Anas Fahad Khan and Francesca Frontini of the Cnr-Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale “Antonio Zampolli” (CNR-ILC) are members of the Program Committee of the 5th Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge (LDK 2025), that aims at bringing together researchers from across disciplines concerned with the acquisition, curation and use of language data in the context of data science and knowledge-based applications.
Language data is of increasing importance to machine learning-based approaches in NLP, Linked Data and Semantic Web research and applications that depend on linguistic and semantic annotation with lexical, terminological and ontological resources, manual alignment across language or other human-assigned labels. The acquisition, provenance, representation, maintenance, usability, quality as well as legal, organizational and infrastructure aspects of language data are therefore rapidly becoming major areas of research that are at the focus of the conference.
The construction and use of knowledge graphs from language data, possibly and ideally in the context of other types of data, is a further specific focus of the 5th Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge.
An additional conference focus is the combined use and exploitation of language data and knowledge graphs in data science-based approaches to use cases in industry, including biomedical applications, as well as use cases in humanities and social sciences.