Call for Papers @ Fourth Biennial Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge (LDK 2023)

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Call for Papers @ Fourth Biennial Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge (LDK 2023)
Dates: 12–13 September 2023 (Workshops/Tutorials day), 14–15 September 2023 (Main Conference)
Location: Vienna, Austria
Website: http://2023.ldk-conf.org
Submission Deadline: 10 March 2023

We invite submissions to the fourth biennial conference on Language, Data and Knowledge (LDK 2023) to be held in Vienna, Austria in September 2023. This conference aims to bring together researchers from across different disciplines concerned with the acquisition, treatment, curation and use of language data in the context of data science and knowledge-based applications. This edition builds upon the success of the inaugural event held in Galway, Ireland in 2017, the second LDK in Leipzig, Germany in 2019, and the third LDK in Zaragoza, Spain in 2021.

Paper submission
We welcome submissions of relevance to the topics listed below. Submissions can be in the form of:

Long papers: 9–12 pages;
Short papers: 4–6 pages. 

All submission lengths are given including references. Accepted submissions will be published by ACL in an open-access conference proceedings volume, free of charge for authors. The ACL templates should therefore be used for all conference submissions.

As the reviewing process is single-blind, submissions should not be anonymised.
More information will be provided soon regarding the submission platform and respective link.

The conference will be hybrid (face-to-face and remote). Note that at least one author of each accepted paper must register to present the paper at the conference (either remotely or on-site). There will be no registration fee administered for participating in LDK 2023.

Presentation format
Accepted submissions will be selected for oral or poster presentation based on recommendations from the reviewers. This decision will not reflect any difference in the quality of the papers, and there will be no distinction between oral and poster presentations in the published proceedings. Authors of accepted short papers or posters are welcome to present their work as a demo in addition to the regular presentation.

Topics
Relevant topics for the conference include, but are not limited to, the following fields:

Language Data

  • Language data construction and acquisition
  • Language data annotation
  • FAIR data practices for language data
  • Language data portals and metadata about language data
  • Organisational and infrastructural management of language data
  • Multilingual, multimedia and multimodal language data
  • Evaluation, provenance and quality of language data
  • Visualisation of language data
  • Standards and interoperability of language data
  • Legal aspects of publishing language data
  • Under-resourced languages
  • e-Lexicography
  • Semantic processing

Knowledge Graphs

  • Linguistic linked data and the multilingual semantic web
  • Ontologies, terminologies, wordnets, framenets and related resources
  • Information and knowledge extraction (taxonomy extraction, ontology learning)
  • Data, information and knowledge integration across languages
  • (cross-lingual) ontology alignment
  • Entity linking and relatedness
  • Linked data profiling
  • Knowledge representation and reasoning
  • Knowledge graphs for corpora processing and analysis

Applications for Language, Data and Knowledge

  • Question answering and semantic search
  • Text analytics on big data
  • NLP for language documentation and preservation
  • Speech recognition and synthesis
  • Spoken language processing
  • Semantic content management
  • Computer-aided language learning
  • Natural language interfaces to big data
  • Knowledge-based NLP
  • Deep learning and machine learning for and on LLOD
  • Other applications

Use Cases in Language, Data and Knowledge
Contributions are welcome where the topics above - and others within the scope of Language, Data and Knowledge - are applied to domain-specific use cases, including but not limited to: social sciences and humanities, legal, life sciences, FinTech, cybersecurity.

Organising committee

Conference Chairs
Jorge Gracia – University of Zaragoza
John P. McCrae – University of Galway

Program Chairs:
Sara Carvalho – University of Aveiro
Anas Fahad Khan – Institute for Computational Linguistics “A. Zampolli”

Workshop and Tutorial Chairs:
Ana Ostroški Anić – Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
Blerina Spahiu – University of Milano-Bicocca

Local Organisers:
Dagmar Gromann – University of Vienna
Barbara Heinisch – University of Vienna

Proceedings Chair:
Ana Salgado – Lisbon Academy of Sciences

Important Dates

10 March 2023 Paper submission deadline

28 April 2023 Notification

26 May 2023 Camera-ready submission deadline

12–13 September 2023 Pre-conference events

14–15 September 2023 Main conference

Note that a call for workshop proposals is to follow with a submission deadline for 19th of December.

All deadlines refer to anywhere-on-earth time.

Program Committee (to be announced)