<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>******************************************************************************<br></div><div>First Call for Papers<br><br>2nd Workshop on the Multilingual Semantic Web,<br><br>collocated with the 10th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2011) in Bonn, Germany.<br><br><a href="http://msw2.deri.ie">http://msw2.deri.ie</a><br><br>Given the substantial growth of Web users that create and update knowledge all over the world in languages other than English, multilingualism has become an issue of major interest for the Semantic Web community. This process has been accelerated due to initiatives such as the Linked Data project, which encourages not only governments and public institutes to make their data available to the public, but also private organizations in domains such as medicine, geography, music etc. These actors often publish their data sources in their respective languages, and as such, in order to make this information interoperable and accessible to members of other linguistic communities, multilingual knowledge representation, access and translation are an impending need.<br><br>Given the success of the first edition of this workshop, which was co-located with the 19th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2010), we were encouraged to organize the second version of this series. In this second edition we will have a special focus on:<br><br>• representation of multilingual information and language resources in Semantic Web and Linked Data formats<br>• cross-lingual discovery and representation of mappings between multilingual Linked Data vocabularies and datasets<br>• cross-lingual querying of knowledge repositories and Linked Data<br>• machine translation and localization strategies for the Semantic Web<br><br>Further topics of interest include:<br><br>• standards and best practices for representing multilingual data on the Web<br>• transformation of (multilingual) resources to Semantic Web and Linked Data representations<br>• architectures and infrastructure for a truly multilingual Semantic Web<br>• models for multilingualism in knowledge representation, in particular OWL and RDF(S)<br>• localization of ontologies to multiple languages, incl. label translation, multilingual terms<br>• lexicon models for ontologies<br>• automatic integration of (multilingual) lexicons with ontologies<br>• multilingual and cross-lingual ontology-based information extraction and ontology population<br>• multilingual aspects of semantic search of knowledge repositories<br>• multilingual aspects of ontology verbalization<br>• ontology learning across languages<br><br>Important Dates<br>August 15th - submission deadline<br>September 5th - notification<br>September 10th - camera-ready deadline<br>October 23th or 24th - workshop<br><br>Submission will be through the Easy Chair system: https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=msw2.<br>We will accept long papers of at most 12 pages (LNCS), short papers describing preliminary results (max. 6 pages) as<br>well as position papers describing work on progress or planned work (max. 6 pages).<br><br>Organizing Committee<br><br>Elena Montiel-Ponsoda, OEG - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain<br>Web: http://www.oeg-upm.net/index.php/en/phd/52-emontiel<br><br>John McCrae, Semantic Computing Group, CITEC – University of Bielefeld<br>Web: http://www.sc.cit-ec.uni-bielefeld.de/people/jmccrae<br><br>Paul Buitelaar, DERI - National University of Ireland, Galway<br>Web: http://www.paulbuitelaar.net/<br><br>Philipp Cimiano, Semantic Computing Group, CITEC – University of Bielefeld<br>Web: http://www.cimiano.de<br><br><br>Program Committee<br>Guadalupe Aguado de Cea, OEG, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain<br>Dimitra Anastasiou, Language & Literary Studies, University of Bremen, Germany<br>Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles, IRIT, Knowledge Engineering, Cognition and Cooperation, France<br>Roberto Basili, Universita Tor Vergata, Rome - Artificial Intelligence group, Italy<br>Kalina Boncheva - Natural Language Processing Group, University of Sheffield, UK<br>Francis Bond, NICT - Language Infrastructure Group, Japan<br>Christopher Brewster, Aston University - Operations and Information Management Group, UK<br>Nicoletta Calzolari, ILC-CNR - Computational Linguistics Institute, Italy<br>Jeremy Carroll, TopQuadrant, USA<br>Key-Sun Choi, KAIST - Semantic Web Research Center, South-Korea<br>Thierry Declerck, DFKI - Language Technology Lab, Germany<br>Aldo Gangemi, ISTC-CNR - Semantic Technology Laboratory, Italy<br>Asuncion Gómez Pérez, OEG, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain<br>Gregory Grefenstette, Exalead, France<br>Siegfried Handschuh, DERI, Nat. Univ. of Ireland, Galway, Ireland<br>Michael Hausenblas, DERI, Nat. Univ. of Ireland, Galway, Ireland<br>Laura Hollink, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands<br>Antoine Isaac, Vrije Universiteit - Knowledge Representation and Reasoning Group, the Netherlands<br>Ernesto William De Luca, Universitaet Magdeburg - Data and Knowledge Engineering Group, Germany<br>Vanessa López, KMI, Open University, UK<br>Gerard de Melo, Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK<br>Sergei Nirenburg, University of Maryland - Institute for Language and Information Technologies, USA<br>Alessandro Oltramari, Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Psychology, Pittsburgh, USA<br>Jacco van Ossenbruggen, CWI - Semantic Media Interfaces & VU - Intelligent Systems, the Netherlands<br>Wim Peters, University of Sheffield - Natural Language Processing group, UK<br>Laurette Pretorius, University of South Africa - School of Computing, South-Africa<br>James Pustejovsky, Brandeis University – CS Dept., Lab for Linguistics and Computation, USA<br>Felix Sasaki, University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, Germany<br>Marta Sabou, Department of New Media Technology – MODUL University, Vienna<br>Martin Volk, Universitaet Zürich - Institute of Computational Linguistics, Switzerland<br>Piek Vossen, Vrije Universiteit - Dept. of Language, Cognition and Communication, the Netherlands<br>Yong Yu, Computer Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China<br><br>The workshop is endorsed and sponsored by the Monnet project (http://www.monnet-project.eu)</div></div><br><div>
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