<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear colleagues,</div><div><br></div><div>please find below the call for participation at the 3rd Summer Datathon on Linguistic Linked Open Data (SD-LLOD-19, Schloss Dagstuhl, Wadern, Germany, May 12-17). Apologies for cross-posting.</div><div><br></div><div>Christian Chiarcos</div><div>




<div>-- </div><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. 11, #107<br>mail: <a href="mailto:chiarcos@informatik.uni-frankfurt.de">chiarcos@informatik.uni-frankfurt.de</a><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>

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<p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><strong>The 3rd Summer Datathon on Linguistic Linked Open Data (SD-LLOD-19)</strong><span style="font-weight:400"><span> </span>will be held from May 12 to 17, 2019 in Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz Center for Informatics, Wadern, Germany (see<span> </span></span><a href="http://datathon2019.linguistic-lod.org/"><span style="font-weight:400">http://datathon2019.linguistic-lod.org</span></a><span style="font-weight:400">). SD-LLOD-19 is organized in conjunction with and held before the 2nd Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge (LDK-2019), May 20-22, Leipzig, Germany (</span><a href="http://2019.ldk-conf.org/"><span style="font-weight:400">http://2019.ldk-conf.org</span></a><span style="font-weight:400">).</span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-weight:400">The SD-LLOD datathon has the main goal of giving people from industry and academia practical knowledge in the field of Linked Data and its application to natural language data and natural language annotations, from areas as diverse as knowledge engineering, lexicography, the language sciences, natural language processing and computational philology.</span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-weight:400">We provide tutorials and supervision by leading experts on Linked Open Data and its application to language resources, human language technology and the language sciences. The final aim is to enable participants to migrate their own linguistic data and publish them as Linked Data on the Web.</span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-weight:400">The SD-LLOD datathon is unique in its specialization worldwide and continues a series of international hackathons and summer schools organized since 2012. This edition is supported by several international projects addressing different aspects of natural language processing, lexicography and digital humanities: The Research Group “</span><a href="http://www.acoli.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/liodi/"><span style="font-weight:400">Linked Open Dictionaries (LiODi)</span></a><span style="font-weight:400">”, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), the Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Action “</span><a href="http://www.pret-a-llod.eu/"><span style="font-weight:400">Prêt-à-LLOD. Ready-to-use Multilingual Linked Language Data for Knowledge Services across Sectors</span></a><span style="font-weight:400">” and the Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Action “</span><a href="https://elex.is/"><span style="font-weight:400">ELEXIS. European Lexicographic Infrastructure</span></a><span style="font-weight:400">”.</span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-weight:400">During the datathon, participants will:</span></p><ul style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><li style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-weight:400">Generate and publish their own Linguistic Linked (Open) Data from some existing data sources or existing tools.</span></li><li style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-weight:400">Apply Linked Data principles and Semantic Web technologies (Ontologies, RDF, Linked Data) to language resources and human language technology.</span></li><li style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-weight:400">Use the principal models for representing Linguistic Linked Open Data, in particular</span><a href="https://www.w3.org/2016/05/ontolex/"><span> </span><span style="font-weight:400">Ontolex-Lemon</span></a><span style="font-weight:400">,<span> </span></span><a href="https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/6156"><span style="font-weight:400">Web Annotation</span></a><span style="font-weight:400"><span> </span>and knowledge representation vocabularies such as SKOS and OWL.</span></li><li style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-weight:400">Gather experiences with terminology resources developed for or used in the Linguistic Linked Open Data context, such as</span><a href="http://www.lexvo.org/"><span> </span><span style="font-weight:400">lexvo</span></a><span style="font-weight:400">,</span><a href="http://lexinfo.net/"><span> </span><span style="font-weight:400">lexinfo</span></a><span style="font-weight:400">,</span><a href="http://purl.org/olia/"><span> </span><span style="font-weight:400">OLiA</span></a><span style="font-weight:400"><span> </span>and</span><a href="http://linguistics-ontology.org/"><span> </span><span style="font-weight:400">GOLD</span></a><span style="font-weight:400">.</span></li><li style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-weight:400">Learn about multilingual dataset linking against knowledge bases from the Web of Data, such as</span><a href="http://dbpedia.org/"><span> </span><span style="font-weight:400">DBpedia</span></a><span style="font-weight:400"><span> </span>or</span><a href="http://babelnet.org/"><span> </span><span style="font-weight:400">BabelNet</span></a><span style="font-weight:400">.</span></li><li style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-weight:400">Learn about benefits and applications of linguistic linked data for specific use cases.</span></li></ul><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-weight:400">The program of the summer datathon will contain three types of sessions:</span></p><ol style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><li><strong>Seminars<span> </span></strong><span style="font-weight:400">to show novel aspects and discuss selected topics.</span></li><li><strong>Practical sessions</strong><span style="font-weight:400"><span> </span>to introduce the basic foundations of each topic, methods, and technologies and where participants will perform different tasks using the methods and technologies presented.</span></li><li><strong>Hacking sessions,</strong><span style="font-weight:400"><span> </span>where participants will follow the whole process of generating and publishing Linguistic Linked Data with some existing data set.</span></li></ol><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-weight:400">In addition to  participation, attendants are invited to propose a miniproject related to the topic and to bring to the datathon some dataset of linguistic data produced by their organizations  to work with during the hacking sessions and transform into linked data. Participants who cannot provide their own linguistic dataset can join another’s miniproject or some of the ones proposed by the organisers. There will be an award to the best miniproject.</span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-weight:400">Participants should bring their own laptops to follow and participate in the hacking sessions, they will be provided with digital copies of all necessary material used during the course and will have assistance for installing all the required software.</span></p><h2 style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-weight:400">Invited Speakers</span></h2><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-weight:400"><a href="http://gerard.demelo.org/">Gerard de Melo</a>, Director of the Deep Data Lab, Department of Computer Science, </span><span style="font-weight:400">Rutgers University, New Jersey</span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-weight:400"><a href="https://www.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/ukp/ukp_home/staff_ukp/detailseite_mitarbeiter_1_42176.en.jsp">Richard Eckart de Castilho</a>, Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing (UKP) Lab, Department of Computer Science, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany</span></p><h2 style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-weight:400">How to Apply</span></h2><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-weight:400">We invite scholars, students and practitioners from any field of lexicography, the language sciences, natural language processing, knowledge engineering, and computational philology to apply for participation. For further details on fees, the registration process, information on the venue, the program and points of contact, please see under<span> </span></span><a href="https://datathon2019.linguistic-lod.org/"><span style="font-weight:400">https://datathon2019.linguistic-lod.org</span></a><span style="font-weight:400">.</span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-weight:400">Participants are encouraged to submit a short abstract of their ideas for the datathon (description of possible resources to be converted, linked or reused during the datathon, ideas for use cases, etc.). A selection of them will be presented during the event and proposed as miniprojects to be developed during the datathon. Registration will open on January 25 and close on April 4, 2019. Please note that the number of participants is strictly limited, so we encourage to apply as soon as possible.</span></p><h2 style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-weight:400">Important dates</span></h2><table style="font-family:"Times New Roman";letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><tbody><tr><td>Registration opens:</td><td>January 25, 2019</td></tr><tr><td>Registration closes:</td><td>April 4, 2019</td></tr><tr><td>Notification:</td><td>April 12, 2019</td></tr><tr><td>Datathon:</td><td>May 12 to 17, 2019</td></tr></tbody></table><h2 style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-weight:400">Organizers</span></h2><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-weight:400"><a href="http://acoli.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/en.html">Christian Chiarcos</a><span> </span>(Goethe Universität Frankfurt, Germany)</span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-weight:400"><a href="http://jogracia.url.ph/web/">Jorge Gracia</a><span> </span>(University of Zaragoza, Spain)</span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-weight:400"><a href="https://john.mccr.ae/">John P. McCrae</a><span> </span>(Insight Centre for Data Analytics, NUI Galway, Ireland)</span></p>

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