Workshop on Human Language Technology for the Semantic Web and Web Services 2nd International Semantic Web Conference October 20th 2003, Sanibel Island, Florida Programme chairs: Hamish Cunningham (University of Sheffield), Atanas Kiryakov (OntoText Lab, Sirma AI Ltd.), Ying Ding (IFI / DERI Innsbruck) Thanks to: Valentin Tablan (proceedings); the Programme Committee; ISWC organisers; Paul Buitelaar and OntoWeb SIG 5
2(4) What’s the solution?
3(4) Workshop Etiquette
4(4) Proceedings: Programme: 9.15 Introduction 9.30 Towards Semantic Web Information Extraction, Popov Axiomatizing WordNet Glosses in the OntoWordNet Project, Gangemi Coffee A Natural Language Mediation System for E-commerce, Heinecke Multi-strategy Definition of Annotation Services in Melita, Ciravegna Towards a Language Infrastructure for the Semantic Web: P. Buitelaar Lunch Making Explicit the Semantics Hidden in Schema Models, Magnini Poster session (incorporating coffee, to 15.30) Automatic Extraction of Knowledge from Web Documents, Alani The Semantic Web: A New Opportunity and Challenge for HLT, Bontcheva Talking OWLs: Towards an Ontology Verbalizer: G. Wilcock Discussion Close Posters:Towards a Language Infrastructure for the Semantic Web: Buitelaar... OntoGenie: Extracting Ontology Instances from the WWW: Patel... Talking OWLs: Towards an Ontology Verbalizer: Wilcock Combining Data Integration with NL Technology for the SW: Williams...
5(4) Discussion Points Some issues that arose during the day: evaluation, need for new metrics (e.g. IE extracts types, ontology-IE extracts instances) LT for SW vs. SW for LT (a new infrastructure for HLT on the SW?) multicultural data: one ontology or many? what is “truth” in a web context? chicken&egg: apps need data, data needs apps (can we bootstrap the SW with simple HLT?) grid: different world or core to the SW?