- From: Philipp Cimiano <cimiano@cit-ec.uni-bielefeld.de>
- Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 15:53:33 +0200
- To: "semantic-web@w3.org\"" <semantic-web@w3.org>
Second Call for Papers 2nd Workshop on the Multilingual Semantic Web, collocated with the 10th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2011) in Bonn, Germany. http://msw2.deri.ie Given the substantial growth of Web users that create and update knowledge all over the world in languages other than English, multilingualism has become an issue of major interest for the Semantic Web community. This process has been accelerated due to initiatives such as the Linked Data project, which encourages not only governments and public institutes to make their data available to the public, but also private organizations in domains such as medicine, geography, music etc. These actors often publish their data sources in their respective languages, and as such, in order to make this information interoperable and accessible to members of other linguistic communities, multilingual knowledge representation, access and translation are an impending need. Given the success of the first edition of this workshop, which was co-located with the 19th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2010), we were encouraged to organize the second version of this series. In this second edition we will have a special focus on: - representation of multilingual information and language resources in Semantic Web and Linked Data formats - cross-lingual discovery and representation of mappings between multilingual Linked Data vocabularies and datasets - cross-lingual querying of knowledge repositories and Linked Data - machine translation and localization strategies for the Semantic Web Further topics of interest include: - standards and best practices for representing multilingual data on the Web - transformation of (multilingual) resources to Semantic Web and Linked Data representations - architectures and infrastructure for a truly multilingual Semantic Web - models for multilingualism in knowledge representation, in particular OWL and RDF(S) - localization of ontologies to multiple languages, incl. label translation, multilingual terms - lexicon models for ontologies - automatic integration of (multilingual) lexicons with ontologies - multilingual and cross-lingual ontology-based information extraction and ontology population - multilingual aspects of semantic search of knowledge repositories - multilingual aspects of ontology verbalization - ontology learning across languages *** Important Dates *** August 15th - submission deadline September 5th - notification September 10th - camera-ready deadline October 23th or 24th - workshop Submission will be through the Easy Chair system: https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=msw2. We will accept long papers of at most 12 pages (LNCS), short papers describing preliminary results (max. 6 pages) as well as position papers describing work on progress or planned work (max. 6 pages). *** Organizing Committee *** Elena Montiel-Ponsoda, OEG - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain Web: http://www.oeg-upm.net/index.php/en/phd/52-emontiel John McCrae, Semantic Computing Group, CITEC – University of Bielefeld Web: http://www.sc.cit-ec.uni-bielefeld.de/people/jmccrae Paul Buitelaar, DERI - National University of Ireland, Galway Web: http://www.paulbuitelaar.net/ Philipp Cimiano, Semantic Computing Group, CITEC – University of Bielefeld Web: http://www.cimiano.de *** Program Committee *** Guadalupe Aguado de Cea, OEG, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain Dimitra Anastasiou, Language & Literary Studies, University of Bremen, Germany Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles, IRIT, Knowledge Engineering, Cognition and Cooperation, France Roberto Basili, Universita Tor Vergata, Rome - Artificial Intelligence group, Italy Kalina Boncheva - Natural Language Processing Group, University of Sheffield, UK Francis Bond, NICT - Language Infrastructure Group, Japan Christopher Brewster, Aston University - Operations and Information Management Group, UK Nicoletta Calzolari, ILC-CNR - Computational Linguistics Institute, Italy Jeremy Carroll, TopQuadrant, USA Key-Sun Choi, KAIST - Semantic Web Research Center, South-Korea Thierry Declerck, DFKI - Language Technology Lab, Germany Aldo Gangemi, ISTC-CNR - Semantic Technology Laboratory, Italy Asuncion Gómez Pérez, OEG, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain Gregory Grefenstette, Exalead, France Siegfried Handschuh, DERI, Nat. Univ. of Ireland, Galway, Ireland Michael Hausenblas, DERI, Nat. Univ. of Ireland, Galway, Ireland Laura Hollink, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands Antoine Isaac, Vrije Universiteit - Knowledge Representation and Reasoning Group, the Netherlands Ernesto William De Luca, Universitaet Magdeburg - Data and Knowledge Engineering Group, Germany Vanessa López, KMI, Open University, UK Gerard de Melo, Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK Sergei Nirenburg, University of Maryland - Institute for Language and Information Technologies, USA Alessandro Oltramari, Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Psychology, Pittsburgh, USA Jacco van Ossenbruggen, CWI - Semantic Media Interfaces & VU - Intelligent Systems, the Netherlands Wim Peters, University of Sheffield - Natural Language Processing group, UK Laurette Pretorius, University of South Africa - School of Computing, South-Africa James Pustejovsky, Brandeis University – CS Dept., Lab for Linguistics and Computation, USA Felix Sasaki, University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, Germany Marta Sabou, Department of New Media Technology – MODUL University, Vienna Martin Volk, Universitaet Zürich - Institute of Computational Linguistics, Switzerland Piek Vossen, Vrije Universiteit - Dept. of Language, Cognition and Communication, the Netherlands Yong Yu, Computer Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China The workshop is endorsed and sponsored by the Monnet project (http://www.monnet-project.eu) -- 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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