Re: Fw: CALL FOR abstracts : Ontology and Lexicon: new insights @ TIA 2011

Dear all,

  I would like to briefly introduce myself. My name is Philipp Cimiano 
and I lead the Semantic Computing Group at Bielefeld University in Germany.
I am interested in the connection between natural language and knowledge 
representation formalisms, in particular ontologies. In recent years,
the focus of my work has been on the lexicon-ontology interface. The 
concrete outcome of this work have been a number of models that support
the specification of the meaning of lexical entries with respect to a 
given (domain) ontology. I am also concerned with applications of such 
models for
information extraction, natural language generation as well as question 
answering, also across languages.

Given that there has been a substantial investment from the W3C and the 
community in the specification of formalisms for knowledge 
representation (OWL, RDF in particular), I think it is about time to 
define a standard for how information about linguistic realization of 
concepts etc. can be associated to ontologies. I hope that this 
community group will contribute to and provide the first steps towards 
such a standard.

Greetings,

Philipp.

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Prof. Dr. Philipp Cimiano
Semantic Computing Group
Excellence Cluster - Cognitive Interaction Technology (CITEC)
University of Bielefeld

Phone: +49 521 106 12249
Fax: +49 521 106 12412
Mail: cimiano@cit-ec.uni-bielefeld.de

Room H-127
Morgenbreede 39
33615 Bielefeld

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