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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=5 face=Arial><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Arial'>OntoLex 2008 - The role of
ontolex resources in building the infrastructure of Web 3.0: vision and
practice<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>In Association with<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>LREC2008 - 6th
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION Palais des
Congrès Mansour Eddahbi Marrakech (<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">Morocco</st1:country-region></st1:place>)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>31 May 2008<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><a
href="http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/"><span lang=EN-GB>http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/</span></a></span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The integration of
ontologies and lexical resources can be seen as a new route across which hybrid
agents negotiate contents and exchange linguistic and ontological aspects of
knowledge in shared environments. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>In this workshop we aim
at investigating the role of ontolex resources across developing ideas and
practice of Web 3.0, the connection of Web 2.0 (the ‘social web’)
with the Semantic Web infrastructure of ontology-based standards and
technologies.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The workshop will address
the following specific topics of interest:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>•</span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>
Integrating multimedia into ontolex resources </span></font><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>•</span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>
Cooperative construction of ontolex resources </span></font><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>•</span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>
Linguistic interfaces for Semantic Web applications </span></font><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>•</span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> Exploiting
ontolex resources in social networking </span></font><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>•</span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>
Web-Corpus linguistics for OntoLex Resource building<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>As well as the following
general topics:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>•</span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>
Ontology-driven meta-models for multilingual lexica </span></font><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>•</span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>
Evaluation of ontolex resources in NLP tasks </span></font><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>•</span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>
Evaluation of ontologies for building ontolex resources </span></font><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>•</span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>
Ontology-driven annotation of corpora for ontology learning </span></font><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>•</span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>
Design principles for the integrated representation of lexical and ontological
knowledge </span></font><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>•</span></font><font size=2
face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>
Open-source platforms for ontolex resources<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The workshop is addressed
to researchers and practitioners from a variety of backgrounds </span></font><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>–</span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>
Semantic Web, AI, Machine Learning, NLP, Information Retrieval </span></font><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>–</span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>
that are concerned with the representation and use of lexical knowledge in
semantic annotation, ontology-based approaches to information extraction,
ontology learning, ontology matching, etc. Originating in 2000 from a visionary
initiative of Kiryakov and Simov, and “historically” hosted by LREC
(2002-2004-2006), OntoLex has recently turned into a yearly workshop (IJCNLP
2005, ISWC<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>2007) for a growing
interdisciplinary community of lexicographers, ontologists and computational
linguists who recognize it de facto as their common ‘meeting room’.
This years edition aims at raising the issue of ontolex resources in Web 3.0 to
foster the discussion about next-generation ontolex tools, on the basis of
state-of-the-art technologies and ongoing projects within the LREC community.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Important dates<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>1 March 2008: Deadline
for extended abstract submission <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>14 March 2008: Acceptance
notifications<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>31 March 2008:
Camera-ready papers<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>31 May 2008: Workshop<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Participants are invited
to submit an extended abstract of max 1000 words related to one or more topics
of interest to the following<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>address: oltramari-at-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).<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Organising Committee<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Alessandro Oltramari
(contact person) - Laboratory for Applied Ontology (LOA), Italy Chu-Ren Huang -
Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Laurent Prévot - CLLE-ERSS
(CNRS), France Paul Buitelaar - DFKI GmbH, Germany Piek Vossen - Vrije
Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Programme Committee<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles, IRIT-CNRS, Toulouse, France
John Bateman, University of Bremen, Germany Luisa Bentivogli, Bruno Kessler
Foundation, Povo (Trento), Italy Philipp Cimiano, Karlsruhe University, Germany
Nigel Collier, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Christiane Fellbaum,
Princeton University, USA Aldo Gangemi, Laboratory for Applied Ontology (CNR),
Rome, Italy Shu-Kai Hsieh, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan Nancy Ide,
Vassar College, USA Asanee Kawtrakul, NECTEC, Thailand Atanas Kiryakov,
Ontotext, Bulgaria Alessandro Lenci, University of Pisa, Italy Sujian Li,
Peking University, China Qin Lu, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Wim Peters, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom Andrea Schalley, University
of New England, Australia Armando Stellato, Università di Tor Vergata, Rome,
Italy Tokunaga Takenobu, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Paola Velardi,
University of Rome, Italy Guido Vetere, IBM Center for Advanced Studies, Rome,
Italy Johanna Voelker, Karlsruhe University, Germany Chris Welty, IBM, USA<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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