Re: Open Call for Use Cases

Hi Philipp,

Let me this last minute addition to the lists (I can post it there myself):

DCMI Vocabulary Management Community
http://dublincore.org/groups/vocabulary-management/

Regards,
Jorge

2012/3/22 Paul Buitelaar <paul.buitelaar@deri.org>:
> Philipp, I will also post at relevant LinkedIn groups:
>
> - Semantic Technologies Group
> - Natural Language Processing
> - Semantic Search
>
>
> Paul
>
>
> Op 22/03/2012 11:08, Philipp Cimiano schreef:
>>
>> Dear all,
>>
>>  thanks for all your feedback. I have changed the text according to
>> your suggestions. You will find it below. I have not included specific
>> research groups here as I assume that you will circulate the call in
>> your own groups (UPM, DERI etc.) as well as reasearch groups that work
>> on related topics.
>>
>> The target group is now the following:
>>
>> Projects:
>>
>> - Metanet -> Nicoletta
>> - Flarenet -> Nicoletta
>> - Molto Project -> Paul
>> - Multilingual Web WG -> Felix
>> - IKS -> Aldo
>> - LOD2 -> Philipp (via Sören Auer)
>> - DARPA's Machine Reading -> Philipp
>> - Open Information Extraction -> Philipp (Oren Etzioni)
>>
>> Companies
>>
>> - SAP -> Philipp
>> - IBM -> Philipp
>> - Elsevier -> Philipp (Veronique Malaise)
>> - Mondeca -> Paul (Bernard Vatant)
>> - Semantic Web Company -> Emilio
>> - Zemanta -> Philipp (Andraz Tori)
>> - OpenAmplify -> Aldo
>> - Alchemy -> Aldo
>> - Expert System -> Philipp (Nico Lavarini)
>> - SAS -> Philipp
>>
>> Mailinglists:
>>
>> - DBWorld -> Philipp
>> - Semweb@w3c -> Philipp
>> - Corpora list -> Paul
>> - Linguist list -> Philipp
>> - ELRA -> Nicoletta
>> - Open Linguistics -> John
>> - ontolog-forum@ontolog.cim3.net -> Paul
>> - Red Linked Data -> Jorge
>> - SemWebSpain -> Jorge
>>
>> - Associations
>> - ATALA -> Maxime
>> - Web Semantique -> Maxime
>> - ACL (not sure, Maxime: why do you think this would be interesting to
>> ACL? We are reaching most of the ACL community through the corpora and
>> linguistlists anyway, right?)
>>
>> Could I kindly ask all of you to send the call to the above lists etc.
>> this week? Please confirm that you have sent it so that I can keep track
>> of where the call has been sent to.
>>
>> Now we will start working on the requirements on the model.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Philipp
>>
>> ==================================================
>>
>> *Call for use cases for the ontology-lexicon model *
>>
>>
>> The W3C Community Group on Ontology Lexica [1] has started its work in
>> December 2011.
>>
>> *** Motivation ***
>>
>> Ontologies have numerous applications and they represent the conceptual
>> backbone of the Semantic Web. In fact, significant work has gone into
>> standardization efforts under the auspices of the W3C to produce
>> recommendations for data and knowledge representation languages, i.e.
>> the Resource Description Framework (RDF) and the Web Ontology Language
>> (OWL). However, current web-based knowledge representation languages
>> such as OWL and RDF(S) lack the rich linguistic grounding that is
>> required for language-mediated access to ontologies. OWL and RDF(S) rely
>> on a property rdfs:label to capture the relation between a vocabulary
>> element and its (preferred) lexicalization in a given language. This
>> lexicalization provides some kind of lexical anchor that makes the
>> concept, property, individual etc. understandable to a user. The
>> mechanisms for linguistic grounding available in OWL and RDF(S) are thus
>> far from being able to capture the necessary linguistic and lexical
>> information that NLP applications working with a particular ontology
>> need. The mission of the Ontology-Lexicon community group is to develop
>> a model for the linguistic grounding of ontologies which allows to
>> represent lexical entries containing information about how ontology
>> elements (classes, properties, individuals etc.) are realized in
>> multiple languages. A more detailed overview of the scope and goal of
>> the working group can be found at [3].
>>
>> *** Open Call for Use Cases ***
>>
>> With this call for use cases, we intend to expand the scope of our
>> current use cases (see [2]) by including use cases that are inspired by
>> more concrete and real applications.
>>
>> We thus call for participation of industrial stakeholders and
>> application developers in the Community Group by providing a description
>> of a use case using the template found below.
>>
>> By this, we offer interested parties the opportunity to participate in
>> standardization activities that are relevant and potentially beneficial
>> for their application development, and contribute their ideas to the
>> process of creating a standard for the representation of ontology
>> related lexicons.
>>
>> We kindly ask you all to send the use case description to Philipp
>> Cimiano (cimiano@cit-ec.uni-bielefeld.de) until May 3rd. Any questions
>> or comments can be addressed to Philipp Cimiano at the above email
>> address.
>>
>> *** Participation in the Group ***
>>
>> People interested in the group’s activities, discussion and
>> teleconferences are welcome to join the group at [1].
>>
>> [1] http://www.w3.org/community/ontolex/
>> [2] http://www.w3.org/community/ontolex/wiki/Specification_of_Use_Cases
>> [3]
>>
>> http://www.w3.org/community/ontolex/wiki/Goals_and_Scope_of_Ontology-Lexica_Community_Group
>>
>>
>> 
<TEMPLATE>
>>
>> I. Motivation
>>
>> This should contain a short motivation of the use case, including a
>> description of the application context and why it is relevant to specify
>> the meaning of words with respect to a given ontology in the context of
>> the application.
>>
>> II. Description of the use case
>>
>> This section should describe the use case in more detail, specifying
>> what the lexicon-ontology interface would need to look like from the
>> point of view of the application and how the lexicon-ontology interface
>> is exploited in the context of the given application. If available, the
>> ontology for the application should be briefly described.
>>
>> III. Limitations of existing models
>>
>> This section should discuss existing models and their limitations with
>> respect to the needs of the application in question.
>>
>> IV. Example
>>
>> This section should provide a concrete example illustrating what kind of
>> knowledge should be stated in the lexicon-ontology interface from the
>> point of view of the application and how it would be exploited by the
>> application.
>>
>> V. Requirements
>>
>> This section is optional and might already advance concrete requirements
>> on the lexicon-ontology model.
>>
>> <TEMPLATE>
>>
>> ==================================
>>
>> --
>> 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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