CfP: The 9th Workshop on Linked Data in Linguistics (LDL) - LREC-COLING, May 25th 2024

(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
<https://www.w3.org/community/ontolex/> [1], LD4LT
<https://www.w3.org/community/ld4lt/> [2] and BPMLOD
<https://www.w3.org/community/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)

You can contact the workshop organizers under 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)