[Lexicog] CFP: Linked Data in Linguistics 2012 (LDL 2012) - submission deadline August 7, 2011

[Sebastian]

Apologies for cross-postings. Please send it to interested colleagues.
Thanks!
PDF-Version can be found here:
http://ldl2012.lod2.eu/DGFS2012-LinkedDataCfP.pdf
Although the workshop is held in 2012 the submission deadline is on August
7, 2011
As a side note: There will also be a small workshop on Open Linguistics on
June 30th, at OKCon 2011 in Berlin:
http://okcon.org/2011/programme/open-linguistics-workshop

CALL FOR PAPERS

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Linked Data in Linguistics
Representing and connecting language data and language metadata
http://ldl2012.lod2.eu

Workshop organized as part of the Annual Conference of the German Linguistic
Society (DGfS),
to be held in Frankfurt, Germany, March 7-9, 2012
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Date: March 7-9, 2012
Submission Deadline: August 7, 2011
Venue: Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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** Overview **
The explosion of information technology has led to a substantial growth in
quantity, diversity and complexity of linguistic data accessible over the
Internet. These resources become even more useful when linked with each
other. This workshop will present principles, use cases, and best practices
for using the linked data paradigm[a] to represent, exploit, store, and
connect different types of linguistic data collections.
The intended audience includes empirically-working linguists and
philologists interested in the representation, exchange and interlinking of
linguistic data and metadata, computer scientists and computational
linguists interested in the application of Semantic Web formalisms and
technologies to language data, and developers of infrastructures for
linguistic data and other researchers with an interest in both aspects.


** Linguistic data and metadata **
The last years have seen the rapid development of linguistic data
collections available over the Internet. The workshop intends to address
questions and use cases for the creation, publication and application of
data collections including (but not limited to):

1. Language archives for (endangered) languages, that contain a wealth of
textual material as well as audio and video (DOBES, PARADISEC, ELAR). How
can this material be mobilized?
2. Typological databases such as the World Atlas of Language Structures
(WALS), or the Typological Database System (TDS) provide rich repositories
of information about languages and their respective features. An interesting
feature would be to combine the information from these resources, for
example “Is it true that OV languages [WALS feature 83A] are characterized
by pitch accent [TDS, StressTyp data base]” ? How can such queries be
accomplished?
3. Computational lexicography uses formalisms such as RDF, SKOS and OWL to
encode dictionaries and to employ them in different applications. What are
the practical benefits of this representation?
4. Lexical-semantic resources such as WordNet, FrameNet and general
knowledge bases like DBpedia and Yago represent the very foundation of
computational semantics, and are also available in OWL and RDF. How does
this representation improve the accessibility and the application of these
resources?
5. Linguistic corpora involve an increasing diversity of annotations such as
syntax, semantics and coreference (e.g.,
PennTreeBank/PropBank/PennDiscourseTreebank, OntoNotes, SALSA/TIGER). How
can such multi-layered corpora be represented, evaluated and connected to
electronic lexicons, lexical-semantic resources, or metadata repositories?
6. Metadata repositories provide common vocabularies for the description of
other types of linguistic data, thus enabling to compare and integrate them.
This includes information about languages (e.g. in LL-MAP or Mulitree), but
also information about linguistic data categories and phenomena (e.g. in
GOLD and ISOcat). How do such common repositories improve the re-usability
of linguistic resources in research and in Semantic Web applications?

It is the challenge of our time to store, interlink and exploit this wealth
of data. Our workshop leverages the Digital Humanities paradigm within
linguistics, focusing on the use of information technology to improve
data-driven linguistic research.
This workshop invites researchers from the fields of language documentation,
typology, computational linguistics, corpus linguistics, as well as
researchers from other empirically-oriented disciplines of linguistics who
share an interest in data and metadata modelling with Semantic Web
technologies such as RDF or OWL.

** Topics of interests **
We invite contributions related (but not limited) to one of the following
topics:
1. Use cases and project proposals for the creation, maintenance and
publication of linguistic data collections that are linked with other
resources
2. Modelling linguistic data and metadata with OWL and/or RDF
3. Ontologies for linguistic data and metadata collections
4. Applications of such data, other ontologies or linked data from any
subdiscipline of linguistics (may include work in progress or project
descriptions)
5. Legal and social aspects of Linked Linguistic Data

** Goals **
Beside the discussion of projects, experiences and open questions, the
workshop hopes to support the on-going development of a community of
researchers interested in linked linguistic data. This involves the
following aspects:

1. The primary goal is to establish interdisciplinary contact across the
boundaries between different subdisciplines of applied linguistics,
computational linguistics and neighbouring fields. We are under the
impression that people coming from very different backgrounds encounter
similar issues in their work and that there is potential for synergies here.

2. The second goal is to increase the amount of Linked Open Data on the web
so that researchers can make use of the data already out there. In other
words: we want to find the data giants on whose shoulders future generations
would be able to stand, and convince them to make their data available as
Linked Data.
3. The third goal is to discuss strategies, reasons and problems to publish
linguistic data under open licensed, with the perspective to increase the
prestige of data as a form of scientific production which does not need to
shy away from comparison with more established genres like articles or
monographs.


** Submission **
For submission details, please consult the workshop webpage:
http://ldl2012.lod2.eu/submission

** Important Dates **
August 7, 2011: Deadline for extended abstracts (four pages plus references)

September 9, 2011: Notification of acceptance
October 23, 2011: One-page abstract for DGfS conference proceedings
December 1, 2011: Camera-ready papers for workshop proceedings (eight pages
plus references)
March 7-9, 2012: Workshop
March 6-9, 2012: Conference


** Invited speakers **
Martin Haspelmath (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology)
Nancy Ide (American National Corpus, Vassar College)

** Workshop organizers **
Sebastian Nordhoff (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology,
Leipzig, Germany)
Christian Chiarcos (University of Potsdam, Germany)
Sebastian Hellmann (University of Leipzig, Germany)


** Programme committee**
http://ldl2012.lod2.eu/program/invited-speakers-and-programme-committee

The workshop is endorsed and sponsored by the Max Planck Institute for
Evolutionary Anthropology (http://www.eva.mpg.de) and the LOD2 project:
Creating Knowledge out of Interlinked Data (http://lod2.eu)
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