CfP: The 9th Workshop on Linked Data in Linguistics

(apologies for cross-posting)


  The 9th Workshop on Linked Data in Linguistics: Resources,
  Applications, Best Practices

Workshop colocated with *LREC-COLING 2024*,
Date: *May 25, 2024*
Venue: Torino, Italy and online

For up to date info, check: https://ldl2024.linguistic-lod.org/


  Call for Papers

The Linked Data in Linguistics (LDL) workshop series has established 
itself as the premier venue for discussing the application of Semantic 
Web technologies to the fields of linguistics, digital lexicography, and 
digital humanities (DH).
While recent years have witnessed a steady growth in adoption of the 
technology in these areas, its uptake in other relevant domains, most 
notably in the case of natural language processing (NLP), continues to 
lag behind.
This year, aside from embracing the full bandwidth of applications of 
LLOD technologies and the closely related area of knowledge graphs in 
linguistics, we welcome contributions addressing the application of LLOD 
technologies to NLP applications, as well as those dealing with emerging 
hot topics of future bridges between structured (linguistic) knowledge 
and neural methods.

In addition, this year’s edition of the workshop will be a venue for 
in-depth discussions on community standards and best practices, and, 
above all, those related to the work of the W3C community groups OntoLex 
[1], LD4LT [2] and BPMLOD [3]. To this end, it will include featured 
talks on the latest achievements, developments, and perspectives of 
these W3C Community Groups.

[1] Ontology-Lexica Community Group
[2] Linked Data in Language Technology Community Group
[3] Best Practices in Multilingual Linked Open Data

*Topics of interest *

We invite presentations of algorithms, methodologies, experiments, 
tools, use cases, descriptions of ongoing or planned research projects 
as well as position papers that describe the creation, publication or 
application of linked linguistic data collections and their linking with 
other resources. Descriptions of such data, and in particular, its uses 
in research (linguistics, lexicology, digital humanities) and technology 
(NLP, e-lexicography, localization) are also welcome. The following is a 
non-exhaustive list of relevant topics:

1) /Building, managing and linking language resources/

  * Lexicons and Lexical Data, including Dictionaries and Lexicographic
    Resources
  * Annotations and Annotated Corpora
  * Entity Linking

2) /Technologies, challenges and best practices for language technology 
and language resources on the web:/

  * Interoperability
  * Sustainability
  * FAIRness

3) Structured data in language technology:

  *   Knowledge Graphs
  * Machine Learning
  * Multilingual Technologies
  * Language Knowledge Injection in LLMs

4) Show cases, case studies and applications by different communities of 
practice:

  * Multimodality
  * Corpus Linguistics
  * Lexicography
  * Digital Humanities

5) Current directions and critical reflection. Position papers on:

  * Ethical, legal, technological aspects of structured data in the age
    of LLMs
  * The role of LLOD in promoting low-resource languages
  * Extensions of RDF and graph formalisms

We invite both long (8 pages and 2 pages of references) and short papers 
(4 pages and 2 pages of references) representing original research, 
innovative approaches and resource descriptions. Short papers may also 
represent project descriptions. These do not have to be implemented but 
discuss to what extent and for which purposes Linguistic Linked Open 
Data is reused or created. Projects that are still in their early stages 
and seek advice from the broader Linguistic Linked Data community are 
welcome, especially if they include underrepresented fields of study.

Papers should be formatted according to the LREC-COLING guidelines, 
please see https://lrec-coling-2024.org/authors-kit/. Please note that 
the review process will be /single-blind/.

*Identify, Describe and Share your LRs! *

When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to 
provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e. 
also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used 
for the work described in the paper or are a new result of your 
research. Moreover, ELRA encourages all LREC-COLING authors to share the 
described LRs (data, tools, services, etc.) to enable their reuse and 
replicability of experiments (including evaluation ones).

*Important Dates *

  * Submission Date: February 23, 2024
  * Notification of Acceptance: March 22, 2024
  * Camera-Ready: April 5, 2024
  * Workshop: May 25, 2024

*Workshop Organizers *

  * Christian Chiarcos (University of Augsburg, Germany)
  * Katerina Gkirtzou (Athena Research Center, Greece)
  * Maxim Ionov (University of Cologne, Germany)
  * Fahad Khan (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy)
  * John P. McCrae, (University of Galway, Ireland)
  * Elena Montiel Ponsoda (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)
  * Patricia Martín Chozas (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)

Please get in contact via ldl2024@linguistic-lod.org.

*Program Committee *

  * Sina Ahmadi (George Mason University, USA)
  * Verginica Barbu Mititelu (Research Institute for Artificial
    Intelligence of the Romanian Academy, Romania)
  * Paul Buitelaar (Insight, Ireland)
  * Sara Carvalho (University of Aveiro, Portugal)
  * Rute Costa (NOVA FCSH/NOVA CLUNL, Portugal)
  * Milan Dojchinovski (Czech Technical University, Czech Republic)
  * Agata Filipowska (Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny w Poznaniu, Poland)
  * Francesca Frontini (CNR-ILC, Italy)
  * Frances Gillis Webber (University of Cape Town, South Africa)
  * Voula Giouli (Athena Research Center, Greece)
  * Dagmar Gromann (University of Vienna, Austria)
  * Yoshihiko Hayashi (Waseda University, Japan)
  * Alik Kirillovich (Higher School of Economics, Russia)
  * Penny Labropoulou (Athena Research Center, Greece)
  * Chaya Liebeskind (Jerusalem College of Technology, Israel)
  * David Lindemann (University of the Basque Country, Spain)
  * Francesco Mambrini (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy)
  * Monica Monachini (CNR-ILC, Italy)
  * Diego Moussallem (Paderborn University, Germany)
  * Roberto Navigli (“La Sapienza” Università di Roma, Italy)
  * Petya Osenova (IICT-BAS, Bulgaria)
  * Ana Ostroški Anić (Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics,
    Croatia)
  * Giulia Pedonese (CNR-ILC, Italy)
  * Sigita Rackevičienė (Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania)
  * Felix Sasaki (SAP, Germany)
  * Andrea Schalley (Karlstad University, Sweden)
  * Gilles Sérasset (University Grenoble Alpes, France)
  * Milena Slavcheva (IICT-BAS, Bulgaria)
  * Blerina Spahiu (Bicocca University, Italy)
  * Ranka Stanković (University of Belgrade, Serbia)
  * Armando Stellato (University of Rome, Italy)
  * Federica Vezzani (University of Padua, Italy)

-- 
Katerina Gkirtzou, PhD (she/her)
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Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP)
Athena Research Center
Epidavrou 6 & Artemidos, Maroussi, Greece
mailto:katerina.gkirtzou@athenarc.gr