<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br style="font-family: Optima-Regular;" class=""><br style="font-family: Optima-Regular;" class=""><div class="" style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><font face="Monaco" class=""> ***************************************************</font></div><div class="" style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><font face="Monaco" class=""> * 2nd CALL FOR REGISTRATION * </font></div><div class="" style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><font face="Monaco" class=""> ***************************************************</font></div><div class="" style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><font face="Monaco" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><font face="Monaco" class=""> <span class="" style="font-size: 36px;">EUROLAN-2015</span></font></div><div class="" style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><font face="Monaco" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><font face="Monaco" class=""> Summer School on </font></div><div class="" style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><font face="Monaco" class=""> <font size="6" class="">LINGUISTIC LINKED OPEN DATA</font></font></div><div class="" style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><font face="Monaco" class=""> 12th in the series of EUROLAN Schools</font></div><div class="" style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><font face="Monaco" class=""> 13 - 25 July 2015</font></div><div class="" style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><font face="Monaco" class=""> Sibiu, Romania</font></div><div class="" style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><font face="Monaco" class=""> <a href="http://eurolan.info.uaic.ro/2015/" class="">http://eurolan.info.uaic.ro/2015/</a></font></div><div class="" style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><font face="Monaco" class=""> </font></div><div class="" style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><font face="Monaco" class=""> **EARLY REGISTRATION ENDS JUNE 10 2015**</font></div><div class="" style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><font face="Monaco" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><font face="Monaco" class="">Linguistic Linked Open Data is a topic of emerging importance in the field of</font></div><div class="" style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><font face="Monaco" class="">natural language processing (NLP). Increasingly, researchers are rendering major</font></div><div class="" style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><font face="Monaco" class="">linguistic resources, including annotated corpora, lexicons, databases, and</font></div><div class="" style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><font face="Monaco" class="">ontologies, in a format to enable their exploitation in the Semantic Web.</font></div><div class="" style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><font face="Monaco" class="">Linking the contents of these resources to each other as well as to common</font></div><div class="" style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><font face="Monaco" class="">ontologies can enable access to and discovery of detailed linguistic</font></div><div class="" style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><font face="Monaco" class="">information, which would be otherwise impossible, and which could, in turn,</font></div><div class="" style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><font face="Monaco" class="">foster a major leap in NLP research and development.</font></div><div class="" style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><font face="Monaco" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><font face="Monaco" class="">At the same time, the movement toward open data is growing in the field of NLP.</font></div><div class="" style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><font face="Monaco" class="">For years, research has been constrained by limited access to corpora, lexicons,</font></div><div class="" style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><font face="Monaco" class="">and other language resources due to licensing requirements. Researchers and data</font></div><div class="" style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><font face="Monaco" class="">holders alike are now seeking ways to provide open access to these data in order</font></div><div class="" style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><font face="Monaco" class="">to promote unfettered use, reuse, and enhancement of common datasets throughout</font></div><div class="" style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><font face="Monaco" class="">the field.</font></div><div class="" style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><font face="Monaco" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><font face="Monaco" class="">EUROLAN 2015 will provide a comprehensive overview of Linguistic Linked Open</font></div><div class="" style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><font face="Monaco" class="">Data, including introduction to the formalisms for representing linguistic</font></div><div class="" style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><font face="Monaco" class="">resources using Semantic Web technologies such as the Resource Description</font></div><div class="" style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><font face="Monaco" class="">Format (RDF) and the Ontology Web Language (OWL), as well as means to extract</font></div><div class="" style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><font face="Monaco" class="">knowledge from language resources and exploit it using Semantic Web query</font></div><div class="" style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><font face="Monaco" class="">languages and reasoning capabilities.Specific topics treated in the school</font></div><div class="" style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><font face="Monaco" class="">include, but are not limited to:</font></div><div class="" style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><font face="Monaco" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><font face="Monaco" class="">• Introduction to the semantic web, linked data and knowledge graphs</font></div><div class="" style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><font face="Monaco" class="">• Extracting and integrating knowledge on the web from text, semi-structured </font></div><div class="" style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><font face="Monaco" class=""> and structured data</font></div><div class="" style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><font face="Monaco" class="">• Ontologies and reasoning</font></div><div class="" style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><font face="Monaco" class="">• Query systems using SPARQL</font></div><div class="" style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><font face="Monaco" class="">• Design of domain specific query languages</font></div><div class="" style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><font face="Monaco" class="">• Linguistic annotations as linked data</font></div><div class="" style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><font face="Monaco" class="">• Annotation interoperability</font></div><div class="" style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><font face="Monaco" class="">• Taxonomy extraction</font></div><div class="" style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><font face="Monaco" class="">• BabelNet as linked data</font></div><div class="" style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><font face="Monaco" class="">• Lexicographic linked data </font></div><div class="" style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><font face="Monaco" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><font face="Monaco" class="">LECTURERS</font></div><div class="" style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><font face="Monaco" class="">---------</font></div><div class="" style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><font face="Monaco" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><font face="Monaco" class="">Paul Buitelaar<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>(National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland)</font></div><div class="" style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><font face="Monaco" class="">Steve Cassidy<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>(Macquarie University, Australia)</font></div><div class="" style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><font face="Monaco" class="">Christian Chiarcos<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>(Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, Germany)</font></div><div class="" style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><font face="Monaco" class="">Dan Cristea<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>("Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University of Iași, Romania)</font></div><div class="" style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><font face="Monaco" class="">Asuncion Gomez-Perez<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>(Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)</font></div><div class="" style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><font face="Monaco" class="">Nancy Ide<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>(Vassar College, New York, USA)</font></div><div class="" style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><font face="Monaco" class="">John McCrae<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>(University of Bielefeld in Bielefeld, Germany)</font></div><div class="" style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><font face="Monaco" class="">Gerard de Melo<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>(Tsinghua University, China)</font></div><div class="" style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><font face="Monaco" class="">Roberto Navigli<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>(Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)</font></div><div class="" style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><font face="Monaco" class="">Dan Tufiș<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>(Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania)</font></div><div class="" style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><font face="Monaco" class="">Michael Zock<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>(Université Aix-Marseille, France)</font></div><div class="" style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><font face="Monaco" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><font face="Monaco" class="">REGISTRATION</font></div><div class="" style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><font face="Monaco" class="">——------————</font></div><div class="" style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><font face="Monaco" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><div class=""><font face="Monaco" class="">Registration fee includes attendance at all tutorials, supporting materials, coffee breaks,</font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" class="">and, for the first two columns, meals and accommodation in the ULSB premises </font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" class="">for the whole School's period. </font></div></div><div class="" style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><font face="Monaco" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><font face="Monaco" class="">Early registration fees (before June 10 2015):</font></div><div class="" style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><font face="Monaco" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><font face="Monaco" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>EUROLAN only (€)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>EUROLAN + workshop (€)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>workshop only (€)</font></div><div class="" style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><font face="Monaco" class="">Student<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>400<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>350<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>100</font></div><div class="" style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><font face="Monaco" class="">Academic<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>450<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>400<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>150</font></div><div class="" style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><font face="Monaco" class="">Industrial<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>500<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>450<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>200</font></div><div class="" style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><font face="Monaco" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><font face="Monaco" class="">Late registration fees = early registration fees + 50 Euro (all rates)</font></div></body></html>