Fwd: [ncbo-publictalks] NCBO Webinar on Wed 10/29: Modeling Textual Definition Contents With BFO 2.0 and Creating Associated Linguistic/NLP Resources (Selja Seppala)

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From: Carol Bean <cbean@stanford.edu>
Date: Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 12:16 AM
Subject: [ncbo-publictalks] NCBO Webinar on Wed 10/29: Modeling
Textual Definition Contents With BFO 2.0 and Creating Associated
Linguistic/NLP Resources (Selja Seppala)
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Colleagues:

The next NCBO Webinar will be held at 10:00 AM (PDT) on Wednesday,
October 29, 2014.

Please see below for information on the presentation.  Webex info will
be sent later.

Carol Bean
NCBO

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Title:
Modeling Textual Definition Contents With BFO 2.0 and Creating
Associated Linguistic/NLP Resources

Abstract:
Dr. Selja Seppälä will present the issues related to definition
authoring and the general idea behind the creation of language- and
domain-independent computer-assisted definition writing tools. She
will outline the methodology (1) for creating widely usable definition
templates on the basis of the categories of the Basic Formal Ontology
(BFO), and (2) for testing these templates on corpora of existing
definitions from a large variety of domains written in different
languages. Dr. Seppälä will then focus on the computational work
carried out to automate these corpus analyses, and present the
linguistic and NLP resources that are currently being produced. If
time permits, she will present some preliminary results on the
predictability of the models.

Speaker Bio:
Dr. Selja Seppälä is a postdoctoral researcher at the University at
Buffalo, where she has been working under the supervision of Dr. Barry
Smith since 2012. Her research project, funded by the Swiss National
Science Foundation (SNFS), aims at laying the groundwork for creating
computer-assisted natural language definition writing tools leveraging
ontological data that can be used in any possible context and
practice, both by terminologists and ontologists. Her research
interest is in definitions in dictionaries and in ontologies, and in
the automation of definition processing, production and checking. Her
primary domains of expertise are terminology and natural language
processing with a strong interest in ontologies and philosophy.

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