SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS
In Association with
4th 5th INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION
LREC2006
LREC2006 http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2006/http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2006/index.php
Main
conference 2624-2725-28 26 May
20042006
Originating
in 2000 through a visionary initiative
by Atanas Kiryakov and Kiril Simov, and hosted twice by LREC (2002 and
2004),
OntoLex has recently turned into a yearly meeting (IJCNLP workshop in
2005) for
a growing interdisciplinary community of lexicographers, ontologists
and
computational linguists.
In this 2006
edition we will
have a special focus on the
integration of ontologies and lexical resources for Semantic Web
technologies. The challenging idea of building a Semantic Web, i.e. an extended web of
machine-readable information and automated services where contents can
be
accessed and shared by both human and artificial agents is a growing
and very
active field of research. This new framework is deeply influencing also
emergent research on the integration of computational ontologies and
lexicons,
since the mutual relations between these two different types of
resources are
key components for semantic specification and interoperability.
Topics of
interests:
…
Ontologies
and
multi-lingual lexical resources
The
use of
ontological knowledge in language technology applications goes a long
way back.
Recently, however, the project of turning the World Wide Web into a
machine understandable
resource to access digital information (the so-called Semantic Web) has
stimulated a renewed interest in ontologies. In several recent
workshops and
conferences, researchers have investigated their nature and application
potential for knowledge management, information retrieval and
extraction,
information exchange in agent-based systems as well as dialogue
systems.
Attention is being drawn to new aspects of ontology research such as
ontology
coordination and mapping ñ aspects that are particularly relevant for
distributed environments such as Kknowledge Ggrids and Sthe semantic web. In fact the annotation of web
resources in agreement with concepts and relations as defined in
ontologies, is
useful for establishing a conceptual support for knowledge
communication.
From
this
perspective, lexicographers, lexical semanticists and ontologists are
joining
forces to build innovative systems for integrating ontological
knowledge with
lexical and semantic resources. Important examples of this interaction
are the
recent works on the conceptual analysis of WordNet (one of the first
lexical
knowledge bases), and the wide use of upper ontologies in innovative
international projects like EuroWordNet, SIMPLE, Balkanet, DWDSnet.
WordNet was
designed and built entirely by psychologists, linguists, and
lexicographers.
Nevertheless, there are obvious parallels with ontologies, especially
in the
kinds of structuring relations used (taxonomical links, meronymy or
part-of,
etc.), and indeed WordNet has for years attracted the attention of
philosophers
and ontologists. In this context, the distinction between conceptual
(possibly
axiomatic) ontologies and lexical ontologies (which contain both
linguistic and
ontological information) has become more and more central in the field.
In
this
workshop we want to discuss ontologies as resources per se, as well as
for what
concerns the relation between ontological knowledge and language. This
relation
can be investigated from a number of different angles, for example what
differences
and similarities there are between ontologies and more traditional
lexical
resources such as dictionaries and wordnets; how ontologies can be
extracted
from language corpora; what role language plays in the definition and
mapping
of ontologies; and finally, how ontologies can be used to treat
language in
language technology applications ñ in particular applications for
distributed
environments.
Topics
to be
addressed in the workshop include, but are not limited to:
…Design
principles and methodologies for upper-level
ontologies and semantic lexical resources
…Evaluation,
comparison, mapping and integration of
ontologies and lexical resources
…Applications
of ontologies and semantic lexical
resources in LT applications (e.g. QA, Information Retrieval,
Information
Extraction, Machine Translation)
…Role
of semantic lexical resources in ontology
learning
…Methods
to derive ontological knowledge from text
…Methods
to annotate text with reference to an
ontology
…Ontology-based
query expansion techniques
…Ontologies
and multi-lingual lexical resources
…Ontologies
and ontology mapping in multi-lingual
applications
…Ontologies
and lexical resources for meaning
negotiation
oTwo
discussions will be organised around the following
topics:
Filling
the gap between axiomatic and linguistic
ontologies
…The
role of lexical resources in the Semantic Web and the Knowledge
Grid
OntoLex 2006
aims at establishing itself as the central meeting point for
researchers
involved in building, integrating and exploiting lexical resources and
ontologies. We are strongly convinced that adding an explicit semantic
web
ìdirectionî to this yearís edition will help to address
multidisciplinary
aspects and will stimulate new directions of inquiry.
In the domain of Language Resource
Management two
questions are frequently raised: (1) What is the most promising
framework in
which to represent knowledge about linguistic concepts? (2) Should one
construct an instance of the framework ëtop-downí, based on theoretical
concerns, or ëbottom-upí, based on practical applications? Opinions
differ on
both questions. Regarding (1), within the E-Meld project the GOLD
ontology was
developed to contain definitions of concepts and the complex relations
they may
have. The GOLD ontology also contains root level concepts taken from
SUMO to
create a logically complete representation. On the other hand the ISO
TC37/SC4
committee is voting for a simpler model in so far as it restricts
itself to
proper concept definitions according to ISO 11179 and 12620. Only where
relations are inherent part of the definition such as with broader
generic
concepts they will be included. Regarding (2), both GOLD and the ISO
Data
Category Registry primarily follow a top-down design in so far that
they claim
to formalize ìwidely agreed community knowledgeî. On the other hand it
is
obvious that we are dealing with a highly dynamic research area and
large
differences in languages and theory, i.e., despite of the huge amount
of legacy
material which is out there not fitting to any predefined concept
scheme, there
is a continuous bottom-up process of (re-)defining concepts that
address the
immediate needs of the researchers involved. Four panelists will
discuss the
pros and cons of the different approaches, focusing on their relevance
for the
research process and for achieving interoperability.
Afterwards the floor will be open for
discussion.
The goal of the panel is to obtain a deeper understanding of the
different
approaches and to help in setting priorities.
A new scientific community is growing
around this
largely interdisciplinary area: following the spirit of the previous
two
OntoLex workshops, both hosted by LREC, this workshop aims at being an
important meeting point for researchers involved in the fields of
lexical
resources and ontologies, favouring the exchange of scientific
experiences and
proposing new directions of inquiry. This year, the workshop
particularly
welcomes contributions from researchers that are investigating the
application of ontologies and lexical resources the
application of ontologies and lexical resources in distributed environments such as Kknowledge Ggrids and the Ssemantic Wweb.
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December February
20032006:
Call for papers and demonstrationsDeadline
for extended
abstract submission
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30 January
2004: Deadline for paper submission
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March
20042006:
Acceptance notifications and preliminary program
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29 05 April
20042006:
Deadline final version of accepted papersCamera-ready
papers deadline
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27 May
2006: Workshop
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May 2004: 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@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,
LOA-CNR & University of Trento
Chu-Ren
Huang, Institute of
Linguistics, Academia Sinica
Nankang,
Taipei, Taiwan 115 (TAIWAN)
Alessandro
Lenci,
University of Pisa, Dipartimento di Linguistica
"T. Bolelli
Via
Santa
Maria 36, 56100 Pisa (ITALY)
Paul
Buitelaar,
DFKI, Language Technology Lab
Stuhlsatzenhausweg
3, D-66123 Saarbr¸cken (GERMANY)
Christiane
Fellbaum,
Department
of Psychology, Green
Hall,
Princeton University
221 Nassau St.,
Princeton, NJ 08544 (USA)
Alessandro
Oltramari, Laboratory for Applied Ontology, ISTC-CNR; Department
of
Cognition and Education Sciences, Trento University, oltramari@loa-cnr.it
Patrizia
Paggio, Center for Sprogteknologi,
University of Copenhagen, patrizia@cst.dk
Aldo
Gangemi,
Laboratory for Applied Ontology, ISTC-CNR, Rome, a.gangemi@istc.cnr.it
Maria
Teresa Pazienza, Roma Tor Vergata University,
pazienza@info.uniroma2.it
Nicoletta
Calzolari, Pisa
UniversityIstituto
di
Linguistica Computazionale del CNR, glottolo@ilc.cnr.it
Bolette
Sandford Pedersen, Center for Sprogteknologi, University of Copenhagen, bolette@cst.dk
Kiril
Simov,
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, kivs@bultreebank.org
Roberto
Basili (Roma Tor Vergata University)
Werner
Ceusters (Language & Computing)
Nicoletta
Calzolari (Istituto
di
Linguistica Computazionale del CNR)
Alessandro
Lenci (Universit· di Pisa)
Aldo
Gangemi
(Laboratory for Applied Ontology, (ISTC-CNR), Rome)
Eric
Gaussier
(Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble Laboratory) to be
confirmed
Maria
Toporowska Gronostaj (SprÂkdata, University of GothemburgGothenburg)
Nicola
Guarino (Laboratory for Applied Ontology, (ISTC-CNR), Trento)
Arne
J–nsson
(Link–ping Universitet)
Dimitrios
Kokkinakis (SprÂkdata, University of GotemburgGothenburg) to be
confirmed
Alessandro
Lenci (Universit· di Pisa)
Claude
de
Loupy (Sinequa and
University of Paris 10)
Alexander
Maedche
(University of Karlsruhe, Research Group WIM) to be confirmed
Bernardo
Magnini (ITC-IRST, Trento)
J¯rgen
Fischer
Nilsson (Technical University of Denmark)
Alessandro
Oltramari, (Laboratory for Applied Ontology, ISTC-CNR, Trento)
Patrizia
Paggio (Center for Sprogteknologi)
Maria
Teresa Pazienza (Roma Tor Vergata University)
Bolette
Sandford Pedersen (Center for
Sprogteknologi)
Guus
Schreiber (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Kiril Simov (Bulgarian Academy of
Sciences)
Bernardo
Magnini (ITC-IRST, Trento) ñ
Paola
Velardi (Universitý ìLa Sapienzaî, Rome)
Christiane
Fellbaum (Princeton University) ñ to be confirmed
Werner
Ceusters (L&C) ñ
Scott
Farrar, University of Bremen ñ Germany
Hamish
Cunningham, University of Sheffield ñ United
Kingdom
Atanas
Kiryakov, OntoText ñ Bulgary
Nancy
Ide, Department of Computer Science, Vassar
College ñ USA
Sergei
Nirenburg, UMBC, Maryland ñ USA
Paola
Velardi, Universitý di Roma ìLa Sapienzaî ñ Italy
Guus Schreiber, Free University of
Amsterdam ñ Holland
Enrico Motta, Knowledge Media Institute ñ United Kingdom
Nicoletta Calzolari, ILC-CNR, Pisa ñ Italy
Wim Peters, University of Sheffield ñ
United
Kingdom
Bolette Pedersen, Centre for Language
Technology ñ
Denmark
Bernardo Magnini, ITC-IRST ñ Italy
Antonio
Sanfilippo, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory ñ USA
Eduard
Hovy, ISI,
University of Southern California ñ USA
Helen
Dry, Eastern
Michigan University ñ USA
Laurent
Romary, LORIA-CNRS
ñ France
Peter
Wittenburg, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics ñ Germany
Alessandro
Oltramari,
LOA-CNR & University of Trento
e-mail:
oltramari@loa-cnr.it
homepage:
http://www.loa-cnr.it/oltramari
Fax:
+39-0461-435344