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Subject: 28.2582, Calls: Applied Ling, Cog Sci, Comp Ling, Philosophy of Lang, Text/Corpus Ling/Italy

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Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2017 12:54:50
From: Daniele Radicioni [radicion at di.unito.it]
Subject: Contextual Representation of Objects and Events in Language

 
Full Title: Contextual Representation of Objects and Events in Language 
Short Title: CREOL at JOWO2017 

Date: 21-Sep-2017 - 23-Sep-2017
Location: Bolzano, Italy 
Contact Person: Daniele Radicioni
Meeting Email: radicion at di.unito.it
Web Site: http://creol2017.di.unito.it 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics; Philosophy of Language; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Call Deadline: 15-Jul-2017 

Meeting Description:

CREOL aims at gathering together researchers from different communities
(Applied Ontology, NLP, AI, Semantic Web) to investigate the relationship
between representations of objects and events in ontological and linguistic
resources, and their interpretation in their context of occurrence.


Call for Papers:

CREOL at JOWO2017 Second Call for Papers
Contextual Representation of Objects and Events in Language 
http://creol2017.di.unito.it

Bolzano, Italy, September 21-23, 2017

Scope:
CREOL aims at gathering together researchers from different communities
(Applied Ontology, NLP, AI, Semantic Web) to investigate the relationship
between representations of objects and events in ontological and linguistic
resources, and their interpretation in their context of occurrence. 

Dealing with context is a key factor in the conceptualization of human
experience, and thus a major issue for understanding natural language. It is
well known that some properties of objects and events may be activated
according to the context of occurrence, thus determining access to partial
salient information rather than to all information. One typical case involving
objects is that of an orange being passed between two children, or the same
orange peeled on a table: in the former case the roundness prevails over other
traits, and the orange is being used to play; in the latter one, the edible
features are those mostly conveyed by the scene. 
Similar and higher plasticity associated to contextual features also
characterizes events. Events are complex entities by nature, and representing
and extracting them from textual documents is not a trivial task. Existing
lexical resources encode very basic information on events: their linguistic
realisation, roles of participants, and types. Additional properties of events
are currently missing: duration of events, event internal substructure, event
pre- and post- situations, relations to other events in terms of
explanatory/causal and temporal relations. These properties are essential to
promote reasoning on events and their participants, and they may vary
according to the specific context of occurrence in a text/document. 

Contextual access to objects and events needs to be investigated at its
interface with language. The design of ontological and linguistic resources
that account for the mentioned semantic phenomena involves collecting
contextual information and devising context-aware procedures. 

Application areas:
Contributions will be solicited that cover a variety of topics including but
not limited to:

- theoretical foundations for the use of AI techniques to deal with context
and with changing/evolving objects and events;
- KR frameworks to represent mutable/evolving objects and events, including
formal ontologies, conceptual spaces and distributed representations;
- formal methods for reasoning in evolving scenarios;
- theoretical, methodological, experimental, and application-oriented aspects
of knowledge engineering and knowledge management centered on events and
evolving objects;
- use cases and application scenarios (e.g., in law, medicine) where
contextual information impacts on concepts/events representation and
processing;
- linguistic approaches to context analysis;
- context-aware lexical resources to describe events;
- context-aware topic and event detection and tracking, knowledge discovery;
- context-aware frame semantics;
- entity linking, keyword linking, word sense disambiguation.

Important Dates:
- May 15, 2017 - Post the first call for papers
- July 10, 2017 - Submission of contributions to workshops
- Sept 1, 2017 - Workshop paper acceptance notification
- Sept 15, 2017 - Deadline for final camera ready

Workshop Organizers:
Daniele P. Radicioni, University of Turin, Italy
Valerio Basile, INRIA, France
Tommaso Caselli, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, NL




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