IWCS Workshop: Language and Ontologies 2015

Topics of Interest

  • NLP-driven ontology modelling
    • Ontology learning and population from text
    • Ontology authoring
    • Annotation and annotation schemes
    • Authoring dialogues
    • Psychological studies of errors
  • NLP-driven access to ontologies
    • Natural language interfaces to ontologies
    • Verbalization of ontologies
    • Verbalization of query languages
  • Ontologies for NLP (e.g. textual entailment, summarisation)
  • Ontology-based information retrieval
  • Ontologies, folksonomies, and lexicons

Submission Requirements

Article should be a maximum of 6 pages long with an additional page allowed for references. Articles should be anonymised and each article will be reviewed by 3 reviewers. The accepted articles will be part of the conference proceedings and will be published in an electronic form in the ACL Anthology.

Papers should be electronically submited in a PDF format via START. The deadline for submission is 4th January 2015. Please follow the IWCS formatting guidelines. Please submit your papers here: https://www.softconf.com/iwcs2015/langandonto/.

Program Committee

  • Ion Androutsopoulos (Athens University of Economics and Business)
  • John Bateman (Bremen University)
  • Elena Cabrio (INRIA Sophia Antipolis)
  • Philipp Cimiano (CITEC, Bielefeld University)
  • Geeth de Mel (IBM US)
  • Aldo Gangemi (ISTC Rome)
  • Jorge Gracia (UPM Madrid)
  • Nuria García-Santa (iSOCO Madrid)
  • Andrea Moro (Università di Roma La Sapienza)
  • Richard Power (Open University)
  • Yuan Ren (University of Aberdeen)
  • Riccardo Rosati (Università di Roma La Sapienza)
  • Robert Stevens (Manchester University)
  • Thora Tenbrink (Bangor University)
  • Matthias Thimm (Universität Koblenz)
  • Kees van Deemter (University of Aberdeen)
  • Serena Villata (INRIA Sophia Antipolis)
  • Boris Villazon-Terrazas (iSOCO Madrid)
  • Adam Wyner (University of Aberdeen)
  • Feiyu Xu (DFKI, Saarbrücken)

Important Dates

  • 4th January 2015
    Paper submissions due
  • 2nd February 2015
    Paper notification of acceptance
  • 25th Feburary 2015
    Camera-ready papers due
  • 14th April 2015
    Workshop