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(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><FONT color=#0068cf>http://www-limbio.smbh.univ-paris13.fr/ReuseOnto-EKAW2010</FONT></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><FONT color=#0068cf>http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0</FONT></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> <br /><hr />Envie de plus d'originalité dans vos conversations ? <a href='http://www.ilovemessenger.fr/emoticones/telecharger-emoticones-emochticones.aspx' target='_new'>Téléchargez gratuitement les Emoch'ticones !</a></body>
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