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CFP: ONTOLOGY-BASED INFORMATION EXTRACTION SYSTEMS (OBIES 2008)
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CALL FOR PAPERS
for the 1st International and
KI-08 Workshop on
ONTOLOGY-BASED INFORMATION EXTRACTION SYSTEMS (OBIES 2008)
23 September 2008, Kaiserslautern (Germany)
http://www.dfki.uni-kl.de/~adrian/workshops/obies2008
** Extended Paper submission deadline: June 22, 2008 **
OBJECTIVES
More and more information extraction (IE) systems use ontologies
for extraction tasks. These systems use knowledge representation
techniques for extracting information from lesser structured
domains more efficiently.
The advantages of these procedures are especially an increase of
quality in IE-templates, reusability, and maintainability.
Ontologies in IE may provide new techniques for supporting open
tasks of semantic analyses regarding for instance temporal
analyses, resolution of contradiction, or context awareness.
There are several open research topics about ontology-based
information extraction, for instance a proven architecture,
evaluation guidelines regarding the use of ontologies, or
ontologies vs. templates.
GOALS AND AUDIENCE
The workshop will be of major interest to researchers working on
information extraction, language technology and ontologies.
Furthermore, we expect that it will attract people working on
semantic web, question answering and other related fields.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
Suggested topics for contributions:
- Ontologies in templates, question answering, annotated corpora
or grammars
- Instance resolution (unification, disambiguation, and
recommendation)
- Relation resolution (extraction, recommendation, inference, and
validation)
- Using uncertainty in extraction tasks
- Evaluation and comparison of OBIE systems (corpora, metrics, etc.)
- OBIE as ontology population from texts
- Ontology-based text annotation as inverse of OBIE
user, etc.)
- RDF/OWL as knowledge representation formalism for NLP
- Integration of linguistic annotations and domain ontologies
SUBMISSIONS AND STYLE
Workshop submissions will be electronic, in pdf format only. Please
follow this link to EasyChair:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=obies2008.
Papers must be written in English and should not exceed 8 pages in
Springer LNCS format. Please consult us, if this appears to be a
problem. At least one author of each accepted paper must register
for the workshop and present the contribution in order to be published
in the workshop proceedings. The OBIES 2008 organizers intend to
publish workshop papers online at http://CEUR-WS.org.
Those wishing to participate by providing a live system demonstration
or presenting an extended abstract or position paper should submit
a poster about 4 pages.
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission deadline: June 22, 2008
Notification of acceptance: July 15, 2008
Camera-ready versions of papers: August 4, 2008
CHAIRS
Benjamin Adrian, benjamin.adrian@dfki.de
German Research Center for AI DFKI GmbH, Germany
Günter Neumann, neumann@dfki.de
German Research Center for AI DFKI GmbH, Germany
Alexander Troussov, atrousso@ie.ibm.com
IBM Dublin Software Lab
Borislav Popov, borislav.popov@ontotext.com
Ontotext Lab, Sirma Group Corp.
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Diana Maynard, University of Sheffield, UK
Robert Gaizauskas, University of Sheffield, UK
Kalina Bontcheva, University of Sheffield, UK
Siegfried Handschuh, DERI, Ireland
Jindong Kim, University of Tokyo, Japan
Steffen Staab, University of Koblenz, Germany
Brigitte Endres-Niggemeyer, FH Hannover, Germany
James Kilbury, University of Düsseldorf, Germany
Philipp Cimiano, Inst. AIFB, University of Karlsruhe
Paul Buitelaar, DFKI, Germany
Nigel Collier, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Maria Teresa Pazienza, University of Romana Tor Vergata, Italy