[CfP] Statements of Interest: E-LKR'12 Exploiting Large Knowledge Repositories

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                             CALL FOR STATEMENTS OF INTEREST
                          2nd International Workshop on
              Exploiting Large Knowledge Repositories (E-LKR)
              Collocated with SEPLN 2012 Conference
           September 7, 2012. Castellon, Comunidad Valenciana, Spain
              http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/isg/conferences/ELKR2012/
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CALL FOR STATEMENTS OF INTEREST
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We solicit "Statement of Interest" (up to 2 pages) dealing with some of
(but not limited to) the proposed topics
and showing the benefits of exploiting LKRs to the Natural Language
Processing, the Semantic Web and Database
communities.

Topics:

    * Natural language processing tasks and applications of LKRs.

    * LKRs as high-quality sources of information.

    * LKRs characterization and applications.

    * LKRs creation from document collections and corpora.

    * Knowledge extraction from LKRs.

    * Analysis and mining of LKRs.

    * Temporal issues in LKRs.

    * Acquisition, validation and management of data and knowledge.

    * Knowledge integration issues in LKRs.

    * Integration of large scale ontologies.

    * Automatic construction of ontologies, thesauri and corpora from LKR.

    * Semantic annotation.

    * Semantic search.

    * LKRs and the Semantic Web.

    * LKRs and the Web of Linked Data.

    * Social graphs as LKRs.

    * Visualization techniques for LKRs.

    * Emerging applications of LKRs.


SUBMISSIONS
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Statements of interest (up to 2 pages).

Submissions must be in PDF and should be formatted according to the
Springer LNCS guidelines. Submission
is electronic through easychair:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=elkr2012

E-LKR papers are to be published as a volume of CEUR workshop proceedings.


IMPORTANT DATES
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    * Deadline Statements of Interest: August 7th, 2012

    * Workshop: September 7th, 2012 (morning, half day)



ORGANISATION
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For enquiries, please contact the workshop chairs at elkr2012@easychair.org

Workshop chairs

    * Ernesto Jiménez-Ruiz (University of Oxford, UK)
    * María José Aramburu Cabo (Universitat Jaume I, Spain)
    * Roxana Danger (Imperial College London, UK)
    * Antonio Jimeno-Yepes (National Library of Medicine, USA)

Publicity chair

    * Esther Ramo Tena (Science and Technology Park, Universitat Jaume I,
Spain)

Program committee

    * Ana Armas (University of Oxford, UK)
    * Yassine Benajiba (Columbia University, USA)
    * Rafael Berlanga Llavori (Universitat Jaume I, Spain)
    * Manuel de la Villa Cordero (Universidad de Huelva, Spain)
    * Jorge Gracia (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)
    * Ramon Granell (University of Oxford, UK)
    * Senay Kafkas (EMBL-EBI, UK)
    * Evgeny Kharlamov (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy)
    * Maria Liakata (EMBL-EBI, UK)
    * Dolores María Llidó (Universitat Jaume I, Spain)
    * Despoina Magka (University of Oxford, UK)
    * Marco Mesiti (Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy)
    * Jose Mora (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)
    * Victoria Nebot (Universitat Jaume I, Spain)
    * María Pérez (Universitat Jaume I, Spain)
    * Bastien Rance (National Library of Medicine, USA)
    * Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann (EMBL-EBI, UK)
    * Paolo Rosso (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain)
    * Ismael Sanz (Universitat Jaume I, Spain)
    * Giorgio Stefanoni (University of Oxford, UK)
    * Jorge Vivaldi (Institute for Applied Linguistics, Universitat Pompeu
Fabra, Spain)
    * Dmitriy Zheleznyakov (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy)
    * Yujiao Zhou (University of Oxford, UK)




-- 
Ernesto Jiménez-Ruiz
Research Assistant
Department of Computer Science
University of Oxford
Wolfson Building, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QD, UK

http://krono.act.uji.es/people/Ernesto
http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/ernesto.jimenez-ruiz/