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Call for Papers - New Research Trends of Research in Ontologies and Lexical Resources
2011-10-28
Publisher: Springer
Scheduled publication: Summer 2012
Editors:
Alessandro Oltramari (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Lu Qin (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong)
Piek Vossen (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Eduard Hovy (University of Southern California, USA)
Description
At the human level, knowledge is transferred via (multi-modal)
linguistic communication; similarly, machines exchange data through
messages encoded in some suitable computational language.
Notwithstanding the syntax of the language, semantics is required to
turn raw information into valuable knowledge. In this context, lexical
resources and ontologies are the most reliable resources to convey
meanings: the former describe the main lexical features of information
contents to favor human-accessibility; the latter aim at identifying
the formal characteristics of those contents, enabling
machine-interoperability. Ontologies and lexical resources represent
two sides of the same coin: knowledge technology. Since the early
90's, the integration between ontologies and lexical resources has
become a strong requirement for Knowledge Engineering and Natural
Language Processing: from traditional data warehouse to the visionary
notion of Web 3.0, scholars and developers have acknowledged that
making explicit the semantics of data is a key issue to successful
knowledge transfer and retrieval as well as to boost human usability
of information systems. An important new development is the
accelerating effect of the growing availability of explicit knowledge
in a distributed environment, which leads to deepening and
complementation of knowledge. This places an extra burden on the
interoperability of these resources.
This book aims at providing a comprehensive survey of the state of the
art in the interdisciplinary framework where ontologies and lexical
resources integrate, as well as investigating the new directions of
research in the field. This publication aspires not only to map out a
path of the most valuable ideas and projects that have emerged so far
within the OntoLex community but also to discuss the impact of
knowledge technology beyond the common framework of application,
exploring further domains of interest, such as bioinformatics,
computer vision, neuroscience, etc.
Topics of the book include but are not limited to:
· Theoretical perspectives of "OntoLex science"
· Construction of OntoLex resources: models and implementations
· Integration between ontologies and lexical resources
o For NLP applications: goals, architectures, evaluation
o In the Semantic Web: goal, architectures, evaluation
o In AI systems: goal, architectures, evaluation
o In pervasive computing: vision, challenges, methods
· Ontology-based reasoning and lexica
· Ontology-driven annotation of corpora for ontology learning
· Open-source platforms for OntoLex resources
· Ontology, Lexica and multimedia
· Linguistic interfaces for OntoLex resources
· The role of OntoLex resources in social networking
· Web-Corpus linguistics for OntoLex Resource building
· Ontology-driven meta-models for multilingual lexica
· Ontology-driven meta-models for multi-modal resources
Ideally, the book will be structured along these macro-sections:
Part I: Foundations: Background, Theory, Links to Other Fields
Part II: Methods: Different Aspects of Ontology Construction
Part III: Practical Issues of Use
Appendix: The Future: Envisioning the Next 10 Years of OntoLex Research
Important dates:
November 30th: Abstracts due (max 1000 words)
December 10th: Notification of selected abstracts
February 24th: Full-papers due
March 23rd: Reviews due
April 27th: Final papers due
Please send abstracts to aoltramaATandrew.cmu.edu
