Aims and scope

The context for this workshop is broadly perceived necessity of endowing the Web with the ability of understanding natural language (NL). The aim of the workshop is to explicate, collect, discuss, and generalize the models of informational (in particular, semantic, conceptual) structures, the models of the correspondences between a sentence or a short discourse and its semantic representation with respect to a knowledge base, the models of the correspondences between a fragment of a discourse and its semantic representation with respect to a knowledge base and semantic representation of the preceding part of a discourse, and the methods (algorithms) of processing information expressed by means of NL either proved to be effective in any application domain or being broadly applicable or universal as it is shown by the results of the fulfilled theoretical analysis.

Expected topics (their list is not exhaustive):

broadly applicable formal tools for constructing the text meaning representations (or semantic representations);
unified formal means for representing text meanings and for constructing high-level conceptual descriptions of visual images;
the models of semantic-syntactic components of linguistic databases;
the models of the correspondences between a sentence or a short discourse and its semantic representation with respect to a knowledge base;
the models of the correspondences between a fragment of a discourse and its semantic representation with respect to a knowledge base and semantic representation of the preceding part of a discourse (in particular, the models for finding the meaning of an elliptical phrase);
the methods and algorithms of semantic-syntactic analysis of NL-texts;
the methods and algorithms of discovering the referents of anaphoric expressions;
the models, methods, and algorithms of using the ontologies for finding the answers to the questions of the users of full-text databases;
the models, methods, and algorithms of using the ontologies for knowledge extraction from natural language texts;
the methods and algorithms of planning the dialogue with an end user with respect to an ontology and knowledge about the end user;
semantics-oriented methods of cross-language information retrieval;
the methods and algorithms of transforming the meaning representations into NL-texts;
intelligent text summarization;
content search and analysis for e-learning;
the methods of transforming the collections of OWL-expressions into NL-texts;
the methods of transforming the NL-texts into OWL-expressions.

Program Committee

Rajendra Akerkar (Norway, Sogndal, Western Norway Research University) Galia Angelova (Bulgaria, Sofia, Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences) Svetla Boytcheva (Bulgaria, Sofia, University for Library Studies and Information Technologies) Vladimir Fomichov (Russia, Moscow, State University – Higher School of Economics) Marko Grobelnik (Slovena, Ljubljana, Jozef Stefan Institute) Preslav Nakov (Singapore, National University of Singapore) Toshio Okamoto (Japan, Tokyo, University of Electro-Communications) Jens Pohl (USA, California Polytechnic State University) Violaine Prince (France, University of Montpellier 2) Mathieu Roche (France, University of Montpellier 2)

Important dates

Submission of abstracts: February 8, 2011 Submissions of full papers: February 15, 2011 Notification of acceptance of papers: March 10, 2011 Camera-ready papers: March 25, 2011

Submission of the papers

The maximum length of full workshop papers is at most 12 pages in ACM format and of short papers is at most 5 pages in ACM format. Please note that the submission format is MS Word or PDF. The papers must be written in English and formatted according to the ACM guidelines. Author instructions and style files can be downloaded at http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates. The abstracts and papers are to be submitted via e-mail at each of the following addresses: vfomichov@hse.ru; v.fomichov@snhu.edu (attention: no point before AT in the first address). Authors of accepted papers are expected to attend the conference and present their work.

Publication:

Accepted papers will be published by ACM and disseminated through the ACM Digital Library. Selected extended papers will be invited to appear in the special issues of reputed journals in the field. Registration fee: There will be no separate workshop fee. Since the workshop will be a part of the main WIMS 2011 program, each workshop attendee/speaker must pay the WIMS’11 conference fee (to be announced in January 2011) at the time of submitting the camera ready copy. Fee for the conference includes WIMS 2011 proceedings, lunch and refreshments on 25th to 27th May, invitation to Welcome Reception, one ticket to the Gala Dinner.

Links

NLP_and_SemWeb_Workshop 2011: NLP_and_SemWeb_Workshop 2011

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