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<p>Hello, all, <br>
this might be interesting to the NLP2RDF community, especially
those interested in standardization and best practices. Note that
the speaker deadline has been extended to May 9th.<br>
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<p>More details on <a
href="http://www.multilingualweb.eu/documents/dublin-workshop/dublin-cfp">http://www.multilingualweb.eu/documents/dublin-workshop/dublin-cfp</a><br>
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<p>-- Tadej<br>
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<h3 style="margin-bottom: 50px;">W3C Workshop, Call for
Participation:<br>
The Multilingual Web – Linked Open Data and MultilingualWeb-LT
Requirements <br>
<span style="font-size: 75%;">11 - 13 June 2012, Dublin</span></h3>
<p><br>
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<p>The purpose of this workshop is two-fold: first, to discuss the
intersection between Linked Open Data and Multilingual
Technologies (11 June), and second, to discuss <a
href="https://www.w3.org/International/multilingualweb/lt/wiki/Requirements">Requirements
of the W3C MultilingualWeb-LT Working Group</a> (12 - 13 June).
We expect that both topics will attract an overlapping set of
participants, and we hope to increase the overlap by this
workshop.</p>
<p><strong>About the Linked Open Data topic:</strong> Research and
industrial application of Multilingual Web content (MLW), Linked
Open Data (LOD) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) are becoming
increasingly intertwined. The goal of the workshop is to bring
together stakeholders in the areas of content creation,
translation, and provision of content delivery infrastructures,
researchers and key industrial contacts.</p>
<p>One of the major issues in the evolution of Linked (Open) Data is
its lack of multilinguality. There is a strong separation between,
on the one hand, terminology, lexical and language resources, and
on the other, the technologies used for Linked Data. This gap
makes it difficult to exploit any potential synergy among those
approaches. This also makes it difficult to exploit the
possibilities offered for Linked Data by Multilingual Web
technologies. Removing silos and integrating these technologies is
therefore an important goal, and is the main topic of this
workshop.</p>
<p><strong>About the MultilingualWeb-LT Requirements Gathering:</strong>
The <a href="http://www.w3.org/International/multilingualweb/lt/">MultilingualWeb-LT
Working Group</a> is gathering requirements to define meta-data
for web content (mainly HTML5) and deep Web content, for example a
CMS or XML files from which HTML pages are generated, that
facilitates its interaction with multilingual technologies and
localization processes. The group has come up with an <a
href="http://www.w3.org/International/multilingualweb/lt/wiki/Requirements">inital
list of requirements</a>, including a list of <a
href="http://www.w3.org/International/multilingualweb/lt/wiki/Requirements#Overview_table_of_proposed_metadata_categories">proposed
metadata items</a>. During this workshop, we aim at getting <a
href="http://www.w3.org/International/multilingualweb/lt/wiki/Requirements#Feedback">detailed
feedback</a> about the requirements and the metadata items.</p>
<p>Different to <a href="http://www.multilingualweb.eu/documents">previous
MultilingualWeb workshops</a>, this workshop has two specific
foci, and aims at certain groups of participants, with the goal of
producing concrete proposals about next steps in the two areas
described above . While future MultilingualWeb workshops will
continue the format of broad events and will aim again at a larger
audience, attendees for this workshop are required to participate
actively and will need to submit a position statement for the
workshop registration. The workshop will be hosted by <a
href="http://www.scss.tcd.ie/"><strong>Trinity College Dublin
(TCD)</strong></a>.<br>
</p>
<h3 id="importantdates">Important dates</h3>
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<th>2 April</th>
<td>Call for Participation issued</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th><strong>New: 9 May</strong></th>
<td>Deadline for <a
href="http://www.multilingualweb.eu/documents/dublin-workshop/dublin-cfp#participate">speaker
proposals</a> about the two topic areas</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>15 May</th>
<td>Acceptance notification sent</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>20 May</th>
<td>Program released</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>25 May</th>
<td>Sponsorship deadline</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th><strong>30 May</strong></th>
<td><strong>Registration deadline</strong></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th><span style="white-space:nowrap;">11 - 13 June</span></th>
<td>Workshop </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th><span style="white-space:nowrap;">(11 June)</span></th>
<td><strong>Part 1</strong> "Linked Open Data"</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th><span style="white-space:nowrap;">(12-13 June)</span></th>
<td><strong>Part 2</strong> "MultilingualWeb-LT Requirements
Gathering" (12-13 June)</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<h3 id="contact">Contact</h3>
<p>For assistance with workshop logistics or technical issues, you
can write to <a href="mailto:Dominic.Jones@cs.tcd.ie">Dominic
Jones</a>.</p>
<p>For questions about the program or the workshops in general,
contact <a
href="http://www.multilingualweb.eu/documents/dublin-workshop/dublin-cfp#co-chairs">the
co-chairs</a>.<br>
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<ul>
<li><a href="mailto:paul.buitelaar@deri.org">Paul Buitelaar</a>
(DERI)</li>
<li><a href="mailto:dave.lewis@cs.tcd.ie">Dave Lewis</a> (TCD)</li>
<li><a href="mailto:fsasaki@w3.org">Felix Sasaki</a> (DFKI / W3C
Fellow)</li>
</ul>
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