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>> FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS
>> Workshop
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>> OntoLex 2004:
>> Ontologies and Lexical Resources
>> in Distributed Environments
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>> http://www.loa-cnr.it/ontolex2004.html
>> (soon available)
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>> Centro Cultural de Belem
>> LISBON, Portugal
>> 29th may 2004
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>> In Association with
>> 4th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION
>> LREC2004
>> Main conference 26-27-28 May 2004
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>> Motivations and aim
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>> The use of ontological knowledge in language technology applications
>> goes a long way back. Recently, however, the project of turning the
>> World Wide Web into a machine understandable resource to access
>> digital information (the so-called Semantic Web) has stimulated a
>> renewed interest in ontologies. In several recent workshops and
>> conferences, researchers have investigated their nature and
>> application potential for knowledge management, information retrieval
>> and extraction, information exchange in agent-based systems as well
>> as dialogue systems. Attention is being drawn to new aspects of
>> ontology research such as ontology coordination and mapping – aspects
>> that are particularly relevant for distributed environments such as
>> Knowledge Grid and Semantic web. In fact the annotation of web
>> resources in agreement with concepts and relations as defined in
>> ontologies, is useful for establishing a conceptual support for
>> knowledge communication.
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>> From this perspective, lexicographers, lexical semanticists and
>> ontologists are joining forces to build innovative systems for
>> integrating ontological knowledge with lexical and semantic
>> resources. Important examples of this interaction are the recent
>> works on the conceptual analysis of WordNet (one of the first lexical
>> knowledge bases), and the wide use of upper ontologies in innovative
>> international projects like EuroWordNet, SIMPLE, Balkanet, DWDSnet.
>> WordNet was designed and built entirely by psychologists, linguists,
>> and lexicographers. Nevertheless, there are obvious parallels with
>> ontologies, especially in the kinds of structuring relations used
>> (taxonomical links, meronymy or part-of, etc.), and indeed WordNet
>> has for years attracted the attention of philosophers and
>> ontologists. In this context, the distinction between conceptual
>> (possibly axiomatic) ontologies and lexical ontologies (which contain
>> both linguistic and ontological information) has become more and more
>> central in the field.
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>> In this workshop we want to discuss ontologies as resources per se,
>> as well as for what concerns the relation between ontological
>> knowledge and language. This relation can be investigated from a
>> number of different angles, for example what differences and
>> similarities there are between ontologies and more traditional
>> lexical resources such as dictionaries and wordnets; how ontologies
>> can be extracted from language corpora; what role language plays in
>> the definition and mapping of ontologies; and finally, how ontologies
>> can be used to treat language in language technology applications –
>> in particular applications for distributed environments.
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>> Topics to be addressed in the workshop include, but are not limited
>> to:
>> •Design principles and methodologies for upper-level ontologies and
>> semantic lexical resources
>> •Evaluation, comparison, mapping and integration of ontologies and
>> lexical resources
>> •Applications of ontologies and semantic lexical resources in LT
>> applications (e.g. QA, Information Retrieval, Information Extraction,
>> Machine Translation)
>> •Role of semantic lexical resources in ontology learning
>> •Methods to derive ontological knowledge from text
>> •Methods to annotate text with reference to an ontology
>> •Ontology-based query expansion techniques
>> •Ontologies and multi-lingual lexical resources
>> •Ontologies and ontology mapping in multi-lingual applications
>> •Ontologies and lexical resources for meaning negotiation
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>> Two discussions will be organised around the following topics:
>> •Filling the gap between axiomatic and linguistic ontologies
>> •The role of lexical resources in the Semantic Web and the Knowledge
>> Grid
>> Reasons of interest
>> A new scientific community is growing around this largely
>> interdisciplinary area: following the spirit of the previous two
>> OntoLex workshops, both hosted by LREC, this workshop aims at being
>> an important meeting point for researchers involved in the fields of
>> lexical resources and ontologies, favouring the exchange of
>> scientific experiences and proposing new directions of inquiry. This
>> year, the workshop particularly welcomes contributions from
>> researchers that are investigating the application of ontologies and
>> lexical resources in distributed environments such as Knowledge Grid
>> and Semantic Web.
>> Important dates
>> 4th December 2003: Call for papers and demonstrations
>> 30 January 2004: Deadline for paper submission
>> 5 March 2004: Acceptance notifications and preliminary program
>> 29 March 2004: Deadline final version of accepted papers
>> 29 May 2004: Workshop
>> Submissions
>> Participants are invited to submit an extended abstract of max 3000
>> words related to one or more of the topics of interest. Papers can
>> describe research results as well as work in progress. Each accepted
>> paper will receive a slot of 30 minutes for presentation (20 minutes
>> talk and 10 minutes for discussion). Demonstrations of ontology
>> applications are encouraged as well (a demonstration outline of 2
>> pages can be submitted). Each submission should show: title;
>> author(s); affiliation(s); and contact author's e-mail address,
>> postal address, telephone and fax numbers. Submissions must be sent
>> electronically in PDF to Alessandro Oltramari .
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>> As soon as possible, authors are encouraged to send a brief email
>> indicating their intention to participate, including their contact
>> information and the topic they intend to address in their
>> submissions. Proceedings of the workshop will be printed by the LREC
>> Local Organising Committee.
>> Time schedule and registration fee
>> The workshop will consist of a morning session and an afternoon
>> session, and include scientific paper presentations from workshop
>> participants as well as general discussions.
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>> For this full-day workshop, the registration fee is 100 EURO for LREC
>> conference participants and 170 EURO for other participants. These
>> fees will include a coffee break and the Proceedings of the Workshop.
>> Organising Committee
>> Alessandro Oltramari, Laboratory for Applied Ontology, ISTC-CNR;
>> Department of Cognition and Education Sciences, Trento University,
>> Patrizia Paggio, Center for Sprogteknologi, University of Copenhagen,
>> Aldo Gangemi, Laboratory for Applied Ontology, ISTC-CNR Rome,
>> Maria Teresa Pazienza, Roma Tor Vergata University,
>> Nicoletta Calzolari, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale del CNR,
>> Bolette Sandford Pedersen, Center for Sprogteknologi, University of
>> Copenhagen,
>> Kiril Simov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences,
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>> Programme Committee
>> Roberto Basili (Roma Tor Vergata University)
>> Werner Ceusters (Language & Computing)
>> Nicoletta Calzolari (Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale del CNR)
>> Aldo Gangemi (Laboratory for Applied Ontology, ISTC-CNR, Rome)
>> Eric Gaussier (Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble Laboratory)
>> Maria Toporowska Gronostaj (Språkdata, University of Gothenburg)
>> Nicola Guarino (Laboratory for Applied Ontology, ISTC-CNR, Trento)
>> Arne Jönsson (Linköping Universitet)
>> Dimitrios Kokkinakis (Språkdata, University of Gothenburg)
>> Alessandro Lenci (Universitá di Pisa)
>> Claude de Loupy (Sinequa and University of Paris 10)
>> Bernardo Magnini (ITC-IRST, Trento)
>> Jørgen Fischer Nilsson (Technical University of Denmark)
>> Alessandro Oltramari, (Laboratory for Applied Ontology, ISTC-CNR,
>> Trento)
>> Patrizia Paggio (Center for Sprogteknologi)
>> Maria Teresa Pazienza (Roma Tor Vergata University)
>> Bolette Sandford Pedersen (Center for Sprogteknologi)
>> Guus Schreiber (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
>> Kiril Simov (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)
>> Paola Velardi (Università “La Sapienza”, Rome)
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>> --
>> Alessandro Oltramari
>>
>> Laboratory for Applied Ontology
>> Institute for Cognitive Sciences and Technologies
>> National Research Council
>> (ISTC-CNR)
>> via Solteri 38
>> I-38100 Trento (TN),Italy
>> http://www.loa-cnr.it
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>> Ph.D. student in Cognitive Sciences at the University of Trento
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>> new e-mail: oltramari@loa-cnr.it
>> old e-mail: alessandro.oltramari@ladseb.pd.cnr.it
>> homepage: http://www.loa-cnr.it/oltramari.html
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>> phone: +39 0461830198
>> mobile +39 338 9560585
>> fax: +39 0461 435344
> --
> Alessandro Oltramari
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> Laboratory for Applied Ontology
> Institute for Cognitive Sciences and Technologies
> National Research Council
> (ISTC-CNR)
> via Solteri 38
> I-38100 Trento (TN),Italy
> http://www.loa-cnr.it
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> Ph.D. student in Cognitive Sciences at the University of Trento
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> new e-mail: oltramari@loa-cnr.it
> old e-mail: alessandro.oltramari@ladseb.pd.cnr.it
> homepage: http://www.loa-cnr.it/oltramari.html
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> phone: +39 0461830198
> mobile +39 338 9560585
> fax: +39 0461 435344
>
-- Alessandro OltramariLaboratory for Applied Ontology Institute for Cognitive Sciences and Technologies National Research Council (ISTC-CNR) via Solteri 38 I-38100 Trento (TN),Italy http://www.loa-cnr.it
Ph.D. student in Cognitive Sciences at the University of Trento
new e-mail: oltramari@loa-cnr.it old e-mail: alessandro.oltramari@ladseb.pd.cnr.it homepage: http://www.loa-cnr.it/oltramari.html
phone: +39 0461830198 mobile +39 338 9560585 fax: +39 0461 435344
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