EKAW'2000

12th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management 

Juan-les-Pins,
French Riviera, 

October 2, 2000.

 WORKSHOP on ONTOLOGIES AND TEXTS

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Program

9h00-9h30 Late Registration

9h30-9h40     Introduction to the Workshop
Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles

Session 1: Methods for Ontology design from texts
Chairman : Nicola Guarino

9h40-10h05     Corpus analysis for conceptual modeling
 Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles, Brigitte Biébow, Sylvie Szulman
10h05-10h30    A method to build formal ontologies from texts
Jérôme Nobécourt
10h30-10h55   Managing terminology using statistical analyses, ontologies and a graphical KA tool

Päivikki Parpola
10h55-11h10 Coffee Break
11h10- 11h35   A Method for Semi-Automatic Ontology Acquisition from a Corporate Intranet

Joerg-Uwe Kietz, Alexander Maedche, Raphael Volz
11h35 - 12h00     Discussion
Next most challenging issues for ontology design from texts


Session 2: Applications (1)
Chairman : François Rousselot

12h00-12h25     Knowledge acquisition from texts towards an ontology of French law
Guiraude Lame

12h25-12h50     Designing a medical law ontology from technical texts and a core ontology
Sylvie Despres, Bernard Delforge

12h50-14h30 Lunch Break

Session 3: Applications (2)
Chairman : François Rousselot

14h30-14h55     The Th(IC)² Initiative: Corpus-Based Thesaurus Construction for Indexing WWW Documents
Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles, Didier Bourigault

14h55-15h20     SAMOVAR - Setting up and exploitation of ontologies for capitalising on project vehicle knowledge
Joanna Golebiowska

15h20-15h50     Discussion
For which kind of ontology-based application is it relevant to acquire knowledge from texts?

15h50 - 16h15 Coffee Break

Session 4: General vs specific Linguistic Resources
Chairman : Rose Dieng

16h15-16h40     Mapping of EuroWordnet Top Ontology to Upper Cyc Ontology
Atanas Kiryakov, Kiril Simov

16h40-17h05     Wordnet: what about its linguistic relevancy?
Monique Slodzian

17h05- 18h00     Discussion
Are linguistic tools and techniques mature enough to easily get
good quality models and terminologies? What's the cost for reusing general resources?
 

18h00 : End of the workshop