Appel: Terminology : An international journal of Theoretical and Applied issues in Specialized communication

Wed Apr 7 15:28:57 UTC 2004

2nd Call for contributions

-- APOLOGIES FOR MULTIPLE POSTINGS --

A special issue of the "Terminology : An international journal of
Theoretical and Applied issues in Specialized communication",
Marie-Claude L'Homme & Ulrich Heid (eds.), John Benjamins Publishing,

will be devoted to : "Application-driven Terminology engineering"

Guest editors : Maria-Teresa Cabre, Annes Condamines, Fidelia
Ibekwe-SanJuan

-- Topic of the issue --

This special issue, following a 2-day workshop held in January 2004 on
"Terminology, Ontology & Knowledge Representation" in Lyon (France),
wishes to address the specific issue of how terminological knowledge
is used and managed within specific applications. It is thus an
application-oriented terminology engineering issue.

Most applications within knowledge engineering deal with terms but
they define or process them differently according to the application
targeted. More precisely, knowledge engineering makes use of
ontologies, it means more or less formal knowledge representation
using terms and relations between them. The text units considered in
an ontology engineering framework may differ depending on uses to
which the ontology is put and also may differ from the units
considered in other application areas like information retrieval,
terminology knowledge acquisition, dictionary construction or enhanced
lexicons.  The usefulness of terminology in applications areas like
specialised lexicon construction, acquisition of semantic relations
from texts, terminology knowledge base (TKB) construction have been
demonstrated and many tools have been designed for such
purposes. These works have adopted an empirical stance, based on
corpora, thus stressing the necessary anchoring of term extraction,
term definition and inter-term relation identification on the contexts
of use. Researchers working in this field have reached a consensus on
the fact that the meaning of a term is not always unique but depends a
lot on the context, on the sub-speciality using it. In the wake of
these works were also many scientific events at national and
international levels: conferences (TIA, TKE), workshops within
international conferences (COMPUTERM 1998 and 2002). A fair amount of
literature exists on the definition and nature of terms, on
term-concept relations, on term extraction methods and tools. Also,
another research direction that has received much attention is
terminology variation and structuring using different linguistic
levels of analysis (morphology, syntax, semantic). This call concerns
more specifically the links between terminology or ontology
construction and an application.  A particular attention will be paid
to papers who justify the definition and processing of terms within an
application framework, i.e., papers should make clear to what extent
the application needs influence the type of text units analysed and
the types of processing to which they are subjected, thus indicating
how this departs from the mainstream theoretical definitions of terms
and their properties. Note however that papers dealing only with the
theoretical definitions of terms, concepts and their relations will
fall outside the scope of this special issue as this has been widely
debated and documented in the literature. The thrust should be on how
the targeted application influences terminology engineering or
management. Solid references should be made to works already done on
similar applications in order to gauge the added-value gained from
terminology processing.  Another topic which this special issue will
like to investigate is corpus-dependent terminology processing. Some
studies have pointed out the fact that the type of corpus used in a
particular study can influence the types of semantic relation markers
found and the types of relations they embody. Thus papers dealing with
how corpus genre affects the type of terminological knowledge acquired
are also welcome.

Contributions should be original and unpublished studies dealing with
the use of terminology in the following application areas (non
exhaustive) :
- corpus-driven terminology knowledge base
- corpus-driven ontology design
- corpus-driven acquisition of semantic relations
- computer-assisted terminology structuring (CAST)
- computer-assisted language learning (CALL)
- corpus-dependent terminology knowledge processing
- competitive intelligence (CI), - scientific and technology watch (STW)
- text mining (TM ) - question - Answering (Q-A)
- information extraction (IE)
Our aim in this special issue is to bring to light current research on
the importance of terminology in these areas, to show that issues
related to terminology processing cross several boundaries and are quite
central in many non-classical application areas. As such, special
attention will be given to papers describing the use of terminology in
the above mentioned areas.

Format for submissions
---------------------------------------
Authors should conform to formatting guidelines which can be found on
the publisher's website : www.benjamins.com, (click "Journals",
"Terminology" and then "Guidelines") or at the end of printed issues of
the journal. Papers should be written in Word and must not exceed 30
double-spaced pages with the required formatting. Submissions in English
is preferred but French, Spanish and German are also acceptable.

Special advisory board for this issue
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Khurshid Ahmad (University of Surrey, UK)
Sophia Ananiandou (University of Salford, UK)
Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles (IRIT, Toulouse, France)
Bruno Bachimont (INA, Paris, France)
Caroline Barriere (National Research Council, Canada)
Didier Bourigault( Erss, CNRS-Toulouse, France)
Beatrice Daille (IRIN, Univ. of Nantes, France)
Kyo Kageura (National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan)
Sylvie Laine-Cruzel (Ersicom, Univ. of Lyon 3, France)
Genevieve Lallich (Ursidoc, Univ. of Lyon 1, France)
Widad Mustafa El-Hadi (Univ. de Lille 3, France)
Blaise Nkwenti-Azeh (UMIST, Manchester, UK)
Jean Royaute (LIF,CNRS-Marseille, France)
Monique Slodzian (CRIM/INALCO, Paris, France)
Sylvie Szulman (LIPN, Univ. de Paris 13, France)
Rita Temmerman (Erasmusshogeschool, Brussel Belgium)
Philippe Thoiron (CRTT, Univ. de Lyon 2, France)

lmportant dates
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30 June 2004 : Deadline for paper submissions
20 September 2004 : Notification of answers to authors
30 October 2004 : camera ready copies
Tentative printing schedule : first quarter of 2005.

Send your contributions in Word format to both ibekwe at univ-lyon3.fr and
anne.condamines at univ-tlse2.fr

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Ibekwe-SanJuan Fidelia
Workshop "Terminology, Ontology & Knowledge representation"
http://www.univ-lyon3.fr/ersicom/partagedessavoirs/termino2004

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