AI*IA07 - WS CfP: ""Cooperative Construction of Linguistic Knowledge Bases""

[Roberto Basili]

                               Workshop

        "Cooperative Construction of Linguistic Knowledge Bases"

              at AI*IA 2007 (http://aiia.info.uniroma2.it/)
                    Rome, Italy, September 10, 2007


         WS URL: www.senso-comune.it/pages/aiia2007/workshop.html


                              Call for Papers


Key to the "Semantic Web" vision is the intuition that in order for the Web
s content to be fully exploited, automatic systems must be given the ability
to interpret words as carriers of meaning, rather than just tags. As a
global place where people and systems talk each other, the Web reflects
today the complexity of natural language. Hence, the Web's development is
necessarily heavily tied to natural language semantics.

Linguistic ontologies are usually regarded as knowledge bases for enabling
automatic systems performing crucial tasks such as information extraction
and semantic search. Thus the problem of acquiring, maintaining and
enhancing these knowledge bases is one of the most relevant tasks for the
Web community.

Natural languages exist in use, and they belong to their users. They are a
social product and their main strength is the consensus of the speakers. The
usual approach to the development of linguistic ontologies, however, is
merely authoritative. This approach reveals two major drawbacks: on one
hand, the volume of natural language senses, along with their relationships,
overwhelms the capability of any singular authority; on the other hand, the
continuous creation of sense within concrete communities can hardly be
framed by highly structured regulation activities.

A novel promising approach to the acquisition of linguistic knowledge bases
starts from the idea of a direct exploitation of human communities. Huge
encyclopedic resources such as Wikipedia have been freely built by large
communities, thus it is reasonable to pose the question whether a
community-based approach can be applied to the creation of linguistic
knowledge.

Topics

A number of relevant issues are to be addressed when approaching the
cooperative construction of linguistic knowledge bases:

Formalization

*       Formal representation of linguistic resources
*       Natural language semantics and foundational ontologies
*       Reasoning tasks and reasoning techniques for the
         construction of linguistic knowledge bases

Content

*       Acquisition and enrichment of lexical resources
*       Interoperability with lexical databases
*       Learning, evaluation, and revision of linguistic knowledge bases
*       Methodologies for the cooperative construction of linguistic 
knowledge bases
*       Human interfaces for the rapid creation of linguistic knowledge bases


Paper Submission Format

We encourage submissions of long (12 pages) papers describing completed and
ongoing research, as well as short (8 pages) papers describing tools. There
will also be a demo session where tools can be presented. Standing the page
limits defined above, please follow the main AIIA submission format 
(http://aiia.info.uniroma2.it/submission.html) when
preparing your paper .

Submissions are due in PDF format attached to an email sent to the following
email address: segreteria at senso-comune.it

Important Dates

*       Deadline for paper submission: June 11th 2007
*       Notification of workshop paper acceptance: July 6th 2007
*       Camera-ready workshop papers: July 20, 2007

Please note that this is a satellite event, and we are therefore bound to
hard deadlines set by the main conference organisers. No deadline extensions
can be granted.

Organizers

The founders of the Senso Comune association:

*       Tullio De Mauro (Università di Roma "LA Sapienza")
*       Aldo Gangemi (ISTC-CNR, Roma)
*       Nicola Guarino (ISTC-CNR, Trento)
*       Maurizio Lenzerini (Università di Roma "LA Sapienza")
*       Malvina Nissim (Università di Bologna)
*       Guido Vetere (IBM, Roma)

Contacts:
e-mail: segreteria at senso-comune.it



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Roberto BASILI

Department of Computer Science, Systems and Production
AI Research Group
University of Roma, Tor Vergata
Via del Politecnico 1
00133 Roma, Italy
Tel. +39-06-72597391.
Lab. +39-06-72597332,
Fax. +39-06-72597460
URL: ai-nlp.info.uniroma2.it/basili
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