8th of September, The First Day

9:00-9:10, Opening speech
(overview of the best pubs in Sozopol, quick hints about the good years for the Bulgarian reds and whites,   further organizational details)

9:10-10:40,  Nicola Guarino (Invited Speaker)
National Research Council, LADSEB-CNR,Italy
Mini-course on Ontological Analysis and Ontology Design (I,II,III,IV)
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(2nd coffee for the day, the participants can recognize themselves in the mirror)

11:00-11:30, Nikolay Milkov
Abteilung Philosophie, Universität Bielefeld/Institute of Philosophy, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Logico- Linguistic Moleculism: Towards an Ontology of Collocations
MS WORD, PostScript, PDF

11:30-12:10, Ivan Kasabov (Invited Speaker)
Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Shifters, Modes and Epistemes: at the Core of the Categorial and Minimal Semantics of Natural Language

(lunch, after the 1st beer the NL generation capabilities strike back)

13:40-14:10, Bodil Madsen, Bolette Pedersen, Hanne Thomsen
Copenhagen Business School; Center for Sprogteknologi, Denmark
The role of semantic relations in a content-based querying system: a research presentation from the OntoQuery project.
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14:10-14:40, Irina Chugur, Julio Gonzalo, Felisa Verdjeo
ETSI Industriales de la UNED, Ciudad Universitaria,Madrid
Sense distinctions in NLP applications

14:40-15:20,   Paul Buitelaar (Invited Speaker)
DFKI (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence) GmbH, Germany.
Semantic Lexicons: Between Terminology and Ontology

(3rd coffee for the day, the participants can recognize each other)

15:40-16:10, Ralf Steinberger, Johan Hagman, Stefan Scheer
European Commission, Joint Research Centre, ISIS-RMDS, Ispra (VA), Italy
Using Thesauri for Automatic Indexing and for the Visualisation of Multilingual Document Collections

16:10-16:40, Martin Trautwein
Graduiertenkolleg 'Universalitaet und Diversitaet', Zentrum fuer Hoehere Studien, Univ. Leipzig
Representing Temporal Coherence in Text Semantics: A Language Based Approach to an Ontology of Situations and Time

16:40-17:10, Natalia V. Loukachevitch, Boris V. Dobrov
Center for Information Research, Moscow State University
Modifiers of Conceptual Relations in Thesaurus for Automatic Conceptual Indexing
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(tea, not stronger then 12%, the conversations become almost meaningful)

17:30-19:00, Nicola Guarino (Invited Speaker)
Mini-course on Ontological Analysis and Ontology Design (II)

(strong drinks and more, the real scientific work starts)

9th of September, The Second Day

9:00-9:30,  Christian Jacquelinet, Olivier Bodenreider, Anita Burgun
Etablissement français des Greffes, Paris, France; National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, USA; Laboratoire d'informatique Médicale,Faculté de Médecine, Rennes, France
Modelling Syllepse in Medical Knowledge Bases with application in the Domain of Organ Failure and Transplantation
PowerPoint

9:30-10:00, Lamia Haouet
Dept. Filología Moderna Universidad Europea de Madrid
Toward a morphologically relevant ontology of abstract concepts

10:00-10:30, Antonio Moreno Ortiz
F. Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Málaga, Spain
Managing conceptual and terminological information in a user-friendly environment

(2nd coffee for the day)

10:40-11:20, Galia Angelova (Invited Speaker)
Linguistic Modelling Laboratory, CLPP, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Acquiring formal ontologies for NLP applications

11:20-12:20, Discussion (chair Nicola Guarino)
Lexical Concepts vs. World Knowledge, Upper-level Ontologies
Listen a recording of the discussion! - MP3, 24kbit, 10MB, or max. quality MP3, 128kbit, 53MB

(lunch, participants go on with the discussion until the waiter kicks them out for the next lecture - he got a huge tip from the organizers. Anyway, '98 is better for the whites than '97!)

13:50-14:20, Hamish Cunningham, Kalina Bontcheva, Wim Peters
NLP group, Computer Science Department, University of Sheffield
Uniform language resource access and distribution in the context of a General Architecture for Text Engineering (GATE)
PostScript, PDF

14:20-14:50, Atanas Kiryakov and Kiril Iv. Simov
Sirma AI Ltd., Artificial Intelligence Labs, Bulgaria; Linguistic Modelling Laboratory, CLPP, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
A comparison between Upper Cyc Ontology and EuroWordnet Top Ontology
HTML, PowerPoint

15:00-16:00, Nicola Guarino (Invited Speaker)
Mini-course on Ontological Analysis and Ontology Design (III)

(black tea, no rum)

16:20-17:20, Nicola Guarino (Invited Speaker)
Mini-course on Ontological Analysis and Ontology Design (IV)

(just a short drink to get ready for the discussion)

17:30-18:30, Discussion (chair Paul Buitelaar)
Modelling Regular Polysemy in Lexical Knowledge Bases

20:00-, Wine Tasting
Selection of "Best Red OntoLex2000" and "Best White OntoLex2000"

10th of Spetember, The Third Day

9:00-9:25, Toma Nikolov, Krasimira Petrova
Building and evaluating a core of Bulgarian WordNet for nouns

9:25-9:50, Nikolaj Oldager
Department of Information Technology, Technical University of Denmark
Taxonomies with Lattice Algebras
PostScript, PDF

(<2nd>coffee</> for the day)

10:10-11:00, Marin Dimitrov (Invited Speaker)
Sirma AI Ltd., Artificial Intelligence Labs,  Bulgaria
XML Standards for Ontology Exchange: XOL, OML, OIL (technical review, latest version available here)
PDF, MS WORD, RTF, PostScript

(it's coffee time again, before the final  battle)

11:10-12:10, Discussion (chair Atanas Kiryakov)
Ontologies and Lexical Knowledge Bases for Information Retrieval