Day 1 (Monday, 19 March 2007)

Presenter: Christiane Fellbaum

07:30 - 08:30 Registration and coffee

08:30 - 09:30 Welcome and introductions

09:30 - 10:30 Introduction to WordNet: Motivation and design. Synonymy and polysemy.

10:00 - 10:30 Tea break

10:30 - 12:30 WordNet lexicography, Synsets, semantic relations among nouns: synonymy, antonymy, hyponymy, meronymy; principles/rules and tests for classification

12:30 - 13:30 Lunch

13:30 - 15:00 Semantic relations continued. Lexical gaps, artificial nodes

15:00 - 15:30 Tea break

15:30 - 17:00 Exercise: Participants work on a common group of words in their languages and organize these words according to the relations covered in the lecture: man, male, boy, woman, tree, plant, home, house, life, death, fruit, banana, circle, water, earth, sky, morning, night, group, vegetable, chair, love

Day 2 (Tuesday, 20 March 2007)

Presenter: Christiane Fellbaum

08:00 - 08:30 Coffee

08:30 - 10:00 Follow-up to Monday's exercises; how to determine and distinguish relations among words and meanings. Discuss features specific to African languages

10:00 - 10:30 Tea break

10:30 - 12:30 Semantic relations among verbs; troponomy, antonymy, entailment

12:30 - 13:30 Lunch

13:30 - 15:00 Exercises: walk, run, sit, sleep, eat, drink, have, give, lose, own, sell, buy, break, open, hit

15:00 - 15:30 Tea break

15:30 - 17:00 Follow-up on exercises: Discuss lexicographic problems, including (language-specific) lexical gaps (have, possess). One-to-one meetings with participants representing different languages (first group).

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Day 3 (Wednesday, 21 March 2007)

Presenters: Piek Vossen, Christiane Fellbaum

08:00 - 08:30 Coffee

08:30 - 17:00 (Tea break and lunch as on other days)

Presentation: Cross-POS relations, esp. event nouns. Event-Role relations

Exercise: Classify verbs listed under Day 1, using verb relations. Consider language-specific lexicalizations, gaps, and patterns. Consider relations between nouns, verbs and adjectives;

Follow-up: What changes/additions are recommended to accommodate participants' languages? One-to-one meetings with participants representing different languages (second group).
Day 4 (Thursday, 22 March 2007)

Presenters: Piek Vossen, Christiane Fellbaum

08:00 - 08:30 Coffee

08:30 - 17:00 (Tea break and lunch as on other days)

Presentation (Piek): EuroWordnet, multilingual design, equivalence relations and shared ontological framework for different languages; Methodologies: merge vs. expand approaches. Evaluate their pros and cons for the participants' languages; Top-down approach starting from Base Concepts.

Exercise: Map part of the wordnets created on days 1-3 for different languages. Define base concepts in various languages; Verify relations with ontological constraints.

Discussion of African WordNet challenges based on exercise. Discuss merge vs. expand approaches. Evaluate their pros and cons for the participants' languages. What changes/additions are recommended to accommodate participants' languages? One-to-one meetings with participants representing different languages (second group).

Follow-up: Write Final report on design and lexicographic aspects of African Wordnet.
17:00 Cocktail Function

Day 5 (Friday, 23 March 2007)

Presenter: Karel Pala

08:00 - 08:30 Coffee

08:30 - 10:00 Balkanet experience

10:00 - 10:30 Tea break

10:30 - 12:30 Extensions of Wordnets - Valency frames in (Czech) Wordnet. Relations to derivational morphology

12:30 - 13:30 Lunch

13:30 - 15:00 Introduce Tools - Visdic and Debvisdic

15:00 - 15:30 Tea break

15:30 - 17:00 Hands-on exercises with software tool

Follow-up: Small representative prototype for at least one African language pair

WORKSHOP FACILITATORS:

* Dr Christiane Fellbaum http://wordnet.princeton.edu/~fellbaum/
* Prof. Piek Vossen http://www.vossen.info/
* Prof. Karel Pala http://www.fi.muni.cz/usr/pala/.en

PRINCIPAL RESEARCHER/PROJECT LEADER:

* Prof. Sonja Bosch