4th Workshop on Linked Data in Linguistics (LDL-2015): Resources and Applications - First Call for Papers

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4th Workshop on Linked Data in Linguistics (LDL-2015): Resources and
Applications
collocated with ACL-IJCNLP 2015, Beijing, July 31st, 2015,
http://ldl2015.linguistic-lod.org

The substantial growth in the quantity, diversity and complexity of
linguistic data accessible on the Web has led to many new and interesting
research areas in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and linguistics.
However, resource interoperability represents a major challenge that still
needs to be addressed, in particular if information from different sources
is combined. With its fourth instantiation, the Linked Data in Linguistics
workshop continues to provide a major forum to discuss the creation of
linguistic resources on the web using linked data principles, as well as
issues of interoperability, distribution protocols, access and integration
of language resources and natural language processing pipelines developed
on this basis.

As a result of the preceding workshops, a considerable number of resources
is now available in the Linguistic Linked Open Data (LLOD) cloud. LDL-2015
will thus specifically welcome papers addressing the usage aspect of Linked
Data and related technologies in NLP, linguistics and neighboring fields,
such as Digital Humanities.

Organized by the interdisciplinary Open Linguistics Working Group, the LDL
workshop series is open to researchers from a wide range of disciplines,
including (computational) linguistics and NLP, but also the Semantic Web,
linguistic typology, corpus linguistics, terminology and lexicography. In
2015, we plan to increase the involvement of the LIDER project and the
LD4LT community group, to build on their efforts to facilitate the use of
linked data and language resources for commercial applications, and to
continue the success of LIDER‘s roadmapping workshop series in engagement
with enterprise.

Topics of Interest

We invite presentations of algorithms, methodologies, experiments, use
cases, project proposals and position papers regarding the creation,
publication or application of linguistic data collections and their linking
with other resources, as well as descriptions of such data. This includes,
but is not limited to, the following:

Resources:

   - Modelling linguistic data and metadata with OWL and/or RDF.
   - Ontologies for linguistic data and metadata collections as well as
   cross-lingual retrieval.
   - Descriptions of data sets following Linked Data principles.
   - Legal and social aspects of Linguistic Linked Open Data.
   - Best practices for the publication and linking of multilingual
   knowledge resources.

Applications:

   - Applications of such data, other ontologies or linked data from any
   subdiscipline of linguistics or NLP.
   - The role of (Linguistic) Linked Open Data to address challenges of
   multilinguality and interoperability.
   - Application and applicability of (Linguistic) Linked Open Data for
   knowledge extraction, machine translation and other NLP tasks.
   - NLP contributions to (Linguistic) Linked Open Data.

We invite both long (8 pages and 2 pages of references, formatted according
to the ACL-IJCNLP guidelines) and short papers (4 pages and 2 pages of
references) representing original research, innovative approaches and
resource types, use cases or in-depth discussions. Short papers may also
represent project proposals, work in progress or data set descriptions.


Dataset Description Papers

In addition to full papers and regular short papers, authors may submit
short papers with a dataset descriptions describing a resource’s
availability, published location and key statistics (such as size). Such
papers do not need to show a novel method for the creation or publishing of
the data but instead will be judged on the quality, usefulness and clarity
of description given in the paper.


Important Dates

Paper submission:         May 8th, 2015
Notification of Acceptance:     June 5th, 2015
Camera-Ready Copy:     June 21st, 2015
Workshop:             July 31st, 2015


Organizing Committee

Christian Chiarcos (Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany)
Philipp Cimiano (Bielefeld University, Germany)
Nancy Ide (Vassar College, USA)
John P. McCrae (Bielefeld University, Germany)
Petya Osenova (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria)

Program Committee

Eneko Agirre (University of the Basque Country, Spain)
Guadalupe Aguado (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)
Claire Bonial (University of Colorado at Boulder, USA)
Peter Bouda (Interdisciplinary Centre for Social and Language
Documentation, Portugal)
Antonio Branco (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
Martin Brümmer (University of Leipzig, Germany)
Paul Buitelaar (INSIGHT, NUIG Galway, Ireland)
Steve Cassidy (Macquarie University, Australia)
Nicoletta Calzolari (ILC-CNR, Italy)
Thierry Declerck (DFKI, Germany)
Ernesto William De Luca (University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, Germany)
Gerard de Melo (University of California at Berkeley)
Judith Eckle-Kohler (Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany)
Francesca Frontini (ILC-CNR, Italy)
Jeff Good (University at Buffalo)
Asunción Gómez Pérez (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)
Jorge Gracia (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)
Yoshihiko Hayashi (Waseda University, Japan)
Fahad Khan (ILC-CNR, Italy)
Seiji Koide (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
Lutz Maicher (Universität Leipzig, Germany)
Elena Montiel-Ponsoda (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)
Steven Moran (Universität Zürich, Switzerland)
Sebastian Nordhoff (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology,
Leipzig)
Antonio Pareja-Lora (Universidad Complutense Madrid, Spain)
Maciej Piasecki (Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland)
Francesca Quattri (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong)
Laurent Romary (INRIA, France)
Felix Sasaki (Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz,
Germany)
Andrea Schalley (Griffith University, Australia)
Gilles Sérraset (Joseph Fourier University, France)
Kiril Simov (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria)
Milena Slavcheva (JRC-Brussels, Belgium)
Armando Stellato (University of Rome, Tor Vergata, Italy)
Marco Tadic (University of Zagreb, Croatia)
Marieke van Erp (VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Daniel Vila (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)
Cristina Vertan (University of Hamburg, Germany)
Walther v. Hahn (University of Hamburg, Germany)
Menzo Windhouwer (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen)