SEM 2016 - 5th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics

We are pleased to announce that SIGLEX and SIGSEM, special interest groups of the ACL, are organizing the Fourth Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics: *SEM (pronounced "starsem"). This time *SEM will be co-located with ACL 2016 in Berlin (Germany), and it will take place on the 11-12 of August 2016.
*SEM brings together researchers interested in the semantics of natural languages and its computational modeling. The conference embraces symbolic and probabilistic approaches, and everything in between; theoretical contributions as well as practical applications 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 include, but are not limited to:
Data-driven semantics
Word sense disambiguation and induction
Distributional and statistical semantics
Meaning Representations
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
Extraction of events and causal and temporal relations
(Named) Entity linking
Pronouns and coreference
Single- and cross-document coreference
Discourse semantics
Discourse structure and presupposition
Rhetorical relations
Sentiment analysis
Extra-propositional aspects of meaning
Metaphor, irony, and figurative 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
Comparative computational semantics