EUROLAN-2003
Summer School on
The Semantic Web and Language Technology - Its Potential and
Practicalities
28 July - 8 August 2003
Bucharest - Romania
http://www.infoiasi.ro/~eurolan/eurolan2003
First Call For Participation
The Eurolan series of summer schools was established in 1993 and has
been held every other year, with the goal of stimulating young
researchers from all over the world to pursue high-level research in
natural language processing and language technology.
Theme
The fifth EUROLAN in the series will have as topic all aspects of the
developing Semantic Web technology and consider its potential and the
practicalities of applying it to enhance language processing
applications.
The promise of the Semantic Web has evoked enormous interest within the
community developing language technologies. On the one hand, it offers
the potential to exploit ontological descriptions of language data in
order to enable inferencing capabilities, which may not only
drastically enhance semantic processing, but also alter our conceptions
of the ways in which knowledge is represented and exploited in language
processing applications. On the other hand, to take full advantage of
this evolving technology, researchers and developers will need to
understand the potential as well as the limitations of the Semantic Web
and master a range of new technologies that have been designed to
enable it. Finally, the language technology community must be ready to
contribute to Semantic Web development in order to ensure that it meets
the requirements for language processing applications.
The so-called "Semantic Web community" encompasses several research
communities that have previously worked independently of one another,
including researchers in knowledge representation, ontology
development, and "knowledge exploitation"; web developers (including
developers of standards such as XML, RDF, OWL, etc.); and those who
directly need to exploit knowledge in applications. Linguistic
knowledge used in language processing at its various levels
(morphological, syntactic, lexical, discourse, etc.) includes a
substantial part of general knowledge and poses a significant challenge
to Semantic Web developers in order to handle the precision and
complexity required for language processing applications. Whatever the
Semantic Web may evolve to be, researchers and developers in language
technology clearly need to learn what it is and how it can be exploited
for language processing, and at the same time, work with semantic web
developers to ensure that the semantic web infrastructure is maximally
usable for language processing applications.
EUROLAN-2003 will provide two weeks of intensive study of semantic web
technology and its application to natural language processing.
Internationally known scholars and researchers involved in leading-edge
work in relevant areas will serve as professors at the school,
providing half- and full-day seminars and hands-on labs to provide
students with in-depth understanding and experience.
Topics to be covered in the school include the following:
* What is the Semantic Web?
* Potential and limitations of the semantic web
* Supporting web technologies (XML, RDF, OWL)
* Ontologies, ontology design and development
* Ontology exploitation via inferencing
* Description logics and other approaches to inferencing
* Lexical semantics and the semantic web
* Use of the semantic web and related technologies in language
processing applications
Invited professors
* Dan Cristea, "Al. I. Cuza" University of Iasi, Romania
* Thierry Declerck, DFKI Saarbruecken, Germany
* James Hendler, University of Maryland at College Park, USA
* Jerry Hobbs, University of Southern California, Marina del Rey, USA
* Nancy Ide, Vassar College, USA
* Alessandro Lenci, University of Pisa, Italy
* Deborah McGuinness, Stanford University, USA (to be confirmed)
* Robert Meersman, Vrije Universiteit, Brussel, Belgium
* Srini Narayanan, SRI-International, Menlo Park, SUA
* Sergei Nirenburg, New Mexico University, USA
* Dan Tufis, Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania
* Hans Uszkoreit, DFKI and University of Saarbruecken, Germany
* Wolfgang Wahlster, DFKI and University of Saarbruecken, Germany
* Yorick Wilks, University of Sheffield, England
Program
Eurolan-2003 will take place between 28 July and 8 August 2003 in
Bucharest - Romania.
The summer school will be organized to allow for both lectures and
hands-on experience for each of the areas covered. Morning sessions
will be devoted to tutorials, followed by afternoon sessions at which
students will work in collaboration with professors on practical
applications. The school will also include one workshop as well as
round tables and work meetings on topics of particular interest related
to the school’s theme. They will be announced at a later date.
On Sunday, 3 August, a trip to significant Romanian landmarks will be
organized.
Registration and Fees
Information about registration and fees will be posted at a later date
on the Eurolan web page.
Program Committee
Dan Cristea
Nancy Ide
Jerry Hobbs
Dan Tufis
Hans Uszkoreit
Information on previous Eurolan events can found at
http://www.infoiasi.ro/fcs/en/events.html.
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