Program 📆

Schedule

Program in detail

MONDAY 27

15.00-16.00: Registration (📍 Aula Volta, Palazzo Centrale - Main University Building)
16.30-19.00: Teach-in by NTT DATA - From Language to Action: How LLMs are Shaping Modern Business Strategies (📍 Collegio Borromeo)

TUESDAY 28

📍 Aula Volta, Palazzo Centrale - Main University Building

8.30-9.20: Registration
9.20-9.40: Opening
9.40-10.30 Session 1
- 9.40-10.10: Ivelina Stoyanova and Svetlozara Leseva - Illustrating the Usage of Verbs in WordNet: the Class of Self-motion Verbs
- 10.10-10.30: Flavio Pisciotta, Ludovica Pannitto, Lucia Busso, Francesca Masini and Beatrice Bernasconi - Constraining constructions with WordNet: pros and cons for the semantic annotation of fillers in the Italian Constructicon
10.30-11.00: ☕️ Coffee break
11.00-13.00: Session 2
- 11.00-11.30: John P. McCrae - Renovating the Verb Hierarchy of English Wordnet
- 11.30-12.00: Krasimir Angelov - An Abstract Multilingual WordNet
- 12.00-12.30: Zhihan Cao, Hiroaki Yamada, Simone Teufel and Takenobu Tokunaga - Misalignment of Semantic Relation Knowledge between WordNet and Human Intuition
- 12.30-13.00: Ivelina Stoyanova, Verginica Barbu Mititelu, Svetlozara Leseva and Gianina Iordachioaia - Expanding and Enhancing Derivational and Morphosemantic Relations in Princeton WordNet
13.00-14.30: 🍱 Lunch break
14.30-15.30: Session 3
- 14.30-15.00: Giovanni Puccetti, Andrea Esuli and Marianna Bolognesi - Wordnet and Word Ladders: Climbing the abstraction taxonomy with LLMs
- 15.00-15.30: Ágoston Tóth and Esra Abdelzaher - Improving the lexicographic accessibility of WN through LLMs
15.30-16.00: ☕️ Coffee break
16.00-17.00: Session 4
- 16.00-16.30: Simona Corciulo, Rossana Damiano, Viviana Patti and Mario Alessandro Bochicchio - The Impact of Age and Gender on Sensory Imagination: Insights from the Contextualized Sensory (CSy) Dataset
- 16.30-17.00: John P. McCrae, Haotian Zhu, Fei Xia, Al Waskow and Kexin Gao - Remedying Gender Bias in Open English Wordnet
18.00:🍸 Welcome cocktail (📍 Palazzo Mezzabarba, Pavia City Hall)

WEDNESDAY 29

📍 Aula Volta, Palazzo Centrale - Main University Building

9.30-10.30: Keynote Speaker: Piek Vossen - 30 years embracing and abandoning wordnets
10.30-11.00: ☕️ Coffee break
11.00-11.50: Session 5
- 11.00:11.30: Yicheng Sun and Jie Wang - AI-WordNet for Controllable Construction of Cloze Questions
- 11.30-11.50: Fahad Khan and John P. McCrae - SHACL4GW: SHACL Shapes for the Global Wordnet Association RDF Schema
11.50-13.00: 📰 Poster session
- Joanna Ut-Seong Sio, Luis Morgado Da Costa, Francis Bond and Kamila Liedermannova - Can you hear me now? Towards talking Wordnets: A Cantonese Case Study
- Ivan Lacić and Ludovica Pannitto - Deriving semantic classes of Italian adjectives via word embeddings: a large-scale investigation
- Eleonora Ghizzota, Pierpaolo Basile, Claudia D’Amato and Nicola Fanizzi - Enhancing Linguistic Resources for Diachronic Analysis via Linked Data
- Alžběta Kučerová and Johann-Mattis List - Everybody Likes to Sleep: A Computer-Assisted Comparison of Object Naming Data from 30 Languages
- Ikkyu Nishimura, Yohei Murakami and Mondheera Pituxcoosuvarn - Extracting Conceptual Differences between Translation Pairs using Multilingual-WordNet
- Elīza Gulbe, Agute Klints, Gunta Nešpore-Bērzkalne, Laura Rituma, Madara Stāde, Ilze Lokmane and Pēteris Paikens - Extracting WordNet links from dictionary glosses - Latvian Wordnet example
- Esra Abdelzaher and Bacem Essam - Kinship Terms: Intercultural Linguistic Markers of Teknonymy
- Johann Bergh, Jörg Waitelonis and Melanie Siegel - Leveraging LLMs for Constructing WordNets Automatically as Bilingual Resources
- Shikhar Kr. Sarma, Kuwali Talukdar, Kishore Kashyap, Ratul Deka and Bhatima Baro - Wordnet Enhanced Neural Machine Translation for Assamese-Bodo Low Resource Language Pair
13.00-14.30: 🍱 Lunch break

14.30: Guided tour of Pavia

20.00: Social dinner (📍 Restaurant “Civico Uno”)

THURSDAY 30

📍 Aula Volta, Palazzo Centrale - Main University Building

9.30-10.30: Keynote Speaker: Rada Mihalcea - tba
10.30-11.00: ☕️ Coffee break
11.00-13.00: Session 6
- 11.00-11.20: Fahad Khan, Daniel Prado Aranda, Francesca Romana Cammisa, Michele Cavallaro, Maria Francesca Carmela Giusy Germanà, Federica Misino, Chiara Tenti, Javier E. Díaz-Vera, Francisco Javier Minaya Gómez and Francesca Frontini - Some Updates on the Development of an Historical Language Wordnet
- 11.20-11.40: Giorgio Carboni, Riccardo Ginevra and Litta Modignani Picozzi Eleonora Maria Gabriella - Using digital resources to study semantics and word formation in a historical language: FEAR and TREMOR in the Latin WordNet and Word Formation Latin
- 11.40-12.10: Daniela Santoro, Beatrice Marchesi, Silvia Zampetta, Marco Del Tredici, Erica Biagetti, Eleonora Litta, Claudia Roberta Combei, Stefano Rocchi, Tullio Facchinetti, Riccardo Ginevra and Chiara Zanchi - Exploring Latin WordNet synset annotation with LLMs
- 12.10-12.30: So Miyagawa, Luis Morgado da Costa, Laura Slaughter and Heike Behlmer - Automatic Detection of Coptic Text Reuse: Applying Coptic Wordnet to Intertextuality Studies in Selected Coptic Monastic Writings
- 12.30-13.00: Gianluca Scatigno - Analysis of Anachronistic Lemmas and Semantic Fields in Ancient Greek WordNet
13.00-14.30: 🍱 Lunch break
14.30-16.00: Session 7
- 14.30-15.00: Francis Bond and Rowan Hall Maudslay - Metonymy is more multilingual than metaphor: Analysing tropes using ChainNet and the Open Multilingual Wordnet
- 15.00-15.30: Ewa Rudnicka, Bartłomiej Alberski and Maciej Piasecki - plWordNet 5.0 – challenges of a life-long wordnet development process
- 15.30-16.00: Nikolay Paev, Kiril Simov and Petya Osenova - Word Sense Disambiguation with Large Language Models: Casing Bulgarian
16.00-16.30: ☕️ Coffee break
16.30: GWA Meeting

FRIDAY 31

📍 Collegio Ghislieri, Aula Goldoniana

9.30-10.30: Keynote Speaker: Marco Passarotti - WordNet in the Net. Making It All Interact
10.30-11.00: ☕️ Coffee break
11.00-13.00: Session 8
- 11.00-11.30: Ahti Lohk and Heili Orav - An Experiment in CILI-Based Validation: The Case of the Estonian Wordnet
- 11.30-11.50: Francis Bond - Adding Audio to Wordnets
- 11.50-12.20: Neslihan Cesur, Sabri İnce, Ali Hakkı Aydın, Ece Su Eren, Deniz Gücükçavuş, Murat Papaker, Kaan Bayar, Deniz Baran Aslan, Yelda Fırat and Olcay Taner Yıldız - A Semi-Automated Approach to the Annotation of Argument Structures in Turkish Datasets
- 12.20-12.40: Lucia Galiero, Federico Boschetti, Riccardo Del Gratta, Angelo Mario Del Grosso and Monica Monachini - Enhancing Lexical Resources: Synset Expansion and Cross-Linking Between ItalWordNet and MariTerm
- 12.40-13.00: Shikhar Kr. Sarma, Ratul Deka, Bhatima Baro, Vaskar Deka, Umesh Deka, Mirzanur Rahman and Sarmah Satyajit - Challenges and Solutions in Developing Low-Resource Wordnets: Insights from Assamese and Bodo
13.00-14.30: 🍱 Lunch break
14.30: Trip to Certosa di Pavia