Re: Open Call for Use Cases

Philipp, I will also post at relevant LinkedIn groups:

- Semantic Technologies Group
- Natural Language Processing
- Semantic Search


Paul


Op 22/03/2012 11:08, Philipp Cimiano schreef:
> Dear all,
>
>   thanks for all your feedback. I have changed the text according to
> your suggestions. You will find it below. I have not included specific
> research groups here as I assume that you will circulate the call in
> your own groups (UPM, DERI etc.) as well as reasearch groups that work
> on related topics.
>
> The target group is now the following:
>
> Projects:
>
> - Metanet -> Nicoletta
> - Flarenet -> Nicoletta
> - Molto Project -> Paul
> - Multilingual Web WG -> Felix
> - IKS -> Aldo
> - LOD2 -> Philipp (via Sören Auer)
> - DARPA's Machine Reading -> Philipp
> - Open Information Extraction -> Philipp (Oren Etzioni)
>
> Companies
>
> - SAP -> Philipp
> - IBM -> Philipp
> - Elsevier -> Philipp (Veronique Malaise)
> - Mondeca -> Paul (Bernard Vatant)
> - Semantic Web Company -> Emilio
> - Zemanta -> Philipp (Andraz Tori)
> - OpenAmplify -> Aldo
> - Alchemy -> Aldo
> - Expert System -> Philipp (Nico Lavarini)
> - SAS -> Philipp
>
> Mailinglists:
>
> - DBWorld -> Philipp
> - Semweb@w3c -> Philipp
> - Corpora list -> Paul
> - Linguist list -> Philipp
> - ELRA -> Nicoletta
> - Open Linguistics -> John
> - ontolog-forum@ontolog.cim3.net -> Paul
> - Red Linked Data -> Jorge
> - SemWebSpain -> Jorge
>
> - Associations
> - ATALA -> Maxime
> - Web Semantique -> Maxime
> - ACL (not sure, Maxime: why do you think this would be interesting to
> ACL? We are reaching most of the ACL community through the corpora and
> linguistlists anyway, right?)
>
> Could I kindly ask all of you to send the call to the above lists etc.
> this week? Please confirm that you have sent it so that I can keep track
> of where the call has been sent to.
>
> Now we will start working on the requirements on the model.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Philipp
>
> ==================================================
>
> *Call for use cases for the ontology-lexicon model *
>
> The W3C Community Group on Ontology Lexica [1] has started its work in
> December 2011.
>
> *** Motivation ***
>
> Ontologies have numerous applications and they represent the conceptual
> backbone of the Semantic Web. In fact, significant work has gone into
> standardization efforts under the auspices of the W3C to produce
> recommendations for data and knowledge representation languages, i.e.
> the Resource Description Framework (RDF) and the Web Ontology Language
> (OWL). However, current web-based knowledge representation languages
> such as OWL and RDF(S) lack the rich linguistic grounding that is
> required for language-mediated access to ontologies. OWL and RDF(S) rely
> on a property rdfs:label to capture the relation between a vocabulary
> element and its (preferred) lexicalization in a given language. This
> lexicalization provides some kind of lexical anchor that makes the
> concept, property, individual etc. understandable to a user. The
> mechanisms for linguistic grounding available in OWL and RDF(S) are thus
> far from being able to capture the necessary linguistic and lexical
> information that NLP applications working with a particular ontology
> need. The mission of the Ontology-Lexicon community group is to develop
> a model for the linguistic grounding of ontologies which allows to
> represent lexical entries containing information about how ontology
> elements (classes, properties, individuals etc.) are realized in
> multiple languages. A more detailed overview of the scope and goal of
> the working group can be found at [3].
>
> *** Open Call for Use Cases ***
>
> With this call for use cases, we intend to expand the scope of our
> current use cases (see [2]) by including use cases that are inspired by
> more concrete and real applications.
>
> We thus call for participation of industrial stakeholders and
> application developers in the Community Group by providing a description
> of a use case using the template found below.
>
> By this, we offer interested parties the opportunity to participate in
> standardization activities that are relevant and potentially beneficial
> for their application development, and contribute their ideas to the
> process of creating a standard for the representation of ontology
> related lexicons.
>
> We kindly ask you all to send the use case description to Philipp
> Cimiano (cimiano@cit-ec.uni-bielefeld.de) until May 3rd. Any questions
> or comments can be addressed to Philipp Cimiano at the above email address.
>
> *** Participation in the Group ***
>
> People interested in the group’s activities, discussion and
> teleconferences are welcome to join the group at [1].
>
> [1] http://www.w3.org/community/ontolex/
> [2] http://www.w3.org/community/ontolex/wiki/Specification_of_Use_Cases
> [3]
> http://www.w3.org/community/ontolex/wiki/Goals_and_Scope_of_Ontology-Lexica_Community_Group
>
>
> 
<TEMPLATE>
>
> I. Motivation
>
> This should contain a short motivation of the use case, including a
> description of the application context and why it is relevant to specify
> the meaning of words with respect to a given ontology in the context of
> the application.
>
> II. Description of the use case
>
> This section should describe the use case in more detail, specifying
> what the lexicon-ontology interface would need to look like from the
> point of view of the application and how the lexicon-ontology interface
> is exploited in the context of the given application. If available, the
> ontology for the application should be briefly described.
>
> III. Limitations of existing models
>
> This section should discuss existing models and their limitations with
> respect to the needs of the application in question.
>
> IV. Example
>
> This section should provide a concrete example illustrating what kind of
> knowledge should be stated in the lexicon-ontology interface from the
> point of view of the application and how it would be exploited by the
> application.
>
> V. Requirements
>
> This section is optional and might already advance concrete requirements
> on the lexicon-ontology model.
>
> <TEMPLATE>
>
> ==================================
>
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> Prof. Dr. Philipp Cimiano
> Semantic Computing Group
> Excellence Cluster - Cognitive Interaction Technology (CITEC)
> University of Bielefeld
>
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>
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