23.2888, Calls: Computational Linguistics/USA

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Subject: 23.2888, Calls: Computational Linguistics/USA

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Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2012 11:07:40
From: Paul Buitelaar [paul.buitelaar at deri.org]
Subject: 3rd Workshop on the Multilingual Semantic Web

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Full Title: 3rd Workshop on the Multilingual Semantic Web 
Short Title: MSW3 

Date: 11-Nov-2012 - 11-Nov-2012
Location: Boston, MA, USA 
Contact Person: Paul Buitelaar
Meeting Email: paul.buitelaar at deri.org
Web Site: http://msw3.deri.ie/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 31-Jul-2012 

Meeting Description:

3rd Workshop on the Multilingual Semantic Web co-located with the 11th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2012), Boston MA, USA
http://msw3.deri.ie/

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 it often requires text or speech input - in many different languages. Semantic Web development will therefore be increasingly concerned with knowledge extraction, integration and interaction in multiple languages, making multilinguality an emerging challenge to the global advance of Semantic Web and linked data use and development across language communities around the world. The 3rd workshop on the Multilingual Semantic Web has a focus on the underlying multilingual web infrastructure as well as the linguistic annotation needed for multilingual knowledge extraction, integration and interaction. The workshop will be supported by the Ontology-Lexica W3C Community Group, the W3C MultilingualWeb-LT Working Group, the ISO-Space project and ISO-TimeML:

http://www.w3.org/community/ontolex/
http://www.w3.org/International/multilingualweb/lt/
http://sites.google.com/site/wikiisospace/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO-TimeML

The vision of the Multilingual Semantic Web workshop series is the creation of a Semantic Web where semantically structured information can be aligned, integrated and used across languages. The workshops are concerned with research questions on how current Semantic Web infrastructure can and should be extended to support this vision.

Ontologies and linked data vocabularies are defined often in one language only (English), with a biased semantics and a corresponding world view. An infrastructure should be in place for defining ontologies and vocabularies in multiple languages with a transparent semantics across them. Current Semantic Web representation languages (RDF, OWL, SKOS) are limited in regard of the representation of natural language semantics, leaving much of the semantics hidden in textual web content out of scope for the developing Web of Data.

NLP and machine learning for Linked Data can benefit from exploiting linguistic resources such as annotated corpora, wordnets etc. if they are themselves formally represented and linked by use of Linked Data principles. In addressing such research questions, the workshop aims at providing a forum for researchers at the intersection of NLP, multilingual information access, Linked Data and the Semantic Web to exchange ideas on realizing the Multilingual Semantic Web. 

Call for Papers:

Expected Topics - among others:

- Best practices for representing multilingual data on the Web
- Models for the integration of linguistic information with ontologies
- Architectures and infrastructure for the Multilingual Semantic Web
- Models for multilinguality in OWL and RDF(S)
- Localization of ontologies to multiple languages
- Automatic integration of (multilingual) lexicons with ontologies
- Multilingual aspects of ontology-based information extraction
- Multilingual aspects of semantic search
- Multilingual aspects of knowledge repository querying
- Multilinguality and linked data (generation, querying, visualization)
- Multilingual aspects of ontology verbalization
- Ontology learning across languages

For submissions (in PDF only) use:

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=msw3

Important Dates:

Submission: July 31, 2012
Notification: August 21, 2012
Camera-ready: September 10, 2012

Organizing Committee:

Paul Buitelaar - National University of Ireland, Galway
Philipp Cimiano - University of Bielefeld, Germany
David Lewis - Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
James Pustejovsky - Brandeis University, Waltham MA, USA
Felix Sasaki - W3C & DFKI GmbH, Berlin, Germany






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