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 Angela Caiazza (NTT DATA Italia) - From Language to Action: How LLMs are Shaping Modern Business Strategies (📍 Collegio Borromeo)

To attend the teach-in, reservations are needed. Register here

TUESDAY 28

📍 Aula Volta, Palazzo Centrale - Main University Building

• 8.30-9.15: Registration
• 9.15-9.45: Opening and welcome address (Mayor: Michele Lissia, Rector: Francesco Svelto, Head of the Departement of Humanities: Luca Vanzago, Rector’s Delegate for National Research and Evaluation: Elisa Roma)
• 9.45-10.35 Session 1 - Chair: Claudia Roberta Combei
  • 9.45-10.15: Ivelina Stoyanova and Svetlozara Leseva - Illustrating the Usage of Verbs in WordNet: the Class of Self-motion Verbs
  • 10.15-10.35: Flavio Pisciotta, Ludovica Pannitto, Lucia Busso, Beatrice Bernasconi and Francesca Masini - Constraining constructions with WordNet: pros and cons for the semantic annotation of fillers in the Italian Constructicon

• 10.35-11.00: ☕️ Coffee break

• 11.00-13.00: Session 2 - Chair: Fahad Khan
  • 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 - Chair: Svetlozara Leseva
  • 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 - Chair: Erica Biagetti
  • 16.00-16.30: Simona Corciulo, Rossana Damiano, Viviana Patti and Mario Alessandro Bochicchio - The Impact of Age and Gender on Sensory Imagery: Insights from the IMAVIC Dataset
  • 16.30-17.00: John P. McCrae, Haotian Zhu, Fei Xia, Al Waskow and Kexin Gao - Remedying Gender Bias in Open English Wordnet
• 18.30:🍸 Welcome cocktail (📍 Palazzo Mezzabarba, Pavia City Hall)

WEDNESDAY 29

📍 Aula Volta, Palazzo Centrale - Main University Building

Chair: German Rigau

• 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 - Chair: Luca Brigada Villa
  • 11.00:11.30: Yicheng Sun and Jie Wang - Expanding WordNet Based on Glosses: Methodology and Applications
  • 11.30-11.50: Fahad Khan and John P. McCrae - SHACL4GW: SHACL Shapes for the Global Wordnet Association RDF Schema
• 12.00-13.15: 📰 Poster session 📍 Aula Scarpa, Palazzo Centrale - Main University Building
  • 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
• 13.15-14.30: 🍱 Lunch break

14.30: Guided tour of Pavia

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

THURSDAY 30

📍 Aula Volta, Palazzo Centrale - Main University Building

Chair: Francis Bond

• 9.30-10.30: Keynote Speaker: Rada Mihalcea - Towards a Cultural WordNet: From Words to Meanings to Cross-Cultural Nuances

• 10.30-11.00: ☕️ Coffee break

• 11.00-13.00: Session 6 - Chair: Marco Passarotti
  • 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 - Chair: Tullio Facchinetti
  • 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

Chair: Chiara Zanchi

• 9.30-9.45: Opening and welcome address

• 9.45-10.45: Keynote Speaker: Marco Passarotti - WordNet in the Net. Making It All Interact

• 10.45-11.15: ☕️ Coffee break

• 11.15-13.15: Session 8 - Chair: John McCrae
  • 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

• 13.15-13.30: Closing remarks

• 13.30-14.30: 🍱 Lunch break

• 14.30: Trip to Certosa di Pavia