9th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MEANING AND KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION (1, 2 and 3 July, 2020)
IN MEMORIAM LEOCADIO MARTÍN MINGORANCE (1947-1995): 25TH ANNIVERSARY
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Spain
CALL FOR PAPERS
We invite 20-minute (plus 10-minute discussion) presentation proposals on the following general and/or specific topics:
General topics
At the crossroads between functionalist, cognitivist and/or constructionist approaches.
Division of labour of lexical semantics and constructional semantics.
Role of metaphor and metonymy and other cognitive operations in meaning construction and grammar.
Relationship between semantics, pragmatics and discourse in meaning construction and/or meaning representation.
Cognitive modelling and construal.
Linked data and semantic web technologies.
Knowledge representation and conversational agents
Artificial Intelligence and natural language processing (NLP)
Functional-cognitive approaches to language aware software
Human Language Technologies
Text analytics, NLP, and meaning
Sentiment Analysis
Social-Media Text Processing
Web Content Mining
Information Extraction
Linked Data Development/Applications
Parsing, NER, POS tagging
Deep Learning on Unstructured Data
Topic Modelling and Detection
Lexicon Application and Generation
Natural Language Generation
Lexical Constructional Model (LCM) and FunGramKB specific topics
Meaning construction and meaning representation in the LCM.
Methodological tools in the LCM (e.g. equipollence).
Syntactic representation in the LCM.
The form of lexical and constructional templates in the LCM.
Connections between the LCM and FunGramKB.
Lexico-grammatical knowledge in FunGramKB.
Terminology in FunGramKB.
Conceptual representation in FunGramKB.
Reasoning in FunGramKB.
NLP applications of FunGramKB.
IMPORTANT DATES
Abstract submission deadline: March 16, 2020
Notification of acceptance: April 27, 2020
Early-bird registration: until May 4, 2020
Registration deadline: June 1, 2020
Conference dates: July 1, 2 and 3, 2020
Guidelines for submissions
Submissions should include the following information:
Author's name
Affiliation
E-mail address
Paper title
An abstract with a maximum of 500 words, excluding references
The official language of the conference is English. All paper proposals are assumed to represent original and unpublished work.
Abstracts must conform to the following guidelines:
http://www.fungramkb.com/events/2020/docs/abstract_format.pdf
Email for abstract submission: mkr2020madrid@gmail.com
ORGANISING COMMITTEE
Avelino Corral Esteban (Chair), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain.
Rocío Jiménez Briones (Chair), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain.
Laura Arce Álvarez, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain.
Nicolás José Fernández Martínez, Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia Spain.
Patricia González Díaz, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain.
Milagros González Martín, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain.
Nashwa Nashaat-Sobhy, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain.
Fredy Núñez Torres, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile.
M. Beatriz Pérez Cabello de Alba, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Spain.
Carlos Periñán-Pascual, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain.
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
Francisco Arcas Túnez, Universidad Católica San Antonio, Spain.
Annalisa Baicchi, Università di Pavia, Italy.
Hans C. Boas, University of Texas at Austin, USA.
Chris Butler, Swansea University, UK.
Francisco Cortés Rodríguez, Universidad de La Laguna, Spain.
Elke Diedrichsen, Institute of Technology Blanchardstown, Ireland.
Ángel Felices Lago, Universidad de Granada, Spain.
Carlos González Vergara, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.
Francisco Gonzálvez García, Universidad de Almería, Spain.
Markus Hofmann, Institute of Technology Blanchardstown, Ireland.
Rocío Jiménez Briones, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain.
Ricardo Mairal Usón, UNED, Spain.
Brian Nolan, Institute of Technology Blanchardstown, Ireland.
Klaus-Uwe Panther, Universität Hamburg, Germany.
María Beatriz Pérez Cabello de Alba, UNED, Spain.
Sandra Peña Cervel, Universidad de La Rioja, Spain.
Carlos Periñán-Pascual, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain.
Francisco Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, Universidad de La Rioja, Spain.
Robert D. Van Valin, Jr., University at Buffalo; The State University of New York, USA