SEM 2014 - THE THIRD JOINT CONFERENCE ON LEXICAL AND COMPUTATIONAL SEMANTICS

We are pleased to announce that the ACL special interest groups SIGLEX and SIGSEM are organizing the third joint conference on lexical and computational semantics: *SEM (pronounced starsem). This time *SEM will be collocated with COLING in Dublin.
The event will provide two days filled with presentations about state-of-the-art research on semantics and serve as an important forum for the lexical & computational semantics community. *SEM brings together researchers interested in various aspects of semantic processing of human language. The conference embraces both symbolic and probabilistic approaches, and everything in between; theoretical contributions as well as practical applications exploiting semantic processing are welcome.
The long-term goal of *SEM is to provide a stable forum for the growing number of NLP researchers working on all aspects of semantics.
Topics of Interest
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Data-driven semantics
Word sense disambiguation and induction
(Named) Entity linking
Distributional and statistical semantics
Multiword and idiomatic expressions
Semantic parsing and interpretation
Frames and semantic role labeling
Formal approaches to semantics
Semantic ambiguity and underspecification
Mathematical methods for semantics
Temporal entities and relations
Pronouns and coreference
Single- and cross-document coreference
Discourse structure and presupposition
Rhetorical relations
Sentiment analysis
Extra-propositional aspects of meaning
Semantic annotation and evaluation
Textual inference and question answering
Generation and summarization
Semantics for social media
Knowledge mining and acquisition
Semantic web and ontologies
Ontology learning and population
Grounding and wikification
Submissions
Submissions to *SEM-2014 must describe unpublished work and be written in English. We solicit both long and short papers. Long papers may consist of up to nine (9) pages of content, plus at most two extra pages for references. Short papers may consist of up to five (5) pages, plus one extra page for references. Long papers typically describe original research and will be presented orally. Short papers (typically: ongoing research, project or system description, opinion piece) will be presented as a poster. Each submission will be reviewed by at least three program committee members. Final versions should take into account the comments from the reviewers.
As the reviewing will be blind, the paper must not include the authors’ names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author’s identity, e.g., “We previously showed (Smith, 1991) …” must be avoided. Instead, use citations such as “Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) …”. Papers that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review. In addition, please do not post your submissions on the web until after the review process is complete. For a paper to be include in the conference proceedings, at least one of the authors must be registered as participant for the *SEM conference.
Papers will be submitted using the START system, which will be accessible from the conference web page. Double submission of papers will have to be notified at submission. Formatting instructions will be made available on the conference web page.
Important Dates (all deadlines GMT -12)
*SEM papers due: April 11th 2014
*SEM Notification of acceptance: May 28th 2014
*SEM Camera-ready deadline: June 13th 2014
*SEM Conference: August 23-24th 2014
Organization and Program Committee
General Chair
Johan Bos
Program Co-chairs
Anette Frank
Roberto Navigli
Area Chairs
Anna Korhonen
Bernardo Magnini
Katja Markert
Gerard de Melo
Stephen Pulman
Sabine Schulte im Walde
Yannick Versley