Important Dates

19/22-06-2012 Conference

07-05-2012 Accepted papers and posters published on line
06-05-2012 Provisional timetable published on line
25-04-2012 Camera-ready deadline for TKE papers and posters
30-03-2012 Notification of acceptance of posters
16-03-2012 Deadline for submission of posters
09-03-2012 Notification of acceptance of TKE papers
20-02-2012 Call for Posters
28-01-2012 Extension of deadline for submission of papers TKE 2012
21-01-2012 Submission of extended abstracts for oral presentations and posters
19-12-2011 Second call for papers and workshops
25-10-2011 First call for papers and workshops

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Workshop

 

CHALLENGES TO KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION IN MULTILINGUAL CONTEXTS

June 19th, 2012
 
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION
 
To meet the increasing demands of the complex inter-organizational processes and the demand for continuous innovation and internationalization, it is evident that new forms of organisation are being adopted, fostering more intensive collaboration processes and sharing of resources, in what can be called collaborative networks (Camarinha-Matos, 2006:03). Information and knowledge are crucial resources in collaborative networks, being their management fundamental processes to optimize.
 
Knowledge organisation and collaboration systems are thus important instruments for the success of collaborative networks of organisations having been researched in the last decade in the areas of computer science, information science, management sciences, terminology and linguistics. Nevertheless, research in this area didn't give much attention to multilingual contexts of collaboration, which pose specific and challenging problems. It is then clear that access to and representation of knowledge will happen more and more on a multilingual setting which implies the overcoming of difficulties inherent to the presence of multiple languages, through the use of processes like localization of ontologies.  
 
Although localization, like other processes that involve multilingualism, is a rather well-developed practice and its methodologies and tools fruitfully employed by the language industry in the development and adaptation of multilingual content, it has not yet been sufficiently explored as an element of support to the development of knowledge representations - in particular ontologies - expressed in more than one language. Multilingual knowledge representation is then an open research area calling for cross-contributions from knowledge engineering, terminology, ontology engineering, cognitive sciences, computational linguistics, natural language processing, and management sciences.
 
This workshop intends to join researchers interested in multilingual knowledge representation, in a multidisciplinary environment to debate the possibilities of cross-fertilization between knowledge engineering, terminology, ontology engineering, cognitive sciences, computational linguistics, natural language processing, and management sciences applied to contexts where multilingualism continuously creates new and demanding challenges to current knowledge representation methods and techniques.
 
Workshop Co-located with TKE 2012 conference Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
 
CALL FOR PAPERS
 
TOPICS OF INTEREST
Papers are invited on, but not limited to, the following topics:
  • Collaborative processes in multilingual terminology work
  • Multilingual ontology development and maintenance
  • Interfaces between multilingual terminology work and ontology development
  • Multilingual collaborative conceptualization processes and representation of knowledge
  • Multilingual knowledge organisation systems and collaboration
  • Cross-lingual knowledge access
  • Localization strategies for knowledge representation
  • Localization of ontologies to multiple languages
  • Multilingual and cross-lingual information extraction and ontology population
  • Representation of multilingual information and language resources in the Semantic Web
  • Theoretical models in multilingual terminology work
SUBMISSIONS
We invite you to submit papers reporting on completed activity including concrete evaluation results.  (no more than 8 pages, oral presentation)
 
Submissions must be in PDF, formatted in the style of the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). For details on the LNCS style, see Springer's Author Instructions.
 
IMPORTANT: Papers should be submitted to: rute.costa at fcsh.unl.pt
 
REVIEWING
Reviewing will be managed by the Program Committee. The reviewing process will be blind and each submission will receive three independent reviews.
 
IMPORTANT DATES
NEW deadline for submission: May 11th, 2012
Notification of acceptance May 18th, 2012
Camera-ready papers May 28th, 2012
Workshop (co-located with TKE 2012) June 19, 2011
 
LANGUAGE
The workshop language for presentations and publications is English.
 
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
  • Alessandro Oltramari - Carnegie-Mellon University, USA
  • António Lucas Soares - University of Porto and INESC TEC, Portugal
  • Asuncion Gómez Pérez, OEG, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
  • Carla Sofia Pereira - Polytechnic Institute of Porto and INESC TEC, Portugal
  • Cláudia Santos – University of Aveiro, Portugal
  • Christophe Roche - University of Savoie, France
  • Elena Montiel-Ponsoda, OEG - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
  • Frieda Steurs – University of Lessius, Belgium
  • Guadalupe Aguado de Cea - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
  • Gerhard Budin - University of Vienna, Austria
  • Margaret Rogers – University of Surrey, UK
  • Manuel Silva - Polytechnic Institute of Porto and INESC TEC, Portugal
  • Patrick Drouin – University of Montréal, Canada
  • Philipp Cimiano, Semantic Computing Group, CITEC -- University of Bielefeld
  • Piek Vossen - VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • Rute Costa - Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
  • Thierry Declerck, DFKI - Language Technology Lab, Germany
  • Wim Peters - University of Sheffield - Natural Language Processing group, UK
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT:
Rute Costa - New University of Lisbon, Portugal
 
REGISTRATION
Important! Those attending the workshop can pay only for the Workshop. You do not need to pay the conference fee if you are not attending the conference.
For more information on TKE 2012: http://www.oeg-upm.net/tke2012