[public-lod2] [ANN] Call for Papers - Workshop on "NLP & DBpedia" at ISWC 2013 - Deadline July 8th
Sebastian Hellmann
hellmann at informatik.uni-leipzig.de
Tue Apr 30 11:45:08 UTC 2013
Apologies for cross-posting!
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NLP & DBpedia Workshop 2013
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Free, open, interoperable and multilingual NLP for DBpedia and DBpedia
for NLP:
http://nlp-dbpedia2013.blogs.aksw.org/
Collocated with the International Semantic Web Conference 2013 (ISWC 2013)
21-22 October 2013, in Sydney, Australia (*Submission deadline July 8th*)
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Recently, the DBpedia community has experienced an immense increase in
activity and we believe, that the time has come to explore the
connection between DBpedia & Natural Language Processing (NLP) in a yet
unpreceded depth. The goal of this workshop can be summarized by this
(pseudo-) formula:
NLP & DBpedia == DBpedia4NLP && NLP4DBpedia
http://db0.aksw.org/downloads/CodeCogsEqn_bold2.gif
DBpedia has a long-standing tradition to provide useful data as well as
a commitment to reliable Semantic Web technologies and living best
practices. With the rise of WikiData, DBpedia is step-by-step relieved
from the tedious extraction of data from Wikipedia's infoboxes and can
shift its focus on new challenges such as extracting information from
the unstructured article text as well as becoming a testing ground for
multilingual NLP methods.
Contribution
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Within the timeframe of this workshop, we hope to mobilize a community
of stakeholders from the Semantic Web area. We envision the workshop to
produce the following items:
* an open call to the DBpedia data consumer community will generate a
wish list of data, which is to be generated from Wikipedia by NLP
methods. This wish list will be broken down to tasks and benchmarks and
a GOLD standard will be created.
* the benchmarks and test data created will be collected and published
under an open license for future evaluation (inspired by OAEI and
UCI-ML). An overview of the benchmarks can be found here:
http://nlp-dbpedia2013.blogs.aksw.org/benchmarks
Please sign up to our mailing list, if you are interested in discussing
guidelines and NLP benchmarking:
http://lists.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/mailman/listinfo/nlp-dbpedia-public
Important dates
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8 July 2013, Paper Submission Deadline
9 August 2013, Notification of accepted papers sent to authors
Motivation
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The central role of Wikipedia (and therefore DBpedia) for the creation
of a Translingual Web has recently been recognized by the Strategic
Research Agenda (cf. section 3.4, page 23) and most of the contributions
of the recently held Dagstuhl seminar on the Multilingual Semantic Web
also stress the role of Wikipedia for Multilingualism. As more and more
language-specific chapters of DBpedia appear (currently 14 language
editions), DBpedia is becoming a driving factor for a Linguistic Linked
Open Data cloud as well as localized LOD clouds with specialized domains
(e.g. the Dutch windmill domain ontology created from
http://nl.dbpedia.org ).
The data contained in Wikipedia and DBpedia have ideal properties for
making them a controlled testbed for NLP. Wikipedia and DBpedia are
multilingual and multi-domain, the communities maintaining these
resource are very open and it is easy to join and contribute. The open
license allows data consumers to benefit from the content and many parts
are collaboratively editable. Especially, the data in DBpedia is widely
used and disseminated throughout the Semantic Web.
NLP4DBpedia
==========
DBpedia has been around for quite a while, infusing the Web of Data with
multi-domain data of decent quality. These triples are, however, mostly
extracted from Wikipedia infoboxes. To unlock the full potential of
Wikipedia articles for DBpedia, the information contained in the
remaining part of the articles needs to be analysed and triplified.
Here, the NLP techniques may be of favour.
DBpedia4NLP
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On the other hand NLP, and information extraction techniques in
particular, involve various resources while processing texts from
various domains. These resources may be used e.g. as an element of a
solution e.g. gazetteer being an important part of a rule created by an
expert or disambiguation resource, or while delivering a solution e.g.
within machine learning approaches. DBpedia easily fits in both of these
roles.
We invite papers from both these areas including:
1. Knowledge extraction from text and HTML documents (especially
unstructured and semi-structured documents) on the Web, using
information in the Linked Open Data (LOD) cloud, and especially in DBpedia.
2. Representation of NLP tool output and NLP resources as RDF/OWL, and
linking the extracted output to the LOD cloud.
3. Novel applications using the extracted knowledge, the Web of Data or
NLP DBpedia-based methods.
The specific topics are listed below.
Topics
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- Improving DBpedia with NLP methods
- Finding errors in DBpedia with NLP methods
- Annotation methods for Wikipedia articles
- Cross-lingual data and text mining on Wikipedia
- Pattern and semantic analysis of natural language, reading the Web,
learning by reading
- Large-scale information extraction
- Entity resolution and automatic discovery of Named Entities
- Multilingual entity recognition task of real world entities
- Frequent pattern analysis of entities
- Relationship extraction, slot filling
- Entity linking, Named Entity disambiguation, cross-document
co-reference resolution
- Disambiguation through knowledge base
- Ontology representation of natural language text
- Analysis of ontology models for natural language text
- Learning and refinement of ontologies
- Natural language taxonomies modeled to Semantic Web ontologies
- Use cases for potential data extracted from Wikipedia articles
- Use cases of entity recognition for Linked Data applications
- Impact of entity linking on information retrieval, semantic search
Furthermore, an informal list of NLP tasks can be found on this
Wikipedia page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_language_processing#Major_tasks_in_NLP
These are relevant for the workshop as long as they fit into the
DBpedia4NLP and NLP4DBpedia frame (i.e. the used data evolves around
Wikipedia and DBpedia).
Submission formats
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Paper submission
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All papers must represent original and unpublished work that is not
currently under review. Papers will be evaluated according to their
significance, originality, technical content, style, clarity, and
relevance to the workshop. At least one author of each accepted paper is
expected to attend the workshop.
* Full research paper (up to 12 pages)
* Position papers (up to 6 pages)
* Use case descriptions (up to 6 pages)
* Data/benchmark paper (2-6 pages, depending on the size and complexity)
Note: data and benchmarks papers are meant to provide a citable
reference for your data and benchmarks. We kindly require, that you
upload any data you use to our benchmark repository in parallel to the
submission. We recommend to use an open license (e.g. CC-BY), but
minimum requirement is free use. Please write to the mailing list, if
you have any problems.
Full instructions are available at:
http://nlp-dbpedia2013.blogs.aksw.org/submission/
Submission of data and use cases
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This workshop also targets non-academic users and developers. If you
have any (open) data (e.g. texts or annotations) that can be used for
benchmarking NLP tools, but do not want or needd to write an academic
paper about it, please feel free to just add it to this table:
http://tinyurl.com/nlp-benchmarks or upload it to our repository:
http://github.com/dbpedia/nlp-dbpedia
Full instructions are available at:
http://nlp-dbpedia2013.blogs.aksw.org/benchmarks/
Also if you have any ideas, use cases or data requests please feel free
to just post them on our mailing list: nlp-dbpedia-public [at]
lists.informatik.uni-leipzig.de or send them directly to the chairs:
nlp-dbpedia2013 [at] easychair.org
Program committee
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* Guadalupe Aguado, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
* Chris Bizer, Universität Mannheim, Germany
* Volha Bryl, Universität Mannheim, Germany
* Paul Buitelaar, DERI, National University of Ireland, Galway
* Charalampos Bratsas, OKFN, Greece, ???????????? ????????????
????????????, (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), Greece
* Philipp Cimiano, CITEC, Universität Bielefeld, Germany
* Samhaa R. El-Beltagy, ?????_????? (Nile University), Egypt
* Daniel Gerber, AKSW, Universität Leipzig, Germany
* Jorge Gracia, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
* Max Jakob, Neofonie GmbH, Germany
* Anja Jentzsch, Hasso-Plattner-Institut, Potsdam, Germany
* Ali Khalili, AKSW, Universität Leipzig, Germany
* Daniel Kinzler, Wikidata, Germany
* David Lewis, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
* John McCrae, Universität Bielefeld, Germany
* Uroš Miloševic', Institut Mihajlo Pupin, Serbia
* Roberto Navigli, Sapienza, Università di Roma, Italy
* Axel Ngonga, AKSW, Universität Leipzig, Germany
* Asunción Gómez Pérez, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
* Lydia Pintscher, Wikidata, Germany
* Elena Montiel Ponsoda, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
* Giuseppe Rizzo, Eurecom, France
* Harald Sack, Hasso-Plattner-Institut, Potsdam, Germany
* Felix Sasaki, Deutsches Forschungszentrum für künstliche Intelligenz,
Germany
* Mladen Stanojevic', Institut Mihajlo Pupin, Serbia
* Hans Uszkoreit, Deutsches Forschungszentrum für künstliche
Intelligenz, Germany
* Rupert Westenthaler, Salzburg Research, Austria
* Feiyu Xu, Deutsches Forschungszentrum für künstliche Intelligenz, Germany
Contact
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Of course we would prefer that you will post any questions and comments
regarding NLP and DBpedia to our public mailing list at:
nlp-dbpedia-public [at] lists.informatik.uni-leipzig.de
If you want to contact the chairs of the workshop directly, please write
to:
nlp-dbpedia2013 [at] easychair.org
Kind regards,
Sebastian Hellmann, Agata Filipowska, Caroline Barrière,
Pablo N. Mendes, Dimitris Kontokostas
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Dipl. Inf. Sebastian Hellmann
Department of Computer Science, University of Leipzig
Events: NLP & DBpedia 2013 (http://nlp-dbpedia2013.blogs.aksw.org,
Deadline: *July 8th*)
Venha para a Alemanha como PhD: http://bis.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/csf
Projects: http://nlp2rdf.org , http://linguistics.okfn.org ,
http://dbpedia.org/Wiktionary , http://dbpedia.org
Homepage: http://bis.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/SebastianHellmann
Research Group: http://aksw.org
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