<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span class=""><div class="" style="font-size: 13px;">==============</div><div class="" style="font-size: 13px;">2nd Call for Papers @ Second Biennial Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge (LDK2019)</div><div class="" style="font-size: 13px;">Dates: 20 May (Workshop/Tutorials day), 21-22 May (Main Conference), 23 May (DBpedia community meeting)</div><div class="" style="font-size: 13px;">Location: Leipzig, Germany</div><div class="" style="font-size: 13px;">Website: <a href="http://2019.ldk-conf.org/" class="">http://2019.ldk-conf.org</a></div><div class="" style="font-size: 13px;">Submission Deadline: 11 January 2019</div><div class="" style="font-size: 13px;">Submission page: <a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ldk2019" class="">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ldk2019</a></div><div class="" style="font-size: 13px;">==============</div><div class="" style="font-size: 13px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-size: 13px;">We invite submissions to the second biennial conference on Language, Data and Knowledge (LDK 2019), which will be held in Leipzig, Germany in May 2019. This conference aims at bringing together researchers from across disciplines concerned with the acquisition, curation and use of language data in the context of data science and knowledge-based applications. This builds upon the success of the inaugural event held in Galway, Ireland in 2017.</div><div class="" style="font-size: 13px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-size: 13px;">------------------</div><div class="" style="font-size: 13px;">Invited speakers</div><div class="" style="font-size: 13px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-size: 13px;">We are glad to announce two already confirmed invited speakers:</div><div class="" style="font-size: 13px;">- Christian Bizer, Universität Mannheim, Germany</div><div class="" style="font-size: 13px;">- Christiane Fellbaum, Princeton University, USA</div><div class="" style="font-size: 13px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-size: 13px;">------------------</div><div class="" style="font-size: 13px;">Co-allocated events</div><div class="" style="font-size: 13px;">Website: <a href="http://2019.ldk-conf.org/program/workshops/" class="">http://2019.ldk-conf.org/program/workshops/</a></div><div class="" style="font-size: 13px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-size: 13px;">- Workshops:</div><div class="" style="font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Translation Inference across Dictionaries (TIAD)</div><div class="" style="font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- 3rd Workshop on Humanities in the Semantic web (WHiSe III)</div><div class="" style="font-size: 13px;">- 13th DBpedia Community Meeting</div><div class="" style="font-size: 13px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-size: 13px;">------------------</div><div class="" style="font-size: 13px;">Main Conference paper submission</div><div class="" style="font-size: 13px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-size: 13px;">We welcome submission of relevance to the topics listed below. Submissions can be in the form of:</div><div class="" style="font-size: 13px;"><ul class=""><li class="">Long research papers: 10-15 pages;</li><li class="">Short research or position papers: 6-8 pages;</li><li class="">Short scientific abstract submissions: be 4-6 pages.</li></ul></div><div class="" style="font-size: 13px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-size: 13px;">All submissions lengths are given including references and optional appendices. </div><div class="" style="font-size: 13px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-size: 13px;">Accepted submissions will be published by OASIcs in an open-access conference proceedings volume. The layout templates are available for download from the OASIcs website at: <a href="https://www.dagstuhl.de/en/publications/oasics/instructions-for-authors/" class="">https://www.dagstuhl.de/en/publications/oasics/instructions-for-authors/</a></div><div class="" style="font-size: 13px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-size: 13px;">Submission is double-blind and hence all submissions should be suitably anonymized by omitting author names in the header and citing previous own work in the third person (not “as we showed in ...” but “as Smith (2017) showed ...”).</div><div class="" style="font-size: 13px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-size: 13px;">Papers should be submitted via EasyChair at the following address:</div><div class="" style="font-size: 13px;"><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ldk2019" class="">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ldk2019</a></div><div class="" style="font-size: 13px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-size: 13px;">------------------</div><div class="" style="font-size: 13px;">Presentation format</div><div class="" style="font-size: 13px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-size: 13px;">Accepted submissions will be selected for oral or poster presentation based on recommendations from the reviewers (with no difference in quality between types of presentation). </div><div class="" style="font-size: 13px;">Authors of accepted short papers and scientific abstract are welcome to present their work as a demo in addition to the regular presentation.</div><div class="" style="font-size: 13px;">At least one author of each accepted paper must register to present the paper at the conference.</div><div class="" style="font-size: 13px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-size: 13px;">------------------</div><div class="" style="font-size: 13px;">Topics</div><div class="" style="font-size: 13px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-size: 13px;">Language Data</div><div class="" style="font-size: 13px;"><ul class=""><li class="">Language data construction and acquisition</li><li class="">Language data annotation</li><li class="">Language data portals and metadata about language data</li><li class="">Organizational and infrastructural management of language data</li><li class="">Multilingual, multimedia and multimodal language data</li><li class="">Evaluation, provenance and quality of language data</li><li class="">Usability, validation and visualization of language data</li><li class="">Standards and interoperability of language data</li><li class="">Legal aspects of publishing language data</li><li class="">Typological databases</li><li class="">Under-resourced languages</li><li class="">Knowledge Graphs</li></ul></div><div class="" style="font-size: 13px;">Linguistic Linked Data and Multilingual Semantic Web</div><div class="" style="font-size: 13px;"><ul class=""><li class="">Ontologies, terminology, wordnets and lexical resources</li><li class="">Information and knowledge extraction (taxonomy extraction, ontology learning)</li><li class="">Data, information and knowledge integration across languages</li><li class="">(Cross-lingual) Ontology Alignment</li><li class="">Entity linking and relatedness</li><li class="">Linked Data profiling</li><li class="">Knowledge representation and reasoning</li><li class="">Applications in NLP</li></ul></div><div class="" style="font-size: 13px;">Question answering and semantic search</div><div class="" style="font-size: 13px;"><ul class=""><li class="">Text analytics on Big Data</li><li class="">Semantic content management</li><li class="">Computer-aided Language Learning</li><li class="">Natural language interfaces to (big) data</li><li class="">Knowledge-based NLP</li><li class="">Other applications</li><li class="">Use Cases in Digital Humanities, Social Sciences, BioNLP</li></ul></div><div class="" style="font-size: 13px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-size: 13px;">Social Sciences and Humanities research enabled by digital approaches: digital arts, architecture, music, film, theatre, new media, digital games and cyberculture</div><div class="" style="font-size: 13px;"><ul class=""><li class="">Digital media, digitisation, curation of digital objects</li><li class="">Annotation, analysis, enrichment of text archives</li><li class="">Text and data mining for Social Science research</li><li class="">Text and data mining of (bio)medical literature</li><li class="">Geo-humanities, spatial analysis and applications of GIS for Humanities research</li><li class="">Visualisation of Social Sciences and Humanities content and research results</li></ul></div><div class="" style="font-size: 13px;">------------------</div><div class="" style="font-size: 13px;">Important Dates</div><div class="" style="font-size: 13px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-size: 13px;"> • 11 January 2019:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Paper submissions deadline</div><div class="" style="font-size: 13px;"> • 1 March 2019: <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Notification</div><div class="" style="font-size: 13px;"> • 20 March 2019: <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Camera-ready submission deadline</div><div class="" style="font-size: 13px;"> • 20 May 2019: <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Workshop day</div><div class="" style="font-size: 13px;"> • 21-22 May 2019: <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Main Conference</div><div class="" style="font-size: 13px;"> • 23 May 2019: <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>DBpedia community meeting</div><div class="" style="font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div><div class="" style="font-size: 13px;">------------------</div><div class="" style="font-size: 13px;">Organizing committee</div><div class="" style="font-size: 13px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-size: 13px;">Program Chairs:</div><div class="" style="font-size: 13px;"><ul class=""><li class="">Maria Eskevich - CLARIN ERIC</li><li class="">Gerard de Melo - Rutgers University</li></ul></div><div class="" style="font-size: 13px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-size: 13px;">Scientific Advisory Committee Chairs:</div><div class="" style="font-size: 13px;"><ul class=""><li class="">John P. McCrae - Insight Centre/DSI, National University of Ireland, Galway</li><li class="">Paul Buitelaar - Insight Centre/DSI, National University of Ireland, Galway</li><li class="">Christian Chiarcos - Goethe-University Frankfurt</li><li class="">Sebastian Hellmann - Leipzig University</li></ul></div><div class="" style="font-size: 13px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-size: 13px;">Local Chairs:</div><div class="" style="font-size: 13px;"><ul class=""><li class="">Bettina Klimek - Leipzig University</li><li class="">Milan Dojchinovksi - Leipzig University</li></ul></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><font size="2" class="">—————————</font></div></span>Maria Eskevich and Gerard de Melo</body></html>