[Corpora-List] CFP: "Reuse and adaptation of ontologies and terminologies" EKAW workshop

Mon May 17 13:20:52 UTC 2010

From: dupuchm at hotmail.fr
To: corpora at uib.no
Subject: CFP: EKAW workshop "Reuse and adaptation of ontologies and terminologies"
Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 17:53:31 +0200

Dear all,

Please find below CFP for the international workshop on "Reuse and adaptation of ontologies and terminologies".

Best,

Marie Dupuch
INSERM UMRS 872-20
Paris FRANCE

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EKAW 2010 workshop 

Call soon available at http://www-limbio.smbh.univ-paris13.fr/ReuseOnto-EKAW2010 

REUSE AND ADAPTATION OF ONTOLOGIES AND TERMINOLOGIES 

ORGANIZERS

Natalia Grabar (1,2), Thierry Hamon (3) and Marie Dupuch (1) 

AFFILIATIONS 

(1) Centre de Recherche des Cordeliers, Université Pierre et Marie
Curie - Paris6, UMR_S 872, Paris, F-75006; Université Paris Descartes,
UMR_S 872, Paris, F-75006; INSERM, U872, Paris, F-75006 France 

(2) HEGP AP-HP, 20 rue Leblanc, Paris, F-75015 France 

(3) LIM&BIO (EA3969) UFR SMBH, Léonard de Vinci Université Paris 13, 74 rue Marcel Cachin 93017 Bobigny Cedex France 

CONTACT 

ReuseOnto-EKAW2010 at listes.univ-paris13.fr 

CONTEXT AND MOTIVATION

Thanks to progress performed by the knowledge engineering area,
powerful methods for designing and use of ontologies are provided. As a
result, the scientific and industrial communities have gained access to
an increasing number of ontologies and terminologies. For instance,
within the biomedical area, several dozens of orthogonal or generic
ontologies and terminologies are currently available thanks to the OBO
[1] (Open Biological and Biomedical Ontologies) or UMLS [2]
initiatives: the objective is to make them interoperable and hence
reusable. 

The usage of an ontology or terminology is often characterized by
several factors between which we would name: application, scientific or
technical domain, language of data and of documents to be processed,
user profile, etc. All of them influence the content and organization
of the semantic resources (terminologies and ontologies). Exploitation
of these resources in this original context ensures their optimal use
and results. 

We assume that reuse of such resources implies that at least one
of the designing factors is modified: application, user, domain ...
Hence, the reuse implies also that an adaptation of ontologies and
terminologies is performed. This process appears to be necessary in
order to guarantee an optimized exploitation of the reused ontologies
and terminologies. 

OBJECTIVES

Further to recent evolution of the knowledge engineering area and
to emergence of new context related to the reuse and adaptation of
ontologies and terminologies, several questions have arised [3,4] and
still arise. We propose to address them in this workshop and encourage
submissions on topics related to questions such as: 

- Which areas have developed and currently provide freely available ontologies and terminologies? 

- Are these ontologies and terminologies specific to a given
application, sub-domain or rather generic and descriptive of the area? 

- At which extend the existing ontologies and terminologies may be reused? 

- Whether the existing ontologies can be adapted to new purposes?

- Is their adaptation a suitable process? 

- Is their adaptation less expensive than the designing of new ontologies? 

- What knowledge elements can be reused: terms, concepts, relations, roles, definitions ...? 

- Are terminologies more easily reusable than ontologies? 

- What methods and principles should be exploited for the adaptation and reuse of the existing ontologies? 

- How the mapping of ontologies may be helpful for their reuse? 

- Which role play corpora in adaptation of terminologies and ontologies? 

- Are Natural Language Processing methods helpful in the process of
adaptation of terminologies and ontologies? If they are, which of them
prove to be suitable? 

- ... 

This workshop may also be concerned with questions related to
managing of the evolution of ontologies and their versioning [5,6] and
to analysis of evolution of their content (i.e., concept emergence,
removal, abstraction or specialisation) [7], especially when combined
with questions cited above. 

SUBMISSION PROCESS

- Submissions should not exceed 8 pages and respect the EKAW format (formatted according to Springer Verlag LNCS guidelines) 

- Submissions will be in PDF format

- Submissions will be sent to: ReuseOnto-EKAW2010 at listes.univ-paris13.fr 

IMPORTANT DATES

- 01/07/2010: submissions due 

- 25/07/2010: notifications 

- 01/09/2010: final version of papers 

PLACE AND DATE OF THE WORKSHOP

The workshop will be held with the main conference EKAW 2010
(http://ekaw2010.inesc-id.pt) in Lisbon, Portugal on 11th October-15th
October 2010.

REFERENCES

1. www.obofoundry.org

2. NLM (2008). UMLS Knowledge Sources Manual. National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland. www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/

3. Van Heijst G., Schreiber A. & Wielinga B. (1997). Using explicit ontologies in KBS development. IJHCS, 46(2-3), 183–292

4. Guarino N. (1997). Understanding, building, and using ontologies. IJHCS, 46(2-3), 293–310. 

5. Klein M. & Fensel D. (2001). Ontology versioning on the
semantic web. In Proceedings of the International Semantic Web Working
Symposium (SWWS), pp. 75–91.

6. Maedche A., Motik B., Stojanovic L., Studer R. & Volz R.
(2002). Managing multiple ontologies and ontology evolution in
ontologging. In Symposium on Intelligent Information Processing, pp.
51–63: Kluwer.

7. Guelfi N., Pruski C. & Reynaud C. (2007). Undestanding and
supporting ontology evolution by observing the WWW conference. In ESOE.

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