Linked Data in Linguistics March 7 – 9, 2012, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Important Dates:
August 7, 2011: Deadline for extended abstracts (four pages plus references)
September 9, 2011: Notification of acceptance
October 23, 2011: One-page abstract for DGfS conference proceedings
December 1, 2011: Camera-ready papers for workshop proceedings (eight pages plus references)
March 7-9, 2012: Workshop
March 6-9, 2012: Conference
From the website:
The explosion of information technology has led to a substantial growth in quantity, diversity and complexity of web-accessible linguistic data. These resources become even more useful when linked. This workshop will present principles, use cases, and best practices for using the linked data paradigm to represent, exploit, store, and connect different types of linguistic data collections.Recent relevant developments include: (1) Language archives for language documentation, with audio, video, and text transcripts from hundreds of (endangered) languages (e.g. Dobes). (2) Typological databases with typological and geographical data about languages from all parts of the globe (e.g. WALS). (3) Development, distribution and application of lexical-semantic resources (LSRs) in NLP (e.g. WordNet). (4) Multi-layer annotations (e.g. ISO TC37/SC4) and semantic annotation of corpora (e.g. PropBank) by corpus linguists and computational linguists, often accompanied by the interlinking of corpora with LSRs (e.g. OntoNotes).
The general trend of providing data online is accompanied by newly developing possibilities to link linguistic data and metadata. This may include general data sources (e.g. DBpedia.org), but also repositories with specific linguistic information about languages (Multitree.org, LL-MAP, ISO 639-3), as well as about linguistic categories and phenomena (GOLD, ISOcat).
Originally noticed this from a tweet by Lutz Maicher.