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First Call for Papers<br>
<b><br>
2nd Workshop on the </b><b>Multilingual Semantic Web<br>
</b><br>
co-located with the 10th International Semantic Web Conference
(ISWC2011) in Bonn, Germany<br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://msw2.deri.ie">http://msw2.deri.ie</a><br>
<br>
Given the substantial growth of Web users that create and update
knowledge all over the world in languages other than English,
multilingualism has become an issue of major interest for the
Semantic Web community. This process has been accelerated due to
initiatives such as the Linked Data project, which encourages not
only governments and public institutes to make their data available
to the public, but also private organizations in domains such as
medicine, geography, music etc. These actors often publish their
data sources in their respective languages, and as such, in order to
make this information interoperable and accessible to members of
other linguistic communities, multilingual knowledge representation,
access and translation are an impending need. <br>
<br>
Given the success of the first edition of this workshop, which was
co-located with the 19th International World Wide Web Conference
(WWW2010), we were encouraged to organize the second version of this
series. In this second edition we will have a special focus on:<br>
<br>
• representation of multilingual information and language
resources in Semantic Web and Linked Data formats<br>
• cross-lingual discovery and representation of mappings between
multilingual Linked Data vocabularies and datasets<br>
• cross-lingual querying of knowledge repositories and Linked
Data<br>
• machine translation and localization strategies for the
Semantic Web<br>
<br>
<b>Further topics of interest include:<br>
<br>
</b> • standards and best practices for representing multilingual
data on the Web<br>
• transformation of (multilingual) resources to Semantic Web and
Linked Data representations<br>
• architectures and infrastructure for a truly multilingual
Semantic Web<br>
• models for multilingualism in knowledge representation, in
particular OWL and RDF(S)<br>
• localization of ontologies to multiple languages, incl. label
translation, multilingual terms<br>
• lexicon models for ontologies<br>
• automatic integration of (multilingual) lexicons with
ontologies<br>
• multilingual and cross-lingual ontology-based information
extraction and ontology population<br>
• multilingual aspects of semantic search of knowledge
repositories<br>
• multilingual aspects of ontology verbalization<br>
• ontology learning across languages<br>
<br>
<b>Important Dates </b><br>
August 15th - submission deadline <br>
September 5th - notification <br>
September 10th - camera-ready deadline <br>
October 23th or 24th - workshop <br>
<br>
Submission will be through the Easy Chair system: <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=msw2">https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=msw2</a>.<br>
We will accept long papers of at most 12 pages (LNCS), short papers
describing preliminary results (max. 6 pages) as<br>
well as position papers describing work in progress or planned work
(max. 6 pages).<br>
<br>
<b>Organizing Committee </b><br>
<br>
Elena Montiel-Ponsoda, OEG - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid,
Spain<br>
Web: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.oeg-upm.net/index.php/en/phd/52-emontiel">http://www.oeg-upm.net/index.php/en/phd/52-emontiel</a>
<br>
<br>
John McCrae, Semantic Computing Group, CITEC – University of
Bielefeld<br>
Web: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.sc.cit-ec.uni-bielefeld.de/people/jmccrae">http://www.sc.cit-ec.uni-bielefeld.de/people/jmccrae</a><br>
<br>
Paul Buitelaar, DERI - National University of Ireland, Galway <br>
Web: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.paulbuitelaar.net/">http://www.paulbuitelaar.net/</a>
<br>
<br>
Philipp Cimiano, Semantic Computing Group, CITEC – University of
Bielefeld<br>
Web: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.cimiano.de">http://www.cimiano.de</a><br>
<br>
<br>
<b>Program Committee </b><br>
Guadalupe Aguado de Cea, OEG, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid,
Spain <br>
Dimitra Anastasiou, Language & Literary Studies, University of
Bremen, Germany <br>
Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles, IRIT, Knowledge Engineering, Cognition and
Cooperation, France<br>
Roberto Basili, Universita Tor Vergata, Rome - Artificial
Intelligence group, Italy <br>
Kalina Boncheva - Natural Language Processing Group, University of
Sheffield, UK <br>
Francis Bond, NICT - Language Infrastructure Group, Japan<br>
Christopher Brewster, Aston University - Operations and Information
Management Group, UK<br>
Nicoletta Calzolari, ILC-CNR - Computational Linguistics Institute,
Italy<br>
Jeremy Carroll, TopQuadrant, USA<br>
Key-Sun Choi, KAIST - Semantic Web Research Center, South-Korea <br>
Thierry Declerck, DFKI - Language Technology Lab, Germany <br>
Aldo Gangemi, ISTC-CNR - Semantic Technology Laboratory, Italy <br>
Asuncion Gómez Pérez, OEG, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
<br>
Gregory Grefenstette, Exalead, France<br>
Siegfried Handschuh, DERI, Nat. Univ. of Ireland, Galway, Ireland <br>
Michael Hausenblas, DERI, Nat. Univ. of Ireland, Galway, Ireland <br>
Laura Hollink, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands <br>
Antoine Isaac, Vrije Universiteit - Knowledge Representation and
Reasoning Group, the Netherlands<br>
Ernesto William De Luca, Universitaet Magdeburg - Data and Knowledge
Engineering Group, Germany<br>
Vanessa López, KMI, Open University, UK<br>
Gerard de Melo, Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK <br>
Sergei Nirenburg, University of Maryland - Institute for Language
and Information Technologies, USA <br>
Alessandro Oltramari, Carnegie Mellon University - Department of
Psychology, Pittsburgh, USA <br>
Jacco van Ossenbruggen, CWI - Semantic Media Interfaces & VU -
Intelligent Systems, the Netherlands <br>
Wim Peters, University of Sheffield - Natural Language Processing
group, UK <br>
Laurette Pretorius, University of South Africa - School of
Computing, South-Africa <br>
James Pustejovsky, Brandeis University – CS Dept., Lab for
Linguistics and Computation, USA <br>
Felix Sasaki, University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, Germany <br>
Marta Sabou, Department of New Media Technology – MODUL University,
Vienna <br>
Martin Volk, Universitaet Zürich - Institute of Computational
Linguistics, Switzerland <br>
Piek Vossen, Vrije Universiteit - Dept. of Language, Cognition and
Communication, the Netherlands <br>
Yong Yu, Computer Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong
University, China<br>
<br>
The workshop is endorsed and sponsored by the Monnet project on
Multilingual Ontologies for Networked Knowledge: <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.monnet-project.eu">http://www.monnet-project.eu</a><br>
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