CALL FOR PAPERS
The role of ontolex resources in building
the infrastructure of Web 3.0:
vision
and practice
http://www.loa-cnr.it/ontolex08
In Association with
6th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE
RESOURCES AND EVALUATION
LREC2008 http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/
Main conference 28-29-30 May 2008
The integration of ontologies
and lexical resources can be seen as a new route across which hybrid agents
negotiate contents and exchange linguistic and ontological aspects of knowledge
in shared environments. In this workshop we aim at investigating the role of
ontolex resources across developing ideas and practice of Web 3.0, the connection of Web 2.0 (the
‘social web’) with the Semantic Web infrastructure of ontology-based standards
and technologies.
The workshop will address the following specific topics of interest:
·
Integrating multimedia into ontolex resources
·
Cooperative construction of ontolex resources
·
Linguistic
interfaces for Semantic Web applications
·
Exploiting
ontolex resources in social networking
· Web-Corpus
linguistics for OntoLex Resource building
Further general
topics focus on:
·
Ontology-driven meta-models for multilingual lexica
· Evaluation of ontolex resources
in NLP tasks
· Evaluation of
Ontologies for building ontolex resources
· Ontology-driven
annotation of corpora for ontology learning
·
Design
principles for the integrated representation of lexical and ontological
knowledge
· Open-source
platforms for ontolex resources
The workshop is addressed to researchers and practitioners from a
variety of backgrounds – Semantic Web, AI, Machine Learning, NLP,
Information Retrieval – that are concerned with the representation and
use of lexical knowledge in semantic annotation, ontology-based approaches to
information extraction, ontology learning, ontology matching, etc. Originating
in 2000 from a visionary initiative of Kiryakov and Simov, and “historically”
hosted by LREC (2002-2004-2006), OntoLex has recently turned into a yearly
workshop (IJCNLP 2005, ISWC 2007) for a growing interdisciplinary community of
lexicographers, ontologists and computational linguists who recognize it de
facto as their common ‘meeting room’. This year’s edition aims at raising the
issue of ontolex resources in Web 3.0 to foster the discussion about
next-generation ontolex tools, on the basis of state-of-the-art technologies
and ongoing projects within the LREC community.
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01 March 2008:
Deadline for extended abstract submission
·
14 March 2008:
Acceptance notifications and preliminary program
·
31 March 2008:
Camera-ready papers deadline
·
31 May 2008:
Workshop
Participants are invited to submit an extended abstract of max 1000
words related to one or more topics of interest to the following address: oltramari(at)loa-cnr.it.
The final paper should not exceed 5000 words. Each accepted paper will
receive a slot of 40 minutes for presentation (30 minutes talk and 10 minutes
for discussion).
Alessandro Oltramari
Laboratory for Applied Ontology (LOA), ISTC-CNR (Trento, Italy)
Laurent Prévot
CLLE-ERSS (CNRS)
Chu-Ren Huang
Institute of Linguistics,
Academia Sinica (Taipei, Taiwan)
Paul Buitelaar
DFKI GmbH
Language Technology Lab &
Competence Center Semantic Web (Saarbruecken, Germany)
Piek Vossen
Faculteit der Letteren Vrije
Universiteit, (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Guido
Vetere, IBM Center
for Advanced Studies, Rome, Italy
Armando
Stellato,
Università di Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
Luisa
Bentivogli, Bruno
Kessler Foundation, (Trento), Italy
Aldo
Gangemi, Laboratory
for Applied Ontology (CNR), Rome, Italy
Nancy
Ide, Department of
Computer Science, Vassar College – USA
Christiane
Fellbaum, Princeton
University, USA.
Andrea
Schalley,
University of New England, Australia
Nigel
Collier, National
Institute of Informatics, Japan
Asanee
Kawtrakul, NECTEC,
Thailand
Sujian
Li, Peking
University, China
Tokunaga
Takenobu, Tokyo
Institute of Technology, Japan
Qin Lu, Hong Kong Polytechnic University,
Hong Kong
Shu-Kai
Hsieh, National
Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan
John Bateman, University
of Bremen, Germany
Philipp Cimiano, Karlsruhe
University, Germany
Paola Velardi, University of
Rome, Italy
Johanna Voelker, Karlsruhe
University, Germany
Chris Welty, IBM, USA
Alessandro Lenci, University of
Pisa, Italy
Atanas Kiryakov, Ontotext,
Bulgaria
Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles, IRIT-CNRS, Toulouse, France
Wim Peters,
University of Sheffield – United Kingdom
Alessandro Oltramari
oltramari(at)loa-cnr.it