Lexical-semantic and ontological resources are of fundamental importance for many applications within the areas of Natural Language Processing (NLP), Information Retrieval, and the Semantic Web. Semantic lexicons and wordnets usually have large coverage with respect to general vocabulary and are therefore well-suited to NLP-tasks such as semantic labeling and lexical chaining. Ontologies, on the other hand, often lack significant coverage or are restricted to special domains; moreover, they are typically more formalized and thus suitable for inference techniques.
Various initiatives have been launched to convert semantic resources of the WordNet and FrameNet family to W3C standard representation languages such as RDF/OWL in order to make them more easily accessible to the Semantic Web community. Other approaches like the OntoWordNet project aim at the more demanding goal to fully axiomatize the semantic content of lexical-semantic resources.
The workshop is intended as a forum to discuss possible interactions between lexical-semantic and ontological resources as well as their design, construction, extension, maintenance, validation, and application. Contributions addressing the following topics are particularly welcome:
John Bateman
(Universität Bremen, Germany)
Ontological modularity and stratification: principles for
relating linguistic and ontological information
Jörg Asmussen
(Society for Danish Language and Literature, Kopenhagen, Denmark)
DanNet: From Dictionary to Wordnet
Francesca Bertagna
(Istituto di linguistica Computazionale CNR, Pisa, Italy)
Impact of Semantic Lexicons and Ontologies on an Open-Domain QA system for Italian
Ian Chow, Jonathan Webster
(City University of Hong Kong)
Interfacing WordNet, FrameNet and SUMO
Ernesto William De Luca, Andreas Nürnberger
(Otto-von-Guericke University of Magdeburg, Germany)
Converting EuroWordNet in OWL and extending it with domain ontologies
Pamela Faber, M.A Vila, P.J. Magaña, Jose Senso
(University of Granada, Spain)
PuertoTerm, a system for knowledge representation and the generation of terminological resources within the domain of Coastal Engineering
Gil Francopoulo, Nuria Bel, Monte George, Nicoletta Calzolari, Monica Monachini, Mandy Pet, Claudia Soria
Lexical Markup Framework: an ISO Standard for Semantic Information in NLP Lexicons
Fernando Gomez
(University of Central Florida, Orlando, USA)
Automatic Semantic Annotation of Texts
Piklu Gupta, Lothar Lemnitzer
(Universität Tübingen, Germany)
Evaluating corpus-based methods for acquisition of new lexical-semantic relations
Greg Lessard, Michael Levison
(Queen's University, Kingston, Canada)
Using Lexical Transformations to Expand Machine-Readable Lexicons
Jürgen Reischer
(Universität Regensburg, Germany)
IVal - a WordNet based ontological-lexical development system
Michael Schiehlen
(Universität Stuttgart, Germany)
Deriving Context Weights from WordNet
Sabine Schulte im Walde, Alissa Melinger, Andrea Weber, Michael Roth
An Empirical Characterisation of Response Types in German Association Norms
Nofiza Vokhidova
(Universität Tübingen, Germany)
Lexikalisch-semantische Graduonymie im Deutschen
Claudia Kunze
(kunze@sfs.uni-tuebingen.de)
Universität Tübingen, Germany
Lothar Lemnitzer
(lothar@sfs.uni-tuebingen.de)
Universität Tübingen, Germany
Rainer Osswald
(rainer.osswald@fernuni-hagen.de)
FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany
Abstract submission deadline: 20.11.2006
Notification of acceptance: 15.12.2006
Full papers for inclusion in the proceedings due: 15.2.2007
Workshop date: 13.-14.4.2007
(GLDV main conference date: 11.-13.4.2007)
Full papers are limited to 10 pages (11pt). For formatting please use the colacl.sty LaTeX style file and the acl.bst BibTeX file. Submit the source files and a PDF version of your paper to rainer.osswald@fernuni-hagen.de by February 15, 2007.
The workshop fee is 5 Euro for participants registered at the main conference and 20 Euro otherwise.
Please check the homepage of the GLDV main conference for more information about registration, participation fee, accommodation, and location.
Rainer Osswald
Intelligent Information and Communication Systems
Department of Computer Science
FernUniversität in Hagen
Universitätsstraße 1
58084 Hagen, Germany
tel +49 (0)2331 987 4524
fax +49 (0)2331 987 392
email rainer.osswald@fernuni-hagen.de