Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon
When : 2016-12-12
Where : Osaka, Japan
Submission Deadline : 2016-09-25
Categories : Knowledge Management , Education
Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon
(CogALex 2016)
Dec 12, 2016
Osaka, Japan
Call For Papers
This workshop is about possible enhancements of lexical resources and electronic dictionaries. To perform the groundwork for the next generation of such resources we invite researchers involved in the building of such tools. 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 solicit papers including but not limited to the following topics, each of which can be considered from various points of view: (computational, corpus) linguistics, neuro- or psycholinguistics (tip of the tongue problem, associations), network related sciences (sociology, economy, biology), mathematics (vector-based approaches, graph theory, small-world problem), ...
1. Analysis of the conceptual input of a dictionary user
What does a language producer start out with and how does this input relate to the target form? (meaning, collocation, topically related,
....)
What is in the authors' minds when they are generating a message and looking for a word?
What does it take to bridge the gap between this input and the desired output (target word)?
2 The meaning of words
Lexical representation (holistic, decomposed)
Meaning representation (concept based, primitives)
Distributional semantics (count models, neural embeddings, etc. )
Neurocomputational theories of content representation.
1.1.3 Structure of the lexicon
Discovering structures in the lexicon: formal and semantic point of view (clustering, topical structure)
Evolution, i.e. dynamic aspects of the lexicon (changes of weights)
Neural models of the mental lexicon (distribution of information concerning words, organization of words)
4 Methods for crafting dictionaries or indexes
Manual, automatic or collaborative building of dictionaries and indexes (crowd-sourcing, serious games, etc.)
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.
(Semi-) automatic induction of the link type (e.g. synonym, hypernym, meronym, association, collocation, ...)
Use of corpora and patterns (data-mining) for getting access to words, their uses, combinations and associations
5 Dictionary access (navigation and search strategies), interface issues
Search based on sound, meaning or associations
Search (simple query vs multiple words)
Search-space determination based on user's knowledge, meta-knowledge and cognitive state (information available at the onset,
knowledge concerning the relationship between the input and the target word, ...)
Context-dependent search (modification of users’ goals during search)
Navigation (frequent navigational patterns or search strategies used by people)
Interface problems, data-visualization
Creative ways of getting access to and using word associations (reading between the lines, subliminal communication).
