Corpora: Reminder: OntoLex'2000 Last CFP

Tue Jun 27 14:42:42 UTC 2000

                Call for Papers and Participation

                          OntoLex'2000
       Workshop on Ontologies and Lexical Knowledge Bases
           Supported by Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

                  (http://www.sirma.bg/ontolex)

              Sept. 8-10, 2000:  Sozopol, Bulgaria

The workshop aims to bring together researchers interested in the
dependencies between formal ontologies and lexical semantics in
general, and more specifically in the construction of lexical
knowledge bases. Among the issues discussed will also be the
various applications of lexical semantics to information
retrieval, information extraction and related fields.

The workshop will be a follow up of the CLaRK'2000 Summer School
on Computational Linguistics and Represented Knowledge, which
will take place in the period 25.08-8.09.2000(see
http://www.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de/clark/ss2000.html).

SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME:

The workshop will include invited lectures and talks, research
presentations, student sessions, posters and discussions.

INVITED TALKS:

Nicola Guarino, National Research Council, LADSEB-CNR, Italy.
Topic: Mini-course on Ontological Analysis and Ontology Design

Paul Buitelaar, DFKI (German Research Center for Artificial
Intelligence) GmbH, Germany.
Topic: Semantic Lexicons: Between Terminology and Ontology

Galia Angelova, Linguistic Modelling Laboratory, CLPP,
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria.
Topic: Acquiring formal ontologies for NLP applications

Ivan Kasabov, Institute for Bulgarian Language,
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria.
Topic: Shifters, Modes and Epistemes: at the Core of
the Categorial and Minimal Semantics of Natural Language

TECHNICAL REVIEW:
Marin Dimitrov, Sirma AI Ltd., Bulgaria
Topic: XML Standards for Ontology Exchange: OML, OKBC, OXL, OIL

CALL for RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS and STUDENTS SESSIONS:

To provide an opportunity for broader access and participation of
all interested scientists, the organizers plan sessions of
research presentations as well as a student session. Research
presentations will be 30 min. long. Student presentations will
be 20 min. long. There will be also poster sessions.

DISCUSSIONS:

There will be three 1 hour discussions, on the following topics:
- modelling regular polysemy in lexical knowledge bases;
- lexical concepts vs. world knowledge, upper-level ontologies;
- ontologies and lexical knowledge bases for Information Retrieval.

SUBMISSIONS and APPLICATIONS:

Deadline for abstracts of research presentations: 30 June
Notification of acceptance: 20 July

Deadline for participants' applications (registration): 30 June
Notification of acceptance: 20 July

In all cases, abstracts of no more than 1000 words should be
submitted. One of the following formats should be used for the
abstracts: plain text, TeX, LaTeX, RTF/DOC, HTML. For TeX and
LaTeX submissions, be sure to include all the non-standard class
and style files used.

The preliminary version of the accepted papers should be send due
15 August. Typesetting instructions are available at the
http://www.sirma.bg/ontolex/proc
The preliminary versions of the papers will be distributed during
the workshop. A proceedings will be published after the
workshop.

Applications for participation (without presentation) should
contain a statement of interest - motivation to take part as an
essay of not more than 500 words.

All the applications and submissions should contain the following
information:

REGISTRATION FORM:
To be sent via e-mail before 30th of June as a free text
containing the following information:
 - names, sex, degrees (status)
 - affiliation
 - related publications
 - address (both e-, and regular, tel., fax, etc.)
 - talk submitted or not (title)
 - accomodation preferance (see below)

All the submissions (registration forms, statements of interest
and abstracts) should be send by e-mail to the following
addresses:

Kiril Simov <kivs at bgcict.acad.bg>,
Atanas Kiryakov <naso at sirma.bg>.

SCHEDULE:
 7 Sept.: arrivals
 8 Sept.: talks, presentations, poster sessions, discussions
 9 Sept.: talks, presentations, student sessions, discussions
 10 Sept.: discussions, wine tasting
 11 Sept.: departures

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

Kiril Simov, Atanas Kiryakov
Linguistic Modelling Laboratory,
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Acad.G.Bontchev str., Block 25A
Sofia1113,Bulgaria

E-mail: kivs at bgcict.acad.bg, naso at sirma.bg
Fax: +359-2-70 72 73 (Subj. to Kiril Simov, ONTOLEX)
http://www.sirma.bg/OntoLex

ACCOMMODATION:

The workshop will take place in the town of Sozopol, Bulgaria.
Sozopol is one of the best summer resorts on the Black Sea coast,
famous for its unique mixture of ancient Greek culture, Bulgarian
traditional atmosphere (18th century), excellent climate and
entertainment facilities. In addition, it is the favourite place
of Bulgarian artists, both for performances and for relaxation.
It is situated to the south of Bourgas (to be reached by plane -
Bourgas Airport, trains - Bourgas Railway Station, or intercity
buses). It takes 40 minutes to reach Sozopol from Bourgas with
the buses and minibuses that run regularly.

The Workshop will take place in hotel "Flagman". For
accommodation, the participants can choose among hotel "Flagman",
which is relatively expensive but luxurious, and a number of
other options available in Sozopol:  cheaper (but still good)
hotels, and rooms in private houses.  The organizers can arrange
reservations for hotel "Flagman" and provide assistance with the
rest of the options.

FINANCIAL DETAILS:
(1BGL=1DEM)

Prices for hotel Flagman:

Double room:
         For foreigners:                 41 BGL per bed
         For Bulgarians:                 28 BGL per bed

Single room:
         For foreigners:                 63 BGL
         For Bulgarians:                 42 BGL

Approx. prices for other hotels/private rooms: 10-30 BGL per
night.
Approx. expenses for meals, etc.: 8-20 BGL per day.

In the application, specify one of the following options:

"Flagman, single room" - for foreigners this will
cost 63 BGL/night

"Flagman, bed in a double room" - for foreigners this
will cost 41 BGL/night

"cheeper hotel, single room" - about 25-30 BGL/night

"cheeper hotel, double room" - about 30-35 BGL/night

"cheeper hotel, bed in double room" - about 15-20 BGL/night

"bed in a private house" - about 10-15 BGL/night, to be
arranged at the moment of arrival

Registration fee:
100 BGL including the proceedings that will be sent after
the workshop. Students and participants from Central and
Eastern Europe will be eligible for a reduced fee of 25 BGL.
The reduced fee does not includes the proceedings which will
be available for an additional fee of 20 BGL.