[Corpora-List] Call for Participation: 2nd Workshop on Ontology Learning and Population

From: Paul Buitelaar (paulb@dfki.de)
Date: Mon Jun 19 2006 - 18:03:03 MET DST

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    (With apologies for multiple postings)

    Call for Participation

    2nd Workshop on Ontology Learning and Population: Bridging the Gap
    between Text and Knowledge (OLP2)

    http://olp.dfki.de/olp2/olp2_cfp.htm

    Workshop at COLING/ACL 2006 (Joint conference of the International
    Committee on Computational Linguistics and the Association for
    Computational Linguistics - http://www.acl2006.hcsnet.edu.au/)

    July 22nd, 2006
    Sydney, Australia

    Program:

    9:00 - 9:30 Paul Buitelaar, Philipp Cimiano, Berenike Loos
    Introduction to Ontology Learning and Population; Overview of the Workshop

    Session 1 Lexical Ontology Enrichment

    9:30 - 10:00 Roberto Navigli and Paola Velardi
    Enriching a Formal Ontology with a Thesaurus: an Application in the
    Cultural Heritage Domain
    10:00 - 10:30 Eric Nichols, Francis Bond, Takaaki Tanaka, Fujita
    Sanae and Dan Flickinger
    Multilingual Ontology Acquisition from Multiple MRDs

    10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break

    Session 2 Ontology Population and Ontology-Based Information Extraction

    11:00 - 11:30 Fabian Suchanek, Georgiana Ifrim and Gerhard Weikum
    LEILA: Learning to Extract Information by Linguistic Analysis
    11:30 - 12:00 Bernardo Magnini, Emanuele Pianta, Octavian Popescu and
    Manuela Speranza
    Ontology Population from Textual Mentions: Task Definition and Benchmark
    12:00 - 12:30 Koen Deschacht and Marie-Francine Moens
    Efficient Hierarchical Entity Classifier Using Conditional Random Fields

    12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break

    Session 3 Taxonomy and Relation Extraction

    14:00 - 14:30 Pum-Mo Ryu and Key-Sun Choi
    Taxonomy Learning using Term Specificity and Similarity
    14:30 - 15:00 Enrique Alfonseca, Maria Ruiz-Casado, Manabu Okumura
    and Pablo Castells
    Towards Large-scale Non-taxonomic Relation Extraction: Estimating the
    Precision of Rote Extractors
    15:00 - 15:30 Lucia Specia and Enrico Motta
    A hybrid approach for extracting semantic relations from texts

    15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break

    16:00 - 17:30 Panel Discussion and Invited Talks by Johan Bos
    (Universita di Roma, Italy) and Dekang Lin (University of Alberta &
    Google, USA)

    17:30 - 18:00 Concluding Remarks



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