[Lexicog] Conference on linguistic ontology

[Rudolph Troike]

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Linguistic Studies of Ontology

Date: 21-Jul-2008 - 26-Jul-2008
Location: Korea University, Seoul, Korea, South
Contact Person: Chu-Ren Huang
Meeting Email: churenhuang at gmail.com
Web Site: http://cil18.org

The workshop 'Linguistic Studies of Ontology: From Lexical Semantics to Formal
Ontologies and Back' is part of the 18th International Congress of Linguists
(CIL 18).

Recent developments in the study of ontology have important implications for
cognitive science, knowledge engineering, and theoretical linguistics. In
particular, research on lexical ontology deals with how concepts are
lexicalized and organized across languages and cultures. This workshop aims to
explore this new departure in linguistic studies by building upon the three
important premises assumed in Fellbaum (1998), Schalley and Zaefferer (2007),
and Huang et al. (2007): First, that lexicalized concepts have a special status
in every language (as opposed to concepts that require complex coding), second
that lexically coded concepts can be shared by different languages, and third
that lexicalization universals are relevant for the construction of
cross-lingually portable formal ontologies.

Following the references cited above, topics of this workshop include
foundational issues pertaining to the relation between formal ontology and
linguistic ontologies, as well as descriptive issues pertaining to the
interface between conceptual ontologies and lexica. In particular, we would
like to focus on the following issues during this workshop:

- Cross-lingual portability of upper-ontologies
- Ontology-based approaches to comparative linguistics
- Ontology enrichment: from concept formation via complex coding to
lexicalisation
- Possible relevance of formal ontological principles (e.g. Roles cannot subsume
Types) to psychological/linguistic reality.

References

Fellbaum, Christiane. 1998. WordNet: An electronic lexical database. MIT Press.

Huang, Chu-Ren et al. Eds. 2007. Ontologies and the Lexicon. Cambridge UP.

Schalley, Andrea C. and Zaefferer, Dietmar. Eds. 2007. Ontolinguistics. Mouton
de Gruyter.

Submission of Abstracts
A two-page abstract including everything should be sent electronically to both
cil18 at cil18.org and churenhuang at gmail.com. An MS Word and/or .pdf file may be
accepted.

Important Dates

Deadline for Abstract Submission: May 31, 2007
Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: August 31, 2007

For more information, visit the website (http://cil18.org) or contact the
organizer at churenhuang at gmail.com.

Organizer

Chu-Ren Huang
Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica
Nankang, Taipei, Taiwan
E-mail address: churenhuang gmail.com
Fax: 886-2-27856622
Tel: 886-2-26523108

Program Committee

Christiane Fellbaum (Princeton)
Shu-kai Hsieh (I-Lan)
Alessandro Lenci (Pisa)
Adam Pease (San Francisco)
Alessandro Oltramari (Trento)
Laurent Prévot (Toulouse)
James Pustejovsky (Brandies)
Andrea C. Schalley (Armidale)
Piek Vossen (Amsterdam)
Dietmar Zaefferer (Munich)



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