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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-US">Please
consider submitting a paper for the 1st International workshop on
"Ontology Uses and Contribution to Artificial Intelligence"
which will be held online or in Hanoi, Vietnam - November 6-12, 2021.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><br><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-US"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%" lang="EN-US">**** OnUCAI - CALL FOR PAPERS **** </span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-US"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-US">Ontology Uses and Contribution to Artificial
Intelligence</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-US"><span></span></span></p>
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1st International Workshop, in conjunction with </span></i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://kr2021.kbsg.rwth-aachen.de/" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue" lang="EN-US">KR
2021</span></a></span><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-US"> </span></i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-US"><span></span></span></p><div style="margin-left:360px">
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November 6-12, 2021 - Online or in Hanoi, Vietnam</span></i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-US"><span></span></span></p><div style="margin-left:360px">
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</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/onucai-kr2021">https://sites.google.com/view/onucai-kr2021</a><br><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-US"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:rgb(234,209,220) none repeat scroll 0% 0%"><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:rgb(234,209,220) none repeat scroll 0% 0%">* Important dates *</span></b><b><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> <span></span></span></b></p>
<ul style="margin-bottom:0cm" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-US">Workshop paper submission
due: </span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-US"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">July 02, 2021</span><span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Workshop paper notifications: </span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">August 06, 2021<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-US">Workshop paper
camera-ready versions due: </span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-US">September 06, 2021<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Workshop registration deadline: </span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">TBA<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Workshop: </span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">November 06-12, 2021<span></span></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-US">All
deadlines are 23:59 anywhere on earth (UTC-12)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><br><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-US"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:rgb(234,209,220) none repeat scroll 0% 0%" lang="EN-US">* Workshop description *</span></b><b><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-US"><span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-US">An ontology is well known to be the best way to represent knowledge in a
domain of interest. It is defined by Gruber as “an explicit specification of a
conceptualization”. It allows us to represent explicitly and formally existing
entities, their relationships and their constraints in an application domain.
This representation is the most suitable and beneficial way to solve many
challenging problems related to the information domain (e.g., knowledge
representation, knowledge sharing, knowledge reusing, automated reasoning,
knowledge capitalizing and ensuring semantic interoperability among
heterogeneous systems). Using ontology has many advantages, among them we can
cite ontology reusing, reasoning and explanation, commitment and agreement on a
domain of discourse, ontology evolution and mapping, etc. As a field of
artificial intelligence (AI), ontology aims at representing knowledge based on
declarative and symbolic formalization. Combining this symbolic field with
computational fields of IA such as Machine Learning (ML), Deep Learning (DL),
Probabilistic Graphical Models (PGMs), Computer Vision (CV) and Natural
Languages Processing (NLP) is a promising association. Indeed, ontological
modeling plays a vital role to help AI reducing the complexity of the studied
domain and organizing information inside it. It broadens AI’s scope allowing it
to include any data type as it supports unstructured, semi-structured, or
structured data format which enables smoother data integration. The ontology
also assists AI for interpretation process, learning, enrichment, prediction,
semantic disambiguation and discovering of complex inferences. Finally, the
ultimate goal of ontologies is the ability to be integrated in a software to
make sense of all information.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-US">In the last decade, ontologies are increasingly being used to provide
background knowledge for several AI domains in different sectors (e.g. energy,
transport, health, banking and insurance, etc.). </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Some of these AI domains are:<span></span></span></p>
<ul style="margin-bottom:0cm" type="square"><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-US">Machine
learning and deep learning: semantic data selection, semantic data
pre-processing, semantic data transformation, semantic data prediction,
semantic clustering correction of the outputs, semantic enrichment with
ontological concepts, use the semantic structure for promoting distance
measure, etc.<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-US">Probabilistic
Graphical Models: learning PGM (structure or parameters) using ontologies,
probabilistic semantic reasoning, semantic causality and probability, etc.
<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Computer Vision: semantic image processing,
semantic image classification, semantic object recognition/classification,
etc.<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Blockchain: semantic transactions, interoperable
blockchain systems, etc.<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-US">Natural
Language Processing: semantic text mining, semantic text classification,
semantic role labelling, semantic machine translation, semantic question
answering, ontology based text summarizing, semantic recommendation
systems, etc.<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-US">Robotics:
semantic task composition, task assignment, communication, cooperation and
coordination, etc.<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-US">Voice-video-speech:
semantic voice r</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-US">ecognition, se</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-US">mantic
speech annotation, etc.<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-US">Game
Theory: semantic definition of specific games, semantic rules and goals definition, etc.</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-US">etc. <br></span></li></ul>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:18pt;color:black;background:rgb(234,209,220) none repeat scroll 0% 0%">* Objective *</span></b><b><span style="font-size:18pt;color:black"><span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-US">This workshop aims at highlighting recent and future advances on the role
of ontologies and knowledge graphs in different domains of AI and how it can be
used in order to reduce the semantic gap between the data, applications,
machine learning process, etc., in order to obtain a semantic-aware approaches.
In addition, the goal of this workshop is to bring together an area for experts
from industry, science and academia to exchange ideas and discuss results of
on-going research in ontologies and AI approaches. <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-US">We invite the submission of original works that is related -- but are not
limited to -- the topics below.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><br><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-US"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:rgb(234,209,220) none repeat scroll 0% 0%">* Topics of interests *</span></b><b><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></b></p>
<ul style="margin-bottom:0cm" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-US">Ontology for Machine
Learning/Deep Learning<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-US">Ontology for
Probabilistic Graphical Models<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-US">Ontology for Federated
Machine Learning<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-US">Ontology for Smart
Contracts<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-US">Ontology for Computer
Vision<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-US">Ontology for Natural
Language Processing<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-US">Ontology for Robotics and
Multi-agent Systems<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-US">Ontology for
Voice-video-speech<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-US">Ontology for Game Theory<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-US">and so on.<span></span></span></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:rgb(234,209,220) none repeat scroll 0% 0%">* Submission * </span></b><b><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-US">The workshop is open to submit
unpublished work resulting from research that presents original scientific
results, methodological aspects, concepts and approaches. All submissions are
not anonymous and must be PDF documents written in English and formatted using
the following style files: </span><u><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fkr2021.kbsg.rwth-aachen.de%2Fdownloads%2FKR21_authors_kit.zip&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNFYtenqTF-Mya6ZrNGgBeit_xLXyw" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue" lang="EN-US">KR2021_authors_kit</span></a></span></u><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-US"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-US">Papers are to be submitted through the workshop's </span><u><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Feasychair.org%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNG4iC-6zde_-RJieT-QIFfKn8WSyA" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue" lang="EN-US">EasyChair</span></a></span></u><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-US"> submission
page.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-US">We welcome the following types of contributions:<span></span></span></p>
<ul style="margin-bottom:0cm" type="square"><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-US">Full
papers</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-US"> of up to 9 pages, including abstract, figures
and appendices (if any), but excluding references and acknowledgements:
Finished or consolidated R&D works, to be included in one of the
Workshop topics.<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-US">Short
papers</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-US"> of up to 4 pages, excluding references and
acknowledgements: Ongoing works with relevant preliminary results, opened
to discussion.<span></span></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-US"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-US">At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the workshop,
in order to present the paper. For further instructions, please refer to the </span><u><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fkr2021.kbsg.rwth-aachen.de%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNFSM6Btf5QWGflVsMEJT0AEx1kD7Q" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue" lang="EN-US">KR
2021</span></a></span></u><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-US"> page.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><br><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-US"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:rgb(234,209,220) none repeat scroll 0% 0%" lang="EN-US">* Workshop chairs *</span></b><b><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-US"><span></span></span></b></p>
<ul style="margin-bottom:0cm" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-US">Sarra Ben Abbès, Engie,
France<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-US">Lynda Temal, Engie,
France<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-US">Nada Mimouni, CNAM,
France<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-US">Ahmed Mabrouk, Engie,
France<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-US">Philippe Calvez, Engie,
France</span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">* Program
Committee *</span><span></span></span></b></p>
<ul style="margin-bottom:0cm" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">TBD</span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">*Publication</span><span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-US">The best
papers from this workshop may be included in the supplementary proceedings of
KR 2021.<span></span></span></p>
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