Workshop on

Linguistic Studies of Ontology:

From Lexical Semantics to Formal Ontologies and Back

 

July 21-26, 2008, Korea University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Organizer:

Chu-Ren Huang

Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica

Nankang, Taipei, Taiwan

E-mail address: churenhuang@gmail.com Fax: 886-2-27856622, Tel: 886-2-26523108

 

Description

Recent developments in the study of ontology have important implications for cognitive science, knowledge engineering, and theoretical linguistics. In particular, research on lexical ontology deals with how concepts are lexicalized and organized across languages and cultures. This workshop aims to explore this new departure in linguistic studies by building upon the three important premises assumed in Fellbaum (1998), Schalley and Zaefferer (2007), and Huang et al. (2007): First, that lexicalized concepts have a special status in every language (as opposed to concepts that require complex coding), second that lexically coded concepts can be shared by different languages, and third that lexicalization universals are relevant for the construction of cross-lingually portable formal ontologies.

Following the references cited above, topics of this workshop include foundational issues pertaining to the relation between formal ontology and linguistic ontologies, as well as descriptive issues pertaining to the interface between conceptual ontologies and lexica. In particular, we would like to focus on the following issues during this workshop:

- Cross-lingual portability of upper-ontologies

- Ontology-based approaches to comparative linguistics

- Ontology enrichment: from concept formation via complex coding to lexicalisation

- Possible relevance of formal ontological principles (e. g Roles cannot subsume Types) to

psychological/linguistic reality

References

Fellbaum, Christiane. 1998. WordNet: An electronic lexical database. MIT Press.

Huang, Chu-Ren et al. Eds. 2007 Ontologies and the Lexicon. Cambridge University Press.

Schalley, Andrea C. and Zaefferer Dietmer. Eds,  2007. Ontolinguistics. Mouton-De Gruyter.

 

Submission of Abstracts:

A two-page abstract including everything should be sent electronically to both cil18@cil18.org and churenhuang@gmail.com. An MS Word and/or .pdf file may be accepted.

Important Dates:

ˇ Deadline for Abstract Submission: May 31, 2007

ˇ Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: August 31, 2007

For more information, visit the website (http://cil18.org ) or contact the organizer at churenhuang@gmail.com.

Program Committee

Christiane Fellbaum (Princeton), Shu-kai Hsieh (I-Lan), Alessandro Lenci (Pisa), Adam Pease (San Francisco), Alessandro Oltramari (Trento), Laurent Prévot (Toulouse), James Pustejovsky (Brandies), Andrea C. Schalley (Armidale), Piek Vossen (Amsterdam), Dietmar