28.1368, Summer Schools: 2nd Summer Datathon on Linguistic Linked Open Data/Spain

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Subject: 28.1368, Summer Schools: 2nd Summer Datathon on Linguistic Linked Open Data/Spain

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Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2017 16:26:46
From: Christian Chiarcos [christian.chiarcos at web.de]
Subject: 2nd Summer Datathon on Linguistic Linked Open Data/Spain

2nd Summer Datathon on Linguistic Linked Open Data/Spain

Host Institution: Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Coordinating Institution: Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Website: http://datathon2017.retele.linkeddata.es

Dates: 26-Jun-2017 - 30-Jun-2017
Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Focus: The SD-LLOD datathon has the main goal of giving people from industry and academia practical  knowledge in the field of Linked Data applied to Linguistics. The final aim is to allow participants to migrate their own (or other’s) linguistic data and publish them as Linked Data on the Web. This datathon series is unique in its topic worldwide and continues from the success of the event two years ago (see http://datathon.lider-project.eu/).
Minimum Education Level: No Minimum

Special Qualifications:
We expect experience regarding the use and/or creation of language resources for linguistics or natural language processing. Interest in Linguistic Linked Open Data (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_Linked_Open_Data) is presupposed, the participants will learn about the technical basics and be supported in applying them to their own data.

Description:
2nd Call for the 2nd Summer Datathon on Linguistic Linked Open Data
(SD-LLOD’17) 

The 2nd Summer Datathon on Linguistic Linked Open Data (SD-LLOD-17) will be
held from June 26th to 30th 2017 at Residencia Lucas Olazábal of Universidad
Politécnica de Madrid, Cercedilla, Madrid. See 
http://datathon2017.retele.linkeddata.es

The SD-LLOD datathon has the main goal of giving people from industry and
academia practical  knowledge in the field of Linked Data applied to
Linguistics. The final aim is to allow participants to migrate their own (or
other’s) linguistic data and publish them as Linked Data on the Web. This
datathon series is unique in its topic worldwide and continues from the
success of the event two years ago (see http://datathon.lider-project.eu/).

During the datathon, participants will:

- Generate and publish their own linguistic linked data from some existing
data source.
- Apply Linked Data principles and Semantic Web technologies (Ontologies, RDF,
Linked Data) into the field of language resources.
- Use the principal models used for representing linguistic linked data, in
particular OntoLex-Lemon and NIF.
- Perform Multilingual Word Sense Disambiguation and Entity Linking for the
Web of Data.
- Learn about potential benefits and applications of linguistic linked data
for specific use cases.

The program of the summer datathon will contain three types of sessions:

- Seminars to show novel aspects and discuss selected topics.
- Practical sessions to introduce the basic foundations of each topic,
methods, and technologies and where participants will perform different tasks
using the methods and technologies presented.
- Hacking sessions, where participants will follow the whole process of
generating and publishing Linguistic Linked Data with some existing data set.

Participants will be invited to propose a “miniproject” related to the topic
and to bring to the datathon some dataset of linguistic data produced by their
organizations in order to work on it during the hacking sessions and transform
it into linked data. Participants who cannot provide their own linguistic
dataset can join another’s miniproject or some of the ones proposed by the
organisers. There will be an award to the best miniproject.

Invited Speakers:

Ilan Kernerman  (K Dictionaries)
Laurette Pretorius (University of South Africa)
Elena González-Blanco (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia)
Angus Roberts (University of Sheffield)
Penny Labropoulou  (ILSP, RC Athena)

Registration:

Participants will be invited to submit a short abstract of their ideas for the
datathon (description of possible resources to be converted, linked or reused
during the datathon, ideas for use cases, etc.). A selection of them will be
presented in a poster session during the event and might be proposed as
miniprojects to be developed during the datathon. Registration will be closed
on 4th April (deadline extended).

Important Dates: 

Registration opens: 01/02/2017
Registration closes: 04/04/2017 
Notification: 12/04/2017
Payment until 30/04/2017
Datathon: 26/06/2017 to 30/06/2017

Organizers:

Jorge Gracia (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)
John P. McCrae (Insight Centre for Data Analytics, NUI Galway)
Christian Chiarcos (Goethe Universität Frankfurt)

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Tuition: 490 EUR

Tuition Explanation: The registration fee will be 490€ and will include accommodation (individual
room at the venue), meals, and social events.

Registration: 01-Feb-2017 to 04-Apr-2017

Contact Person: Jorge Gracia
                Phone: +34 913363672
                  Fax: +34 913524819
                Email: jgracia at fi.upm.es

Apply on the web: https://goo.gl/forms/cDWp4BJJk28Mw7hk1

Registration Instructions:
If you want to propose a topic for a mini-project in the datathon (e.g., a
language resource to be converted into linked data, a LLOD dataset to be
linked to other resources, a use case description that exploits the LLOD
cloud, ...) or want to report on some recent research related to the topics of
the datathon, you can write a short description of your ideas (less than 1000
words), that you can either submit during the registration process or send to
the organisers via email.

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