[Corpora-List] DEADLINE EXTENSION: 3rd Workshop on LINKED DATA IN LINGUISTICS (LDL-2014)

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Final Call for Papers

DEADLINE EXTENSION 16th FEBRUARY 2014

3rd Workshop on LINKED DATA IN LINGUISTICS (LDL-2014): Multilingual  
Knowledge Resources and Natural Language Processing

Tuesday, May 27, 2014, Reykjavik (Iceland)

Collocated with the 9th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
(LREC-2014)

http://ldl2014.org/

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The explosion of information technology has led to a substantial  
growth in quantity, diversity and complexity of linguistic data  
accessible on the Web. The lack of interoperability between linguistic  
and language resources represents a major challenge that needs to be  
addressed, in particular, if information from different sources is to  
be combined, such as machine-readable lexicons, corpus data and  
terminology repositories. The Linked Data in Linguistics (LDL)  
workshop series provides a forum to discuss these types of resources,  
strategies to address issues of interoperability between them,  
protocols to distribute, access and integrate this information and  
technologies and infrastructures developed on this basis.

The goal of the workshop is twofold. First, we will assemble  
researchers from various fields of linguistics, natural language  
processing, knowledge management and information technology to present  
and discuss *principles, case studies, and best practices* for  
representing, publishing and linking mono- and multilingual   
linguistic and knowledge data collections, including corpora,  
grammars, dictionaries, wordnets, translation memories, domain  
specific ontologies etc. In this sense, we particularly invite  
contributions discussing the application of the *Linked Open Data  
paradigm* to linguistic data as it might provide an important step  
towards making linguistic data:
i) easily and uniformly queryable,
ii) interoperable and
iii) sharable over the Web using open standards such as the HTTP  
protocol and the RDF data model [1].

The adaptation of some processes and best practices to *multilingual  
linguistic resources and knowledge bases* acquires also new relevance  
in this context. Some processes may need to be modified to accommodate  
the publication of resources that contain information in several  
languages. Also the linking process between linguistic resources in  
different languages poses important research questions, as well as the  
development and application of freely available knowledge bases and  
crowdsourcing to compensate the lack of publicly accessible language  
resources for various languages.

Secondly, we will provide researchers on natural language processing  
and semantic web technologies a platform to present case studies and  
best practices on the exploitation of linguistic resources exposed on  
the Web for *Natural Language Processing* applications, or other  
content-centered applications such as content analytics, knowledge  
extraction, etc. The availability of massive linked open knowledge  
resources raises the question how such data can be suitably employed  
to facilitate different NLP tasks and research questions. Following  
the tradition of earlier LDL workshops, we encourage contributions to  
the *Linguistic Linked Open Data (LLOD) cloud* [2] and research on  
this basis. In particular, this pertains to contributions that  
demonstrate an added value resulting from the combination of linked  
datasets and ontologies as a source for semantic information with  
linguistic resources published according to as linked data principles.  
Another important question to be addressed in the workshop is how  
Natural Language Processing techniques can be employed to further  
facilitate the growth and enrichment of linguistic resources on the Web.

The *intended audience* includes linguists, NLP engineers and  
researchers from any field of computer science interested in the  
application of Semantic Web formalisms and related technologies to  
language data, empirically-working linguists and lexicographers  
interested in the representation, exchange and interlinking of  
knowledge resources, linguistic data and metadata, and developers of  
infrastructures for linguistic data and other researchers with an  
interest in both aspects.

Background and History
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This workshop brings together two community efforts, the Open  
Linguistics Working Group of the Open Knowledge Foundation (OWLG), and  
the W3C Ontology-Lexica Community Group. LDL-2014 is also supported by  
a recently started EU Support Action: LIDER (Linked Data as an enabler  
of cross-media and multilingual content analytics for enterprises  
across Europe), which aims to provide an ecosystem for the  
establishment of linguistic linked open data, as well as media  
resources metadata, for a free and open exploitation of such resources  
in multilingual, cross-media content analytics across Europe.

The workshop is continuing a series of workshops on the application of  
the Linked Data paradigm to linguistic data that have been initiated  
and organized by the Open Linguistics Working Group: The First  
Workshop on Linked Data in Linguistics (LDL-2012) was conducted in  
March 2012 at the University of Frankfurt am Main/Germany, and  
collocated with the 34th Annual Meeting of the German Linguistics  
Society (DGfS-2012). The Workshop on Multilingual Linked Open Data for  
Enterprises (MLODE-2012) was conducted in September 2012 at the  
University of Leipzig/Germany, and collocated with the 3rd Conference  
on Software Agents and Services for Business, Research and E-Science  
(SABRE-2012). The Second Workshop on Linked Data in Linguistics  
(LDL-2013) was conducted in Sep 2013 at CNR in Pisa/Italy, and  
collocated with the 6th International Conference on the Generative  
Lexicon (GL2013).

Linguistic Linked Data Challenge
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There is a data challenge associated to the Linguistic Linked Data  
Workshop. In addition to regular workshop papers, we will accept  
dataset description of 4-6 pages describing new linguistic dataset  
published on the web as linked data. These linguistic datasets  
include, but are not limited to, lexica, terminologies, semantic  
networks, annotated and parallel corpora, multimodal resources,  
typological databases and linguistic metadata. The data challenge  
committee will review and evaluate data according to four dimensions,  
with prizes of up to ?700, funded by the LIDER project, awarded to the  
highest scoring datasets.
The criteria for the Linguistic Linked Data Challenge include:

* Availability
** Use of Linked Data and RDF.
** Hosted on a publicly accessible server and be available both during the
    period of the evaluation and beyond.
** Use of an open license.

* Quality of Resource
** Represents useful linguistically or NLP-relevant information.
** Reuses relevant standards and models.
** Contains complex, non-trivial information, e.g., multiple levels of
    annotation.

* Linking
** Links to external resources.
** Reuse of existing properties and categories.

* Impact/usefulness of the resource
** Relevant and likely to be reused by many researchers in NLP and  
wider fields.
** Uses linked data to improve the quality of and access to the resource.

* Originality
** Represents a type of resource or a community currently under-represented in
    (L)LOD cloud activities
** Facilitates novel and unforeseen applications or use cases (as described by
    the authors) enabled through Linked Data technology.

Details of the challenge are announced in separate Calls for Datasets,  
see http://ldl2014.org/challenge.html for up-to-date information.

Topics of interest
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We invite contributions related (but not limited) to the following topics:

1. Use cases and project proposals for the creation, publication or  
application of linguistic data collections that are linked with other  
resources

2. Modelling linguistic data and metadata with OWL and/or RDF

3. Ontologies for linguistic data and metadata collections as well as  
cross-lingual retrieval

4. Descriptions of data sets following Linked Data principles

5. Applications of such data, other ontologies or linked data from any  
subdiscipline of linguistics (may include work in progress or project  
descriptions)

6. Application and applicability of (Linguistic) Linked Open Data in NLP

7. NLP contributions to (Linguistic) Linked Open Data

8. Challenges of multilinguality and the use of LOD and  
collaboratively constructed open resources for knowledge extraction,  
machine translation and other NLP tasks.

9. Legal and social aspects of Linguistic Linked Open Data

10. Best practices for the publication and linking of multilingual  
knowledge resources

Submission & Publication
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We accept submission of both *long (up to 8 pages) and short papers  
(up to 4 pages)* to be presented as long or short oral presentation at  
the workshop to be submitted via  
http://www.softconf.com/lrec2014/LDL/. The papers of the workshop will  
be published as online proceedings. In addition, we aim for a journal  
special issue as post-conference proceedings in which a selected  
amount of papers presented at the workshop will be published.
When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to  
provide essential *information about resources* (in a broad sense,  
i.e. also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have  
been used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of  
your research. Moreover, ELRA encourages all LREC authors to *share  
the described LRs* (data, tools, services, etc.), to enable their  
reuse, replicability of experiments, including evaluation ones, etc.  
If this data (or parts of it) are provided as Linked Data, then please  
also consider to participate in the *Linguistic Linked Data Challenge*  
(http://ldl2014.org/challenge.html).
For contact data, stylesheets, up-to-date details on submission and  
the workshop itself, please consult our website: http://ldl2014.org.

Timeline
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Sun, Feb 16, 2014:  Submission deadline
Mon, Mar 17, 2014:  Notification of acceptance
Sat, Mar 30, 2014: Camera-ready paper
Tue, May 27, 2014: Workshop

Organizers
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Christian Chiarcos (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
John McCrae (Universität Bielefeld, Germany)
Elena Montiel (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)
Kiril Simov (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria)
Antonio Branco (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
Nicoletta Calzolari (ILC-CNR, Italy)
Petya Osenova (University of Sofia, Bulgaria),
Milena Slavcheva (JRC-Brussels, Belgium)
Cristina Vertan (University of Hamburg, Germany)

Program Committee
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Eneko Agirre (University of the Basque Country, Spain)
Guadalupe Aguado (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)
Peter Bouda (Interdisciplinary Centre for Social and Language  
Documentation, Portugal)
Steve Cassidy (Macquarie University, Australia)
Damir Cavar (Eastern Michigan University)
Eric Charton (Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada)
Walter Daelemans (University of Antwerp, Belgium)
Ernesto William De Luca (University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, Germany)
Gerard de Melo (University of California at Berkeley)
Thierry Declerck (Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche  
Intelligenz, Germany)
Dongpo Deng (Institute of Information Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
Alexis Dimitriadis (Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands)
Jeff Good (University at Buffalo)
Asunción Gómez Pérez (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)
Jorge Gracia (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)
Walther v. Hahn (University of Hamburg, Germany)
Eva Hajicova (Charles University Prague, Czech Republic)
Harald Hammarström (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
Yoshihiko Hayashi (Osaka University, Japan)
Sebastian Hellmann (Universität Leipzig, Germany)
Dominic Jones (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
Lutz Maicher (Universität Leipzig, Germany)
Pablo Mendes (Open Knowledge Foundation Deutschland, Germany)
Steven Moran (Universität Zürich, Switzerland/Ludwig Maximilian  
University, Germany)
Sebastian Nordhoff (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary  
Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany)
Antonio Pareja-Lora (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)
Maciej Piasecki (Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland)
Adam Przepiorkowski (IPAN, Polish Academy of Sciences)
Laurent Romary (INRIA, France)
Felix Sasaki (Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz, Germany)
Andrea Schalley (Griffith University, Australia)
Marco Tadic (University of Zagreb, Croatia)
Marieke van Erp (VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Daniel Vila (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)
Menzo Windhouwer (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics,  
Nijmegen, The Netherlands)

References
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[1] Chiarcos, C., J. McCrae, P. Cimiano, C. Fellbaum (2013), Towards  
open data for linguistics: Lexical Linked Data. In: Oltramari et al.  
(eds.)  New Trends of Research in Ontologies and Lexical Resources.  
Springer, Heidelberg.

[2] Chiarcos, C., S. Nordhoff, S. Hellmann (2012, eds.), Linked Data  
in Linguistics. Representing and Connecting Language Data and Language  
Metadata, Springer, Heidelberg.

[3] Oltramari, A., P. Vossen, L. Qin, L., E. Hovy (2013, eds.), New  
Trends of Research in Ontologies and Lexical Resources, Springer,  
Heidelberg.

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