extended deadline (August 5th): ISWC workshop OntoLex07 - From Text to Knowledge: The Lexicon/Ontology Interface

** extended deadline August 5th **
[Please accept our apology for duplicate posting.]

Call for papers for OntoLex07 - From Text to Knowledge: The
Lexicon/Ontology Interface

http://olp.dfki.de/OntoLex07/

Workshop at ISWC07, the 6th International Semantic Web Conference
(http://iswc2007.semanticweb.org/)
November 11th , 2007
Busan, South-Korea

Endorsed by SIGSEM (Association of Computational Linguistics SIG on
Computational Semantics http://www.aclweb.org/sigsem) and the NEON
project (http://www.neon-project.org/)
And in coordination with the ISO Working Group on Language Resource
Management (http://www.tc37sc4.org/)

The OntoLex workshop series is concerned with the interface between
knowledge representation in ontologies and the representation and use of
linguistic knowledge as encoded in (multilingual) lexicons. Previous
OntoLex workshops were held in Sozopol (2000), Las Palmas (2002), Lisboa
(2004), Jeju (2005), Genoa (2006). The extraction of ontology elements
from textual data is a pre-requisite for many Semantic Web applications.
Hence the interface between ontologies (describing objects in a domain)
and the lexicon (describing the linguistic features of terms that refer
to such objects) is becoming increasingly important. We invite
submission of papers on the following topics in this interdisciplinary
research area:

The lexicon/ontology interface
* Design principles for the integrated representation of lexical and
ontological knowledge
* The lexicon/ontology interface in multilingual and cross-cultural
aspects of ontologies

The lexicon in Semantic Web applications
* The role of (multilingual) lexicons in knowledge markup and ontology
population, i.e. in ontology-based information extraction from text
* Lexical aspects in ontology learning from text, i.e. in (multilingual)
term extraction, relation extraction, etc.
* Lexical approaches to ontology matching, i.e. in the extraction,
representation and use of synonyms for mapping between class/property
labels
* Reengineering lexicons as ontologies, e.g. porting wordnets and
framenets to the Semantic Web

Ontologies in knowledge-based Natural Language Processing
* Ontological constraints on lexicon development for knowledge-based NLP
* Ontologies as resources for NLP-based tasks (question answering,
document classification, text mining, expert search, etc.)

Important Dates
August 5, 2007: Submission Deadline - extended
September 1, 2007: Notification
October 1, 2007: Camera-ready Version
November 11, 2007: Workshop

Submission
Papers must be in English, not exceed 10 pages and should be formatted
in LNCS style (Springer format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science
series). For complete details, see Springer's Author Instructions
(http://www.springer.com). Papers must be submitted electronically
through the conference submission site
(https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/ISWC2007/)

Organizing Committee
Paul Buitelaar, Competence Center Semantic Web - DFKI, Germany
Key-Sun Choi, Semantic Web Research Center - KAIST, South-Korea
Aldo Gangemi, Laboratory for Applied Ontology - CNR, Italy
Chu-Ren Huang, Institute of Linguistics - Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Alessandro Oltramari, Cogito S.r.l., Italy

Program Committee
Timothy Baldwin, University of Melbourne, Australia
John Bateman, University of Bremen, Germany
Philipp Cimiano, Karlsruhe University, Germany
Nigel Collier, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Shu-Kai Hsieh, National I-Lan University, Taiwan
Asanee Kawtrakul, Kasetsart University, Thailand
Atanas Kiryakov, Ontotext, Bulgaria
Kiyong Lee, Korea University, South-Korea
Alessandro Lenci, University of Pisa, Italy
Sujian Li, Peking University, China
Marjorie McShane, University of Maryland, USA
Martha Palmer, University of Colorado, USA
Robert Porzel, University of Bremen, Germany
Laurent Prevot, University of Toulouse, France
Lu Qin, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
Kiril Simov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
Armando Stellato, University of Rome, Italy
Tokunaga Takenobu, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Jun Ichi Tsuji, Tokyo University, Japan
Paola Velardi, University of Rome, Italy
Johanna Voelker, Karlsruhe University, Germany
Chris Welty, IBM, USA

Workshop Registration
All workshop participants must register for ISWC 2007