- From: Philipp Cimiano <cimiano@cit-ec.uni-bielefeld.de>
- Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 08:58:17 +0200
- To: public-ontolex@w3.org
- Message-ID: <4E97DD89.2040803@cit-ec.uni-bielefeld.de>
Dear all, First of all, welcome to everybody on this list. We have by now 28 members in the group, which is very nice. I think it would be nice if everybody could write a brief email introducing themselves and mentioning sth. about their background, what they are working on and why they are interested in this group. This would help everybody to get a feeling for the members of the group. Further, I have started to produce some preliminary material for the group. As you know, there is a wiki (MediaWiki) that we can all use to work together. i) You will find the statement of the mission of the group here: http://www.w3.org/community/ontolex/wiki/Goals_and_Scope_of_Ontology-Lexica_Community_Group ii) You will find a proposal for a schedule that we can use to structure our work. This needs to be thoroughly discussed at one of our first telcos. The proposal of the chairs and other involved people is to start defining use cases from which we can derive requirements on the model later. I think this is a very pragmatic way of kicking of the work that will help us to stay focused and concrete. iii) I have already added a few use cases that I think are relevant and that the ontology-lexicon model should support: http://www.w3.org/community/ontolex/wiki/Specification_of_Use_Cases; comments are of course welcome. If you have comments on the format of the use case descriptions, please let me know. I think it is important that we have some common format for these use case descriptions and I do think that it is important to make these use cases as concrete as possible (also with concrete examples) to facilitate discussion. Our plan is to have a first teleconference to kick-off the work of this group. We will arrange this for end of October/early November at the very latest. We will set up a Doodle for this. In the meantime, I would really appreciate if everybody could introduce themselves. Best regards, Philipp. Am 12.10.11 23:34, schrieb Omar isbaitan: > Hi all, > Can Anyone say Anything about this inside the group, > what we should do? and what should we know? > Is this our group? > I see no comment about this inside the group? > Please help me to understand > ??? > Omar Isbaitan > > ----- Forwarded Message ----- > *From:* Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles <aussenac@irit.fr> > *To:* Philipp Cimiano <cimiano@cit-ec.uni-bielefeld.de> > *Cc:* mtcarrasco@gmail.com; Wim Peters <w.peters@dcs.shef.ac.uk>; > oisbaitan@yahoo.com; Elena Montiel Ponsoda <elemontiel@gmail.com>; > Paul Buitelaar <paul.buitelaar@deri.org>; 'Thierry Declerck' > <Thierry.Declerck@dfki.de>; John McCrae > <jmccrae@cit-ec.uni-bielefeld.de>; thierry.poibeau@ens.fr; Susan > Thomas <susan.marie.thomas@sap.com>; Guadalupe Aguado > <lupe@fi.upm.es>; Alessandro Oltramari <aoltrama@andrew.cmu.edu>; > Sebastian Hellmann <hellmann@informatik.uni-leipzig.de>; > prevot@loa-cnr.it; bernard.vatant@mondeca.com; Antoine Isaac > <aisaac@few.vu.nl>; Michael Hausenblas <michael.hausenblas@deri.org>; > collier@nii.ac.jp; hasida.k@aist.go.jp; menzo@windhouwer.nl; > laurent.romary@inria.fr; katariina.nyberg@iki.fi; Ivan Herman > <ivan@w3.org>; c-mcfate@northwestern.edu; gil.francopoulo@wanadoo.fr; > Anette Frank <frank@cl.uni-heidelberg.de>; ide@cs.vassar.edu; > nicoletta.calzolari@ilc.cnr.it; Felix.Sasaki@dfki.de; > p.vossen@let.vu.nl; claire.nedellec@jouy.inra.fr; > adeline.nazarenko@lipn.univ-paris13.fr; > sean.bechhofer@manchester.ac.uk; josef@computing.dcu.ie; > monica.monachini@ilc.cnr.it; gerhard.budin@univie.ac.at; Daan Broeder > <Daan.Broeder@mpi.nl>; swright@kent.edu; christian.chiarcos@web.de; > Dimitra Anastasiou <dimitra@d-anastasiou.com> > *Sent:* Tuesday, October 11, 2011 11:03 AM > *Subject:* CALL FOR abstracts : Ontology and Lexicon: new insights @ > TIA 2011 > > > *** could those of you who intend to send an abstract give me at least > a title and the speaker's name? *** > *** registrations are now possible on line at > http://tia2011.crim.fr/Registration.html *** > > > CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: Ontology and Lexicon: new insights > > As part of the 9th International Conference on Terminology and > Artificial Intelligence (TIA 2011, http://tia2011.crim.fr/) to be held > in Paris on November 8-9-10th, 2011, the IRIT and CLLE-ERSS labs > jointly with the W3C "ontology Lexica" community group ( > http://www.w3.org/community/ontolex/ ) organize a workshop dedicated to > *Ontology and Lexicon: new insights.* > > Deadline for submission: October 21st, 2011. > *Workshop date: Thursday, November 10th, 2011 > > *Location: INALCO, 65 rue des Grands Moulins, 75013 Paris (France). > > > Ontologies and lexicons > > During the last ten years, a large range of uses of ontologies, mainly > user-interactive applications, access to document content, text > analysis or information retrieval, have stressed the strength of the > connection between ontologies and natural language. Firstly, textual > resources can be used for learning ontologies from text, or at least > to guide an interactive analysis of textual content to build > ontologies. Secondly, ontology based semantic annotation and search, > multilingual access to information, are some of the key features of > the Semantic Web. One of the cornerstones then is to define the way in > which knowledge models can be connected with their linguistic > formulations. In particular, various studies defined representations > of the lexical entries that contain information about how ontology > elements (classes, properties, individuals etc.) are realized in > multiple languages. > > Considered as a knowledge representation, a lexicon gathers the > linguistic properties of terms and their syntactic relations, whereas > an ontology focus on a conceptual model. So the interface between > these two layers is regularly discussed, in particular thanks to the > notions of Lexical Ontology and Termino-Ontological Resources (TOR). > In both cases, the question is how to articulate knowledge models and > their linguistic formulation, which refers to lexical entries and to > their insertion in the discourse where they are used. Indeed, the > text/lexicon is crucial both when acquiring knowledge and when using it. > > > Relations within TIA, OntoLex workshops and the W3C "ontology > and lexica" community group > > In this scope, the OntoLex workshops have been organized. They made it > possible to define research issues about the definition of rich and > relevant models that can be used both to support linguistic processing > based on lexical entities, and to provide an efficient access to > knowledge representations. One of the key questions is about the joint > representation of linguistic and conceptual information. These > question turn out to be "which are the features required to represent > lexical and ontological entities? how can these representation schemes > be connected?" Possible answers are as diverse as the applications > that include these models, the underlying semantic theories or the > hypotheses related to the dynamics of meaning and interpretation. > > Following these workshops, the "Ontology Lexica" W3C community group > was born this year. Among its goals are not only the development of > models for the representation of lexicons (and machine readable > dictionaries) relative to ontologies, but also the collection of best > practices and experiment feed-back that demonstrate the added-value of > such representations. The mission and research focus of the group are > listed here: > http://www.w3.org/community/ontolex/ > > These research issues about ontologies and a lexicon are very relevant > for the TIA conference, that, up to now, has been promoting innovating > works in terminology, questioning the positivist view that freezes the > representation of meaning and its interpretation. The TIA conference > questionned in particular the notion of terminological and ontological > ressource (TOR), which is close to representations like ontologies > with a lexical component. > > Ever since it was set up 20 years ago, the TIA research group has > challenged the positivist dogma. By using NLP tools, its members have > contributed to shaking the belief that there is a gap between > scientific and ordinary language. More generally, corpus analysis has > weakened some certainties related to term definition, in particular > the term-concept tie or the association of "concept" and "signifié". > > > Topics > > The talks to be given during this workshop can deal any of the > following issues: > - presentation of models and representations that combine ontologies > with lexical or terminological entities; > - use-cases that illustrate the added-value of these representations > inside software applications; > - notion of "knowledge rich context" and how it can be taken into > account in knowledge representation; > - ability of these representations to improve linguistic analyses and > language processing or access to ontology entities; > - ability to use these representations to account for polysemy, > meaning change over time, or knowledge evolution. > > The above questions do not form a closed list and any other proposal > of questions or issues will be examined. > > > Submissions > > A 2- or 3-page summary (including a bibliography) must be sent before > October 21st, 2011 to aussenac@irit.fr <mailto:aussenac@irit.fr> > Summaries should follow the TIA 2011 conference format. Please use one > of the following style sheets: > Latex: tia2011latex.tgz > MS Word: tia2011word.zip > > > Organization > > "Ontology Lexica" group chairmen: Paul Buitelaar (DERI, Galway), > Philipp Cimiano (CITEC, University of Bielefeld) > Workshop chairs: Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles (IRIT, Toulouse), Anne > Condamines (CLLE-ERSS, Toulouse), Nathalie Hernandez (IRIT, Toulouse) > and Bernard Rothenburger (IRIT,Toulouse) > -- > Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles > > IRIT - Equipe IC3 > Universite Paul Sabatier > 118, route de Narbonne > 31062 TOULOUSE Cedex 9 > > http://www.irit.fr/%7ENathalie.Aussenac aussenac@irit.fr <mailto:aussenac@irit.fr> > Tel : +33 5 61 55 82 93 Fax : +33 5 61 55 62 58 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > -- 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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