[AISWorld] IWOOD 2016: 2nd Call for Papers & Extended Deadline

[Amanda Hicks]

Fourth International Workshop on Definitions in Ontologies (IWOOD 2016)

2nd CALL FOR PAPERS & EXTENDED DEADLINE (MAY 10, 2016)

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Held in conjunction with the International Conference on Biological
Ontologies (ICBO 2016) in Corvallis, Oregon, from August 1 to 4, 2016.

Website: http://sites.google.com/site/defsinontos2016/home

Definitions of terms in ontologies serve a number of purposes. For
example, logical definitions allow reasoners to assist in and verify
classification, lessening the development burden and enabling
expressive query. Natural language definitions can help ameliorate low
inter-annotator agreement. Good definitions allow for non-experts and
experts in adjacent disciplines to understand unfamiliar terms making
it possible to confidently use terms in external ontologies,
facilitating data integration.

The goals of this workshop are:
-to engage participants in discussing what are well-constructed
textual and logical definitions;
-to disseminate methodological solutions to textual and logical
definition writing and generation;
-to introduce tools to assist in definition creation;
-to bring together interested researchers and developers to explore
issues relating to definitions and enable cross-fertilization leading
to new approaches;
-to share case studies that expose difficulties arising in definition
construction, evaluation, interpretation, and revision;
-to disseminate strategies of evaluation of definitions by readers
from different domains in order to reveal potential difficulties in
interpretation;
-to disseminate practices for participants to bring back to their
projects that will improve the quality of their ontologies;
-to provide an opportunity for interaction and collaboration with
experts on definitional practices;
-to provide a platform for ontology developers to initiate
cross-ontology collaborations for definition-related matters.

TOPICS
Paper topics include but are not limited to:
-Experiences in formulating definitions;
-Tools that assist in definition editing or creation, including
collaborative systems;
-Coordination of logical and textual definitions;
-Validation and quality control of definitions;
-Methods for constructing definitions from multiple sources;
-Use of controlled languages such as Rabbit or ACE for more
user-friendly logical definition creation;
-Use of templates to systematize definition creation;
-Technical issues encountered in definition creation, checking, or revision;
-Techniques or studies evaluating definitions;
-Adaptation of definitions for different audiences.

FORMAT AND OUTCOMES
The workshop will consist of case-based presentations on strategies,
methodologies, and tools for writing, evaluating, and revising textual
and logical definitions in ontologies. Presentations will be followed
by extensive discussions on the presented strategy and use cases. The
organizers will facilitate interactivity by providing collective
exercises on definition creation, evaluation, and revision in relation
to the speakers’ presentations. The audience will also be invited to
submit use-cases and examples that have presented difficulty, which
will then be discussed in an open format.

The workshop will document findings on the workshop website:
http://sites.google.com/site/defsinontos2016/home. Contributions will
be published in the ICBO Proceedings.

INTENDED AUDIENCES
The intended audiences for this workshop are:
-Ontologists, tool developers, and domain experts whose work
encounters issues regarding definitions;
-Tool developers building definition- or ontology-authoring tools;
-Philosophers and logicians;
-Terminologists and lexicologists working on definitions and their modeling;
-Biomedical researchers working on definitions in nomenclatures such as SNOMED;
-Computer scientists addressing these issues in languages like OWL;
-NLP researchers working on definition extraction, generation, or checking;
-NLP/IR researchers reusing definitions produced for ontologies.

SUBMISSIONS
All papers should include one or more case studies and address
specific issues related to definitions, ideally demonstrating a link
to a biological or biomedical domain, or the general theme of the
conference: "Food, Nutrition, Health and Environment for the 9
billion".

All papers should be between 4 and 8 pages, excluding references,
formatted using the ICBO MS Word templates found at:
http://icbo.cgrb.oregonstate.edu/ICBO_submission. The workshop
language is English. Papers are to be submitted using EasyChair
(https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwood2016).

IMPORTANT DATES
-Workshop Paper Submission Deadline: May 10, 2016 (EXTENDED)
-Notification of Paper Acceptance: June 15, 2016
-Camera-Ready Copies Submission Deadline: July 1, 2016
-Workshops: August 1-4, 2016

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Selja Seppälä (University of Florida, USA)
Amanda Hicks (University of Florida, USA)
Mark Jensen (University at Buffalo, USA)
Patrick Ray (University at Buffalo, USA)
Alan Ruttenberg (University at Buffalo, USA)
Daniel R. Schlegel (University at Buffalo, USA)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE (see updates on the website)
Mauricio Almeida (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil)
Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles (National Center for Scientific Research
(CNRS), France)
Werner Ceusters (University at Buffalo, USA)
Melanie Courtot (European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, UK)
Pamela Faber (Universidad de Granada, Spain)
Christiane Fellbaum (Princeton University, USA)
Natalia Grabar (Université de Lille 3, France)
Mustafa Jarrar (Birzeit University, Palestine)
Marie-Claude L'Homme (Université de Montréal, Canada)



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