[Corpora-List] First call special issue "Terminology"

[Ibekwe]

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A special issue of the "Terminology : An international journal of
Theoretical and Applied issues in Specialized communication",
Marie-Claude L"Homme & Ulrich Heid (eds.), John Benjamins Publishing,

will be devoted to :

"Application-driven Terminology engineering"

Guest editors : Maria-Teresa Cabré, Annes Condamines, Fidelia
Ibekwe-SanJuan


Topic of the issue ---------------------------------------
This special issue, following a 2-day workshop held in January 2004 on
"Terminology, Ontology & Knowledge Representation" in Lyon (France),
wishes to address the specific issue of how terminological knowledge is
used and managed within specific applications. It is thus an
application-oriented terminology engineering issue.

Most applications within knowledge engineering deal with terms but they
define or process them differently according to the application
targeted. More precisely, knowledge engineering makes use of ontologies,
it means more or less formal knowledge representation using terms and
relations between them. The text units considered in an ontology
engineering framework may differ depending on uses to which the ontology
is put and also may differ from the units considered in other
application areas like information retrieval, terminology knowledge
acquisition, dictionary construction or enhanced lexicons.
The usefulness of terminology in applications areas like specialised
lexicon construction, acquisition of semantic relations from texts,
terminology knowledge base (TKB) construction have been demonstrated and
many tools have been designed for such purposes. These works have
adopted an empirical stance, based on corpora, thus stressing the
necessary anchoring of term extraction, term definition and inter-term
relation identification on the contexts of use. Researchers working in
this field have reached a consensus on the fact that the meaning of a
term is not always unique but depends a lot on the context, on the
sub-speciality using it. In the wake of these works were also many
scientific events at national and international levels: conferences
(TIA, TKE), workshops within international conferences (COMPUTERM 1998
and 2002). A fair amount of  literature exists on the definition and
nature of terms, on term-concept relations, on term extraction methods
and tools. Also, another research direction that has received much
attention is terminology variation and structuring using different
linguistic levels of analysis (morphology, syntax, semantic). This call
concerns more specifically the links between terminology or ontology
construction and an application.
A particular attention will be paid to papers who justify the definition
and processing of terms within an application framework, i.e., papers
should make clear to what extent the application needs influence the
type of text units analysed and the types of processing to which they
are subjected, thus indicating how this departs from the mainstream
theoretical definitions of terms and their properties. Note however that
papers dealing only with the theoretical definitions of terms, concepts
and their relations will fall outside the scope of this special issue as
this has been widely debated and documented in the literature. The
thrust should be on how the targeted application influences terminology
engineering or management. Solid references should be made to works
already done on similar applications in order to gauge the added-value
gained from terminology processing.
Another topic which this special issue will like to investigate is
corpus-dependent terminology processing. Some studies have pointed out
the fact that the type of corpus used in a particular study can
influence the types of semantic relation markers found and the types of
relations they embody. Thus papers dealing with how corpus genre affects
the type of terminological knowledge acquired are also welcome.

Contributions should be original and unpublished studies dealing with
the use of terminology in the following application areas (non
exhaustive) :
- corpus-driven terminology knowledge base
- corpus-driven ontology design
- corpus-driven acquisition of semantic relations
- computer-assisted terminology structuring (CAST)
- computer-assisted language learning (CALL)
- corpus-dependent terminology knowledge processing
- competitive intelligence (CI), - scientific and technology watch (STW)
- text mining (TM ) - question - Answering (Q-A)
- information extraction (IE)
Our aim in this special issue is to bring to light current research on
the importance of terminology in these areas, to show that issues
related to terminology processing cross several boundaries and are quite
central in many non-classical application areas. As such, special
attention will be given to papers describing the use of terminology in
the above mentioned areas.

Format for submissions
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Authors should conform to formatting guidelines which can be found on
the publisher's website : www.benjamins.com, (click "Journals",
"Terminology" and then "Guidelines") or at the end of printed issues of
the journal. Papers should be written in Word and must not exceed 30
double-spaced pages with the required formatting. Submissions in English
is preferred but French, Spanish and German are also acceptable.

Special advisory board for this issue
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Khurshid Ahmad (University of Surrey, UK)
Sophia Ananiandou (University of Salford, UK)
Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles (IRIT, Toulouse, France)
Bruno Bachimont (INA, Paris, France)
Caroline Barrière (National Research Council, Canada)
Didier Bourigault( Erss, CNRS-Toulouse, France)
Béatrice Daille (IRIN, Univ. of Nantes, France)
Kyo Kageura (National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan)
Sylvie Lainé-Cruzel (Ersicom, Univ. of Lyon 3, France)
Geneviève Lallich (Ursidoc, Univ. of Lyon 1, France)
Widad Mustafa El-Hadi (Univ. de Lille 3, France)
Blaise Nkwenti-Azeh (UMIST, Manchester, UK)
Jean Royauté (LIF,CNRS-Marseille, France)
Monique Slodzian (CRIM/INALCO, Paris, France)
Sylvie Szulman (LIPN, Univ. de Paris 13, France)
Rita Temmerman (Erasmusshogeschool, Brussel Belgium)
Philippe Thoiron (CRTT, Univ. de Lyon 2, France)

lmportant dates
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30 June 2004 : Deadline for paper submissions
20 September 2004 : Notification of answers to authors
30 October 2004 : camera ready copies
Tentative printing schedule : first quarter of 2005.

Send your contributions in Word format to both ibekwe at univ-lyon3.fr and
anne.condamines at univ-tlse2.fr

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Ibekwe-SanJuan Fidelia
Workshop "Terminology, Ontology & Knowledge representation"
http://www.univ-lyon3.fr/partagedessavoirs/termino2004