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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:normal">Dear colleagues,</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:normal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:normal">please find the call for papers for the Second Workshop on Linked Data in Linguistics below. Apologies for cross-posting!</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:normal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:normal">Call for
Papers</p>
<h2 style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal">2nd
Workshop on Linked Data in Linguistics (LDL-2013): </h2>
<h2 style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:
0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt">Representing
and linking lexicons, terminologies and other language data</span></h2>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:normal">September
23rd 2013, Pisa, Italy</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:normal">Collocated
with the 6th Conference on Generative Approaches to the Lexicon (GL2013)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:normal"><o:p> </o:p>The
explosion of information technology has led to a substantial growth in
quantity, diversity and complexity of linguistic data accessible over the
internet. The lack of interoperability between linguistic and language
resources represents a major challenge that needs to be addressed, in
particular, if information from different sources is to be combined, like, say,
machine-readable lexicons, corpus data and terminology repositories. For these
types of resources, domain-specific standards have been proposed, yet, issues
of interoperability between different types of resources persist, commonly
accepted strategies to distribute, access and integrate their information have
yet to be established, and technologies and infrastructures to address both
aspects are still under development.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:
inter-ideograph">The goal of the workshop is to assemble researchers from
various fields of linguistics, natural language processing, and information
technology to present and discuss <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">principles</b>,
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">case studies</b>, and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">best practices </b>for representing,
publishing and linking linguistic data collections, including corpora,
dictionaries, lexical networks, translation memories, thesauri, etc.,
infrastructures developed on that basis, their use of existing standards, and
the publication and distribution policies that were adopted.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:
inter-ideograph">We particularly invite contributions discussing the
application of the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Linked Open Data
paradigm</b> to linguistic data as it might provide an important step towards
making linguistic data: i) easily and uniformly queryable, ii) interoperable
and iii) sharable over the Web using open standards such as the HTTP protocol
and the RDF data model [1]. Recent research in this direction has lead to the
emergence of a Linked Open Data cloud of linguistic resources, the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Linguistic Linked Open Data (LLOD) cloud</b>,
where Linked Data principles were applied to language resources, allowing them
to be published and linked in a principled way [2]. Although not restricted to
lexical resources, these play a particularly prominent role in this context
[3].</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">intended audience
</b>includes computational linguists and NLP engineers interested in the
application of Semantic Web formalisms and related technologies to language
data, empirically-working linguists and lexicographers interested in the representation,
exchange and interlinking of linguistic data and metadata, and developers of
infrastructures for linguistic data and other researchers with an interest in
both aspects.<br clear="all" style="mso-special-character:line-break;page-break-before:
always">
</p>
<h3 style="margin-bottom:10.0pt">Background and
History</h3>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:
inter-ideograph">LDL-2013 is organized in the context of two recent community
efforts, the Open Linguistics Working Group of the Open Knowledge Foundation
(OWLG), and the W3C Ontology-Lexica Community Group. The Open Linguistics
Working Group has spearheaded the creation of new data and the republishing of
existing linguistic resources as linked open data. Similarly, the W3C
Ontology-Lexica Community Group is seeking to develop standard models for
representing and publishing (ontology-) lexica and other lexical resources as
RDF.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:
inter-ideograph">The workshop is continuing a series of workshops on the
application of the Linked Data paradigm to linguistic data that have been
initiated and organized by the Open Linguistics Working Group: The First
Workshop on Linked Data in Linguistics (LDL-2012) was conducted in March 2012
at the University of Frankfurt am Main/Germany, and collocated with the 34th
Annual Meeting of the German Linguistics Society (DGfS-2012). The Workshop on
Multilingual Linked Open Data for Enterprises (MLODE-2012) was conducted in
September 2012 at the University of Leipzig/Germany, and collocated with the
3rd Conference on Software Agents and Services for Business, Research and
E-Science (SABRE-2012). We intend to continue both series of workshops, with
LDL workshops being attached to (computational) linguistic venues, and MLODE
workshops co-located with information technology events.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:
inter-ideograph"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:
inter-ideograph"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Topics of Interest</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:
inter-ideograph">We invite contributions related (but not limited) to the
following topics:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:
inter-ideograph">1. Use cases and project proposals for the creation,
maintenance and publication of linguistic data collections that are linked with
other resources</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:
inter-ideograph">2. Modelling linguistic data and metadata with OWL and/or RDF</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:
inter-ideograph">3. Ontologies for linguistic data and metadata collections</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:
inter-ideograph">4. Applications of such data, other ontologies or linked data
from any subdiscipline of linguistics (may include work in progress or project
descriptions)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:
inter-ideograph">5. Descriptions of data sets, ideally following Linked Data
principles</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:
inter-ideograph">6. Legal and social aspects of Linguistic Linked Open Data</p>
<h3 style="margin-bottom:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p><o:p> </o:p></h3>
<h3 style="margin-bottom:10.0pt">Submission &
Publication</h3>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:
inter-ideograph">We accept submission of both long (up to 8 pages plus 2 pages
for references) and short papers (up to 4 pages plus 2 pages for references) to
be presented as long or short oral presentation at the workshop. The papers of
the workshop will be published as CEUR proceedings. In addition, we aim for a
journal special issue as post-conference proceedings in which a selected amount
of papers presented at the workshop will be published.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt">For stylesheets and up to date
submission and workshop details, please consult our website: <a href="http://www.ldl2013.org"><span style="color:#1155CC">http://www.ldl2013.org</span></a>.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal">Timeline</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;tab-stops:139.5pt">Submission
deadline:<span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>June 23rd, 2013</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;tab-stops:139.5pt">Notification
of acceptance:<span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>July 15th, 2013</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;tab-stops:139.5pt">Camera-ready
paper:<span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>August 30th, 2013</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;tab-stops:139.5pt">Workshop: <span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>September 23rd, 2013</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal">Organizers</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;tab-stops:103.5pt">Philipp
Cimiano <span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>(Universität Bielefeld,
Germany)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;tab-stops:103.5pt">Christian
Chiarcos <span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>(Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
am Main, Germany)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;tab-stops:103.5pt">John McCrae <span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>(Universität Bielefeld, Germany)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;tab-stops:103.5pt">Thierry
Declerck <span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>(Deutsches
Forschungsinstitut für Künstliche Intelligenz, Germany)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal">Program Committee</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt">Guadalupe Aguado (Universidad
Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt">Peter Bouda (Interdisciplinary
Centre for Social and Language Documentation, Portugal)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt">Steve Cassidy (Macquarie
University, Australia)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt">Damir Cavar (Eastern Michigan
University)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt">Michael Cysouw (Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität
München, Germany)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt">Ernesto William De Luca
(University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, Germany)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt">Gerard de Melo (University of
California at Berkeley)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt">Dongpo Deng (Institute of
Information Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taiwan)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt">Alexis Dimitriadis (Universiteit
Utrecht, The Netherlands)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt">Judith Eckle-Kohler (Technische Universität
Darmstadt, Germany)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt">Jeff Good (University at
Buffalo)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt">Jorge Gracia (Universidad
Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt">Harald Hammarström (Radboud
Universiteit Nijmegen, The Netherlands)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt">Yoshihiko Hayashi (Osaka
University, Japan)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt">Sebastian Hellmann (Universität
Leipzig, Germany)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt">Dominic Jones (Trinity College
Dublin, Ireland)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt">Lutz Maicher (Universität
Leipzig, Germany)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt">Pablo Mendes (Open Knowledge
Foundation Deutschland, Germany)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt">Elena Monsiel-Ponsoda (Universidad
Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt">Steven Moran (Universität
Zürich, Switzerland/Ludwig Maximilian University, Germany)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt">Sebastian Nordhoff (Max Planck
Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt">Antonio Pareja-Lora (Universidad
Complutense Madrid, Spain)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt">Felix Sasaki (Deutsches
Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz, Germany)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt">Andrea Schalley (Griffith
University, Australia)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt">Marieke van Erp (VU University
Amsterdam, The Netherlands)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt">Menzo Windhouwer (Max Planck
Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt">Alena Witzlack-Makarevich
(Universität Zürich, Switcherland)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<h3 style="margin-bottom:10.0pt">References</h3>
<p class="MsoNormal">[1] Chiarcos, C., J. McCrae, P. Cimiano, C. Fellbaum (2013),
Towards open data for linguistics: Lexical Linked Data. In: Oltramari et al.
(eds.)<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>New Trends of Research in
Ontologies and Lexical Resources. Springer, Heidelberg.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">[2] Chiarcos, C., S. Nordhoff, S. Hellmann (2012, eds.),
Linked Data in Linguistics. Representing and Connecting Language Data and
Language Metadata, Springer, Heidelberg.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">[3] Oltramari, A., P. Vossen, L. Qin, L., E. Hovy (2013,
eds.), New Trends of Research in Ontologies and Lexical Resources, Springer,
Heidelberg.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">-- </p></div><div id="M2Signature"><div>Prof. Dr. Christian Chiarcos<br>Applied Computational Linguistics<br>Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität Frankfurt a. M.<br>60054 Frankfurt am Main, Germany<br><br>office: Robert-Mayer-Str. 10, #401b<br>mail: chiarcos@informatik.uni-frankfurt.de<br>web: <a href="http://acoli.cs.uni-frankfurt.de">http://acoli.cs.uni-frankfurt.de</a><br>tel: +49-(0)69-798-22463<br>fax: +49-(0)69-798-28931</div></div></body></html>