Workshops
Workshop 1: From
theme to term (CFP - in French)
Workshop 2: Semantic
relations (cfp - in French)
Invited speakers
Diana
Maynard
(University of Sheffield, UK)
Keynote abstract
Carlos
Subirats
(Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona - Spain and Berkeley- USA)
Keynote abstract
Important
dates
Demonstration
November 9, 2009
Registration
Special rate before October 27, 2009
Conference
November 18-19, 2009
Workshops
November 20, 2009
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Conference
presentation
In all specialized fields,
knowledge is stored and disseminated in the form of documents. In some
cases, document management (ranking according to relevance to a query,
for instance) and acquisition and extraction of knowledge for indexing,
modelling and conceptualization rely on terminological and linguistic
studies. Hence, terminology and linguistics supply key concepts to
other disciplines such as natural language processing, information
science and knowledge engineering. Conversely, these disciplines bring
to light new problems and issues and present new challenges and
perspectives for terminology and linguistics. For nearly 15 years, TIA
conferences have provided a forum for researchers working in these
various fields to come together.
The 2009 TIA Conference will focus mainly – although not
exclusively – on terms and terminological systems. Terms are
used as focal points for knowledge structuring in many applications,
including ontologies, thesauri, and other conventional terminological
resources such as specialized dictionaries and terminological
databases. A number of semantic relations between terms may be
identified (and may vary depending on the application). However,
although the aim of all of these applications is a certain degree of
stability, the linguistic nature of terms and of the relations they
share raises many questions. Which relations should be represented in
specific applications? How should terms and the relations between them
be represented? How can the relations in terminological resources and
their linguistic representation in texts be linked?
Submitted papers may address theoretical or methodological issues.
Interdisciplinary work that focuses on collaboration between
disciplines when dealing with terminological issues is strongly
encouraged.
Topics
Proposals addressing the theme
“Terms and terminological systems” are strongly
encouraged. However, other proposals dealing with innovative
theoretical, methodological, or practical questions are also welcome.
Possible topics include:
- Semantic theories and terminology in relation to text
linguistics and ontologies (especially theoretical linguistic
approaches to describing terms and terminological structures)
- Representation of terms and semantic or conceptual
relations in specific types of data structures (ontologies, thesauri,
etc.)
- Representation of terms and semantic or conceptual
relations in multilingual applications
- Comparative studies of terminologies / terminological
resources / ontological resources from different languages, communities
or time frames
- Theoretical and technical problems in automated or
manual compilation of terminologies using mono- or multi-lingual corpora
- Methods for automatic terminology structuring
(identification of relations between terms, linking of terms to
specific fields of knowledge)
- Studies on the relationships between ontologies and
terminologies and/or thesauri:
- Use of terminologies to compile and structure
ontologies
- Use of ontological modelling for a better
understanding of the semantics of thesauri and terminologies
- Evaluation methods and criteria, and validation of
terminologies
- Problems in compiling multilingual terminologies
- Reuse, standardization, comparison and merging of
terminological or ontological resources.
- Applications of terminological resources (the
Semantic Web, information retrieval, technology watch, question
answering, document management, ranking and/or classification, etc.)
The TIA group (http://tia.loria.fr/)
founded this conference series in 1995. The first conference took place
in Paris (TIA’95, Villetaneuse), and subsequent events have
been held in a variety of French cities (TIA’97 (Toulouse),
TIA’99 (Nantes), TIA’01 (Nancy), TIA’03
(Strasbourg), TIA’05 (Rouen), and TIA ’07 (Nice)).
Created under the auspices of AFIA (l’Association
française pour l’intelligence artificielle; French
Association for Artificial Intelligence) – which has since
become the AFIA/GdR-I3 group – TIA brings together
researchers in linguistics, natural language processing and knowledge
engineering.
The TIA group is responsible for the organization and the management of
the 2009 TIA conference. Submissions will be reviewed by an
international program committee composed of experts in the above fields
(with each paper evaluated by three reviewers) and may be accepted as
full papers or posters.
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