17.2969, Calls: Computational Ling, Discourse Analysis/Germany

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Subject: 17.2969, Calls: Computational Ling, Discourse Analysis/Germany

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Date: 10-Oct-2006
From: Harald Lüngen < luengen at uni-giessen.de >
Subject: Workshop on Ontologies and Semantic Lexica in Automated Discourse Analysis 

	
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Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 11:25:25
From: Harald Lüngen < luengen at uni-giessen.de >
Subject: Workshop on Ontologies and Semantic Lexica in Automated Discourse Analysis 
 


Full Title: Workshop on Ontologies and Semantic Lexica in Automated Discourse Analysis 

Date: 11-Apr-2007 - 13-Apr-2007
Location: Tübingen, Germany 
Contact Person: Alexander Mehler
Meeting Email: alexander.mehler at uni-bielefeld.de
Web Site: http://ariadne.coli.uni-bielefeld.de/mehler/ontologies/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 13-Nov-2006 

Meeting Description:

Theme and Scope: Ontologies and semantic lexica (such as GOLD, WordNet, FrameNet in the area of linguistics) represent information about concepts and relationships between them (e.g. superclass-subclass and part-whole-relations, relations of semantic opposition) in an explicit form that can be used by computational applications. The focus of the workshop will be on the usage of ontologies and semantic lexica in automated discourse analysis. 

Call for Papers

Workshop on Ontologies and semantic lexica in automated discourse analysis

To be held in conjunction with the GLDV Frühjahrstagung 11.-13.April 2007 in Tübingen.

Organizers

Harald Lüngen (Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen)
Alexander Mehler (Universität Bielefeld)
Angelika Storrer (Universität Dortmund)

Theme and Scope:

Ontologies and semantic lexica (such as GOLD, WordNet, FrameNet in the area of linguistics) represent information about concepts and relationships between them (e.g.  superclass-subclass and part-whole-relations, relations of semantic opposition) in an explicit
form that can be used by computational applications. The focus of the proposed workshop will be on the usage of ontologies and semantic lexica in automated discourse analysis.

We invite contributions dealing with ontology-based approaches in the following application fields:

- discourse parsing (rhetorical and/or thematic structure assignment);
- lexical chaining / cohesion analysis;
- anaphora resolution;
-automatic text segmentation and linking (hypertextualization);
- topic detection and topic tracking;
- automatic text summarization;
- document and information retrieval;
- automatic text classification;
- information extraction;
- text mining.

Topics and research questions include but are not limited to:

- (comparative) evaluation of methods and resources;
- combining ontology-based and stochastic methods;
- ontology modelling for specific tasks in discourse analysis;
- use or generation of wiki(-pedia)-based ontologies;
- use of semantic web technologies.

Program Committee:

Markus Egg, RU Groningen
Christiane Fellbaum, Princeton University
Iryna Gurevych, TU Darmstadt
Anke Holler, U Heidelberg
Kai-Uwe Kühnberger, U Osnabrück
Henning Lobin, JLU Gießen
Harald Lüngen, JLU Gießen
Alexander Mehler, U Bielefeld
Georg Rehm, U Tübingen
Manfred Stede , U Potsdam
Angelika Storrer, U Dortmund

Invited Speaker: t.b.a.

Publication:

The final version of the papers will be published in a special edition of the LDV-Forum (Zeitschrift für Computerlinguistik und Sprachtechnologie - Journal for Computational Linguistics and Language Technology)

Submission:

Extended abstracts of max 500 words in PDF or MS Word format should be sent to: alexander.mehler at uni-bielefeld.de no later than November 13, 2006.  Please submit two versions: one version with authors' names, email & affiliations, and one anonymized version to be used in the reviewing process.

Languages: English or German

Important Dates:

Submission of extended abstracts: November 13, 2006
Notification of acceptance: December 15, 2006
Submission of full paper: May 31, 2007

Contact Information: 

Dr. Alexander Mehler
Universität Bielefeld
Fakultät für Linguistik und Literaturwissenschaft
Universtitätsstraße 25
D-33615 Bielefeld

Tel. 	+49 521 1063678
Fax	+49 641 1062996

Workshop URL

http://ariadne.coli.uni-bielefeld.de/mehler/ontologies/




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