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Call for papers - Second International Workshop on Definitions in
Ontologies (DO 2014)

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CALL FOR PAPERS

Second International Workshop on Definitions in Ontologies (DO 2014) at the
International Conference on Biomedical Ontologies (ICBO 2014)

October 6-7, 2014
Houston, USA

Website: https://sites.google.com/site/definitionsinontologies/

This workshop is a follow-up to the workshop on Definitions in Ontologies
(DO 2013) held last year in Montreal in conjunction with ICBO 2013. The
focus of this second workshop is on definition practices in either human or
machine-assisted ontology development.

PRESENTATION
A current problem in ontology development is constructing the needed
definitions of terms either logical or in natural language. For example,
ontologies built using OBO Foundry principles are advised to include both
logical and natural language definitions, but ontology developers too often
focus on only one of these, or they pay insufficient attention to whether
they are equivalent.

Explicit definitions of terms in ontologies serve a number of purposes.
Logical definitions allow reasoners to create inferred hierarchies,
lessening the burden of asserting and checking the validity of
subsumptions. Natural language definitions help to ameliorate the pervasive
problem of low inter-annotator agreement. In specialized domains, experts
will know their own field well, but may only have limited knowledge of
adjacent disciplines. Good definitions make it possible for non-experts to
understand unfamiliar terms and thereby make it possible for more confident
reuse of terms by external ontologies, which in turn facilitates data
integration.

The goal of this workshop is to bring together interested researchers and
developers to explore these issues by presenting case studies in a
biomedical domain discussing the difficulties that arise when constructing
definitions with a view to sharing strategies in the future. Even in the
seemingly narrow domain of definition construction, cross-fertilization
from related disciplines should yield benefits in quality and help to
identify novel approaches.

Papers submitted should include one or more case studies and raise specific
questions related to definitions with a link to a biomedical domain.
Reports on successful or unsuccessful methods are both appropriate.

TOPICS
-experiences in formulating definitions
-tools that assist in definition editing, including collaborative systems
-coordination of logical and textual definitions
-validation and quality control of definitions, e.g., checking that
definitions comply with the all/some form
-methods for constructing definitions from multiple sources
-use of controlled languages such as Rabbit or ACE for more user-friendly
logical definition creation
-use of templates to systematize definition creation

FORMAT AND OUTCOMES
This will be a half-day workshop with a selected mix of presentations based
on accepted papers. In order to promote discussion, each presentation will
be followed by a short response by a participant of the workshop to be
arranged in advance of the workshop.

This workshop will document findings on the workshop's website (
https://sites.google.com/site/definitionsinontologies/). We expect accepted
papers to be published in the Journal of Biomedical Semantics (JBS).

INTENDED AUDIENCE
-ontologists, tool developers, and domain experts whose work encounters
issues regarding definitions
-tool developers building definition- or ontology-authoring tools
-philosophers and logicians
-biomedical researchers working on definitions in nomenclatures such as
SNOMED
-computer scientists addressing these issues in languages like OWL
-NLP researchers working on definition extraction, generation, or checking
-NLP/IR researchers reusing definitions produced for ontologies

SUBMISSIONS
All papers should include one or more case studies and raise specific
questions related to definitions with a link to a biomedical domain.
Papers should be between 5 and 10 pages long, excluding references,
formatted using the JBS templates at
http://www.jbiomedsem.com/authors/instructions/research#preparing-main-manuscript,
and submitted via EasyChair (
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=do2014).

IMPORTANT DATES
Workshop paper submission: July 15, 2014
Notification of paper acceptance: August 15, 2014
Camera-ready copies for the proceedings: September 15, 2014
Workshops: October 6-7, 2014

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Selja Seppälä (University at Buffalo, USA)
Patrick Ray (University at Buffalo, USA)
Alan Ruttenberg (University at Buffalo, USA)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles (National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS),
France)
Mélanie Courtot (MBB Department Simon Fraser University and BC Public
Health Microbiology & Reference Laboratory, Canada)
Natalia Grabar (Université de Lille 3, France)
Janna Hastings (European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, UK)
James Malone (European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, UK)
Alexis Nasr (Aix Marseille Université, France)
Richard Power (The Open University, UK)
Allan Third (The Open University, UK)

SUPPORTED BY
The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
The State University of New York at Buffalo
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