Acquiring and Representing Multilingual, Specialized Lexicons

[Harold F. Schiffman]

Announcement of a workshop that is relevant to the recent discussion on
developing scientific registers in LCTL's:
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Acquiring and Representing Multilingual, Specialized Lexicons: the Case of
Biomedicine

Short Title: AcqSpecLex


Date: 23-May-2006 - 23-May-2006
Location: Genova, Italy
Contact: Pierre Zweigenbaum
Contact Email: < click here to access email >
Meeting URL:
http://estime.spim.jussieu.fr/~pz/lrec2006/programme-specialized-lexicons.html

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Lexicography; Morphology;
Semantics; Text/Corpus Linguistics; Translation

Meeting Description:

This workshop aims to examine how specialized lexicons, in particular in
biomedicine and beyond English, can be acquired, represented, and linked
across languages. The development of general, multilingual lexicons and
dictionaries has received much interest (see, e.g., projects EuroWordNet
or Papillon).  In contrast, less attention has been given to multilingual
lexicons and dictionaries in specialized domains, where the focus has been
put instead on terminological products such as thesauri and
classifications. The need nevertheless exists for large, shared,
multilingual lexicons and dictionaries which support natural language
processing in specialized domains. Medicine, with terminologies ranging
above a million terms, is a case in point: only few specialized lexicons
exist for this domain, English being as usual the best served. This
workshop aims to examine how specialized lexicons, in particular in
biomedicine and beyond English, can be acquired, represented, and linked
across languages.

PROGRAMME

/9:00/
Welcome and start of workshop

Session 1. Multilingual Lexicon Alignment

/9:00/
Invited talk
Developing a multilingual medical dictionary in the
''Semantic Mining'' European Network of Excellence
Stefan Schulz, Kornl Mark, Patrick Ruch, Pierre Zweigenbaum

/10:00/
Subword Approach For Acquiring and Cross-Linking
Multilingual Specialized Lexicons
Philipp Daumke, Stefan Schulz, Kornl Mark

/10:30/
Cross-Lingual Alignment of Medical Lexicons
Kornl Mark, Robert Baud, Pierre Zweigenbaum, Magnus Merkel, Maria
Toporowska-Gronostaj, Dimitrios Kokkinakis, Stefan Schulz

/11:00 -- 11:30/
Coffee break

/11:30/
Using Word Alignment to Extend Multilingual Medical Terminologies
Louise Delger, Magnus Merkel, Pierre Zweigenbaum

Session 2. Distributed development

/12:00/
Invited talk
Papillon project: Retrospective and Perspectives
Mathieu Mangeot

/13:00/
Staff vs. Volunteer: Two Approaches to Building a Multilingual Lexical
Resource
Alan Melby, Marc Carmen, Steve Asher, Gerard Meijssen

/13:30 -- 14:30/
Lunch break

Session 3. Normalization and Terminology

/14:30/
Invited talk
LMF for multilingual, specialized lexicons
Gil Francopoulo, Monte George, Nicoletta Calzolari, Monica Monachini,
Nuria Bel, Mandy Pet, Claudia Soria

/15:30/
Unification of multi-lingual scientific terminological resources using the
ISO 16642 standard.
The TermSciences initiative
Majid Khayari, Stphane Schneider, Isabelle Kramer, Laurent Romary

/16:00/
The Development of a MeSH-based Biomedical Termbase at Hogeschool Gent
Joost Buysschaert

/16:30 -- 17:00/
Coffee break

Session 4. Multilingual Lexicon and Ontology

/17:00/
Designing an Ontology of Dialogue Elements Modeling Doctor-Patient
Exchanges
Leslie Barrett

/17:30/ Populating ontologies in biomedicine and presenting their content
using multilingual generation
Vangelis Karkaletsis, Alexandros G. Valarakos, Constantine D. Spyropoulos

== Panel and general discussion

/18:00/
Methods for the acquisition and representation of multilingual,
specialized lexicons

/19:00/
End of workshop

LOCATION

Magazzini del Cotone Conference Center, Genoa, Italy.
Co-located with LREC 2006 <http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2006>

ORGANIZERS

Pierre Zweigenbaum, AP-HP; Inserm; Inalco, Paris, France
Stefan Schulz, Freiburg University Hospital, Freiburg, Germany
Patrick Ruch, University Hospital of Geneva, Switzerland

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Sophia Ananiadou, National Centre for Text Mining, Manchester, UK
Lars Borin, Gteborg University, Goteborg, Sweden
Stefan Darmoni, University Hospital of Rouen, France
Gil Francopoulo, Tagmatica ; Inria, Paris, France
Vangelis Karkaletsis, NCSR ''Demokritos'' - IIT, Athens, Greece
Philippe Langlais, University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada
Christian Lovis, University Hospital of Geneva, Switzerland
Mathieu Mangeot, University of Savoie, Annecy, France
Magnus Merkel, Linkping University, Linkping, Sweden
Alessandro Oltramari, University of Trento & LOA-CNR, Trento, Italy
Patrick Ruch, University Hospital of Geneva, Switzerland
Stefan Schulz, Freiburg University Hospital, Freiburg, Germany
Pierre Zweigenbaum, AP-HP; Inserm; Inalco, Paris, France

CONTACT person

Pierre Zweigenbaum biomath.jussieu.fr>

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