[Corpora-List] Call for Book Chapters, "Towards the Multilingual Semantic Web", to be published by Springer Verlag
Paul Buitelaar
paul.buitelaar at deri.org
Mon Oct 1 16:04:04 UTC 2012
=== Call for Book Chapters ===
"Towards the Multilingual Semantic Web" (to be published by Springer,
autumn 2013)
Editors: Paul Buitelaar (DERI, National University of Ireland, Galway,
Ireland) and Philipp Cimiano (CITEC, University of Bielefeld, Germany)
We invite submissions of book chapter abstracts for a new book "Towards
the Multilingual Semantic Web" to be published by Springer.
=== Motivation ===
The amount of Internet users with native languages other than English
hasseen a substantial growth in recent years. As a consequence, the Web
is turning more and more into a truly multilingual platform in which
individuals and organizations with different cultural and linguistic
backgroundscollaborate, consuming and producing information at a scale
without precedent. In such a multilingual web, differences in language
should not become a barrier for information access, but contribute to
plurality and diversity of opinion and culture. The creation of a level
playing field in which users from different cultural and linguistic
backgrounds have accessto the same body of information and have
comparable opportunities to contribute to that information, is a crucial
goal to achieve. Such a level playing field would also reduce
information hegemonies and biases, allowing to access various opinions
and perspectives. In the traditional Web, language represents an
important barrier for information access as it is not straightforward to
access information produced in a foreign language. Towards this end, new
principles, methods and architectures need to be developed that foster
the access to information across the boundaries of languages and
countries, allowing to aggregate and compare content and opinions
originating in different cultural contexts and languages.
Originally conceived by Tim Berners-Lee et al. as an extension to the
traditional Web, the Semantic Web is "an extension of the current web in
which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling
computers and people to work in cooperation". The Semantic Web has seen
an impressive growth in recent years in terms of the amount of data
published on the Web using the RDF and OWL data models. The kind of data
published nowadays on the Semantic Web or Linked Open Data cloud is
mainly of a factual nature and thus represents a basic body of knowledge
that is accessible to mankind as a basis for informed decision-making.
The Semantic Web vision bears an excellent potential to create a level
playing field for users with different cultural backgrounds, native
languages and originating from different geo-political environments.
Such potential exists, as information available on the Semantic Web is
expressed in a language-independent fashion and is thus accessible to
speakers of different languages if the right mechanisms are in place.
However, so far the relation between multilingualism and the Semantic
Web has not received enough attention in the research community.
Exploring and advancing the state-of-the-art in information access to
the Semantic Web across languages is the goal of the edited book
proposed here.
=== Structure of the book===
The planned book will consist of around 15 chapters of about 20 pages,
divided in three sections: Principles, Methods and Applications.
Principles: The section on principles will be concerned with models,
architectures, and methodologies that enrich the current Semantic Web
Architecture with features necessary to handle different languages.
Examples are:
- models for the integration of linguistic information with ontologies,
i.e., models for multilingualism in knowledge representation, in
particular OWL and RDF(S)
- extensions of state-of-the-art querying languages (SPARQL) to account
for multilinguality
- web architecture to support multilinguality
Methods: The methods section will contain papers describing particular
methods and approaches to solving some of the key issues in the area of
theMultilingual Semantic Web, including but not limited to:
- multilingual and cross-lingual ontology alignment
- ontology translation and localization
- multilingual and cross-lingual aspects of semantic search and querying
of knowledge repositories
- cross-lingual information retrieval
- cross-lingual question answering over Linked Data
- automatic integration and adaptation of (multilingual) lexicons with
ontologies
- multi- and cross-lingual ontology-based information extraction and
ontology population
- multilingualism and linked data (generation, querying, browsing,
visualization and presentation)
- multilingual aspects of ontology verbalization
- ontology learning across languages
- collaborative ontology design across languages and cultures
- NLP methods to construct the multilingual Semantic Web
Applications: The applications section will describe innovative and
relevant applications and solutions for use cases in the area of the
Multilingual Semantic Web.
=== Submission ===
Submission will be in two stages. At the first stage, an abstract of 5
pages (incl. References) should be submitted, describing the main topic
andtable of contents for the proposed chapter. Each abstract should
mentionexplicitly which of the above topics are addressed, and stating
also whether the chapter is concerned primarily with principles, methods
or applications. At the second stage, authors of selected abstracts will
be invited to submit a full chapter.
=== Timeline ===
December 2, 2012 Deadline for abstract submission
December 10, 2012 Notification of acceptance / rejection
March 31, 2013 Submission of chapter (20 pages maximum)
Mai 31, 2013 Review of chapter to authors
June 30, 2013 Submission of pre-final version
July 31, 2013 Review of pre-final version to authors
August 31, 2013 Camera-ready version
September 2013 Book publication
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