[Corpora-List] Call for workshop participation: OntoLex @ COLING 2010

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                 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
                  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



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

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


PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

8:30 - 9:30:  Workshop registration

chair: Piek Vossen

9:30 - 10:30: Keynote by Prof. Huang Chu Ren(HK Polytechnic Univ)
10.30 - 10.50: Coffee break

chair: Lu Qin

10:50 - 11.15:  Wim Peters.  Networking Ontologies for Linguistic and
Terminological Description
11.15 - 11.40: Piek Vossen, German Rigau, Eneko Agirre, Aitor Soroa, Monica
Monachini and Roberto Bartilini.  KYOTO: an open platform for mining facts
11.40 - 12.05: Masaaki Nagata, Yumi Shibaki and Kazuhide Yamamoto.  Using
Goi-Taikei as an Upper Ontology to Build a Large-Scale Japanese Ontology
from Wikipedia
12.30 - 14.00: Lunch Break

chair: Wim Peters

14.00 - 14.25: Mohammad Daoud, Kyo Kageura, Christian Boitet, Asanobu
Kitamoto and Mathieu Mangeot.  Multilingual Lexical Network from the
Archives of the Digital Silk Road
14.25 - 14.50: Lonneke van der Plas and Jörg Tiedemann.  Finding Medical
Term Variations using Parallel Corpora and Distributional Similarity
14.50 - 15.15: Tim vor der Brück.  Learning Semantic Network Patterns for
Hypernymy Extraction
15.15 - 15.40: DongHyun Choi, Eun-kyung Kim, Sang-ah Shim and Key-Sun
Choi.  Intrinsic Property-based Taxonomic Relation Extraction from Category
Structure
15.40 - 16.00: Coffee break
Mohammad Daoud
16.30 - 16.55 Mike Conway, John Dowling and Wendy Chapman.  Developing a
Biosurveillance Application Ontology for Influenza-Like-Illness

Organizing Committee

• Alessandro Oltramari, Laboratory for Applied Ontology (ISTC-CNR) 
• Piek Vossen, Faculty of Arts, VU University Amsterdam 
• Lu-Qin, Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Program Committee

• Christiane Fellbaum, Princeton University
• Paul Buitelaar, DERI, National University of Ireland
• Philipp Cimiano, Delft University of Technology
• Emanuele Pianta, Fondazione Bruno Kessler
• Massimo Poesio, University of Trento
• Ed Hovy, University of Southern California
• Bolette Pedersen, University of Copenhagen
• John Bateman, University of Bremen
• Armando Stellato, Università di Roma "Tor Vergata"
• Chu-Ren Huang, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
• Guido Vetere, Center for Advanced Studies, IBM
• Laurent Prevot, University of Provence
• Kiril Simov,Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
• Alessandro Lenci,University of Pisa
• Ernesto De Luca,Technische Universität Berlin 

 
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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