Call for Papers

Global WordNet Conference, Bucharest Romania, January 27-30 2016

The 8th annual Global WordNet Conference will be held in Bucharest, Romania, from the 27th to the 30th of January, 2016. The purpose of this conference is to offer researchers and developers from around the world the chance to discuss their latest work in the development of wordnet.2218565333_2d0b766308_m

Hosted by the Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence of the Romanian Academy, the conference organizers are now accepting abstracts for papers addressing topics such as:

  • lexicography, onotologies and wordnets
  • semantic relations, components, and co-occurrence statistics
  • the integration of multi-wordnets in infrastructures such as CLARIN and LT networks

 

Proposals for tutorials are also welcome. The call for papers ends the 6th of September, 2015. Click here for more on this event.

Call for Papers: Journal of Literary Onomastics Special Issue

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Call for Submissions: Journal of Literary Onomastics 5 (2016)
(a special issue on place and place-names in the early Insular world)

The deeply rooted importance of landscape, place, and place-names is a shared characteristic throughout the Insular cultures of the early Middle Ages, ranging from the material to the literary. From examinations of the early Irish dindshenchas tradition to recent archaeological investigations into the role of landscape in socio-political structures, the study of place has begun to receive more critical attention.

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International Workshop: “(re)naming places, (re)shaping identities”, Naples, October 28-29 2015

3053563105_76520e66ae_mCall for Papers for the International Workshop, “(re)naming places, (re)shaping identities”.  The workshop is sponsored by the University of Naples ‘L’Orientale’, Department of Literary, Linguistic and Comparative Studies. It will take place from the 28th to the 29th of October 2015.

The deadline for 300 word abstracts and biographical sketches is the 30th of June 2015.  For more information, contact: lcaiazzo[@]unior.it

Workshop on the determinants of bestowing and using personal names, Germany, September 14-15, 2015

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From September 14th and 15th, 2015, the Akademie der Wissenscahft und Literatur will be holding an interdisciplinary workshop on the determinants of bestowing and using personal names (e.g. ethnoracial identity, socioeconomic status, and religion).  The deadline for receipt of abstracts is the 31st of May 2015.  For more information, click here.… Read More

Call for Papers: ICONN, September 1-3 in Baia Mare, Romania

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For additional information click here.

Important Dates:

1.12.2014 – 1.04.2015: submission of registration form (see the “Registration” section of this website) (abstracts: maximum 15 lines/150 words);

1 April 2015: notification of acceptance;

1 May 2015:  closing date for early registration (lei 350 / EUR 80);

1 June 2015: second circular letter and programme draft;

1 August 2015: third circular letter and final programme;

1-3 September 2015: The Third International Conference on Onomastics “Name and Naming”: Conventional/ Unconventional in Onomastics

1 October 2015: Full paper submission.… Read More