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.
Participation
is welcome and on-line registration is now open. The
pre-registration deadline is August 20, while regular registration is open until September 22, 2005. On-line
registration is highly recommended at the official website, http://afnlp.org/IJCNLP05/. If on-line registration is not available, please contact the secretariat
at IJCNLP2005@sejongconvention.com.
OntoLex 2005 is Workshop 5 for IJCNLP05. A registration to tutorials or workshops can be made without the registration to the main conference.
The registration rate for the workshop is as below ($1= Korean Won 1,000 as of May 2005):
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Category |
Early |
Late |
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One-day workshop |
Workshop 2,3,4 & 5 |
US$ 100 (Korean Won 100,000) |
US$ 120 (Korean Won 120,000) |
For information on accommodation, please refer to the website at http://www.afnlp.org/IJCNLP05/accommodation.html.
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Chu-Ren
Huang |
Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica – Taiwan (co-chair) |
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Alessandro Lenci |
University of Pisa – Italy (co-chair) |
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Alessandro Oltramari |
LOA-CNR– Italy
(co-chair) |
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Paul Buitelaar |
DFKI - Germany |
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Nicoletta Calzolari |
ILC-CNR – Italy |
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Christiane Fellbaum |
Princeton University -
USA |
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Aldo Gangemi |
LOA-CNR –
Italy |
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Asanee
Kawtrakul |
KU –
Thailand |
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Kiyong
Lee |
Korea
University – Korea |
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Virach
Sornlertlamvanich |
NICT – Thailand |
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Takenobu
Tokunaga |
Tokyo Institute of Technology – Japan |
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Jun-Ichi Tsujii |
University
of Tokyo – Japan |
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Paola Velardi |
University of Rome “La
Sapienza” – Italy |
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Jonathan Webster |
City University of Hong Kong - Hong Kong |
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Shiwen Yu |
Peking University – China |