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<b>TIA'2009<br>
Terminology and Artificial Intelligence<br>
Toulouse, France<br>
November, 18-20 2009<br>
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In all specialized fields, knowledge is stored and disseminated in the
form of documents. In some cases, document management (ranking according
to relevance to a query, for instance) and acquisition and extraction of
knowledge for indexing, modelling and conceptualization rely on
terminological and linguistic studies. Hence, terminology and linguistics
supply key concepts to other disciplines such as natural language
processing, information science and knowledge engineering. Conversely,
these disciplines bring to light new problems and issues and present new
challenges and perspectives for terminology and linguistics. For nearly
15 years, TIA conferences have provided a forum for researchers working
in these various fields to come together.<br>
The 2009 TIA Conference will focus mainly – although not exclusively – on
terms and terminological systems. Terms are used as focal points for
knowledge structuring in many applications, including ontologies,
thesauri, and other conventional terminological resources such as
specialized dictionaries and terminological databases. A number of
semantic relations between terms may be identified (and may vary
depending on the application). However, although the aim of all of these
applications is a certain degree of stability, the linguistic nature of
terms and of the relations they share raises many questions. Which
relations should be represented in specific applications? How should
terms and the relations between them be represented? How can the
relations in terminological resources and their linguistic representation
in texts be linked?<br>
Submitted papers may address theoretical or methodological issues.
Interdisciplinary work that focuses on collaboration between disciplines
when dealing with terminological issues is strongly encouraged.<br>
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<b><u>Topics<br>
</u></b>Proposals addressing the theme “Terms and terminological systems”
are strongly encouraged. However, other proposals dealing with innovative
theoretical, methodological, or practical questions are also welcome.
Possible topics include:<br>
<font face="Symbol">·<x-tab> </x-tab></font>Semantic
theories and terminology in relation to text linguistics and ontologies
(especially theoretical linguistic approaches to describing terms and
terminological structures) <br>
<font face="Symbol">·<x-tab> </x-tab></font>Representation
of terms and semantic or conceptual relations in specific types of data
structures (ontologies, thesauri, etc.) <br>
<font face="Symbol">·<x-tab> </x-tab></font>Representation
of terms and semantic or conceptual relations in multilingual
applications <br>
<font face="Symbol">·<x-tab> </x-tab></font>Comparative
studies of terminologies / terminological resources / ontological
resources from different languages, communities or time frames <br>
<font face="Symbol">·<x-tab> </x-tab></font>Theoretical
and technical problems in automated or manual compilation of
terminologies using mono- or multi-lingual corpora <br>
<font face="Symbol">·<x-tab> </x-tab></font>Methods
for automatic terminology structuring (identification of relations
between terms, linking of terms to specific fields of knowledge) <br>
<font face="Symbol">·<x-tab> </x-tab></font>Studies
on the relationships between ontologies and terminologies and/or
thesauri: <br>
<font face="Symbol">·</font><font face="Wingdings"><x-tab> </x-tab></font>Use
of terminologies to compile and structure ontologies <br>
<font face="Symbol">·</font><font face="Wingdings"><x-tab> </x-tab></font>Use
of ontological modelling for a better understanding of the semantics of
thesauri and terminologies <br>
<font face="Symbol">·<x-tab> </x-tab></font>Evaluation
methods and criteria, and validation of terminologies <br>
<font face="Symbol">·<x-tab> </x-tab></font>Problems
in compiling multilingual terminologies <br>
<font face="Symbol">·<x-tab> </x-tab></font>Reuse,
standardization, comparison and merging of terminological or ontological
resources. <br>
<font face="Symbol">·<x-tab> </x-tab></font>Applications
of terminological resources (the Semantic Web, information retrieval,
technology watch, question answering, document management, ranking and/or
classification, etc.) <br>
The TIA group
(<a href="http://tia.loria.fr/" eudora="autourl"><font color="#0000FF"><u>http://tia.loria.fr/</a></u></font>)
founded this conference series in 1995. The first conference took place
in Paris (TIA’95, Villetaneuse), and subsequent events have been held in
a variety of French cities (TIA’97 (Toulouse), TIA’99 (Nantes), TIA’01
(Nancy), TIA’03 (Strasbourg), TIA’05 (Rouen), and TIA ’07 (Nice)).
Created under the auspices of AFIA (l’Association française pour
l’intelligence artificielle; French Association for Artificial
Intelligence) – which has since become the AFIA/GdR-I3 group – TIA brings
together researchers in linguistics, natural language processing and
knowledge engineering.<br>
The TIA group is responsible for the organization and the management of
the 2009 TIA conference. Submissions will be reviewed by an international
program committee composed of experts in the above fields (with each
paper evaluated by three reviewers) and may be accepted as full papers or
posters.<br>
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<b>Programm Comitee<br>
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</b>Chairs<br>
Marie-Claude L’Homme (OLST, Université de Montréal)<br>
Sylvie Szulman (LIPN, Université Paris XIII)<br>
Members<br>
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Guadalupe Aguado (Universitad Politécnica de Madrid, Espagne)<br>
Amparo Alcina (Universitat Jaume-I, Espagne)<br>
Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles (IRIT, France)<br>
Caroline Barrière (NRC, Canada)<br>
Olivier Bodenreider (National Library of Medicine, USA)<br>
Maria Teresa Cabré (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain)<br>
Marc van Campenhoudt (Université de Bruxelles, Belgique)<br>
Farid Cerbah (Dassault-aviation, France)<br>
Jean Charlet (AP-HP & INSERM, France)<br>
Anne Condamines (CLLE-ERSS, France)<br>
James Cussens (University of York, UK)<br>
Lyne Da Sylvia (EBSI, Montréal, Canada)<br>
Valérie Delavigne (Institut national du cancer, France)<br>
Patrick Drouin (OLST, Montréal, Canada)<br>
Pamela Faber (Universidad de Granada, Espagne)<br>
Ulrich Heid (Universität Stuttgart, Allemagne)<br>
Fidelia Ibekwe-SanJuan (Université Lyon-3, France) <br>
Kyo Kageura (University of Tokyo, Japan)<br>
Adeline Nazarenko (LIPN, Université Paris 13)<br>
Pascale Sébillot (IRISA, France)<br>
Koichi Takeuchi (Okayama University, Japan)<br>
Rita Temmerman (Erasmushogeschool, Belgique)<br>
Yannick Toussaint (LORIA, France)<br>
Pierre Zweigenbaum (LIMSI-CNRS & CRIM-INALCO, France)<br>
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Anne Condamines<br>
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Directrice de Recherches, CNRS<br>
Directrice adjointe de CLLE (Cognition, Langues, Langage, Ergonomie), UMR
5263<br>
CLLE-ERSS<br>
Maison de la Recherche<br>
Université de Toulouse Le Mirail<br>
5 allées Antonio Machado<br>
F- 31058 Toulouse cedex<br>
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tel : 330561503608<br>
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