[Corpora-List] Call for Papers - OntoLex 2005, IJCNLP-05 Workshop

[Alessandro Lenci]

                                 Call for Paper
                 OntoLex 2005 - Ontologies and Lexical Resources

                         http://www.ilc.cnr.it/ontolex2005

                                 IJCNLP-05 Workshop

                         October 15, 2005 Jeju Island, South Korea


Background and Goals

The new framework of Information Society fostered the growing of the HLT
area and the project of turning the World Wide Web into a machine
understandable resource to access digital information (the so-called
Semantic Web), posing new challenges for integrated technologies.
Lexicographers, lexical semanticists and ontologists are joining forces to
build innovative systems for integrating ontological knowledge with lexical
and semantic resources. Important examples of this interaction are the
recent works on the conceptual analysis of WordNet, and the wide use of
upper ontologies in innovative international projects like EuroWordNet,
SIMPLE, Balkanet, DWDSnet, etc.
OntoLex 2005 will be the fourth workshop on Ontologies and Lexical
Knowledge Bases, following OntoLex 2000, 2002, and 2004. In this workshop
we want to discuss the relation between ontological knowledge and language.
A special focus will be on the role of ontologies in multilingual language
processing. This relation can be investigated from a number of different
angles, for example:
- what differences and similarities there are between ontologies and more
traditional lexical resources such as dictionaries and wordnets;
- how ontologies can be extracted from language corpora;
- what role language plays in the definition and mapping of ontologies;
- how to enrich semantic information in wordnets using formal tools;
- how ontologies can be used to treat language in language technology
applications.
Ontologies and lexical resources can benefit from each other and converge
into a unified framework where semantics is provided by formally rigorous
ontological and lexical information.


Topics of interests

The workshop is open to any research contribution dealing with the relation
between ontologies and lexicons. Topics of interest include, but are not
limited to:
* Design principles and methodologies for ontologies and semantic lexical
resources, with a special focus on Asian languages
* Evaluation, comparison, mapping and integration of ontologies and lexical
semantic resources
* The role of ontologies in the development of Inter-Lingual-Index (ILI)
* Applications of ontologies and lexical semantic resources in Information
Retrieval and Information Extraction;
* Use of ontologies and lexical resources in Semantic Web applications
* Role of lexical semantic resources in ontology learning
* Ontology-based query expansion techniques
* Ontologies and multi-lingual lexical resources
* Ontologies and lexical resources for meaning negotiation


Important Dates

Paper submission deadline: June 10, 2005
Notification of acceptance: July 15, 2005
Camera ready manuscripts due: August 5, 2005
Workshop date: October 15, 2005


Submission Information

Paper submissions must be anonymous and are limited to at most 8 pages
including references, figures etc. Authors are required to follow the
guidelines of IJCNLP-05 workshop style, by hopefully using either the LaTeX
style file or the MS Word document template shown in the IJCNLP-05 style
file page. Only electronic submissions will be accepted. Please email your
submission in PDF (preferred), PostScript, or MS Word to the following address:

alessandro.lenci at ilc.cnr.it

Each submission should also specify the author's name, affiliation, postal
address, email address and title in the body of the email message. For more
information, contact the workshop organizers by using the e-mail address above.


Workshop website

http://www.ilc.cnr.it/ontolex2005


Organizing Committee

Chu-Ren Huang, Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica - Taiwan (co-chair);
Alessandro Lenci, University of Pisa - Italy (co-chair);
Alessandro Oltramari, LOA-CNR - Italy (co-chair);


Program Committee

Paul Buitelaar, DFKI - Germany
Nicoletta Calzolari, ILC-CNR - Italy
Christiane Fellbaum, Princeton University - USA
Aldo Gangemi, LOA-CNR - Italy
Asanee Kawtrakuln - Thailand
Kiyong Lee, Korea University - Korea
Virach Sornlertlamvanich, NICT - Thailand
Takenobu Tokunaga, Tokyo Institute of Technology - Japan
Jun-Ichi Tsujii, University of Tokyo - Japan
Paola Velardi, University of Rome "La Sapienza" - Italy
Jonathan Webster, City University of Hong Kong - Hong Kong
Shiwen Yu, Peking University - China


Contact person:

Alessandro Lenci
University of Pisa, Department of Linguistics
Via Santa Maria 36
56126 Pisa - Italy
e-mail: alessandro.lenci at ilc.cnr.it