Ontologies and Lexical Knowledge Bases

27th May 2002, Las Palmas, Canary Islands - Spain


Check The Workshop Programme. Link to the Call for Papers.

For accomodation, travelling and registration details, check the site of the main conference http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2002/

Workshop motivation and aims

The rise of the semantic web has greatly increased the interest in ontologies, but also added new critical requirements for them, such as wide coverage, interoperability and multi-linguality. In  the perspective of the semantic web, the link between ontologies and natural language appears to be crucial. Indeed, there is a high level of correspondence between ontologies and lexical knowledge bases. They are subject to the same requirements, and there is an ever increasing potential and need for cooperation between the two fields.

 Following the tradition of the first OntoLex workshop (OntoLex'00 Sozopol, Bulgaria 2000), this workshop will focus on the links between ontologies and lexical knowledge bases, aiming at being a meeting point for a number of communities that are currently not sufficiently connected: The needs for greater interconnectivity among the above research areas have been widely recognized in the last years. Two good examples of an interdisciplinary approach are the use of upper ontologies in European projects as EuroWordNet and SIMPLE, and some recent work on the conceptual analysis of WordNet's top-level taxonomy presented at FOIS2001.

Lexical knowledge bases are considered an important kind of language resources. Moreover, lexical knowledge bases and ontologies are starting to play a crucial role in the creation and usage of other language resources such as syntactic tree-banks and lexicons.

The workshop will take place on the 27th of May 2002 at Las Palmas, Canary Islands - Spain (preceding the 3rd International Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, LREC2002 ). Two European thematic networks will support the workshop: OntoWeb and ELSNET .

Topics of interest

A discussion will be organized on the topic "Distinctions between lexical and ontological knowledge."

The Workshop Programme

11:00 - 11:20 - Coffee break 12:35 - 14:00 - Lunch 16:40 - 17:00 - Coffee break

Organizing committee

Kiril Simov
Linguistic Modelling Laboratory, CLPP, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Acad. G.Bonchev St. 25A, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria
    and
OntoText Lab. Sirma AI Ltd, Bulgaria
Phone: +359 2 979 2812;     Fax: +359 2 707273
E-mail:kivs@bgcict.acad.bg

Nicola Guarino
National Research Council, LADSEB-CNR
Corso Stati Uniti, 4, I-35127 Padova, Italy
Phone: +39 049 8295751;     Fax: +39 049 8295763
Email:Nicola.Guarino@ladseb.pd.cnr.it

Wim Peters
NLP group, Department of Computer Science,  University of Sheffield
Regent Court, 211 Portobello Street, Sheffield S1 4DP
Phone: 00-44-114-2221902;     Fax: 00-44-114-2221810
Email:w.peters@dcs.shef.ac.uk

Program Committee

Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles (IRIT, Toulouse, France)
Michael Brown (SemanticEdge, Germany)
Paul Buitelaar (DFKI, Germany)
Werner Ceusters (L&C, Belgium)
Aldo Gangemi (Institute of Biomedical Technologies, CNR, Italy)
Julio Gonzalo (UNED, Madrid, Spain)
Erhard Hinrichs (SfS, Tuebingen University, Germany)
Atanas Kyriakov (OntoText Lab., Bulgaria)
Alessandro Lenci (Universita' di Pisa, Italy)
Kavi Mahesh (Knowledge Management Group, Infosys Technologies, USA)
Sergej Nirenburg (CRL, New-Mexico State University, USA)
Piek Vossen (Irion Technologies, Delft, The Netherlands)
James Pustejovsky (Brandeis University, USA)
Paola Velardi ("La Sapienza", Rome, Italy)
Ellen Voorhees (NIST, USA)

Invited Speakers

Yorick Wilks (Shefield University, UK)
Christiane Fellbaum (Princeton University, USA)

Workshop registration

The registration fee for the workshop is:
If you are not attending LREC: 140 EURO
If you are attending LREC: 90 EURO
The fees cover the following services: a copy of the proceedings of the attended workshop, coffee-breaks and refreshments.

Participation in the workshop is limited by the venue. Requests for participation will be processed on first come first served basis. Registration will be handled by the LREC Secretariat.