EKAW'2000

12th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management 

Juan-les-Pins,
French Riviera, 

October 2, 2000.

 WORKSHOP on ONTOLOGIES AND TEXTS

http://www.irit.fr/wsontologies2000

In collabration with TIA

Call for papers and participation

Extended dead-line : July 14th, 2000


Ontology design remains a difficult and challenging problem. Most of the current research studies and papers focus on the technical problems raised by the representation and structuring of knowledge in the ontology. Many works are also devoted to the problem of formalization and reusability of ontologies. More recently, new interests bore on the influence of the target application on the task of designing an ontology.

In this workshop, we concentrate on ontology design considered as a process stemming from knowledge sources to a structured conceptual model. Among all knowledge sources (human experts, existing ontologies and texts), we pay special interest to texts (technical documentation, interview transcripts, handbooks and so on).

We claim that texts are an important source of knowledge for any kind of application, in particular because most of the texts contain shared and stabilized knowledge among a community of specialists. Moreover, NLP tools are mature enough to be worth being integrated in knowledge engineering methods. Available linguistics results (principles and techniques) are also relevant for building semantic networks and ontologies from texts. In spite of such potential values, knowledge acquisition from texts for ontology design is hardly studied. We assert that text analysis could significantly improve the efficiency of the process of ontology building, as well as the quality and the relevance of the resulting ontologies.

We wish to stress that knowledge engineering is ready to face a major evolution by integrating texts as knowledge sources and mainly by giving a new status to concepts and linguistic data. Our aim is to discuss these assertions within the community as long as several teams have been experiencing practical work in ontology design and theoritical reflexions on the topic for many years.

Technical and theoretical issues to be discussed at the workshop include, but are not limited to:

Important dates

 
Submission deadline: July 7, 2000
Notification of acceptance: September 7, 2000
Motivation texts: Sept  18, 2000
Final Paper: Sept 21, 2000
Workshop
 October 2, 2000

Submission Procedure

Papers should be no longer than 2500 words. They can either report research works, practical experiments or discuss more theoretical questions. Papers will be published in paper-back proceedings distributed to the workshop participants and available on-line the week before the worskhop.

Send papers by email (html AND ps files) to Brigitte BIEBOW  (Brigitte.Biebow@lipn.univ-paris13.fr) and Sylvie SZULMAN (Sylvie.Szulman@lipn.univ-paris13.fr) before July 7th
 
Submission address : Brigitte.Biebow@lipn.univ-paris13.fr

Participation conditions

Anyone wishing to take part in this workshop should send a one page abstract about its motivations to attend the workshop
and/or its recent works related to the workshop topic. This page should also contain a question-issue to be debated during the workshop.
Send your text to Nathalie AUSSENAC-GILLES (aussenac@irit.fr)  before September 18th.
 
Participation address :aussenac@irit.fr

Submission Format

Please use the same format as the one suggested for the conference.
The first page of submitted papers should include: title, author names, affiliations, postal addresses, electronic mail addresses, telephone and fax numbers for all authors, and a brief abstract. All correspondence will be sent to the author designed as contact person in the electronic title page.
 

Organisation

This workshop is promoted by the French working group on Terminology and Artificial Intelligence (TIA)
(http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/TIA) to which the chairwomen belong. Most of the issues mentionned as topics
reflect the group scientific debates and orientations.

Chairs and main organizers

Local organisation

http://www.inria.fr/acacia/ekaw2000
 

Program Committee