27.292, Calls: Cognitive Science, Computational Linguistics, Semantics/Slovenia

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LINGUIST List: Vol-27-292. Fri Jan 15 2016. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 27.292, Calls: Cognitive Science, Computational Linguistics, Semantics/Slovenia

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Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2016 11:15:09
From: Spela Vintar [spela.vintar at ff.uni-lj.si]
Subject: 2nd Workshop on Language and Ontology

Full Title: 2nd Workshop on Language and Ontology 
Short Title: LangOnto2 

Date: 23-May-2016 - 23-May-2016
Location: Portorož, Slovenia 
Contact Person: Fahad Khan
Meeting Email: anasfkhan81 at gmail.com
Web Site: http://langandonto.github.io/LangOnto2-TermiKS/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics; Semantics 

Call Deadline: 10-Feb-2016 

Meeting Description:

A significant amount of human knowledge can be found in texts. This knowledge
is encoded at the semantic, syntactic, and pragmatic levels and so to a
certain degree language can be regarded as mirroring underlying cognitive
structures. It is not surprising then that formal ontologies in languages such
as OWL have become more and more popular both in linguistics and in automated
language processing. For instance, knowledge models and ontologies are now of
core interest to many NLP fields including Machine Translation, Question
Answering, Text Summarization, Information Retrieval, and Word Sense
Disambiguation. And at a more abstract level ontologies can also help us to
model and reason about phenomena in natural language semantics. In addition
they can also be used in the organisation and formalisation of linguistically
relevant categories such as those used in tagsets for corpus annotation.

At the same time the fact that formal ontologies are being increasingly
accessed by users with limited to no background in formal logic has led to a
growing interest in developing accessible front ends that allow for easy
querying and summarisation of ontologies. It has also led to work in
developing natural language interfaces for authoring ontologies and evaluating
their design.

Call for Papers:

We invite contributions of either long papers (8 pages + 2 of references, in
LREC format) or poster/demo proposals (4 pages +2 of references , in LREC
format), on theoretical issues, empirical studies, practical applications. 

Topics of Interest:

NLP-driven ontology modelling
Ontology learning and population from text
Ontology authoring
Annotation and annotation schemes
Psychological studies of errors
NLP-driven access to ontologies
Natural language interfaces to ontologies
Natural language interfaces for competency questions
Verbalisation of ontologies
Verbalisation of ontology query languages
Ontologies for NLP tasks (e.g. textual entailment, summarisation, word sense
disambiguation)
Ontology-based information retrieval
Visualisation of lexical ontologies
Ontology-driven natural language generation
Reasoning over natural language text using ontologies
Automatic generation and disambiguation of lexico-semantic knowledge using
ontologies
Inferencing aided by lexico-semantic resources such as WordNet, FrameNet,
BabelNet, …
The use of ontologies to model natural language semantics
The use of non-classical reasoning in lexical ontologies
Using ontologies to structure linguistic tagsets

Important Dates:

10 February 2016: Paper submissions due
10 March 2016: Paper notification of acceptance
2 April 2016: Camera-ready papers due
23 May 2016: Workshop

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