20.4438, Calls: Computational Ling, Semantics/USA

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Subject: 20.4438, Calls: Computational Ling, Semantics/USA

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Date: 21-Dec-2009
From: Philipp Cimiano < philipp at cimiano.de >
Subject: The Multilingual Semantic Web (WWW 2010 Workshop)
 

	
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From: Philipp Cimiano [philipp at cimiano.de]
Subject: The Multilingual Semantic Web (WWW 2010 Workshop)

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Full Title: The Multilingual Semantic Web (WWW 2010 Workshop) 
Short Title: MSW 

Date: 26-Apr-2010 - 27-Apr-2010
Location: Raleigh, North Carolina, USA 
Contact Person: Paul Buitelaar
Meeting Email: paul.buitelaar at deri.org
Web Site: http://msw.deri.ie/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Semantics 

Call Deadline: 21-Feb-2010 

Meeting Description:

1st Workshop on the Multilingual Semantic Web
collocated with the 19th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2010)
Web: http://msw.deri.ie/ 

Call for Papers

Although knowledge processing on the Semantic Web is inherently
language-independent, human interaction with semantically structured and linked
data will remain inherently language-based as this will be done preferably by
use of text or speech input - in many different languages. Semantic Web
development will therefore be increasingly concerned with knowledge access to
and generation in/from multiple languages, i.e., in:

- multilingual querying of knowledge repositories and linked data
- multilingual knowledge and result presentation in semantic search
- multilingual verbalization of ontology structure in ontology engineering
- ontology-based information extraction from multilingual text and
semi-structured data 
- ontology learning from multilingual text and semi-structured data 

Multilinguality is therefore an emerging challenge to Semantic Web development
and to its global acceptance - across language communities around the world. The
workshop will therefore be concerned with discussion of new infrastructures,
architectures, algorithms etc. that will enable easy adaptation of Semantic Web
applications to multiple languages, addressing issues in representation,
extraction, integration, presentation etc. 

Expected Topics
- models for the integration of linguistic information with ontologies
- architectures and infrastructure for a truly multilingual Semantic Web
- models for multilinguality in knowledge representation, in particular OWL and
RDF(S) 
- localization of ontologies to multiple languages, incl. label translation,
multilingual terms
- adaptation of (multilingual) lexicons to ontologies
- automatic integration of (multilingual) lexicons with ontologies
- multilingual & cross-lingual ontology-based information extraction & ontology
population 
- multilingual aspects of semantic search & querying of knowledge repositories 
- multilinguality and linked data (generation, querying, visualization &
presentation)
- multilingual aspects of ontology verbalization
- ontology learning across languages

Important Dates
February 21st - submission deadline
March 19th - notification
April 1st - camera-ready deadline
April 26th or 27th - workshop

Organizing Committee
Paul Buitelaar
Unit for Natural Language Processing, DERI - National University of Ireland, Galway
http://www.paulbuitelaar.net/

Philipp Cimiano
Semantic Computing Group, Cognitive Interaction Technology Excellence Cluster
(CITEC)
Bielefeld University, Germany
http://www.cimiano.de

Elena Montiel-Ponsoda
Ontology Engineering Group, Departamento de Inteligencia Artificial
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
emontiel at delicias.dia.fi.upm.es

Program Committee
Guadalupe Aguado de Cea, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid - Artificial
Intelligence Department, Spain
Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles, IRIT, Toulouse - Knowledge Engineering, Cognition and
Cooperation, France
Timothy Baldwin, Univ. of Melbourne - Language Technology Group, Australia
Roberto Basili, Universita Tor Vergata, Rome - Artificial Intelligence group, Italy
Chris Bizer, Freie Universität Berlin - Web-based Systems Group, Germany
Francis Bond, NICT - Language Infrastructure Group, Japan
Christopher Brewster, Aston University - Operations and Information Management
Group, UK
Dan Brickley, Vrije Universiteit & FOAF project, the Netherlands
Nicoletta Calzolari, ILC-CNR - Computational Linguistics Institute, Italy
Manuel Tomas Carrasco Benitez, European Commission, Luxembourg
Key-Sun Choi, KAIST - Semantic Web Research Center, South-Korea
Thierry Declerck, DFKI - Language Technology Lab, Germany
Aldo Gangemi, ISTC-CNR - Semantic Technology Laboratory, Italy
Asuncion Gómez Pérez, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid - Artificial
Intelligence Department, Spain
Gregory Grefenstette, Exalead, France
Siegfried Handschuh, DERI, Nat. Univ. of Ireland, Galway - Semantic
Collaborative Software Unit, Ireland
Michael Hausenblas, DERI, Nat. Univ. of Ireland, Galway - Data Intensive
Infrastructures Unit, Ireland
Ivan Herman, CWI & W3C, the Netherlands
Chu-Ren Huang, Hong Kong Polytechnic University - Dept. of Chinese and Bilingual
Studies, Hong Kong
Antoine Isaac, Vrije Universiteit - Web and Media Group, the Netherlands 
Ernesto William De Luca, Universität Magdeburg - Data and Knowledge Engineering
Group, Germany
Paola Monachesi, Universiteit Utrecht - Institute of Linguistics, the Netherlands
Sergei Nirenburg, University of Maryland - Institute for Language and
Information Technologies, USA
Alessandro Oltramari, ISTC-CNR - Laboratory for Applied Ontology & Univ. of
Padua, Italy
Jacco van Ossenbruggen, CWI - Semantic Media Interfaces & VU - Intelligent
Systems, the Netherlands
Wim Peters, University of Sheffield - Natural Language Processing group, UK
Laurette Pretorius, University of South Africa - School of Computing, South-Africa
James Pustejovsky, Brandeis University - CS Dept., Lab for Linguistics and
Computation, USA
Maarten de Rijke, Univ. van Amsterdam - Information and Language Processing
Systems, the Netherlands
Felix Sasaki, W3C deutsch-österr. Büro & FH Potsdam, Germany
Martin Volk, Universität Zürich - Institute of Computational Linguistics,
Switzerland
Piek Vossen, Vrije Universiteit - Dept. of Language, Cognition and
Communication, the Netherlands
Yong Yu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University - APEX Data & Knowledge Management Lab, China





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