributional meaning representations for reasoning: A dataset of properties and concepts Ilya Azerkovich Using Thesaurus Data to Improve Coreference Resolution for Russian
17:30 Valeria de Paiva and Alexandre Rademaker Portuguese Manners of Speaking Ruben Branco, João Rodrigues, Chakaveh Saedi and António Branco Assessing Wordnets with WordNet Embeddings Business Meeting
17:45 Kishore Kashyap, Shikhar Kr Sarma and Kumari Sweta Spoken WordNet
18:00 Francis Bond and Arthur Bond GeoNames Wordnet (geown): extracting wordnets from GeoNames Jean-Philippe Bernardy and Aleksandre Maskharashvili Two experiments for embedding Wordnet hierarchy into vector spaces
18:15 Francis Bond OMW/CILI [18:30] Csaba Veres Visualising WordNet Embeddings: some preliminary results
19:00 Welcome Drink&Snack (Riverside Tavern at the University Campus) Boat trip and banquet (a banquet on the boat)

Practical Information

Conference Information

Date

23 – 27 July, 2019

Venue

The WUST Congress Centre (D20)
Address:
Janiszewskiego 8
(in the vicinity of Grunwaldzki Square)

Map: https://goo.gl/maps/iW7QUdJ4tKmBrJSq7

Important Dates

  • November 30 – 1st Call for Papers
  • December 21 – 2nd Call for Papers
  • February 22 – Final Call for Papers
  • April 8* – Deadline paper submission
  • May 8* – Notification of paper acceptance
  • May 14 – Registration opens
  • June 28 – Deadline author registration, final version paper
  • July 23 – 27 – Conference

*new dates

Conference Chairs

  • Piek Vossen
  • Christiane Fellbaum

Organizing Committee

  • Maciej Piasecki
  • Ewa Rudnicka
  • Jan Wieczorek

Program Committee

Eneko Agirre University of the Basque Country
Sina Ahmadi Insight Centre for Data Analytics
Mihael Arcan Insight Centre for Data Analytics, National University of Ireland Galway
Timothy Baldwin The University of Melbourne
Francis Bond Nanyang Technological University
Sonja Bosch Department of African Languages, University of South Africa
Paul Buitelaar Insight Centre for Data Analytics, National University of Ireland Galway
Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi Insight Centre for Data Analytics, National University of Ireland, Galway
Hannah Choiyunjung Nanyang Technological University
Janos Csirik University of Szeged
Gerard de Melo Rutgers University
Valeria de Paiva Samsung Research America and University of Birmingham
Thierry Declerck DFKI GmbH
Bento C. Dias-Da-Silva UNESP
Umamaheswari E Research Fellow NTU Singapore
Tomaž Erjavec Dept. of Knowledge Technologies, Jožef Stefan Institute
Christiane Fellbaum Princeton University
Leonel Figueiredo de Alencar UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO CEARÁ
Darja Fišer University of Ljubljana
Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira University of Coimbra
Ales Horak Masaryk University, Faculty of Informatics
Shu-Kai Hsieh National Taiwan Normal University
Filip Ilievski Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Diptesh Kanojia IIT Bombay
Kyoko Kanzaki Toyohashi University of Technology
Shikhar Kr. Sarma Gauhati University
David Lindemann UPV-EHU University of the Basque Country
Ahti Lohk Tallinn University of Technology
Isa Maks Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
John P. McCrae National University of Ireland, Galway
Verginica Mititelu Romanian Academy Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence
Luis Morgado Da Costa Nanyang Technological University
Sanni Nimb Det Danske Sprog- og Litteraturselskab (DSL)
Haldur Oim University of Tartu
Sussi Olsen UCPH
Heili Orav University of Tartu
Adam Pease Infosys
Bolette Pedersen University of Copenhagen
Maciej Piasecki Wrocław University of Technology
Marten Postma Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Alexandre Rademaker IBM Research Brazil and EMAp/FGV
German Rigau IXA Group, UPV/EHU
Ewa Rudnicka Wrocław University of Technology
Kevin Scannell Saint Louis University
Pia Sommerauer Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Hennie van der Vliet Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Chantal van Son Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Kadri Vider University of Tartu
Piek Vossen Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Shan Wang University of Macau
Bharathi Raja Asoka Chakravarthi
Alexandre Tessarollo
Michael Wayne Goodman
Bruno Cuconato
Neeme Kahusk
Alberto Simões

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