Program 

Saturday, 25 January

9:00 Registration open
10:00-10:15 Opening

Building wordnets

• 10:15-10:45 V. Henrich, E. Hinrichs, R. Barkey. Aligning Word Senses in GermaNet and the DWDS Dictionary of the German Language
• 10:45-11:15 Q. Pradet, G. de Chalendar, J. Baguenier-Desormeaux. WoNeF, an improved, expanded and evaluated automatic French translation of WordNet
• 11:15-11:45 A. Rademaker, V. de Paiva, G. de Melo, L. Real, M. Gatti. OpenWordNet-PT: A Project Report

11:45-12:15 Coffee

Design/Relations

• 12:15-12:45 P. Kumar, R. K. Sharma, A. Narang. Creation of Lexical Relations for IndoWordNet
• 12:45-13:15 S.-K. Hsieh, Y.-Y. Chang. Leveraging Morpho-semantics for the Discovery of Relations in Chinese Wordnet
• 13:15-13:45 E. Laparra, M. Lopez de La Calle, G. Rigau. First steps towards a Predicate Matrix

13:45-15:00 Lunch

Annotation

• 15:00-15:30 P. Bhattacharyya, A. Bahuguna, L. Talukdar, B. Phukan. Facilitating Multi-Lingual Sense Annotation: Human Mediated Lemmatizer
• 15:30-16:00 T. Petrolito, F. Bond. A Survey of WordNet Annotated Corpora
• 16:00-16:30 E. Hajnicz. Lexico-Semantic Annotation of Skladnica Treebank by means of PlWN Lexical Units

16:30-17:00 Coffee

• 17:00-18:30 Panel Discussion: Cross-Language Mapping Semantics

Sunday, 26 January

Tools

• 9:30-10:00 M. Finlayson. Java Libraries for Accessing the Princeton Wordnet: Comparison and Evaluation
• 10:00-10:30 A. Nagvenkar, N. Prabhugaonkar, V. Prabhu, R. Karmali, J. Pawar. Concept Space Synset Manager Tool

10:30-11:00 Coffee

Applications

• 11:00-11:30 M. Postma, P. Vossen. What implementation and translation teach us: the case of semantic similarity measures in wordnets
• 11:30-12:00 D. Kanojia, P. Bhattacharyya, R. Dabre, S. Gunti, M. Shrivastava. Do not do processing, when you can look up: Towards a Discrimination Net for WSD
• 12:00-12:30 A. Barman, D. Sarmah, S. Sarma. Assamese WordNet based Quality Enhancement of Bilingual Machine Translation System
• 12:30-12:45 B. Rizov. Hydra: A Software System for Wordnet
• 12:45-13:00 I. Jentson. VerbNet Workbench

Building wordnets/Demos

• 13:00-13:30 T. Caselli, C. Strapparava, V. Laure, G. Vetere. Aligning an Italian WordNet with a Lexicographic Dictionary: Coping with limited data
• 13:30-14:00 V. Barbu Mititelu, S. D. Dumitrescu, D. Tufis. News about the Romanian Wordnet

14:00 Lunch, Excursion
17:30-21:00 Estonian party in Püssirohukelder (in the Gunpowder Cellar)

Monday, 27 January

9:00-10:00 Invited speakers:

• Kadri Vider. Networks of Digital Language Resources
• Bolette Pedersen. WordTies: a CLARIN showcase on aligned wordnets

Multilingual / application

• 10:00-10:30 M. Griesel, S. Bosch. Taking stock of the African Wordnet project: 5 years of development
• 10:30-11:00 M. Z. Bin Mohd Rosman, F. Kratochvil, F. Bond. Bringing together over and under represented languages: Linking WordNet to the SIL Semantic Domains
• 11:00-11:30 F. Bond, S. Wang. Issues in building English-Chinese parallel corpora with WordNets

11:30-12:00 Coffee

Building wordnets

• 12:00-12:30 A. Tefera, Y. Assabie. Automatic Construction of Amharic Semantic Networks from Unstructured Text Using Amharic WordNet
• 12:30-13:00 Ts. Dimitrova, E. Tarpomanova, B. Rizov. Coping with Derivation in the Bulgarian Wordnet
• 13:00-13:15 P. Vossen, M. Postma. Open Dutch Wordnet

13:15-14:15 Lunch

• 14:15-15:00 Business meeting
  • Financial report / GWA
  • Invitation of bids for GWA 2016
  • Board elections

Domain

• 15:00-15:30 B. Bhatt, S. Kunnath, P. Bhattacharyya. Graph Based Algorithm for Automatic Domain Segmentation of WordNet
• 15:30-16:00 M. Dobrowolska, S. Szpakowicz. Terminology inWordNet and in plWordNet

16:00-16:30 Coffee

Ontology

• 16:30-17:00 N. Loukachevitch, B. Dobrov. RuThes Linguistic Ontology vs. Russian Wordnets
• 17:00-17:30 H. Goncalo Oliveira, P. Gomes. Onto.PT: recent developments of a large public domain Portuguese wordnet
• 17:30-18:00 M. Abu Helou, M. Palmonari, M. Jarrar, Ch. Fellbaum. Towards Building Linguistic Ontology via Cross-Language Matching

Tuesday, 28 January

• 9:30-10:30 Invited speaker: Alessandro Lenci Will Distributional Semantics Ever Become Semantic?

10:30-11:00 Coffee

Building wordnets

• 11:00-11:30 L. Borin, M. Forsberg. Swesaurus; or, The Frankenstein Approach to Wordnet Construction
• 11:30-12:00 P. Aliabadi, M. S. Ahmadi, S. Salavati, K. Sheykh Esmaili. Towards Building KurdNet, the Kurdish WordNet
• 12:00-12:30 H. Bharali, M. Mahanta, S. Sarma, U. Saikia, D. Sarmah. WordNet Based Analytical Study of Synonymy in Assamese Language: Classification and Structure
• 12:30-13:00 I. Wijesiri, M. Gallage, B. Gunathilaka, M. Lakjeewa, D. Wimalasuriya, G. Dias, R. Paranavithana, N. de Silva. Building a WordNet for Sinhala

Tools

• 13:00-13:30 A. Oliver. WN-Toolkit: Automatic Generation of WordNets following the expand model
• 13:30-14:00 M. Maziarz, M. Piasecki, E. Rudnicka, S. Szpakowicz. plWordNet as the Cornerstone of a Toolkit of Lexico-semantic Resources

14:00-15:00 Lunch

Design

• 15:00-15:30 A. Zhang. Reducing False Positives in the Construction of Adjective Scales
• 15:30-16:00 H. Isahara, K. Kanzaki, E. Yamamoto, T. Kuribayashi, M. Otsuka. Fusion of Multiple Semantic Networks and Human Association
• 16:00-16:30 M. L. Mojapelo. Morphosyntactic discrepancies in representing the adjective equivalent in African WordNet with reference to Northern Sotho

16:30-17:00 Coffee

Short papers

• 17:00-17:15 Ch. Hoppermann, E. Hinrichs. Modeling Prefix and Particle Verbs in GermaNet
• 17:15-17:30 N. Prabhugaonkar, J. Pawar. Use of Sense Marking for Improving WordNet Coverage
• 17:30-17:45 S. Sarma, D. Sarmah, R. Deka, A. Barman, J. Sarmah, H. Bharali, M. Mahanta, U. Deka. A Quantitative Analysis on Synsets of Assamese WordNet to Extract Word Position-Corpus Timeline
• 17:45-18:00 S. Bhingardive, T. Ajotikar, I. Kulkarni, M. Kulkarni, P. Bhattacharyya. Semi-Automatic Extension of Sanskrit Wordnet using Bilingual Dictionary

18:30-21:00 Banquet in The University of Tartu History Museum

Wednesday, 29 January

Design

• 9:00-9:30 N. Gader, S. Ollinger and A. Polguere. One Lexicon, Two Structures: So What Gives?
• 9:30-10:00 K. Sojat, M. Srebacic. Morphosemantic relations between verbs in Croatian WordNet
• 10:00-10:30 X. Yin, J.-J. Kim, Z. Pozen, F. Bond. Parse Ranking with Semantic Dependencies and WordNet

Tools

• 10:30-11:00 D. S. Chaplot, S. Bhingardive, P. Bhattacharyya. IndoWordnet Visualizer: A Graphical User Interface for Browsing and Exploring Wordnets of Indian Languages

11:00-11:30 Coffee

• 11:30-11:45 A. Lohk, H. Orav, L. Võhandu. Some structural tests for WordNet with results
• 11:45-12:00 M. Maziarz, M. Piasecki, E. Rudnicka, S. Szpakowicz. Registers in the System of Semantic Relations in plWordNet
• 12:00-12:15 Fr. Quattri. Shape classifiers and metaphorical meaning extensions in wordnets
• 12:15-12:30 M. Benjamin. Elephant Beer and Shinto Gates: Managing Similar Concepts in a Multilingual Database
• 12:30-12:45 L. Maria Real Coelho, A. Rademaker, V. de Paiva, G. de Melo. Embedding NomLex-BR nominalizations into OpenWordnet-PT
• 12:45-13:00 Z. Vetulani, B. Kochanowski. "PolNet - Polish WordNet" project: PolNet 2.0 - a short description of the release
• 13:00-13:30 V. Vincze, A. Almasi. Non-Lexicalized Concepts in Wordnets: A Case Study of English and Hungarian

13:30-13:45 Closing
13:45-15:00 Farewell drinks and refreshments