Organizing Committee

Program Committee

OntoLex 2010
 6thWorkshop on Ontologies and Lexical Resources

 Beijing, August 22, 2010, hosted by COLING 2010

NEWS

  • August 17, 2010
  • Invited talk by Prof. Chu-Ren Huang. Check it out!
  • Final Program !
  • The workshop has 18 registered participants.
  • OntoLex 2010 has been reduced to 1-day (22.08.10)

Introduction

As human linguistic practice reveals, accessing to concepts through natural language is the implicit pathway for enabling mutual comprehension and effective meaning negotiation between agents in a community. We need more than a shared dictionary, in order to exchange knowledge: we need to share the "conceptual models underlying the lexicon", namely ontologies. These remarks become even more crucial when focusing on human-computer interaction. In this context, computational ontologies and human-language technologies converge in the task of providing the semantic description of knowledge contents (e.g. multimedia, Web resources, etc.): underlying intended models need to be made explicit in order to become accessible by artificial agents and sharable with humans. According to this picture, 1) computational lexicons, whose aim is to make lexical-content machine-understandable, constitute a fundamental component to foster the linguistic access to any knowledge content; 2) computational ontologies, on the other side, are necessary to capture the logical structure of those knowledge contents: both contribute to dig out the basic elements of a given semantic space (domain-dependent or general), characterizing the different relations holding among them.

Topics

  • Design principles and methodologies for interfacing ontologies and lexical resources
  • Use of ontologies and lexical resources in Semantic Web applications
  • Ontologies and lexical resources for meaning negotiation
  • Lexical resources and ontology learning
  • Evaluation of ontolex resources in NLP tasks
  • Evaluation of Ontologies for building ontolex resources
  • Ontology-driven annotation of corpora for ontology learning
  • Open-source platforms for ontolex resources
  • 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
  • Ontology-driven meta-models for multilingual lexica

Important dates

  • Paper submission deadline (due to tight reviewing schedule,the deadline is final and will NOT be extended): May 26, 2010
  • Notification of acceptance of papers: June 28, 2010
  • Camera-ready copy of papers due: July 10, 2010
  • COLING 2010 Workshop: Aug 22, 2010

Submission details

Participants are invited to submit a paper related to one or more topics of interest at the following address: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ontolex2010 Papers should not exceed 10 pages, including references. Formatting guidelines reflect COLING style. See: http://www.coling-2010.org/SubmissionGuideline.htm

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