Has merged with the NAACL Workshop on "Customizing Lexical Resources".
The new workshop is WordNet and Other Lexical Resources: Applications, Extensions and Customizations

Overview

WordNet has become a valuable resource in the human language technology and artificial intelligence. It has been used so far in Word Sense Disambiguation, Generation, Information Retrieval, Question Answering, Summarization, Reference Resolution and other aspects of NLP.

The success of many NLP applications depends on the availability of linguistic information that defines word senses and typical relations between concepts. Many modern, advanced NLP applications combine the information encoded in WordNet with statistical data, brought forward by the analysis of large text collections, complementing the knowledge encoded in WordNet with empirical data.

Due to its vast coverage of English words, WordNet provides with general lexico-semantic information on which open-domain text processing is based. Furthermore, the development of WordNets in several other languages extends this capability to trans-lingual applications, enabling text mining across languages. For example, in Europe, WordNet is being used to develope a multilingual database for several European languages (the EuroWordNet project).

Recently, several extensions of the WordNet lexical database have been initiated, in the United States and abroad, with the goal of providing the NLP community with additional knowledge that models pragmatic information not always present in the texts but required by document processing.

The workshop provides a forum for presentations and discussions of the latest WordNet extensions and their impact on various applications. The workshop will also foster discussions that reveal to the NLP community current and future requirements of linguistic resources and ways of embedding them in WordNet.

Since to date, WordNet has been incorporated in several other linguistic and general knowledge bases (e.g. FrameNet and CYK) presentations of the interactions of WordNet with other resources as well as their applications are sought.

This Workshop is three years after the first WordNet Workshop in 1998, time in which many WordNet developments and applications occured.

The target audience consists of researches currently engaged in developing WordNet extensions, researchers interested in lexical resources, those who use or plan to use WordNet, and research policy makers. The interest in WordNet and its applications is worldwide.