"Workshop on Wordnet Structures and Standardization and how these
affect Wordnet Applications and Evaluation"
http://www.cti.gr/nlp/
Workshop held in conjunction with the Third Language Resources and Evaluation
Conference (LREC2002) in Las Palmas, Spain
http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2002/index.html
**28th of May, 2002**
Organizing Committee:
Dimitris N. Christodoulakis, Patras University, Greece
Claudia Kunze / Lothar Lemnitzer, University of Tuebingen, Germany
Karel Pala, Brno University, Czech Republic
Programme
8:30 - 13:30
Morning Session: Wordnet Applications, Evaluation
and Standardization
(Chairs: Claudia Kunze, Lothar Lemnitzer)
8:30 - 8:45 Welcome & Introduction; Overview about the workshop
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8:45 - 9:30 **KEYNOTE SPEECH**
Christiane Fellbaum (University of Princteon):
Going global: Issues in the standardization of wordnets
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9:30 - 11:00 Session I: Evaluation and Applications of Wordnets
(3 papers: 20 min presentation, 10 min discussion each)
9:30 - 10:00 Neeme Kahusk (University of Tartu):
A Lexicographer's Tool for Word Sense Tagging according
to Wordnet
10:00 - 10:30 Piklu Gupta & Lothar Rostek (Fraunhofer
Institut Darmstadt):
Evaluation and Consistency Checking of Semantic Relations
in GermaNet
10:30 - 11:00 Graham Katz, Jahn-Takeshi Saito, Joachim Wagner,
Philip Reuter, Sabine Reinhard & Michael Burke
(University of Osnabrueck):
Evaluation of GermaNet: Problems using GermaNet for
Automatic Word Sense Disambiguation
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 - 13:00 Session II: Standardization of Wordnets and Wordnet
Representations
(3 papers: 20 min presentation, 10 min discussion each)
11:30 - 12:00 Karel Pala & Pavel Smrz (University of Brno):
Glosses in WordNet 1.5 and their Standardization
12:00 - 12:30 Lothar Lemnitzer & Claudia Kunze
(University of Tuebingen):
Standardizing GermaNet for web-based Applications
12:30 - 13:00 Tomas Pavelek & Karel Pala (University of Brno):
Wordnet Standardization from a practical point of view
13:00 - 13:30 Overall Discussion and Conclusion for 1st Part of
the Workshop:
* standardization and compatibility guidelines
* application and evaluation scenarios envisaged
* future actions
13:30 - 14:30 Lunch break
14:30 - 19:30 Afternoon Session: Wordnet Structures and Applications
for the less-studied Languages
(Chairs: Dimitris N. Christodoulakis, Karel Pala)
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14:30 - 15:00 **Introduction Speech**
Prof. Dimitris N. Christodoulakis (University of Patras):
Structures of Semantic Networks
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15:00 - 15:30 Dan Tufis (Romania Academy) & Dan Cristea (A.I. Cuza
University): Methodological issues in building the Romanian
Wordnet and consistency checks in Balkanet
15:30 - 16:00 Gabor Proszeky (MorfoLogic & Marton Mihaltz (Eotvos Lorand
University, Budapest):
Automatism and User Interaction: Building a Hungarian Wordnet
16:00 - 16:30 D. Avramidis, M. Kyriakopoulou, G. Kourousias, S. Stamou &
M. Tzagarakis (University of Patras, CTI Patras):
Viewing Semantic Networks as Hypermedia
16:30 - 17:00 Coffee break
17:00 - 17:30 I. - D. Koutsoumpos, M. Tzagkarakis & D. Christodoulakis
(University of Patras, CTI Patras):
Requirements for Domain-Specific Wordnets
17:30 - 18:00 Kadri Vider (University of Tartu):
Notes about labeling semantic relations in Estonian Wordnet
18:00 - 18:30 Irina V. Azarova, Olga A. Mitrofanova, Anna Sinopalnikova &
Ilya Oparin (State University St-Petersburg):
Building the Lexical Database for the Russian Language
18:30 - 19:00 Natalia V. Loukachevitch & Boris V. Dordov (Moscow
State University):
Development and Use of Thesaurus of Russian Language RuThes
19:00 - 19:30 Overall Discussion and Conclusion for the 2nd Part of the
Workshop