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<pre>(sorry for multiple postings)<br> <br>EKAW 2010 workshop<br>REUSE AND ADAPTATION OF ONTOLOGIES AND TERMINOLOGIES<br><a href="http://www-limbio.smbh.univ-paris13.fr/ReuseOnto-EKAW2010" target="_blank">http://www-limbio.smbh.univ-paris13.fr/ReuseOnto-EKAW2010</a><br> <br> <br>The workshop will take place during EKAW 2010, between October 11th <br>and 15th, 2010 in Lisbon, Portugal<br> <br>CONTACT<br>ReuseOnto-EKAW2010@listes.univ-paris13.fr<br> <br>CONTEXT AND MOTIVATION<br>Thanks to progress performed by the knowledge engineering area, <br>powerful methods for designing and use of ontologies are provided. As <br>a result, the scientific and industrial communities have gained access <br>to an increasing number of ontologies and terminologies. For instance, <br>within the biomedical area, several dozens of orthogonal or generic <br>ontologies and terminologies are currently available thanks to the OBO <br>(Open Biological and Biomedical Ontologies) or UMLS initiatives: the <br>objective is to make them interoperable and hence reusable.<br>The usage of an ontology or terminology is often characterized by <br>several factors between which we would name: application, scientific <br>or technical domain, language of data and of documents to be <br>processed, user profile, etc. All of them influence the content and <br>organization of the semantic resources (terminologies and ontologies). <br>Exploitation of these resources in this original context ensures their <br>optimal use and results.<br>We assume that reuse of such resources implies that at least one of <br>the designing factors is modified: application, user, domain ... <br>Hence, the reuse implies also that an adaptation of ontologies and <br>terminologies is performed. This process appears to be necessary in <br>order to guarantee an optimized exploitation of the reused ontologies <br>and terminologies.<br> <br>OBJECTIVES<br>Further to recent evolution of the knowledge engineering area and to <br>emergence of new context related to the reuse and adaptation of <br>ontologies and terminologies, several questions have arised and still <br>arise. We propose to address them in this workshop and encourage <br>submissions on topics related to questions such as:<br>- Which areas have developed and currently provide freely available <br>ontologies and terminologies?<br>- Are these ontologies and terminologies specific to a given <br>application, sub-domain or rather generic and descriptive of the area?<br>- At which extend the existing ontologies and terminologies may be reused?<br>- Whether the existing ontologies can be adapted to new purposes?<br>- Is their adaptation a suitable process?<br>- Is their adaptation less expensive than the designing of new ontologies?<br>- What knowledge elements can be reused: terms, concepts, relations, <br>roles, definitions ...?<br>- Are terminologies more easily reusable than ontologies?<br>- What methods and principles should be exploited for the adaptation <br>and reuse of the existing ontologies?<br>- How the mapping of ontologies may be helpful for their reuse?<br>- Which role play corpora in adaptation of terminologies and ontologies?<br>- Are Natural Language Processing methods helpful in the process of <br>adaptation of terminologies and ontologies? If they are, which of them <br>prove to be suitable?<br>- ...<br>This workshop may also be concerned with questions related to managing <br>of the evolution of ontologies and their versioning and to analysis of <br>evolution of their content (i.e., concept emergence, removal, <br>abstraction or specialisation), especially when combined with <br>questions cited above.<br> <br> <br>CHAIR<br>Natalia Grabar, UMRS872-20, University Paris 5, HEGP AP-HP, Paris, France<br>Thierry Hamon, LIM&BIO, University Paris 13, Bobigny, France<br>Marie Dupuch, UMRS872-20, University Paris 6, Paris, France<br> <br>PC MEMBERS<br>Olivier Bodenreider, NLM/NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA<br>Stefano Borgo, LOA ISTC-CNR, Trento, Italy<br>Sylvie Després, University Paris 13, Bobigny, France<br>Nathalie Hernandez, University of Toulouse, France<br>Véronique Malaisé, VU University, Amsterdam, the Netherlands<br>Jérôme Nobécourt, University Paris 13, Bobigny, France<br>Chantal Reynaud, University Paris 11, Orsay, France<br>Ljiljana Stojanovic, FZI, Karlsruhe, Germany<br>Anna Tordai, VU University, Amsterdam, the Netherlands<br>Karin Verspoor, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, Colorado, USA<br>Kewen Wang, ICT, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia<br> <br>SUBMISSION PROCESS<br>- Submissions should be between 8 and 12 pages and respect the EKAW <br>format (formatted according to Springer Verlag LNCS guidelines -- <br><a href="http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0" target="_blank">http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0</a>)<br>- Submissions should be in PDF format<br>- Submissions should be sent to ReuseOnto-EKAW2010@listes.univ-paris13.fr<br>Proceedings will be distributed to the participants during the <br>workshop, and indexed through the DBLP after the workshop.<br> <br>IMPORTANT DATES<br>- 01/07/2010: submissions due<br>- 25/07/2010: notifications<br>- 01/09/2010: final version of papers<br> </pre> <br /><hr />Vous voulez protéger votre vie privée ? <a href='http://clk.atdmt.com/FRM/go/232102477/direct/01/' target='_new'>La solution avec Internet Explorer 8</a></body>
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