[Corpora-List] CALL FOR PAPERS: Lexical-Semantic and Ontological Resources

[Dr. Lothar Lemnitzer]

[my apologies for multiple postings of this call]

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                      CALL FOR PAPERS

         Lexical-Semantic and Ontological Resources

     Workshop of the GLDV Working Group on Lexicography
       at the Biennial Spring Conference of the GLDV
     (Gesellschaft für linguistische Datenverarbeitung/
 Society for Computational Linguistics & Language Technology)

                    April 11 - 13, 2007
                     Tübingen, Germany

          Submission Deadline: November 20, 2006

    URL: http://pi7.fernuni-hagen.de/osswald/gldv07-ws/

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   Invited Speaker: John Bateman (University of Bremen)

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The workshop is a follow-up of the GLDV GermaNet Workshops
2003 and 2005 and the DGfS 2006 Workshop "Lexical-Semantic
Resources for Language Documentation and Language Processing".


Workshop Description
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Lexical-semantic and ontological resources are of fundamental
importance for many applications within the areas of Natural
Language Processing (NLP), Information Retrieval, and the
Semantic Web. Semantic lexicons and wordnets usually have
large coverage with respect to general vocabulary and are
therefore well-suited to NLP-tasks such as semantic labeling
and lexical chaining. Ontologies, on the other hand, oftenlack 
significant coverage or are restricted to special
domains; moreover, they are typically more formalized and
thus suitable for inference techniques.

Various initiatives have been launched to convert semantic
resources of the WordNet and FrameNet family to W3C standard
representation languages such as RDF/OWL in order to make
them more easily accessible to the Semantic Web community.
Other approaches like the OntoWordNet project aim at the
more demanding goal to fully axiomatize the semantic content
of lexical-semantic resources.

The workshop is intended as a forum to discuss possible
interactions between lexical-semantic and ontological
resources as well as their design, construction, extension,
maintenance, validation, and application. Contributions
addressing the following topics are particularly welcome:

* Interfaces (alignments, mappings) between lexical-semantic
  and ontological resources.

* Ontological enrichment of semantic resources, such as
  linking wordnets with existing upper or mid-level ontologies
  like SUMO, MILO, DOLCE, etc.

* Meta-data approaches and standardization efforts for
  integrating different semantic and ontological resources.

* Domain-specific extensions of lexical-semantic resources.

* Automatic acquisition and extension of lexical-semantic
  and ontological resources by corpus-based methods or by
  exploiting other machine-readable knowledge sources.

* Issues of multi- and interlinguality of lexical-semantic
  and ontological resources.

* Tools and techniques for maintaining lexical-semantic
  resources and ontologies (e.g. graphical user interfaces,
  visualization tools, database techniques).

* Applications of semantic lexicons and ontologies in all
  sorts of NLP-based information systems, especially with
  respect to evaluating the impact of these resources.


Organizers
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Claudia Kunze (kunze at sfs.uni-tuebingen.de)
Universität Tübingen, Germany

Lothar Lemnitzer (lothar at sfs.uni-tuebingen.de)
Universität Tübingen, Germany

Rainer Osswald (rainer.osswald at fernuni-hagen.de)
FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany


Important Dates
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Abstract submission deadline:
20.11.2006

Notification of acceptance:
15.12.2006

Full papers for inclusion in the proceedings due:
15.01.2007

Conference:
11.-13.04.2007


Submission Information
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Extended abstracts should contain up to 500 words, not
including the bibliography. They should be submitted in
plain text format or PDF to one of the following email
addresses:

kunze at sfs.uni-tuebingen.de

rainer.osswald at fernuni-hagen.de

In order to be fully considered, submissions should
arrive by November 20, 2006.

The languages of the workshop are German and English.


Registration, Participation Fee, and Travel Information
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Please check the homepage of the GLDV main conference:

http://www.sfb441.uni-tuebingen.de/gldv2007/

Workshop participants should register for the main conference.


Contact Information
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Rainer Osswald
Intelligent Information and Communication Systems
Department of Computer Science
FernUniversität in Hagen
Universitätsstraße 1
58084 Hagen, Germany

tel  +49 (0)2331 987 4524
fax  +49 (0)2331 987 392
email  rainer.osswald at fernuni-hagen.de
url  http://pi7.fernuni-hagen.de/osswald/