<div dir="ltr"><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-6c60b000-82df-6252-8c4f-47eb2fe804af"><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Apologies for cross-posting</span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><font color="#000000" face="arial"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;white-space:pre-wrap">1st Workshop on the OntoLex Model (OntoLex-2017) - Call for Papers</span></font><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><font color="#000000" face="arial"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;white-space:pre-wrap">=====================================================</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="text-decoration:underline;font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="http://ontolex2017.linguistic-lod.org/" style="text-decoration:none">http://ontolex2017.linguistic-lod.org</a></span><font color="#000000" face="arial"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Lemon-OntoLex model has been developed for the representation of lexicons relative to ontologies on the Semantic Web, by the W3C OntoLex Community Group, and has become the primary method for representing linked lexical data on the Web of Data. This model provides a new opportunity to bridge the gap between linguistics and NLP practitioners and the data science community by making large amounts of high quality lexical information available and linked to the knowledge that is explicitly represented on the Semantic Web, in graphs such as DBpedia. F The Lemon-OntoLex model is finding applications in many areas. For example the model is being used to link wordnets, as part of the Global WordNet Association Collaborative Interlingual Index and furthermore in the representation of existing lexical resources including BabelNet, DBnary and commercial dictionaries</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">As such, this represents a crucial point for the various users of the model to come together and discuss the current applications of the model as well as future developments of the model. For this reason, we have established a new workshop series on the OntoLex model and its applications, that will be co-located with the First Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge (</span><a href="http://ldk2017.org/" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">LDK 2017</span></a><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">) in </span><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Galway, Ireland</span><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. We welcome position statements on the following topics:</span></p><br><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">New modules for OntoLex</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Application-specific extensions of the model</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">User experiences with the model</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Applications of the model</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Datasets created with the Lemon-OntoLex model and previous versions.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Linking datasets from/to OntoLex datasets</span></p></li></ul><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Please submit papers of between 4-10 pages formatted using the </span><a href="ftp://ftp.springer.de/pub/tex/latex/svproc/guidelines/Springer_Guidelines_for_Authors_of_Proceedings.pdf" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Springer Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence formatting guidelines</span></a><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. Submissions will be reviewed by at least 3 reviewers and will be made available on online prior to the workshop. More details can be found at </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><a href="http://ontolex2017.linguistic-lod.org" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://ontolex2017.linguistic-lod.org</span></a><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Important Dates</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Paper submission: 30 March</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Notification of Acceptance: 5 May</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Workshop: 18 June</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Organizing Committee</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">John P. McCrae - Insight Centre for Data Analytics, National University of Ireland, Galway</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Elena Montiel Ponsoda - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Philipp Cimiano - CIT-EC, Bielefeld University</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Paul Buitelaar - Insight Centre for Data Analytics, National University of Ireland, Galway</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Jorge Gracia - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Thierry Declerck - Saarland University</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Program Committee</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Guadalupe Aguado-de-Cea - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Paul Buitelaar - Insight Centre for Data Analytics, National University of Ireland, Galway</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Christian Chiarcos - Goethe-University Frankfurt</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Philipp Cimiano - CIT-EC, Bielefeld University</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Thierry Declerck - Saarland University</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Francesca Frontini - Université Paul Valéry - Montpellier 3</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Jorge Gracia - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Bettina Klimek - InfAI, University of Leipzig</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Fahad Khan - ILC-CNR</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">John P. McCrae - Insight Centre for Data Analytics, National University of Ireland, Galway</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Elena Montiel Ponsoda - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Laurette Pretorius - Unisa</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Armando Stellato - University of Rome, Tor Vergata</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Felix Sasaki - W3C / DFKI</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Piek Vossen - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam</span></p><div><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div></span></div>