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FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS
WORKSHOP
OntoLex 2006:
Interfacing Ontologies and Lexical Resources for Semantic Web
Technologies
http://www.loa-cnr.it/ontolex2006
(soon available)
Magazzini del Cotone Conference Center
Genoa, Italy
In Association with
5th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION
LREC2006 http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2006/
Main conference 24-25-26 May 2006
Motivations and aim
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:
Design principles and methodologies for interfacing ontologies and
lexical resources
RDFS/OWL-based integration of task/domain 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
Ontologies and multi-lingual lexical resources
Reasons of interest
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 “direction” to this year’s edition
will help to address multidisciplinary aspects and will stimulate new
directions of inquiry.
Panel (1 hour) on Approaches for Semantic Interoperability:
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 ‘top-down’, based on
theoretical concerns, or ‘bottom-up’, based on practical
applications? Opinions differ on both questions. 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.
Important dates
· 10 February 2006: Deadline for extended abstract submission
· 10 March 2006: Acceptance notifications and preliminary program
· 31 March 2006: Camera-ready papers deadline
· ‹TBA› May 2006: Workshop
Submissions
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).
Organizing Committee
Alessandro Oltramari, LOA-CNR & University of Trento
Via Solteri 38, 38100 Trento (ITALY)
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 Saarbrücken (GERMANY)
Christiane Fellbaum, Department of Psychology
Green Hall, Princeton University 221 Nassau St., Princeton, NJ 0854
Programme Committee
Massimiliano Ciaramita, LOA-CNR – Italy
Scott Farrar, University of Bremen – Germany
Hamish Cunningham, University of Sheffield – United Kingdom
Atanas Kiryakov, OntoText – Bulgary
Nancy Ide, Department of Computer Science, Vassar College – USA
Sergei Nirenburg, UMBC, Maryland – USA
Paola Velardi, Università di Roma “La Sapienza” – Italy
Guus Schreiber, Free University of Amsterdam – Holland
Enrico Motta, Knowledge Media Institute – United Kingdom
Nicoletta Calzolari, ILC-CNR, Pisa – Italy
Wim Peters, University of Sheffield – United Kingdom
Bolette Pedersen, Centre for Language Technology – Denmark
Bernardo Magnini, ITC-IRST – Italy
Antonio Sanfilippo, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory – USA
Eduard Hovy, ISI, University of Southern California – USA
Helen Dry, Eastern Michigan University – USA
Laurent Romarie, LORIA – France
Peter Wittenburg, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics – Germany
Contact person:
Alessandro Oltramari, LOA-CNR & University of Trento
Via Solteri 38, 38100 Trento (ITALY)
e-mail: oltramari@loa-cnr.it
homepage: http://www.loa-cnr.it/oltramari
Fax: +39-0461-435344
Phone: +39-0461-830198
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