Natural language understanding systems require a knowledge base provided with formal representations reflecting the structure of human beings' cognitive system. Although surface semantics can be sufficient in some other systems, the construction of a robust knowledge base guarantees its use in most natural language processing applications, thus consolidating the concept of resource reuse. This conference deals with meaning and knowledge representation in the context of natural language understanding from the perspective of theoretical linguistics, computational linguistics, cognitive science, knowledge engineering, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, text analytics or linked data and semantic web technologies.

Following the success of previous editions, the 12th International Conference on Meaning and Knowledge Representation (MKR 2025) will take place in Logroño (Spain), July 9, 10 and 11, 2025, organized by University of La Rioja.

The MKR 2025 conference is a hybrid event, combining in-person and virtual attendance. However, face-to-face proposals will be prioritised.

This event is part of the R&D&I projects PID2023-146582NB-I00 and PID2023-147137NB-I00, funded by MICIU/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and by ERDF, EU.

We invite 20-minute (plus 10-minute discussion) presentation proposals on the following general and/or specific topics:

General topics

• At the crossroads between functionalist, cognitivist and/or constructionist approaches
• Division of labour of lexical semantics and constructional semantics
• Role of figurative language in meaning construction and grammar.
• Relationship between semantics, pragmatics and discourse in meaning construction and/or meaning representation
• Cognitive modelling and construal
• Linked data and semantic web technologies
• Knowledge representation and conversational agents
• Artificial Intelligence and natural language processing (NLP)
• Functional-cognitive approaches to language aware software
• Human Language Technologies

Text analytics, mining, and NLP

• Sentiment Analysis
• Social-Media Text Processing
• Web Content Mining
• Information Extraction
• Linked Data Development/Applications
• Parsing, NER, POS tagging
• Deep Learning on Unstructured Data
• Topic Modelling and Detection
• Lexicon Application and Generation
• Natural Language Generation

Lexical Constructional Model (LCM) and FunGramKB specific topics

• Meaning construction and meaning representation in the LCM
• Methodological tools in the LCM (e.g. equipollence)
• Syntactic representation in the LCM
• The form of lexical and constructional templates in the LCM
• Connections between the LCM and FunGramKB
• Lexico-grammatical knowledge in FunGramKB
• Terminology in FunGramKB
• Conceptual representation in FunGramKB
• Reasoning in FunGramKB
• NLP applications of FunGramKB

Guidelines for submissions

Submissions should include the following information:

1. Author's name
2. Affiliation
3. E-mail address
4. Paper title
5. An abstract with a maximum of 500 words, excluding references

The official language of the conference is English. All paper proposals are assumed to represent original and unpublished work.

A maximum of two proposals per author may be submitted; in this case, one proposal should be as a sole author and the other as a co-author.

Abstracts must conform to the following guidelines.

Abstract submission deadline: May 12, 2025

Email for abstract submission: mkr2025@unirioja.es

You can download this call for papers in PDF format.

Organising Committee

Chair:
• Mª Sandra Peña Cervel (Universidad de La Rioja, Spain)

Committee members:
• Mª Asunción Barreras Gómez (Universidad de La Rioja, Spain)
• María Enriqueta Cortés de los Ríos (Universidad de Almería, Spain)
• Salma Errami Fennane (Universidad de La Rioja, Spain)
• Ángel Miguel Felices Lago (Universidad de Granada, Spain)
• Francisco Gonzálvez García (Universidad de Almería, Spain)
• Rocío Jiménez Briones (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain)
• Fredy Núñez Torres (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile)
• Carla Ovejas Ramírez (Universidad de La Rioja, Spain)
• M. Beatriz Pérez Cabello de Alba (UNED, Spain)
• Carlos Periñán-Pascual (Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain)
• Andreea Rosca (Universitat de València, Spain)
• Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez (Universidad de La Rioja, Spain)
• Ismael Iván Teomiro García (UNED, Spain)

Scientific Committee

• Francisco Arcas Túnez (Universidad Católica San Antonio, Spain)
• Annalisa Baicchi (Università di Pavia, Italy)
• Hans C. Boas (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
• Chris Butler (Swansea University, UK)
• Francisco Cortés Rodríguez (Universidad de La Laguna, Spain)
• Elke Diedrichsen (Institute of Technology Blanchardstown, Ireland)
• Ángel Felices Lago (Universidad de Granada, Spain)
• Carlos González Vergara (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)
• Francisco Gonzálvez García (Universidad de Almería, Spain)
• Markus Hofmann (Institute of Technology Blanchardstown, Ireland)
• Rocío Jiménez Briones (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain)
• Ricardo Mairal Usón (UNED, Spain)
• Brian Nolan (Institute of Technology Blanchardstown, Ireland)
• Klaus-Uwe Panther (Universität Hamburg, Germany)
• María Beatriz Pérez Cabello de Alba (UNED, Spain)
• Sandra Peña Cervel (Universidad de La Rioja, Spain)
• Carlos Periñán-Pascual (Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain)
• Francisco Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez (Universidad de La Rioja, Spain)
• Robert D. Van Valin, Jr. (University at Buffalo. The State University of New York, USA)

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• Abstract submission deadline: May 12, 2025
• Notification of acceptance: May 26, 2025
• Early-bird registration: until June 4, 2025
• Registration deadline: June 16, 2025

Author (face-to-face): 200 euros early birds /225 euros late birds

Author (online): 125 euros early birds /150 euros late birds

Non-author: 60 euros early birds / 80 euros late birds

Non-author student: 20 euros early birds / 25 euros late birds

Early-bird registration: until June 3, 2025

Late-bird registration: until June 14, 2025

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Conference venue

Sala de Grados
Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Industrial
Universidad de La Rioja
Edificio Politécnico
C/ Luis de Ulloa, 4
26004 Logroño. La Rioja. España

Campus location

Campus map

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University of La Rioja [Download]

Conference venue [Download]

Logroño [Download]

Projects PID2023-146582NB-I00 and
PID2023-147137NB-I00 funded by:

• mkr2025@unirioja.es
• Departamento de Filologías Modernas
  Edificio de Filologías
  C/ San José de Calasanz, 33
  26004 Logroño, La Rioja (Spain)