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//*ColabTKR 2012 - Terminology and Knowledge Representation*
Linguistics and ontology studies have a long record of fruitful
cooperation. Cross-research in areas such as computational linguistics,
natural language processing, information retrieval and ontology
development, maintenance and integration have produced a wealth of
multidisciplinary theories, methods, models and tools (Roche, 2008)
(Staab, 2008) (Pereira et al. 2009) (Costa, 2006). More specifically,
the relationship between the lexicon (lexical approaches and resources)
and ontology development methods and tools, have been recently well
explored in research (Huang et al, 2010). On the contrary, the
relationship between terminology and ontology studies, in particular in
what concerns to the initial phases of ontology development, has not
received so much attention from the scientific communities involved.
On the other side, in diverse professional areas, new challenges are
appearing related with information and knowledge management in highly
specialised technical domains, under tightly constrained time
requirements, unfolding in collaborative networking contexts. Short-term
collaborative networking between individuals, groups and organisations,
is recognised by researchers and practitioners as possible solution to
cope with an increasingly complex social and economic business
environment. Moreover, the current demand for continuous innovation
leads to an higher heterogeneity in the technical and scientific domains
simultaneously involved in collaborative projects and activities (e.g
involving SMEs and research centres) (Camarinha-Matos, 2006). Managing
information and knowledge in this context places new and interesting
challenges to terminology and knowledge representation, particularly
when these challenges are seen from an integrated terminology/knowledge
representation perspective.
Terminological or ontological approaches alone are not likely to be
enough in answering to the needs of precision and detail of the
specialised technical domains, as much as the research efforts of
articulated terminology/ontology approaches are likely to be inadequate
in terms of the required resources (time and persons). Thus, these
challenges call for more than the setup and configuration of common
terminological or ontological resources, particularly when considering
the usually accepted time-frames for developing semantic and
terminological artifacts. Effective ways to collaboratively construct
shared conceptualisations by the means of negotiation and
representational artifacts, such as semi-formal ontologies, are then
required.
*Topics of interest*
This workshop intends to join, under a multi-disciplinary tent,
specialists in terminology, information/knowledge management, ontology
development, and collaboration processes, to debate the interplay
between terminology and knowledge representation methods and techniques
in contexts of collaborative work. Papers are invited on, but not
limited to, the following topics:
.The interplay between terminology and conceptualization processes
.Interfaces between terminology work and ontology development/maintenance
.Collaborative processes in terminology work
.Collaborative conceptualization processes and representations of knowledge
.Conceptualization processes and semi-formal ontologies
.Cognitive semantics and semi-formal ontologies
.Knowledge organisation systems and collaboration
.Modelling networks of actors and semantic networks (socio-semantic
networks)
.Theory, methods and tools for conceptual negotiation
.Using multimodal corpora for semi-formal ontology development
.Design and management of semi-formal ontology libraries
.Using terminological resources for semi-formal ontology development
.Term extraction and validation in domain-dependent, time-constrained
applications
.Terminological approaches to support the identification of conceptual
relations
.The role of conceptual relations in the development of semi-formal
ontologies
*Type of submission*
Extended abstract (1500-2000 words)
Extended abstracts must be submitted in
https://www.softconf.com/lrec2012/TermKnowledge2012/
*LRE map*
When submitting a paper through the START page, authors will be kindly
asked to provide relevant information about the resources that have been
used for the work described in their paper or that are the outcome of
their research. For further information on this initiative, please refer
to http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2012/?LRE-Map-2012. Authors will also be
asked to contribute to the Language Library, the new initiative of LREC2012.
*Important dates*
.Submission deadline: 1FEB12
.Acceptance notification: 1MAR12
.Camera ready full paper: 30MAR12
.Workshop date: 22MAY12, afternoon session
*Organizing Committee*
António Lucas Soares ([email protected]) - University of Porto and INESC
Porto, Portugal
Rute Costa ([email protected]) - New University of Lisbon, Portugal
Carla Pereira ([email protected]) - IPP/ESTGF and INESC Porto, Portugal
Alessandro Oltramari ([email protected]) - Carnegie-Mellon University, USA
Christophe Roche ([email protected]) - University of
Savoie, France
Anita Nuopponen ([email protected]) - University of Vaasa, Finland
*Programme Committee*
Gerhard Budin - University of Vienna
Chiara Ghidini - Bruno Kessler Foundation (FBK) - Trento, Italy
Guadalupe Aguado de Cea - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Hanne ErdmanThomsen - Copenhagen Business School
Mustafa Jarrar - University of Birzeit, Palestine
António Lucas Soares - University of Porto and INESC Porto, Portugal
Rute Costa - Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Carla Sofia Pereira - Polytechnic Institute of Porto and INESC Porto,
Portugal)
Alessandro Oltramari - Carnegie-Mellon University, USA
Christophe Roche - University of Savoie, France
Anita Nuopponen - University fo Vaasa, Finland
Piek Vossen - VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands
*References *
Chu-Ren Huang, Nicoletta Calzolari, Aldo Gangemi, Alessandro Lenci,
Alessandro Oltramari, and Laurent Pre?vot (eds.). 2010. Ontology and the
Lexicon: A Natural Language Processing Perspective. Cambridge University
Press.
Roche, C. 2008. Terminologie & Ontologie: The?ories et Applications.
Actes de la deuxie?me confe?rence TOTh -- Annecy-5 et 6 juin.
Staab, S. 2008. On understanding the collaborative construction of
conceptualisations. International and Interdisciplinary Conference
"Processing Text -Technological Resources" at the Center for
Interdisciplinary Research, Bielefeld University, 13-15 March.
Pereira, C.; Sousa, C.; Soares, A. 2009. A socio-semantic approach to
collaborative domain conceptualization. On the Move to Meaningful
Internet Systems: OTM 2009 Workshops, Lecture Notes in Computer Science,
Springer Berlin / Heidelberg.
Costa, R. 2006. Terminology, Corpus Linguistics and Ontology,
Constrastive Studies and Valency. Studies in Honor of Hans Ulrich Boas.
Petra C. Steiner, Hans C. Boas. Stefan Scheirholz [eds.]. Berlin --
Bern: Peter Lang Verlag.
Camarinha-Matos, L. 2006. Collaborative networks in industry -- Trends
and foundations. InProc. of DET'06 - 3rd International CIRP Conference
in Digital Enterprise Technology.
Nuopponen, A. 2011. Methods of concept analysis - tools for systematic
concept analysis (part 3 of 3). In: LSP, professional communication,
knowledge management and
cognition. http://rauli.cbs.dk/index.php/lspcog/index
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