Workshop on

Linguistic Studies of Ontology:

From Lexical Semantics to Formal Ontologies and Back

CIL18 (18th International Congress of Linguists)

July 21-26, 2008,

Korea University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Organizer:

Chu-Ren Huang

Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica

Nankang, Taipei, Taiwan

E-mail address: [email protected]

Fax: 886-2-27856622, Tel: 886-2-26523108

Description

Recent developments in the study of ontology have important implications for cognitive science, knowledge engineering, and theoretical linguistics. In particular, research on lexical ontology deals with how concepts are lexicalized and organized across languages and cultures. This workshop aims to explore this new departure in linguistic studies by building upon the three important premises assumed in Fellbaum (1998), Schalley and Zaefferer (2007), and Huang et al. (2007): First, that lexicalized concepts have a special status in every language (as opposed to concepts that require complex coding), second that lexically coded concepts can be shared by different languages, and third that lexicalization universals are relevant for the construction of cross-lingually portable formal ontologies.

Following the references cited above, topics of this workshop include foundational issues pertaining to the relation between formal ontology and linguistic ontologies, as well as descriptive issues pertaining to the interface between conceptual ontologies and lexica. In particular, we would like to focus on the following issues during this workshop:

- Cross-lingual portability of upper-ontologies

- Ontology-based approaches to comparative linguistics

- Ontology enrichment: from concept formation via complex coding to lexicalisation

- Possible relevance of formal ontological principles (e. g Roles cannot subsume Types) to

psychological/linguistic reality

References

Fellbaum, Christiane. 1998. WordNet: An electronic lexical database. MIT Press.

Huang, Chu-Ren et al. Eds. 2007 Ontologies and the Lexicon. CambridgeUniversityPress.

Schalley, Andrea C. and Zaefferer Dietmer. Eds,  2007. Ontolinguistics. Mouton-De Gruyter.

Important Dates:

● August  31, 2007: Deadline for submitting the abstract.

● November 30, 2007: Notification of acceptance.

Form and submission of abstracts:

An abstract(.pdf or .doc file) should be up to 3 pages long, including data and references.

The abstract should start with the title of the paper, followed by the text of the abstract.

Please do not include the author's name in the abstract. On a separate page, please give

the author's name, affiliation, e-mail address, telephone number, mailing address, the paper title and the session number(title).

Please send the abstract and the author's information to both [email protected] and [email protected].

Program Committee

Christiane Fellbaum (Princeton), Shu-kai Hsieh (I-Lan), Alessandro Lenci (Pisa), Adam Pease (San Francisco), Alessandro Oltramari (Trento), Laurent Prévot (Toulouse), James Pustejovsky (Brandies), Andrea C. Schalley (Armidale), Piek Vossen (Amsterdam), Dietmar Zaefferer (Munich)