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PDF-Version can be found here: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://ldl2012.lod2.eu/DGFS2012-LinkedDataCfP.pdf">http://ldl2012.lod2.eu/DGFS2012-LinkedDataCfP.pdf</a>
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Although the workshop is held in 2012 the submission deadline is on
<b>August 7, 2011</b><br>
As a side note: There will also be a small workshop on Open
Linguistics on June 30th, at OKCon 2011 in Berlin: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://okcon.org/2011/programme/open-linguistics-workshop">http://okcon.org/2011/programme/open-linguistics-workshop</a>
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CALL FOR PAPERS
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Linked Data in Linguistics
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Representing and connecting language data and language metadata
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://ldl2012.lod2.eu">http://ldl2012.lod2.eu</a>
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Workshop organized as part of the Annual Conference of the German
Linguistic Society (DGfS),
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to be held in Frankfurt, Germany, March 7-9, 2012
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Date: March 7-9, 2012
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Submission Deadline: August 7, 2011
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Venue: Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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** Overview **
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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.
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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.
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** Linguistic data and metadata **
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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):
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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?
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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?
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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?
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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?
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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?
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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?
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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.
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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.
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** Topics of interests **
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We invite contributions related (but not limited) to one of the
following topics:
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1. Use cases and project proposals for the creation, maintenance and
publication of linguistic data collections that are linked with
other resources
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2. Modelling linguistic data and metadata with OWL and/or RDF
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3. Ontologies for linguistic data and metadata collections
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4. Applications of such data, other ontologies or linked data from
any subdiscipline of linguistics (may include work in progress or
project descriptions)
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5. Legal and social aspects of Linked Linguistic Data
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** Goals **
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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:
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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.
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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.
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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.
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** Submission **
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For submission details, please consult the workshop webpage:
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://ldl2012.lod2.eu/submission">http://ldl2012.lod2.eu/submission</a>
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** Important Dates **
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August 7, 2011: Deadline for extended abstracts (four pages plus
references)
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September 9, 2011: Notification of acceptance
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October 23, 2011: One-page abstract for DGfS conference proceedings
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December 1, 2011: Camera-ready papers for workshop proceedings
(eight pages plus references)
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March 7-9, 2012: Workshop
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March 6-9, 2012: Conference
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** Invited speakers **
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Martin Haspelmath (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary
Anthropology)
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Nancy Ide (American National Corpus, Vassar College)
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** Workshop organizers **
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Sebastian Nordhoff (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary
Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany)
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Christian Chiarcos (University of Potsdam, Germany)
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Sebastian Hellmann (University of Leipzig, Germany)
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** Programme committee**
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://ldl2012.lod2.eu/program/invited-speakers-and-programme-committee">http://ldl2012.lod2.eu/program/invited-speakers-and-programme-committee</a>
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The workshop is endorsed and sponsored by the Max Planck Institute
for Evolutionary Anthropology (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.eva.mpg.de">http://www.eva.mpg.de</a>) and the
LOD2 project: Creating Knowledge out of Interlinked Data (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lod2.eu">http://lod2.eu</a>)
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