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OntoLex 2005 - Call for Paper

OntoLex 2005 - Ontologies and Lexical Resources

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, please make contact with the workshop organizers by using the 
same e-mail address above.



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 Kawtrakul - KU – 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

e-mail: alessandro.lenci at ilc.cnr.it