22.1520, Calls: Text/Corpus Ling, Semantics, Comp Ling/ Applied Ontology (Jrnl)

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Subject: 22.1520, Calls: Text/Corpus Ling, Semantics, Comp Ling/ Applied Ontology (Jrnl)

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Date: 01-Apr-2011
From: Thierry Hamon [thierry.hamon at univ-paris13.fr]
Subject: Applied Ontology

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Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2011 07:39:01
From: Thierry Hamon [thierry.hamon at univ-paris13.fr]
Subject: Applied Ontology

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Full Title: Applied Ontology 

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

Call Deadline: 01-Sep-2011 

Special issue of Applied Ontology

Ontologies and Terminologies: Continuum or Dichotomy

http://natalia.grabar.perso.sfr.fr/AO-CALL/

The semantic content of terminologies and ontologies is similar, and so are their 
applicational contexts, which may introduce a confusion between these two types of 
resources. Usually, a terminology is defined as a set of terms, which represents the 
system of concepts for an area and for an application. These terms remain linguistic 
entities and linguistic information may be associated with them. Term organization is 
usually not constrained by any formal logics or description, which may lead to problems 
like cyclicity and redundancy within a terminology. As for ontologies, they are built upon 
formal specification and constraints and describe also a system of concepts and 
associated properties for a specific area. They are intended to be used by computers and 
automatic applications. One may ask whether, in a specific situation, a terminology is 
sufficient, or whether an ontology is always required. In that respect, terminology and 
ontology are two complementary resources. However a weak definition of their similarities 
and differences may confuse the users.

The objectives of this special issue is to address various issues related to differences and 
similarities between ontologies and terminologies, such as: 

- What are the differences and similarities between ontologies and terminologies?
- How various (formal, structural and content) differences between terminologies and 
ontologies may impact their use, as well as the results provided by automatic systems? 
- Are terminologies suitable for populating ontologies and to which extent?
- Are terminologies the first step when building ontologies?
- How should the reuse of terminologies be operated?
- What are the various kinds of semantic resources going from dictionaries and 
terminologies to ontologies, through taxonomies and classifications?
- How to decide whether a terminology or an ontology should be exploited in a given 
situation?
- How can multilingual terminologies contribute to the localization of ontologies?
- Whether the same approaches may be used for the building of terminologies and 
ontologies?
- Whether ontologies can be (re)used for improving the contents of a terminology and vice 
versa?
- What are model representations and algorithms for the best reuse of terminologies for 
ontology building?
- Are automated approaches suitable for this?

This Special Issue of AO addresses these various questions, but is not limited to them.
Authors defending various positions and points of view are encouraged to submit to this 
special issue.

Important Dates:
Abstract Submission               May 15th, 2011
Submissions Deadline              September 1st, 2011
Notification to Authors           December 15th, 2011
Second Submission Deadline        February 15th, 2011
Second Notification               March 15th, 2011
Camera-ready Version              April 15th, 2012
Special Issue Publication         Summer 2012

Submission Process:

Abstracts should be sent by email to the guest editors:
   natalia.grabar at univ-lille3.fr, thierry.hamon at univ-paris13.fr,
   obodenreider at mail.nih.gov
Submissions should be between 8 and 12 pages and respect the AO format
(http://www.iospress.nl/html/15705838_ita.html) 

Guest Editors:
Natalia Grabar, CNRS STL UMR 8163, Lille, France
Thierry Hamon, LIM&BIO, University Paris 13, Bobigny, France 
Olivier Bodenreider, NLM/NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

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