- From: Armando Stellato <stellato@info.uniroma2.it>
- Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2010 14:59:32 +0200
- To: <semantic-web@w3.org>
***** Apologies for multiple postings ****** ---------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Chapters for a new book by IGI Global: Semi-Automatic Ontology Development: Processes and Resources ---------------------------------------------------------------- Web site: http://art.uniroma2.it/books/saod Editors: Maria Teresa Pazienza and Armando Stellato ART research group (http://art.uniroma2.it/), University of Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy. Call for Chapters: Proposals Submission Deadline: November 15, 2010 Full Chapters Due: January 15, 2011 Introduction: Exploitation of theoretical results in knowledge representation, language standardization by W3C and data publication initiatives such as Linked Open Data have definitively given concreteness to the field of ontology research. In light of these outcomes, ontology development has also found its way, benefiting from years of R&D on ontology development tools. However, while basic development and management technologies have reached a wide consensus in both academia and industry, those “more intelligent” aspects focused on how to automate these processes, how to reuse existing resources (from raw textual sources to structured / linguistic resources) to improve existing knowledge, and how to properly interact with different kind of users, are failing to reach industry-standards. Despite interesting and promising results from the area of ontology learning, scientifically proven both on quality and performance of algorithms and on user perspective, there is a daily evidence that “ontologists” are not really exploiting these results, and support from robust and usable tools is quite far from being available. The next quantum leap in ontology research should thus properly address these high-level aspects: resource reuse (linguistic resources, thesauri etc..), enrichment of contents, networking, support for collaboration between different experts (domain experts, ontologists, engineers etc…) and user-tailored interfaces. Objective of the Book: This book will aim to provide relevant theoretical frameworks and the latest empirical research findings in the ontology development and knowledge acquisition areas. It will be written for both researchers willing to find new scientific approaches on knowledge acquisition and management in a homogeneous framework and professionals who want to improve their understanding of these aspects. Target Audience: This book seeks original contributions (or major revision/extensions to previous work) containing visionary approaches, mature research results and descriptions of developed tools/frameworks related to optimizing effort and time required to build Semantic Web Knowledge Resources (from thesauri to ontologies) and to improve their quality. Recommended topics include (but are not limited to): - Improving the ontology life cycle through use of (semi)automatic tools - Smart acquisition of information extracted from text - Development of ontologies through reuse of external information from thesauri / linguistic resources etc… - Intelligent Visual Interfaces for improving ontology developer / domain expert experience - Collaboration and Coordination platforms for ontology development for letting different experts (domain experts, ontologists, knowledge engineers etc…) cooperate in the creation/maintenance of knowledge resources Submission Procedure: Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before November 15th, 2010, a 2-3 page chapter proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by November 27th about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by January 15th, 2011. All submitted chapters should not exceed 15,000 words and should be sent as a manuscript formatted with MS Word, according to the template available at: http://www.igi-global.com/Files/AuthorEditor/extendedtemplate.doc All chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project. Publisher: This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the “Information Science Reference” (formerly Idea Group Reference), “Medical Information Science Reference,” “Business Science Reference,” and “Engineering Science Reference” imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com. This publication is anticipated to be released in 2011. Important Dates November 15, 2010: Proposal Submission Deadline (email to the editors a brief description of the chapter you plan to submit) November 27, 2010: Notification of Proposal Acceptance January 15, 2011: Full Chapter Submission March 30, 2011: Review Results Returned/Acceptance Notification April 20, 2011: Revised Chapter Submission May 10, 2011: Final Acceptance Notification May 30, 2011: Final Chapter Submission Editorial Advisory Board Members: Francesco Guerra (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy) Dickson Lukose (MIMOS, Malaysia) Diana Maynard (Sheffield University, UK) John McCrae (University of Bielefeld, Germany) Frederique Segond (Xerox Research Centere Europe, France) Michael Uschold (USA) René Witte (Concordia University, Canada) Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word document): Armando Stellato Department of Computer Science, Systems and Production University of Rome, Tor Vergata Tel.: +39 06 7259 7330 • Fax: +39 06 7259 7460 • cell: +39 328 9115548 E-mail: stellato@info.uniroma2.it And in copy to: Maria Teresa Pazienza: pazienza@info.uniroma2.it Please send all submissions with the following subject in the mail (copy and the past it in the subject field of your email to be sure you printed it correctly) [IGI-BOOK SAOD | CHAPTER PROPOSAL]
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