28.2481, Calls: Comp Ling, Lexicography/France

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Subject: 28.2481, Calls: Comp Ling, Lexicography/France

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Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2017 13:41:25
From: Mojca Pecman [mpecman at eila.univ-paris-diderot.fr]
Subject: Workshop on Language, Ontology, Terminology and Knowledge Structures

 
Full Title: Workshop on Language, Ontology, Terminology and Knowledge Structures 
Short Title: LOTKS 2017 

Date: 19-Sep-2017 - 19-Sep-2017
Location: Montpellier, France 
Contact Person: Francesca Frontini
Meeting Email: langandonto at gmail.com
Web Site: https://langandonto.github.io/LangOnto-TermiKS-2017/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Lexicography 

Call Deadline: 10-Jun-2017 

Meeting Description:

This workshop, the second of a joint series, will bring together two closely
related strands of research. On the one hand it will look at the overlap
between ontologies and computational linguistics; and on the other the
relationship between knowledge modelling and terminologies -- as well as the
many points of intersection between these two topics.

Formal ontologies are taking on an increasingly important role in
computational linguistics and automated language processing. Knowledge models
and ontologies are of interest to several areas of NLP including, but not
limited to, Machine Translation, Question Answering, and Word Sense
Disambiguation. At a more abstract level ontologies can help us to model and
reason about natural language semantics. They can be also used for 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 a limited or
with no background in formal logic has led to a growing interest in the
development of front ends that allow for the easy editing, querying and
summarisation of such resources; it has also led to work in developing natural
language interfaces for authoring and for evaluating ontologies. Another area
that is now beginning to receive more attention is the application of
ontologies and taxonomies to the annotation and study of literary texts, as
well as of texts more generally in the humanities. This is closely related to
the ontology-enhanced modelling of lexicographic resources, another topic
which is gaining in popularity.

This brings us to the field of terminology as a linguistic field, where in
recent years there has been a shift from merely compiling specialized
lexicographic resources to exploring terminology as a tool for structuring
knowledge in a given domain. As such, this has led to more intelligent ways of
accessing, extracting, representing, modelling, visualising and transferring
knowledge. Numerous tools for the automatic extraction of terms, term
variants, knowledge-rich contexts, definitions, semantic relations, and
taxonomies from specialized corpora have been developed for a number of
languages and new theoretical approaches have emerged as potential frameworks
for the study of specialized communication. However, the building of adequate
knowledge models for practitioners (e.g. experts, researchers, translators,
teachers etc.), on the one hand, and for use by NLP applications (including
cross-language, cross-domain, cross-device, multimodal, multi-platform
applications) on the other, still remains a challenge. LOTKS will provide a
forum for discussion on how to best bridge these two sets of requirements.

This workshop welcomes contributions from researchers in fields such as
linguistics, terminologies, and knowledge engineering, whose work fits in with
our topics of interest as well as interested industry professionals. Building
on the success both of the 1st LangandOnto workshop (co-located with ICWS
2015) as well as last year’s joint LangandOnto/TermiKS workshop (co-located
with LREC 2016), this workshop aims to create a forum for open discussion that
will help to highlight the common areas of interest in the different fields
concerned, as well as fostering dialogue between the various different
approaches taken by each discipline. And therefore we particularly welcome
approaches with a cross-language, cross-domain and/or cross-interdisciplinary
scope.

You can contact us on langandonto at gmail.com


Call for Papers: 

In conjunction with the 12th International Conference on Computational
Semantics (IWCS), 19-22 September 2017 Montpellier (France)
Location: Hôtel Oceania Le Métropole - Montpellier city centre
Date: 19th September, 2017 

Deadlines:
10 July 2017: Paper submissions due
31 July 2017: Paper notification of acceptance
4 September 2017: Camera-ready papers due
19 September 2017: Workshop

Registration at the IWCS 2017 website:
https://langandonto.github.io/LangOnto-TermiKS-2017/formatting.html

Topics of Interest:
- NLP-driven ontology modelling
- The use of ontologies to structure linguistic tagsets
- Natural language interfaces to ontologies
- Ontologies for NLP tasks (e.g. textual entailment, summarisation, word sense
disambiguation) and Information Retrieval
- Lexical Ontologies
- The use of ontologies in analysing/studying literary texts
- Ontology-driven natural language generation
- Linguistic, cognitive, psycholinguistic, sociolinguistic, computational and
hybrid approaches to knowledge modelling
- Construction of terminological knowledge bases
- Terminology modelling for MT
- Knowledge extraction from user-generated content
- Frame-based approaches to knowledge extraction and representation
- Building knowledge resources for less-resourced domains and languages
- Visual components of specialized knowledge bases
- Visualisation techniques for knowledge representations
- Term variation and knowledge representations
- NLP applications for terminology management
- Terminologies in the Digital Humanities




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