[Corpora-List] CALL FOR PAPERS: Lexical-Semantic and Ontological Resources

From: Dr. Lothar Lemnitzer (lothar@sfs.uni-tuebingen.de)
Date: Mon Oct 23 2006 - 16:29:36 MET DST

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                          CALL FOR PAPERS

             Lexical-Semantic and Ontological Resources

         Workshop of the GLDV Working Group on Lexicography
           at the Biennial Spring Conference of the GLDV
         (Gesellschaft für linguistische Datenverarbeitung/
     Society for Computational Linguistics & Language Technology)

                        April 11 - 13, 2007
                         Tübingen, Germany

              Submission Deadline: November 20, 2006

        URL: http://pi7.fernuni-hagen.de/osswald/gldv07-ws/

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       Invited Speaker: John Bateman (University of Bremen)

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    The workshop is a follow-up of the GLDV GermaNet Workshops
    2003 and 2005 and the DGfS 2006 Workshop "Lexical-Semantic
    Resources for Language Documentation and Language Processing".

    Workshop Description
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    Lexical-semantic and ontological resources are of fundamental
    importance for many applications within the areas of Natural
    Language Processing (NLP), Information Retrieval, and the
    Semantic Web. Semantic lexicons and wordnets usually have
    large coverage with respect to general vocabulary and are
    therefore well-suited to NLP-tasks such as semantic labeling
    and lexical chaining. Ontologies, on the other hand, oftenlack
    significant coverage or are restricted to special
    domains; moreover, they are typically more formalized and
    thus suitable for inference techniques.

    Various initiatives have been launched to convert semantic
    resources of the WordNet and FrameNet family to W3C standard
    representation languages such as RDF/OWL in order to make
    them more easily accessible to the Semantic Web community.
    Other approaches like the OntoWordNet project aim at the
    more demanding goal to fully axiomatize the semantic content
    of lexical-semantic resources.

    The workshop is intended as a forum to discuss possible
    interactions between lexical-semantic and ontological
    resources as well as their design, construction, extension,
    maintenance, validation, and application. Contributions
    addressing the following topics are particularly welcome:

    * Interfaces (alignments, mappings) between lexical-semantic
      and ontological resources.

    * Ontological enrichment of semantic resources, such as
      linking wordnets with existing upper or mid-level ontologies
      like SUMO, MILO, DOLCE, etc.

    * Meta-data approaches and standardization efforts for
      integrating different semantic and ontological resources.

    * Domain-specific extensions of lexical-semantic resources.

    * Automatic acquisition and extension of lexical-semantic
      and ontological resources by corpus-based methods or by
      exploiting other machine-readable knowledge sources.

    * Issues of multi- and interlinguality of lexical-semantic
      and ontological resources.

    * Tools and techniques for maintaining lexical-semantic
      resources and ontologies (e.g. graphical user interfaces,
      visualization tools, database techniques).

    * Applications of semantic lexicons and ontologies in all
      sorts of NLP-based information systems, especially with
      respect to evaluating the impact of these resources.

    Organizers
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    Claudia Kunze (kunze@sfs.uni-tuebingen.de)
    Universität Tübingen, Germany

    Lothar Lemnitzer (lothar@sfs.uni-tuebingen.de)
    Universität Tübingen, Germany

    Rainer Osswald (rainer.osswald@fernuni-hagen.de)
    FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany

    Important Dates
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    Abstract submission deadline:
    20.11.2006

    Notification of acceptance:
    15.12.2006

    Full papers for inclusion in the proceedings due:
    15.01.2007

    Conference:
    11.-13.04.2007

    Submission Information
    ----------------------

    Extended abstracts should contain up to 500 words, not
    including the bibliography. They should be submitted in
    plain text format or PDF to one of the following email
    addresses:

    kunze@sfs.uni-tuebingen.de

    rainer.osswald@fernuni-hagen.de

    In order to be fully considered, submissions should
    arrive by November 20, 2006.

    The languages of the workshop are German and English.

    Registration, Participation Fee, and Travel Information
    -------------------------------------------------------

    Please check the homepage of the GLDV main conference:

    http://www.sfb441.uni-tuebingen.de/gldv2007/

    Workshop participants should register for the main conference.

    Contact Information
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    Rainer Osswald
    Intelligent Information and Communication Systems
    Department of Computer Science
    FernUniversität in Hagen
    Universitätsstraße 1
    58084 Hagen, Germany

    tel +49 (0)2331 987 4524
    fax +49 (0)2331 987 392
    email rainer.osswald@fernuni-hagen.de
    url http://pi7.fernuni-hagen.de/osswald/



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