<html><head><title>Call for papers - SWJ</title><style type="text/css">ol{margin:0;padding:0}.c9{list-style-type:disc;margin:0;padding:0}.c3{max-width:468pt;background-color:#ffffff;padding:72pt 72pt 72pt 72pt}.c5{color:inherit;text-decoration:inherit}.c0{color:#1155cc;text-decoration:underline}.c12{height:1px;width:33%}.c10{font-style:italic;background-color:#ffffff}.c2{padding-left:0pt;margin-left:36pt}.c13{font-weight:bold}.c8{text-align:justify}.c6{height:11pt}.c14{font-style:italic}.c4{text-align:center}.c1{direction:ltr}.c11{background-color:#ffffff}.c7{font-size:10pt}.title{padding-top:24pt;line-height:1.15;text-align:left;color:#000000;font-size:36pt;font-family:"Arial";font-weight:bold;padding-bottom:6pt}.subtitle{padding-top:18pt;line-height:1.15;text-align:left;color:#666666;font-style:italic;font-size:24pt;font-family:"Georgia";padding-bottom:4pt}li{color:#000000;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Arial"}p{color:#000000;font-size:11pt;margin:0;font-family:"Arial"}h1{padding-top:24pt;line-height:1.15;text-align:left;color:#000000;font-size:18pt;font-family:"Arial";font-weight:bold;padding-bottom:6pt}h2{padding-top:18pt;line-height:1.15;text-align:left;color:#000000;font-size:14pt;font-family:"Arial";font-weight:bold;padding-bottom:4pt}h3{padding-top:14pt;line-height:1.15;text-align:left;color:#666666;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial";font-weight:bold;padding-bottom:4pt}h4{padding-top:12pt;line-height:1.15;text-align:left;color:#666666;font-style:italic;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Arial";padding-bottom:2pt}h5{padding-top:11pt;line-height:1.15;text-align:left;color:#666666;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial";font-weight:bold;padding-bottom:2pt}h6{padding-top:10pt;line-height:1.15;text-align:left;color:#666666;font-style:italic;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial";padding-bottom:2pt}</style></head><body class="c3"><h1 class="c4 c1"><a name="h.r7wqwp9ozbz"></a><span>Multilingual Linked Open Data (MLOD) 2012<br>Data Post Proceedings</span></h1><p class="c4 c1"><span>Special Issue of the Semantic Web Journal</span></p><p class="c4 c1"><span class="c0"><a class="c5" href="http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/content/suggestions-special-issues">http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/content/suggestions-special-issues</a></span></p><p class="c4 c1"><span>Workshop homepage:</span><span><a class="c5" href="http://sabre2012.infai.org/mlode"> </a></span><span class="c0"><a class="c5" href="http://sabre2012.infai.org/mlode">http://sabre2012.infai.org/mlode</a></span></p><p class="c1 c4"><span>Image of the Linguistic LOD Cloud: </span><span class="c0"><a class="c5" href="http://linguistics.okfn.org/resources/llod/">http://linguistics.okfn.org/resources/llod/</a></span></p><h2 class="c1"><a name="h.ezohglcwj5yr"></a><span>Scope of the call:</span></h2><p class="c1 c8"><span>Researchers in NLP and Linguistics are currently discovering Semantic Web technologies and employing them to answer novel research questions. Through the use of linked data, there is the potential to solve many issues currently faced by the language resources community. In particular, there is significant evidence that RDF allows better data integration than existing </span><span>formats</span><span>,</span><sup><a href="#ftnt1" name="ftnt_ref1">[1]</a></sup><span> in part through a rich ecosystem of tools provided by the Semantic Web, such as query</span><sup><a href="#ftnt2" name="ftnt_ref2">[2]</a></sup><span> and federation.</span><sup><a href="#ftnt3" name="ftnt_ref3">[3]</a></sup><span> In addition, the Semantic Web has already been used by several authors</span><sup><a href="#ftnt4" name="ftnt_ref4">[4]</a></sup><span> </span><sup><a href="#ftnt5" name="ftnt_ref5">[5]</a></sup><span> to define data categories and enable better resource interoperability. The utility of this method of publishing language resources has lead to the interest of a significant sub-community in linguistics.</span><sup><a href="#ftnt6" name="ftnt_ref6">[6]</a></sup></p><p class="c8 c6 c1"><span></span></p><p class="c1"><span>The focus of this special issue is language resources including language data such as written or spoken corpora and lexica, multimodal resources, grammars, terminology or domain specific databases and dictionaries, ontologies, multimedia databases, etc. </span><sup><a href="#ftnt7" name="ftnt_ref7">[7]</a></sup><span> In addition, we require that these resources are published as linked data using appropriate technologies such as RDF and OWL. Furthermore, we will also accept submission of resources used to assist and augment language processing applications, even if the nature of the resource is not deeply entrenched in Linguistics, but only as long as the usefulness is well motivated (DBpedia redirects and disambiguation pages are one example</span><sup><a href="#ftnt8" name="ftnt_ref8">[8]</a></sup><span> ). Overall, our vision is to boost a d</span><span class="c14">ecentralized, collaborative, interlinked and interoperable Web of Data</span><sup><a href="#ftnt9" name="ftnt_ref9">[9]</a></sup><span> in the area of multilingual language resources. </span></p><h2 class="c1"><a name="h.ja0zqeb7ob87"></a><span>Topics of the call</span></h2><ol class="c9" start="1"><li class="c2 c1"><span>The current state of the Linguistic Linked Open Data (LLOD) Cloud and inclusion criteria</span></li><li class="c2 c1"><span>Validation procedures for linguistic linked data sets</span></li><li class="c2 c1"><span>Best practices of multilingual linked open data</span></li><li class="c2 c1"><span>Legal issues relating to the licensing of linguistic linked data</span></li><li class="c1 c2"><span>Semantic annotation</span></li><li class="c2 c1"><span>Language resources, newly published as linked data</span></li><li class="c2 c1"><span>Ontologies related to multilinguality and language technology. </span></li></ol><h2 class="c1"><a name="h.52ej3fbpprg5"></a><span>Submission instructions </span></h2><p class="c1"><span>This special issue will especially welcome </span><span class="c10">Full papers, Linked Dataset Descriptions </span><span class="c11">and</span><span class="c10"> Descriptions of Ontologies </span><span class="c11">as specified here: </span><span class="c0"><a class="c5" href="http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/authors">http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/authors</a></span><span> Please write us an email first before preparing submissions for other submission types.</span></p><h3 class="c1"><a name="h.1q2dxznnqgsg"></a><span>Full papers </span></h3><p class="c1"><span>Full papers contain</span><span> original research results. These submissions will be reviewed along the usual dimensions for research contributions which include originality, significance of the results, and quality of writing. Any submission that is an extension of previous work must clearly declare the reference and justify the scientific progress of the extension. </span></p><h3 class="c1"><a name="h.675r5jm8rqly"></a><span>Linked data set and ontology descriptions</span></h3><p class="c1"><span>We invite submissions of data sets and a 4-6 page written description of the data. Continuing the great success of the MLODE 2012 Workshop</span><sup><a href="#ftnt10" name="ftnt_ref10">[10]</a></sup><span> in Leipzig, </span><span>we encourage novel submissions. </span><span>Note that the workshop focused on the quality and availability of the data, while this issue focuses on the data *and* the written article. </span></p><p class="c1 c6"><span></span></p><p class="c1"><span>We require that:</span></p><ol class="c9" start="1"><li class="c2 c1"><span>The data is clearly licensed, standardized licenses are recommended. </span></li><li class="c2 c1"><span>Submitted data must be available free for academic usage. Open licences are welcome. </span></li><li class="c2 c1"><span>The data is openly accessible and follows web standards, especially RDF.</span></li></ol><h3 class="c1"><a name="h.r347nxick08g"></a><span>Technical instructions for contributing data sets:</span></h3><p class="c1"><span>Please send us the data in advance for validation. We have a strict “data first” policy. The data you send us will be evaluated and we will provide guidance and support, if necessary. After the data review you will be allowed to submit your paper. Full details of requirements are available at </span><span class="c0"><a class="c5" href="http://wiki.okfn.org/Working_Groups/Linguistics/How_to_contribute">http://wiki.okfn.org/Working_Groups/Linguistics/How_to_contribute</a></span></p><h2 class="c1"><a name="h.mb46c3qc88d0"></a><span>Deadlines</span></h2><p class="c1"><span>As a result of the MLODE workshop, we provided an updated image of the LLOD cloud:</span></p><p class="c1"><span class="c0"><a class="c5" href="http://linguistics.okfn.org/resources/llod/">http://linguistics.okfn.org/resources/llod/</a></span></p><p class="c1"><span>We will provide another update of the LLOD cloud image as a result of this special issue. If you want to be included in the updated image, please submit a dataset description to this journal issue or follow the instructions above. </span></p><p class="c6 c1"><span></span></p><p class="c1"><span class="c13">Submission: 23 Nov</span></p><p class="c1"><span>Notifications: 22 Feb</span></p><p class="c1"><span>Resubmission: 22 Mar</span></p><p class="c1"><span>2nd Notification: 26 Apr</span></p><p class="c1"><span>Camera ready: 17 May</span></p><h2 class="c1"><a name="h.31lsj6so85p2"></a><span>Guest editors</span></h2><p class="c1"><span>Sebastian Hellmann (AKSW, University of Leipzig)</span></p><p class="c1"><span>Steven Moran (LMU Munich)</span></p><p class="c1"><span>Martin Brümmer (AKSW, University of Leipzig)</span></p><p class="c1"><span>John McCrae (CITEC, University of Bielefeld)</span></p><p class="c6 c1"><span></span></p><hr class="c12"><div><p class="c1"><a href="#ftnt_ref1" name="ftnt1">[1]</a><span class="c7"> C. Chiarcos, S. Nordhoff, and S. Hellmann, Linked Data in Linguistics, pages 161–179, Heidelberg, 2012. Springer, http://ldl2012.lod2.eu/program/proceedings</span></p></div><div><p class="c1"><a href="#ftnt_ref2" name="ftnt2">[2]</a><span class="c7"> E. Prud’Hommeaux and A. Seaborne. SPARQL query language for RDF. W3C recommendation, 2008.</span></p></div><div><p class="c1"><a href="#ftnt_ref3" name="ftnt3">[3]</a><span class="c7"> B. Quilitz and U. Leser. Querying distributed RDF data sources with SPARQL. In The Semantic Web: Research and Applications, pages 524–538. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008.</span></p></div><div><p class="c1"><a href="#ftnt_ref4" name="ftnt4">[4]</a><span class="c7"> M. Windhouwer and S. E. Wright. Linking to linguistic data categories in ISOcat. In C. Chiarcos, S. Nordhoff, and S. Hellmann, editors, Linked Data in Linguistics, pages 99–107. Springer, Heidelberg, 2012.</span></p></div><div><p class="c1"><a href="#ftnt_ref5" name="ftnt5">[5]</a><span class="c7"> S. Farrar and D. T. Langendoen. An OWL-DL implementation of GOLD: An ontology for the Semantic Web. In A. Witt and D. Metzing, editors, Linguistic Modeling of Information and Markup Languages. Springer, Dordrecht, 2010.</span></p></div><div><p class="c1"><a href="#ftnt_ref6" name="ftnt6">[6]</a><span class="c7"> C. Chiarcos, S. Hellmann, et al. The Open Linguistics Working Group. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-2012), Istanbul, Turkey, May 2012a.</span></p></div><div><p class="c1"><a href="#ftnt_ref7" name="ftnt7">[7]</a><span class="c7"> Definition loosely based on </span><span class="c0"><a class="c5" href="http://www.springer.com/education+%26+language/linguistics/journal/10579">http://www.springer.com/education+%26+language/linguistics/journal/10579</a></span></p></div><div><p class="c1"><a href="#ftnt_ref8" name="ftnt8">[8]</a><span class="c7"> Pablo N. Mendes, Max Jakob and Christian Bizer. DBpedia for NLP: A Multilingual Cross-domain Knowledge Base. Proceedings of the International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2012</span></p></div><div><p class="c1"><a href="#ftnt_ref9" name="ftnt9">[9]</a><span class="c7"> Sören Auer und Sebastian Hellmann. The Web of Data: Decentralized, collaborative, interlinked and interoperable In: LREC 2012, </span><span class="c0 c7"><a class="c5" href="http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2012/keynotes/LREC%202012.Keynote%20Speech%201.Soeren%20Auer.pdf">http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2012/keynotes/LREC%202012.Keynote%20Speech%201.Soeren%20Auer.pdf</a></span></p></div><div><p class="c1"><a href="#ftnt_ref10" name="ftnt10">[10]</a><span class="c7"> </span><span class="c0"><a class="c5" href="http://sabre2012.infai.org/mlode">http://sabre2012.infai.org/mlode</a></span></p></div></body></html>