CALL FOR PAPERS ************************************************************ Call for Paper OntoLex 2005 - Ontologies and Lexical Resources http://www.ilc.cnr.it/ontolex2005 IJCNLP-05 Workshop October 15, 2005 Jeju Island, South Korea Background and Goals The new framework of Information Society fostered the growing of the HLT area and the project of turning the World Wide Web into a machine understandable resource to access digital information (the so-called Semantic Web), posing new challenges for integrated technologies. Lexicographers, lexical semanticists and ontologists are joining forces to build innovative systems for integrating ontological knowledge with lexical and semantic resources. Important examples of this interaction are the recent works on the conceptual analysis of WordNet, and the wide use of upper ontologies in innovative international projects like EuroWordNet, SIMPLE, Balkanet, DWDSnet, etc. OntoLex 2005 will be the fourth workshop on Ontologies and Lexical Knowledge Bases, following OntoLex 2000, 2002, and 2004. In this workshop we want to discuss the relation between ontological knowledge and language. A special focus will be on the role of ontologies in multilingual language processing. This relation can be investigated from a number of different angles, for example: - what differences and similarities there are between ontologies and more traditional lexical resources such as dictionaries and wordnets; - how ontologies can be extracted from language corpora; - what role language plays in the definition and mapping of ontologies; - how to enrich semantic information in wordnets using formal tools; - how ontologies can be used to treat language in language technology applications. Ontologies and lexical resources can benefit from each other and converge into a unified framework where semantics is provided by formally rigorous ontological and lexical information. Topics of interests The workshop is open to any research contribution dealing with the relation between ontologies and lexicons. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Design principles and methodologies for ontologies and semantic lexical resources, with a special focus on Asian languages * Evaluation, comparison, mapping and integration of ontologies and lexical semantic resources * The role of ontologies in the development of Inter-Lingual-Index (ILI) * Applications of ontologies and lexical semantic resources in Information Retrieval and Information Extraction; * Use of ontologies and lexical resources in Semantic Web applications * Role of lexical semantic resources in ontology learning * Ontology-based query expansion techniques * Ontologies and multi-lingual lexical resources * Ontologies and lexical resources for meaning negotiation We plan to include a selection of the best papers of the workshop in a book on ontologies and lexicons that will be submitted for publication to Cambridge University Press in the series Cambridge Studies in Natural Language Processing. Important Dates Paper submission deadline: June 10, 2005 Notification of acceptance: July 15, 2005 Camera ready manuscripts due: August 5, 2005 Workshop date: October 15, 2005 Submission Information Paper submissions must be anonymous and are limited to at most 8 pages including references, figures etc. Authors are required to follow the guidelines of IJCNLP-05 workshop style, by hopefully using either the LaTeX style file or the MS Word document template shown in the IJCNLP-05 style file page. Only electronic submissions will be accepted. Please email your submission in PDF (preferred), PostScript, or MS Word to the following address: alessandro.lenci@ilc.cnr.it. Each submission should also specify the author's name, affiliation, postal address, email address and title in the body of the email message. For more information, contact the workshop organizers by using the e-mail address above. Workshop website http://www.ilc.cnr.it/ontolex2005 Organizing Committee Chu-Ren Huang, Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica - Taiwan (co-chair); Alessandro Lenci, University of Pisa - Italy (co-chair); Alessandro Oltramari, LOA-CNR - Italy (co-chair); Program Committee Paul Buitelaar, DFKI - Germany Nicoletta Calzolari, ILC-CNR - Italy Christiane Fellbaum, Princeton University - USA Aldo Gangemi, LOA-CNR - Italy Asanee Kawtrakuln - Thailand Kiyong Lee, Korea University - Korea Virach Sornlertlamvanich, NICT - Thailand Takenobu Tokunaga, Tokyo Institute of Technology - Japan Jun-Ichi Tsujii, University of Tokyo - Japan Paola Velardi, University of Rome "La Sapienza" - Italy Jonathan Webster, City University of Hong Kong - Hong Kong Shiwen Yu, Peking University - China Contact person: Alessandro Lenci University of Pisa, Department of Linguistics Via Santa Maria 36 56126 Pisa - Italy e-mail: alessandro.lenci@ilc.cnr.it