[Apologies for cross-posting]<br><br><br>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br> EXTENDED DEADLINE <br> 2nd International Workshop on<br>
Exploiting Large Knowledge Repositories (E-LKR)<br> Collocated with SEPLN 2012 Conference<br> September 7, 2012. Castellon, Comunidad Valenciana, Spain<br> <a href="http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/isg/conferences/ELKR2012/">http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/isg/conferences/ELKR2012/</a><br>
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br><br>OBJECTIVES<br>--------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>Very large knowledge repositories (LKR) are being created, published and exploited in a wide range of <br>
fields, including Bioinformatics, Biomedicine, Geography, e-Government, and many others. Some well known <br>examples of LKRs include the Wikipedia, large scale Bioinformatics databases and ontologies such as those <br>published by the EBI or the NIH (e.g. UMLS, GO), and government data repositories such as <a href="http://data.gov">data.gov</a>. These <br>
repositories are publicly available and can be used openly. Their exploitation offers many possibilities <br>for improving current information systems, and opens new challenges and research opportunities to the <br>information processing, databases and semantic web areas.<br>
<br>The main goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers that are working on the creation of new <br>LKRs on any domain, or on their exploitation for specific information processing tasks such as data analysis, <br>
text mining, natural language processing and visualization, as well as for knowledge engineering issues, <br>like knowledge acquisition, validation and personalization.<br><br><br>CALL FOR PAPERS<br>--------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>
<br>We solicit LONG, DEMO and POSITION papers dealing with some of (but not limited to) the proposed topics <br>and showing the benefits of exploiting LKRs to the Natural Language Processing, the Semantic Web and Database <br>
communities. SURVEY papers will also be welcome.<br><br>Topics:<br><br> * Natural language processing tasks and applications of LKRs.<br><br> * LKRs as high-quality sources of information.<br><br> * LKRs characterization and applications.<br>
<br> * LKRs creation from document collections and corpora.<br><br> * Knowledge extraction from LKRs.<br><br> * Analysis and mining of LKRs.<br><br> * Temporal issues in LKRs.<br><br> * Acquisition, validation and management of data and knowledge.<br>
<br> * Knowledge integration issues in LKRs.<br><br> * Integration of large scale ontologies.<br><br> * Automatic construction of ontologies, thesauri and corpora from LKR.<br><br> * Semantic annotation.<br><br>
* Semantic search.<br><br> * LKRs and the Semantic Web.<br><br> * LKRs and the Web of Linked Data.<br><br> * Social graphs as LKRs.<br><br> * Visualization techniques for LKRs.<br><br> * Emerging applications of LKRs.<br>
<br><br>SUBMISSIONS<br>--------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>Long and Survey papers must be no longer than 10 pages, while Demo and Position papers must be no longer <br>than 6 pages. Statements of interest (up to 2 pages) will also be considered.<br>
<br>Submissions must be in PDF and should be formatted according to the Springer LNCS guidelines. Submission <br>is electronic through easychair.<br><br>All submissions will be peer-reviewed by the program committee. Selected papers are to be published as a <br>
volume of CEUR workshop proceedings.<br><br><br>IMPORTANT DATES<br>--------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br> * Submission of abstracts: June 24th, 2012 (EXTENDED)<br><br> * Paper submission deadline: July 1st, 2012 (EXTENDED)<br>
<br> * Notification of acceptance: July 20th, 2012 <br><br> * Camera-ready papers due: August 5th, 2012<br><br> * Workshop: September 7th, 2012 (morning, half day)<br><br><br><br>ORGANISATION<br>--------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>
<br>For enquiries, please contact the workshop chairs at <a href="mailto:elkr2012@easychair.org">elkr2012@easychair.org</a><br><br>Workshop chairs<br><br> * Ernesto Jiménez-Ruiz (University of Oxford, UK)<br> * María José Aramburu Cabo (Universitat Jaume I, Spain)<br>
* Roxana Danger (Imperial College London, UK)<br> * Antonio Jimeno-Yepes (National Library of Medicine, USA)<br><br>Publicity chair<br><br> * Esther Ramo Tena (Science and Technology Park, Universitat Jaume I, Spain)<br>
<br>Program committee<br><br> * Ana Armas (University of Oxford, UK)<br> * Yassine Benajiba (Columbia University, USA)<br> * Rafael Berlanga Llavori (Universitat Jaume I, Spain)<br> * Manuel de la Villa Cordero (Universidad de Huelva, Spain)<br>
* Jorge Gracia (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)<br> * Ramon Granell (University of Oxford, UK)<br> * Senay Kafkas (EMBL-EBI, UK)<br> * Evgeny Kharlamov (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy)<br> * Maria Liakata (EMBL-EBI, UK)<br>
* Dolores María Llidó (Universitat Jaume I, Spain)<br> * Despoina Magka (University of Oxford, UK)<br> * Marco Mesiti (Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy)<br> * Jose Mora (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)<br>
* Victoria Nebot (Universitat Jaume I, Spain)<br> * María Pérez (Universitat Jaume I, Spain)<br> * Bastien Rance (National Library of Medicine, USA)<br> * Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann (EMBL-EBI, UK)<br> * Paolo Rosso (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain)<br>
* Ismael Sanz (Universitat Jaume I, Spain)<br> * Giorgio Stefanoni (University of Oxford, UK)<br> * Jorge Vivaldi (Institute for Applied Linguistics, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain)<br> * Dmitriy Zheleznyakov (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy)<br>
* Yujiao Zhou (University of Oxford, UK)<br><br><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Ernesto Jiménez-Ruiz<br>Research Assistant<br>
Department of Computer Science<br>
University of Oxford<br>Wolfson Building, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QD, UK<br><br><a href="http://krono.act.uji.es/people/Ernesto" target="_blank">http://krono.act.uji.es/people/Ernesto</a><br><a href="http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/ernesto.jimenez-ruiz/" target="_blank">http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/ernesto.jimenez-ruiz/</a><br>
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