29.300, Calls: Comp Ling, Discipline of Ling, Lexicography, Text/Corpus Ling/Japan

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Subject: 29.300, Calls: Comp Ling, Discipline of Ling, Lexicography, Text/Corpus Ling/Japan

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Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2018 15:35:09
From: Christian Chiarcos [ldl2018 at linguistic-lod.org]
Subject: 6th Workshop on Linked Data in Linguistics: Towards Linguistic Data Science

Full Title: 6th Workshop on Linked Data in Linguistics: Towards Linguistic Data Science 
Short Title: LDL-2018 

Date: 12-May-2018 - 12-May-2018
Location: Miyazaki, Japan 
Contact Person: Christian Chiarcos
Meeting Email: ldl2018 at linguistic-lod.org
Web Site: http://ldl2018.linguistic-lod.org/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Discipline of Linguistics; Lexicography; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 19-Jan-2018 

Meeting Description:

The  Linked Data in Linguistics (LDL) workshop series has become the major
forum for presenting, discussing and the application of *Semantic Web
standards and the Linked Open Data paradigm to language resources* and will
take place again in 2018 in co-location with the 11th Language Resources and
Evaluation Conference in Miyazaki, Japan. The LDL workshop series has a
general focus on LOD-based language resources, vocabularies, infrastructures
and technologies as means for *managing, improving and using language
resources on the Web*,  addressing communities as diverse as applied
linguistics, lexicography, digital humanities, natural language processing and
information technology. LDL provides the primary forum for these communities
*to present and to discuss use cases, experiences, best practices,
recommendations and technologies* of Linguistic Linked Open Data  in an
interdisciplinary setting, addressing topics such as 

(i) Linking language resources: Linked Data facilitates to the
interoperability, re-usability and discoverability of language resources as
well as information integration across them
(ii) Natural language for structured knowledge: Ontologies and knowledge bases
in general are often created with one particular language in mind. Their
lexicalization for other natural languages is a prime directive for emerging
digital infrastructures in a globalized world
(iii) Structured knowledge for natural language: Natural language is in
constant development, thus inherently imprecise. Grounding natural language
text in structured  knowledge (word sense disambiguation, entity linking,
semantic parsing) enables machine readability and processability by downstream
tasks

Moreover, as technology and resources increasingly converge towards a
LOD-based ecosystem for the systematic cross-lingual discovery, exploitation,
extension, and curation of language resources, we particularly encourage
contributions focusing on the development of *research methodologies and
applications* building on the Linguistic Linked Open Data Cloud and the
existing technology and resource stack: The notion of *Linguistic Data
Science* brings together Linguistic Linked Open Data with research questions
in linguistics, methods in Natural Language Processing and applications in
Digital Humanities. The workshop will also provide the opportunity for the
*critical reflection* of Linked Open Data techniques and their application in
linguistics, natural language processing and related fields, i.e., to express
experiences, challenges, crucial issues, missing aspects regarding the reuse,
creation and exploitation of Linguistic Linked Open Data.

2nd Call for Papers:

We invite submissions to the 6th Workshop on Linked Data in Linguistics
(LDL-2018): Towards Linguistic Data Science, 12 May 2018, Miyazaki, Japan.
Please see http://ldl2018.linguistic-lod.org/ for the full Call for Papers.

We invite presentations of algorithms, methodologies, experiments, use cases,
descriptions of research projects and position papers regarding the creation,
publication or application of language resources and their linking, as well as
descriptions of such data and its uses in research (linguistics, lexicology,
Digital Humanities) and technology (natural language processing, lexicography,
localization):

(1) Building and managing linked language resources
- Vocabularies and best practices for language resources and their linking.
- Application of LOD in language resource infrastructures.
- Metadata linking and curation for language resources on the Web.

(2) LLOD technology and methodology
- Methodologies to develop linked language resources on the Web.
- Using natural language processing to enhance Linked Open Data.
- Leveraging Linguistic Linked Open Data and Machine Learning.
- Methods for linking dictionaries across languages.

(3) LLOD applications
- Using Linked Open Data to facilitate natural language processing.
- Using Linked Open Data for quantitative and qualitative linguistic research.
- Linguistic Linked Open Data for Digital Humanities.
- Linking language resources and external community resources.
- Using Linked Open Data to connect lexicographic resources.

(4) Critical Reflection
- Challenges of scalability, multilinguality and interoperability in the Web.
- Legal, social and scientific aspects of Linguistic Linked Open Data.
- LLOD revisited: Case studies, use cases, and lessons learned.

We invite both long (8 pages and 2 pages of references, formatted according to
the LREC guidelines) and short papers (4 pages and 2 pages of references)
representing original research, innovative approaches and resource
descriptions. Short papers may also represent project descriptions. These do
not have to be implemented but discuss to what extent and for which purposes
Linguistic Linked Open Data is reused or created. Projects that are still in
their early stages and seek advice from the broader Linguistic Linked Data
community are welcome, especially if they include underrepresented fields of
study.

Abstracts should be submitted at https://www.softconf.com/lrec2018/LDL/. For
more information, visit http://ldl2018.linguistic-lod.org/.

Important Dates:

19 Jan 2018: submission
15 Feb 2018: notification
02 Mar 2018: camera-ready
12 May 2018: workshop, Miyazaki (Japan)

Organizing Committee:

Christian Chiarcos (Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany)
John P. McCrae (National University of Ireland Galway)
Thierry Declerck (University of Saarland, Germany)
Jorge Gracia (University of Zaragoza, Spain)
Bettina Klimek (University of Leipzig, Germany)

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