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       OntoLex-2017: 1st Workshop on the OntoLex Model

            John P. McCrae♠, Elena Montiel Ponsoda​♡​, Philipp Cimiano​♢​,
                 Paul Buitelaar♠, Jorge Gracia​♡​ and Thierry Declerck​♣
         ♠Insight Centre for Data Analytics, National University of Ireland Galway
                            ♡Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
                              ♢CIT-EC, Bielefeld University
                                   ♣Saarland University

The Lemon-OntoLex model1 has been developed for the representation of lexicons relative to
ontologies on the Semantic Web, by the W3C OntoLex Community Group2, 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. 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.

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 established a new workshop series on the OntoLex model and its
applications, that was co-located with the First Conference on Language, Data and
Knowledge (LDK 2017) in Galway, Ireland.

We accepted nine papers to this workshop all of which received very positive reviews and
these were grouped into three sessions on “Tools and Experiences”, “Applications” and
“Extensions”. The first session, included a paper by Declerck outlining the challenges in
using the Lemon-OntoLex model for standard dictionaries, and a second paper by Chiarcos
et al., discussed the particular case of applying the model to Turkic languages, showing the
value of the model for linguists working with minority languages. Then Fiorelli et al.
presented their work on building an API to work with the LIME module, a part of the
OntoLex specification.

The second session showed something of the applications of the model, firstly with
Francesconi and Hajlaoui describing the application of the model at the EU publication
office’s knowledge management infrastructure. Khan et al. described the challenges of using

1
    ​http://www.w3.org/2016/05/ontolex/
2
     ​https://www.w3.org/community/ontolex/
the model for historical languages, in particular by converting the Liddell-Scott Lexicon of
Ancient Greek into the OntoLex model. Finally, Balysheva et al. showed the application of
the model and the use of the LexInfo categories to Russian.

The final session, looked at novel extensions of the model. Bosque-Gil et al. proposed a new
lexicographic model to enable the model to better represent dictionaries such as those seen in
earlier talks. Stolk expanded on this, focussing on the onomasiological structuring of
concepts in OntoLex and further suggesting how concepts can be organized in the model.
Finally, Klimek proposed developing a module for morphological representation based on her
existing MMoOn ontology.

The paper presentations were followed by a lively discussion that has brought fresh impetus
to the work on the model and will restart the development of the model around four new
modules on Lexicography, Morphology, Etymology and Lexical Categories. We expect the
next instance of the workshop to further expand on these goals as well as continue to support
applications and tools for the model.
                                         Organization
Organizing Committee

John P. McCrae - Insight Centre for Data Analytics, National University of Ireland, Galway
Elena Montiel Ponsoda - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Philipp Cimiano - CIT-EC, Bielefeld University
Paul Buitelaar - Insight Centre for Data Analytics, National University of Ireland, Galway
Jorge Gracia - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Thierry Declerck - Saarland University

Program Committee

Guadalupe Aguado-de-Cea - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Paul Buitelaar - Insight Centre for Data Analytics, National University of Ireland, Galway
Christian Chiarcos - Goethe-University Frankfurt
Philipp Cimiano - CIT-EC, Bielefeld University
Thierry Declerck - Saarland University
Francesca Frontini - Université Paul Valéry - Montpellier 3
Jorge Gracia - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Bettina Klimek - InfAI, University of Leipzig
Fahad Khan - ILC-CNR
John P. McCrae - Insight Centre for Data Analytics, National University of Ireland, Galway
Elena Montiel Ponsoda - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Laurette Pretorius - Unisa
Armando Stellato - University of Rome, Tor Vergata
Felix Sasaki - W3C / DFKI
Piek Vossen - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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