CogALex 2014 - Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon (CogALex-IV)

This workshop is about possible enhancements of existing electronic dictionaries. To perform the groundwork for the next generation of electronic dictionaries we invite researchers involved in the building of such dictionaries. The idea is to discuss modifications of existing resources by taking the users' needs and knowledge states into account, and to capitalize on the advantages of the digital media. For this workshop we invite papers including but not limited to the following topics which can be considered from various points of view: linguistics, neuro- or psycholinguistics (associations, tip-of-the-tongue problem), network-related sciences (complex graphs, network topology, small-world problem), etc.
For this workshop we invite papers including but not limited to the following topics:
Analysis of the conceptual input of a dictionary user: (a) What does a language producer start from (bag of words)? (b) What is in the authors' minds when they are generating a message and looking for a word? (c) What does it take to bridge the gap between this input and the desired output (target word)?
The meaning of words. (a) Lexical representation (holistic vs. decomposed); (b) Meaning representation (concept based, primitives); (c) Revelation of hidden information (vector-based approaches: LSA/HAL); (d) Neural models, neurosemantics, neurocomputational theories of content representation.
Structure of the lexicon (a) Discovering structures in the lexicon: formal and semantic point of view (clustering, topical structure); (b) Creative ways of getting access to and using word associations; (c) Evolution, i.e. dynamic aspects of the lexicon (changes of weights); (d) Neural models of the mental lexicon (distribution of information concerning words, organisation of the mental lexicon).
Methods for crafting dictionaries or indexes (a) Manual, automatic or collaborative building of dictionaries and indexes (distributional semantics, crowd-sourcing, serious games, etc.); (b) Impact and use of social networks (Facebook, Twitter) for building dictionaries, for organizing and indexing the data (clustering of words), and for allowing to track navigational strategies, etc.; (c) (Semi-) automatic induction of the link type (e.g. synonym, hypernym, meronym, association, collocation, ...); (d) Use of corpora and patterns (data-mining) for getting access to words, their uses, and combinations (associations).
Dictionary access (navigation and search strategies), interface issues: (a) Conceptual- or semantic-based search; (b) Search (simple query vs multiple words); (c) Context-dependent search (modification of users' goals during search); (d) Recovery; (e) Navigation (frequent navigational patterns or search strategies used by people); (f) Interface problems, data-visualisation.