[Corpora-List] Final Program: OntoLex 2010 @ COLING

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                  COLING 2010 Workshop

  The 6th Workshop on "Ontologies and Lexical Resources (OntoLex 2010)" 
			http://www.loa-cnr.it/ontolex2010
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             Beijing, China, August, 21, 2010
                        COLING 2010
FINAL PROGRAM
Check it out at: http://www.loa-cnr.it/ontolex2010 

INVITED TALK
Prof. Chu-Ren Huang, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

REGISTRATION
http://www.coling-2010.org/Registration.htm



Introduction

As human linguistic practice reveals, accessing to concepts through natural
language is the implicit pathway for enabling mutual comprehension and
effective meaning negotiation between agents in a community. But, in order
to exchange knowledge, we need to share the conceptual models underlying the
lexicon, namely ontologies. These remarks become even more crucial when
focusing on human-computer interaction. In this context, computational
ontologies and human-language technologies converge in the task of providing
the semantic description of knowledge contents (e.g. multimedia, web
resources, services, etc.): underlying intended models need to be made
explicit in order to become accessible by artificial agents and sharable
with humans. According to this picture, 1) computational lexicons, whose aim
is to make lexical-content machine-understandable, constitute a fundamental
component to foster the (mono- and multi-linguistic) access to any knowledge
content; 2) computational ontologies, on the other side, are necessary to
capture the logical structure of those knowledge contents: both contribute
to dig out the basic elements of a given semantic space (domain-dependent or
general), characterizing the different relations holding among them.
In this general framework, the contributions presented under the scope of
OntoLex 2010 (Ontologies and Lexical Resources) show in fact a variety of
approaches under many respects. Some of the papers are oriented to describe
the different construction processes of semantic resources (e.g., Daoud et
al. and Nagata deal with two approaches based on Wikipedia), other papers
are especially concerned with specific tasks and applications. Regarding the
latter aspect, some contributions present proposals to enhance
interoperability within the various standardization formats for linguistic
and terminological descriptions (Peters, Vossen et al.) as well as
exploiting specific algorithms for ontology matching. Some papers also focus
on formal ontology, both at the level of theoretical analysis and at the
level of specific categories and relations (see for example the paper by
Bogulaslavsky). The investigated domains span from bio-surveillance (Conway
et al.) through medicine; sentiment/opinion mining confirms to be an
emergent area of interest too (see Cadilhac et al.). Automatic techniques
and algorithms to extract terms and taxonomies are also introduced (Van der
Plas, Nagata et al., vor der Brück).
Originating in 2000, OntoLex is recognized as a common "meeting place" by a
constantly growing interdisciplinary community of lexicographers,
ontologists and computational linguists. Traditionally represented by
researchers and practitioners from a variety of backgrounds (acquisition of
lexical knowledge, ontology-based approaches to information extraction,
ontology learning, ontology matching, etc.), OntoLex 2010's contributions
confirm this trend in the Sixth edition of the workshop too, hosted by
COLING conference for the first time. We think that the comprehensive
perspective emerging from the 10 articles collected in these proceedings can
help in progress towards next-generation knowledge systems based on the
integration between ontologies and lexical resources.





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