GWC 2004 Detailed Program

For technical guidelines for presentation see equipment list.

Overview
Date	Time
Tuesday, January 20, 2004	8:00 – 9:00	Registration
	9:00 – 9:30	Opening Session
	9:30 – 10:30	German Rigau - invited talk
	10:30 – 11:00	Coffee Break
	11:00 – 12:40	Plenary Session (4)
	12:40 – 13:40	Lunch Break
	13:40 – 15:00	Poster Session
	15:00 – 16:15	Plenary Session (3)
	16:15 – 16:45	Coffee Break
	16:45 – 18:00	Plenary Session (3)
	18:00 – 19:00	BalkaNet Presentation
Wednesday, January 21, 2004	9:00 – 10:40	Plenary Session (4)
	10:40 – 11:00	Coffee Break
	11:00 – 12:40	Plenary Session (4)
	12:40 – 13:40	Lunch Break
	13:40 – 15:00	Poster Session
	15:00 – 17:00	Panel
	17:00 – 18:00	GWA Business Meeting
Thursday, January 22, 2004	9:00 – 11:05	Plenary Session (5)
	11:05 – 11:25	Coffee Break
	11:25 – 12:40	Plenary Session (3)
	12:40 – 13:40	Lunch Break
	14:30 – 17:30	Guided Tour
	19:00 – 24:00	Conference Dinner
Friday, January 23, 2004	9:00 – 10:40	Plenary Session (4)
	10:40 – 11:00	Coffee Break
	11:00 – 12:15	Plenary Session (4)
	12:15 – 12:30	Closing Ceremony

Tuesday, January 20, 2004
Time
9:30	German Rigau - Wordnet and Project Meaning
	BUILDING AND EXTENDING WORDNETS: PART ONE
11:00	William J. Black and Sabri El-Kateb: A Prototype English-Arabic Dictionary Based on WordNet
11:25	Key-Sun Choi and Hee-Sook Bae: Procedures and Problems in Korean-Chinese-Japanese Wordnet with Shared Semantic Hierarchy
11:50	Clara Soler: Extension of the SpanishWordNet
12:15	Orhan Bilgin and Ozlem Cetinoglu and Kemal Oflazer : Morphosemantic Relations In and Across Wordnets
13:40	Poster Session
	B. A. Sharada and P. M. Girish: WordNet Has No `Recycle Bin'
	Yang Liu and Jiangsheng Yu and Zhengshan Wen and Shiwen Yu: Two Kinds of Hypernymy Faults in WordNet: the Cases of Ring and Isolator
	Jiangsheng Yu and Zhenshan Wen and Yang Liu and Zhihui Jin: Statistical Overview of WordNet from 1.6 to 2.0
	Javier Farreres and Karina Gibert and Horacio Rodriguez: Towards Binding Spanish Senses to Wordnet Senses through Taxonomy Alignment
	Irina Azarova and Anna Sinopalnikova: Adjectives in RussNet
	Dan Tufis and Radu Ion and Eduard Barbu and Verginica Barbu: Cross-Lingual Validation of Multilingual Wordnets
	Maria Teresa Sagri and Daniela Tiscornia and Francesca Bertagna: Jur-WordNet
	Heili Orav and Kadri Vider: Concerning the Difference Between a Conception and its Application in the Case of the Estonian WordNet
	WORDNET APPLICATIONS: PART ONE
15:00	Paul Clough and Mark Stevenson: Evaluating the Contribution of EuroWordNet and Word Sense Disambiguation to Cross-language Information Retrieval
15:25	William Doran and Nicola Stokes and Joe Carthy and John Dunnion: Comparing Lexical Chain-based Summarisation Approaches Using an Extrinsic Evaluation
15:50	Valentina Balkova and Andrey Sukhonogov and Sergey Yablonsky: Russian WordNet
	DOMAINS/TOPICS: PART ONE
16:45	Natalia Loukachevitch and Boris Dobrov: Sociopolitical Domain As a Bridge from General Words to Terms of Specific Domains
17:10	Luisa Bentivogli and Andrea Bocco and Emanuele Pianta: ArchiWordNet: Integrating WordNet with Domain-Specific Knowledge
17:35	Mauro Castillo and Francis Real and German Rigau: Automatic Assignment of Domain Labels to WordNet
18:00	BalkaNet Presentation
	Dan Tufis and D.Cristea - BalkaNet Project Overview Vasillis Audrikopoulos - WordNet Management System - DEMO Svetla Koeva - Bulgarian WordNet - Development and Perspectives

Wednesday, January 21, 2004
Time
	BUILDING AND EXTENDING WORDNETS: PART TWO
9:00	Harry Kornilakis and Maria Grigoriadou and Eleni Galiotou and Evangelos Papakitsos: Using a Lemmatizer to Support the Development and Validation of the Greek WordNet
9:25	Marton Mihaltz and Gabor Proszeky: Results and Evaluation of Hungarian Nominal WordNet v1.0
9:50	Debasri Chakrabarti and Pushpak Bhattacharyya: Creation of English and Hindi Verb Hierarchies and their Application to Hindi WordNet Building and English-Hindi MT
10:15	Adam Pease and Christiane Fellbaum: Language to Logic Translation with PhraseBank
	LEXICAL RESOURCES
11:00	Fernando Gomez: Grounding the Ontology on the Semantic Interpretation Algorithm
11:25	Anna Sinopalnikova: Word Association Thesaurus As a Resource for Building WordNet
11:50	Nitin Verma and Pushpak Bhattacharyya: Automatic Lexicon Generation through WordNet
12:15	Ales Horak and Pavel Smrz: VisDic - Wordnet Browsing and Editing Tool
13:40	Poster Session
	Roberto Navigli and Paola Velardi and Alessandro Cucchiarelli and Francesca Neri : Extending and Enriching WordNet with OntoLearn
	Ganesh Ramakrishnan and B. P. Prithviraj and A. Deepa and Pushpak Bhattacharyya and Soumen Chakrabarti: Soft Word Sense Disambiguation
	I. D. Koutsoubos and V. Andrikopoulos and D. Christodoulakis: WordNet Exploitation through a Distributed Network of Servers
	Jorge Morato and Miguel Angel Marzal and Juan Llorens and Jose Moreiro: WordNet Applications
	Paolo Rosso and Edgardo Ferretti and Daniel Jimenez and Vicente Vidal: Text Categorization and Information Retrieval Using WordNet Senses
	Sa-Im Shin and Key-Sun Choi: Automatic Word Sense Clustering Using Collocation for Sense Adaptation
	Elke Teich and Peter Fankhauser: WordNet for Lexical Cohesion Analysis
	Martin Trautwein and Pierre Grenon: Roles: One Dead Armadillo on WordNet's Speedway to Ontology
15:00	Figurative Language in WordNets and other Lexical Resources, and their Applications (panel)
	Panel prepared/organized by Antonietta Alonge and Birte Loenneker Christiane Fellbaum - Metaphors in the (mental) lexicon Wim Peters - Wordnets and figurative language Julio Gonzalo - Sense Proximity versus Sense Relations Eneko Agirre - Clustering of word senses John Barnden - Implications of an AI Metaphor Understanding Project Antonietta Alonge/Birte Loenneker - The heart of the problem: How shall we represent metaphors in wordnets? Patrick Hanks - Why WordNet should not include Figurative Language, and what should be done instead
17:00	GWA Business Meeting

Thursday, January 22, 2004
Time
	AUGMENTED WORDNETS
9:00	J. Atserias, L. Villarejo, G. Rigau, E. Agirre, J. Carroll, B. Magnini, P. Vossen: The MEANING Multilingual Central Repository
9:25	Luisa Bentivogli and Emanuele Pianta: Extending WordNet with Syntagmatic Information
9:50	Birte Loenneker and Carina Eilts: A Current Resource and Future Perspectives for Enriching WordNets with Metaphor Information
10:15	Tony Veale: Pathways to Creativity in Lexical Ontologies
10:40	Christiane Hummer: A Corpus Based Approach to Near Synonymy of German Multi-Word Expressions
	DOMAINS/TOPICS: PART TWO
11:25	Chun Xiao and Dietmar Roesner: Finding High-Frequent Synonyms of A Domain-Specific Verb in English Sub-Language of MEDLINE Abstracts Using WordNet
11:50	Adriana Roventini and Rita Marinelli: Extending the Italian WordNet with the Specialized Language of the Maritime Domain
12:15	Eneko Agirre and Enrique Alfonseca and Oier Lopez de Lacalle: Approximating Hierarchy-Based Similarity for WordNet Nominal Synsets using Topic Signatures
14:30	Guided Tour
19:00	Conference Dinner

Friday, January 23, 2004
Time
	WORDNET APPLICATIONS: PART TWO
9:00	Ann Devitt and Carl Vogel: The Topology of WordNet: Some Metrics
9:25	Lothar Lemnitzer and Claudia Kunze: Using WordNets in Teaching Virtual Courses of Computational Linguistics
9:50	Matteo Negri and Bernardo Magnini: Using WordNet Predicates for Multilingual Named Entity Recognition
10:15	Ilknur Durgar El-Kahlout and Kemal Oflazer: Use of Wordnet for Retrieving Words from Their Meanings
	CHECKING AND EVALUATION OF WORDNETS
11:00	Shun Ha Sylvia Wong: Fighting Arbitrariness in WordNet-like Lexical Databases - A Natural Language Motivated Remedy
11:25	Pavel Smrz: Quality Control for Wordnet Development
11:50	Ivan Obradovic and Cvetana Krstev and Gordana Pavlovic-Lazetic and Dusko Vitas: Corpus Based Validation of WordNet Using Frequency Parameters
12:15	Closing Ceremony