CALL FOR PAPERS
Semantic Web Meets Language Resources
Held in conjunction with the
Eighteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~ide/events/AAAI02-ws.html
Researchers in AI are deeply involved in Semantic Web development,
working on such topics as standardized ontologies, formal foundations
for ontologies, new representation languages and the adaptation of old
languages to the web.
At the same time, researchers in computational linguistics are
developing means to adequately represent linguistically annotated data,
with the goal of developing formats and standards that will eventually
enable full exploitation of the information represented. They are
increasingly turning toward resources developed within the XML framework
such as the Resource Definition Framework (RDF) to model the information
in ways that will allow for maximal flexibility and extensibility. This
demands, in turn, development of abstract models that capture the
properties of linguistic annotations at various levels of specificity,
and development of ontologies to represent them. The need to develop and
standardize representation formats for linguistic data and its
annotations has grown to the point where a new working group has been
formed within the International Standards Organization (ISO) to oversee
this activity. However, much of this activity is going on with only
superficial knowledge of developments in the framework of the Semantic
Web and the potential for accessing and exploiting information that it
is intended to eventually allow.
This workshop is intended to bring together researchers in AI who are
working on the Semantic Web and those involved in the development of
standards for linguistic annotation, to enable an exchange of
information and ideas. This is a critical point at which to bring
together these two groups, who typically have little interaction. Those
involved in developing language resources need to gain a deeper
understanding of the potential of and requirements for the Semantic Web
and standardized ontologies, and AI researchers, who are working on a
general model, will gain insight by considering an application of their
work to actual content and, more generally, by considering the needs for
a specific domain that requires complex representation mechanisms and
sophisticated means to exploit the information.
The workshop will consist of two invited talks providing an overview of
current work in the areas of Semantic Web development, on the one hand,
and language resource representation, on the other. This will be
followed by 4-5 presentations detailing work in either or both areas
and, where possible, outlining needs that may be met by the other
community. A panel discussion and open discussion in the afternoon will
attempt to identify areas and means for collaboration and continued
development.
We invite short proposals for workshop presentations, addressing any of
the following topics:
- representing meaning in natural languages using ontological support
and/or practical applications of such ontological-semantic work;
- problems for representing linguistic data, including the need to
accommodate potentially different theoretical approaches in a common
framework, inadequacies of current means to represent linguistic
annotations, and requirements for “annotation ontologies”;
- potential for exploiting inferencing capabilities etc. in
linguistically annotated data, and the representation requirements that
will enable this;
- techniques for combining statistical and non-statistical approaches to
ontology development.
Proposals should be approximately 2 pages in length, providing an
overview of the work to be described. For papers addressing work
primarily in the area of ontology development or primarily concerned
with linguistic annotation, a clear statement of the relevance and/or
applicability of work in the other domain should be provided.
The Program Committee will select 4-5 proposals for presentation at the
workshop, with the overall goal of assuring a balance in the
presentation topics. Authors of accepted papers will then be invited to
submit a full paper of approximately 10 pages in length, which will be
included in a special issue of a major international journal.
Submissions
Please send proposals in ASCII, postscript, pdf, or word rtf format to
aaai02-ws@cs.vassar.edu
- Submission deadline: March 15, 2002
- Notification date: April 19, 2002
- Final date for camera-ready copies to organizers: May 3, 2002
Workshop Organizers
Nancy Ide
Department of Computer Science
Vassar College
Poughkeepsie, New York 12604-0520
Tel: (+1 845) 437 5988
Fax: (+1 845) 437 7498
Email: ide@cs.vassar.edu
Chris Welty
Department of Computer Science
Vassar College
Poughkeepsie, New York 12604-0462
Tel: (+1 845) 437 5992
Fax: (+1 845) 437 7498
Email: welty@cs.vassar.edu
Program Commitee
Paul Buitelaar, DFKI, Saarbrucken, Germany
Nicoletta Calzolari, ILC-CNR, Italy
Christiane Fellbaum, Princeton University, USA
Aldo Gangemi, ITBM-CNR, Italy
Nicola Guarino, LADSEB-CNR, Italy
Graeme Hirst, University of Toronto, Canada
Atanas Kiryakov, SIRMA Ontotext Lab, Bulgaria
Sergei Nirenburg, New Mexico State University, USA
James Pustejovsky, Brandeis University, USA
Laurent Romary, LORIA/INRIA, France
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