10th International
Conference on
Meaning and Knowledge
Representation

19, 20 and 21 July 2023, Santiago de Chile

10th International
Conference on
Meaning and Knowledge
Representation

19, 20 and 21 July 2023, Santiago de Chile

10th International
Conference on
Meaning and Knowledge
Representation

19, 20 and 21 July 2023, Santiago de Chile


Presentation

Natural language understanding systems require a knowledge base provided with formal representations reflecting the structure of human beings' cognitive system. Although surface semantics can be sufficient in some other systems, the construction of a robust knowledge base guarantees its use in most natural language processing applications, thus consolidating the concept of resource reuse. This conference deals with meaning and knowledge representation in the context of natural language understanding from the perspective of theoretical linguistics, computational linguistics, cognitive science, knowledge engineering, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, text analytics or linked data and semantic web technologies.

Following the success of previous editions, the 10th International Conference on Meaning and Knowledge Representation (MKR 2023) will take place in Santiago (Chile), July 19, 20 and 21, 2023, organized by Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.

The MKR 2023 conference is a hybrid event, combining in-person and virtual attendance. However, face-to-face proposals will be prioritized.

This conference is sponsored by:





Organising committee

Chairs

Fredy Núñez Torres (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile)

Carlos González Vergara (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile)


Committee members:

Carlos Periñán-Pascual (Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain)

Luciana Pissolatto de Oliveria (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile)

Riva Quiroga Moya (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile)

M. Beatriz Pérez Cabello de Alba (UNED, Spain)

Avelino Corral Esteban (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain)

Rocío Jiménez Briones (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain)

Nicolás José Fernández Martínez (Universidad de Jaén, 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)


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

You can download the call for papers in PDF format.


Guidelines for submissions

Submissions should include an abstract with a maximum of 500 words, excluding references. The official languages of the conference are English and Spanish. Abstracts must conform to the following guidelines. All paper proposals are assumed to represent original and unpublished work.

Email for abstract submission: mkrconference.2023@gmail.com




Publication

The authors of contributions oriented to integrate technology into linguistic research will be invited to submit an article to Journal of Computer-Assisted Linguistic Research.

Moreover, we intend to publish a complementary selection of contributions in a monograph or a proceedings book.


Programme

You can download the conference programme.


Plenary Speakers

Dr. Jocelyn Dunstan Escudero (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile)

Dr. Kulvinder Panesar (University of Bradford, UK)

Dr. María Beatriz Pérez Cabello de Alba (UNED, Spain)

Dr. Carlos Periñán-Pascual (Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain)


Fees and Registration

For conference registration, please fill out this form. We are pleased to announce that this conference is free of charge for both speakers and attendants.


Important Dates

Abstract submission deadline: March 31, 2023 April 23, 2023 [extended]

Notification of acceptance: April 28, 2023

Registration deadline: May 26, 2023

Pre-conference workshop: July 17 and 18, 2023

Conference dates: July 19, 20 and 21, 2023


Conference Venue



Facultad de Letras
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Av. Vicuña Mackenna 4860, Macul
Santiago de Chile


Workshop

This event will also include two pre-conference workshops:


Ambivalencia y lenguaje: la palabra en la poesía de mujeres. Corpus de poemas escritos por mujeres recitados en voz propia y su aplicación terapéutica en enfermedades neurodegenerativas

17 July 2023 (9:00-13:00)

Dr. Ana Zamorano Rueda (UNED, Spain) and Dr. María Beatriz Pérez Cabello de Alba (UNED, Spain)


La ingeniería del corpus en la clasificación de textos: TexMiLab

18 July 2023 (9:00-13:00)

Dr. Carlos Periñán-Pascual (Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain)


Read more information about the workshops here.


Contact

For further information, please send an email to the Organising Committee: mkrconference.2023@gmail.com


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