Save the date: Leipzig, Germany 23-24-25 September
2012 http://sabre2012.infai.org/mlode
Co-located
with the Leipziger Semantic Web Day: http://aksw.org/lswt
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Multilingual Linked Open Data for Enterprises ======
MLODE will
bring together developers, data producers, academia and
enterprises and connect people, communities, data and industrial
use cases. The workshop will be very interactive and you are
expected to help us achieve common goals:
* bootstrap
and build a Linguistic Linked Open Data Cloud (LLOD): http://linguistics.okfn.org/resources/llod/
* establish
best practices for multilingual linked open data
* create
incentives for businesses and lower the barrier for
participation in LOD for natural language processing and
internationalisation and localisation enterprises.
We are
expecting intensive participation by members of the following
communities (these are teasers, see the **detailed descriptions
for each community** further below):
* DBpedia (
http://dbpedia.org ): DBpedia
International now has over 10 language-specific chapters (such
as http://el.dbpedia.org ). At the
MLODE workshop there will be a DBpedia Developers meetup. We
will discuss the “Future of DBpedia” and create a common Road
Map. If you want to get more involved in DBpedia, the workshop
will be a good opportunity to meet the team.
* Working
Group for Open Data in Linguistics (OWLG, http://linguistics.okfn.org
): Now is the time to get your data into the LLOD
cloud! We have created a development team that will convert your
data to RDF and help establish links: http://code.google.com/p/mlode/ . Please
submit your data sets soon! (Furthermore we will have a legal
session to discuss licensing issues.)
*
Multilingual Web ( http://www.multilingualweb.eu ): Free,
open data and lexica; we will have a session discussing best
practices for multilingual linked open data (http://mlode.okfnpad.org/best-practices-multilingual-lod ) and
compatability with the RDF world with ITS 2.0.
* Apache
Stanbol ( http://incubator.apache.org/stanbol/ ):
Enterprises will have the chance to present their use cases
during lightning talks and we will have a Apache Stanbol Booth
and an install fest to show hands-on how combined usage of
public and closed data can be achieved and what benefits firms
can gain from using these rapidly increasing data pools.
* Ontolex
W3C Community Group ( http://www.w3.org/community/ontolex/ ): Monnet
Challenge will provide a data bounty for developers who convert
data sets using lemon.
* Also:
NLP2RDF (http://nlp2rdf.org) - the NIF
project, DBpedia Spotlight (http://spotlight.dbpedia.org ),
Wiktionary2RDF (http://dbpedia.org/Wiktionary )
How you can
contribute:
* Contact
us if you are an enterprise and want to prepare a small
presentation/lightning talk about your business use cases (using
LOD) or problems you have (please see below for details)
* Contact
us if you want to give a short presentation on a relevant topic
* We are
looking for a sponsor for a DBpedia Booth
* Submit
your data sets for the LLOD: http://code.google.com/p/mlode/
* Become a
sponsor of the workshop: http://sabre2012.infai.org/mlode/funding?&#sponsorship
* Or donate
money and help the individual communities: http://sabre2012.infai.org/mlode/Funding
DBpedia is a
good example of a freely available and open data set that was
generated by crowd-sourcing and academia, but it has provided an
immense value to businesses and industry. We want to build on
and continue this success for the areas of natural language
processing enterprises and the internationalisation and
localisation industries.
The goal of
the workshop is to bootstrap a Multilingual Linked Open Data
cloud by bringing together many different linked open data sets
and by creating synergy among different research and business
communities. This workshop is aimed at researchers and industry
and commercial consumers of data produced by research. We hope
for mutual benefits between (potentially non-commercial) data
providers and enterprises: Open-source and open-licences for
software have shown that they can be successful in a commercial
environment. How can we transfer these models to Multilingual
Linked Open Data? And how can the transformation of currently
monolingual Linked Open Data sources into a Multilingual Web of
Open Data spur cross-linguistic research, and commercial
applications in internationalisation and localisation
enterprises?
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Sponsors =====
We would like
to thank our sponsors for supporting the workshop:
* The
**Working MultilingualWeb-LT Working Group** - http://www.w3.org/International/multilingualweb/lt/
* The
**Interactive Knowledge Stack (IKS) EU Research Project** -
http://www.iks-project.eu/
* The
**Monnet Project** - http://www.monnet-project.eu/
===== Monnet
Challenge =====
The Monnet
Project (http://www.monnet-project.eu/) is offering the
following bounties for the conversion of existing linguistic
resources into linked data, in particular focussing on the
**lemon format** (http://www.monnet-project.eu/lemon) .
**Bounties are 600, 400, 200, 100, 50 Euros** . The selection of
winners will be done by a committee of Ontolex community
members.
Core
criteria:
* Number of
triples (relative to other submissions). Emphasis is of course
on number of triples containing a URI from //lemon// .
*
Expressiveness and quality of lemon used (How many properties
and classes of //lemon// are you using? Are you using them
correctly?)
* Impact
(Is the data set you converted important and central to our
cause? We also rate data sets for less-spoken languages higher,
because of the rarity effect.)
Additional
criteria:
* Note that
you can convert and submit more than one data set. You will be
rated for the combined data you converted (so each person can
only make one submission).
* You will
be given extra points if you publish converted data early and
other people build upon your work (e.g. fix errors).
* All
submissions will be considered for inclusion in the data
post-proceedings.
Detailed
information on how to submit can be found on the Monnet
Challenge page:
http://sabre2012.infai.org/mlode/monnet-challenge
Submission
will end 10 days before the workshop. The deadline therefore is
**September 13th, 2012**
===== Planned
Sessions =====
Each session
will have an etherpad http://sabre2012.infai.org/mlode/etherpad so that you
can already participate in advance.
==== Submit
your data today ====
In
preparation, from now until September 23rd, we will:
* Collect
data sets relevant to the Linguistic Linked Open Data Cloud http://code.google.com/p/mlode/
* Provide
conversion services and data 'bounties' to convert as much data
as possible to RDF before the workshop
* Help
debugging and hosting your Linked Data
We are
interested in data that is linguistic in nature, such as corpora
and lexica, as well as data that might be used to improve
Natural Language Processing methods such as large governmental
parallel corpora or entity linking engines.
==== Sun
23th: Community Get Together ====
Community Get
Together - no program, just social activities, e.g. barbecue,
beach volleyball. Time and place will be announced soon.
==== 24th:
Code-Sprint-a-Thon ====
Code-Sprint-a-Thon
(hands-on workshop) with data providers, visionaries and
developers from all communities. The focus of the
Code-Sprint-a-Thon will be on gathering the requirements and use
cases from attendees and then developers will start to initiate
these ideas with the collected data sets, e.g. interesting
cross-data set queries, visualisations, data mash-ups. The
result will be more Multilingual Linked Open Data, more links,
more tools and more applications.
=== DBpedia
===
Many DBpedia
developers will be available during this workshop so that you
can ask them questions directly. Bring your laptop and they will
show you how to download and query DBpedia.
=== Apache
Stanbol ===
Developers
from Apache Stanbol ( http://incubator.apache.org/stanbol/ ) will be at
the Apache Stanbol booth and they will have an install fest to
show hands-on how combined usage of public and closed data can
be achieved and what benefits firms can gain from using the
rapidly increasing data pools.
==== 25th:
Announcements ====
* State of
the Linguistic LOD Cloud ( http://linguistics.okfn.org/resources/llod/ )
* NIF 2.0
(http://wiki.nlp2rdf.org/)
*
Presentation of the results of the Code-Sprint-a-Thon
*
Announcement of the Monnet Challenge Winners
====25th:
Lightning Talks: Use Cases by Enterprises ====
We are
looking for companies to present their use cases and/or products
that are relevant to the topics of the MLODE workshop. Please
contact us if your enterprise would like to present on a topic
from this (non-exhaustive) list:
* Use cases
based on Linked Data (either open or closed)
* Solutions
that are built with data from the LOD cloud
* Problems
that constitute barriers for economic exploitation of LOD
* Ideas of
what could be built with Linguistic/Multilingual LOD
We aim to
address questions like:
* How can
we unlock the data created by research and open communities for
enterprises?
* What is
missing?
* How can
we build bridges?
Submission
ends on September 13th, which is one week before the workshop.
Presentations will be around 3-5 minutes.
====25th:
Session on Best Practices for Multilingual Linked Open Data ====
Please have a
look at the etherpad: http://mlode.okfnpad.org/best-practices-multilingual-lod
====25th:
Session on Legal Issues ====
Erik Ketzan (http://www.linkedin.com/in/erikketzan) will present
the Clarin Legal Helpdesk and talk about current problems
regarding database licences.
Please have a
look at the etherpad: http://mlode.okfnpad.org/legal-session
==== 25th:
Session on DBpedia Roadmap ====
Please have a
look at the etherpad: http://mlode.okfnpad.org/DBpedia-roadmap
==== Data
post proceedings ====
This workshop
will publish a data post proceedings. As this is a new concept,
the rules for submission are not yet fixed. We will collect
ideas here: http://mlode.okfnpad.org/data-post-proceedings
During the
discussion at the conference, we will pin down the details.
=====
Participating Communities =====
====
Multilingual Web ====
MLODE
Contact: Dominic Jones ( https://www.scss.tcd.ie/dominic.jones/ )
Many ideas
were generated into the best-practice use of Multilingual LOD at
the W3C sponsored "Multilingual Web – Linked Open Data and
MultilingualWeb-LT Requirements" workshop held in Dublin,
Ireland, June 2012
(http://www.multilingualweb.eu/en/documents/dublin-workshop/dublin-program).
One of the aims of MLODE workshop is to continue discussion
around the best-practices for application of LOD in the
Multilingual Web and the transformation of currently monolingual
LOD resources into multiple languages, for example a
multi-lingual DBpedia. Topics for discussion and talking points
will be carried over from the Dublin workshop and discussed
during the MLODE workshop but new ideas or suggestions are of
course welcome and requested. We will have a session discussing
best practices for multilingual linked open data and
compatibility of the RDF world with ITS 2.0. You can already
participate in the discussion: http://mlode.okfnpad.org/best-practices-multilingual-lod
==== DBpedia
====
MLODE
Contact: Dimitris Kontokostas
DBpedia ( http://dbpedia.org ): DBpedia
International now has over 10 language-specific chapters (such
as http://el.dbpedia.org ) . At the
workshop there will be a DBpedia Developers meetup, we will
discuss the “Future of DBpedia” and create a common Road Map. If
you want to get more involved in DBpedia, the workshop will be a
good opportunity to meet the team.
==== OWLG
====
MLODE
Contact: Richard Littauer
Working Group
for Open Data in Linguistics (OWLG, http://linguistics.okfn.org
): Now is the time to get your data into the LLOD
cloud! We have created a development team that will convert your
data to RDF and help establish links: http://code.google.com/p/mlode/ . Please
submit your data sets! (Furthermore we will have a legal session
to discuss licensing issues.)
==== Ontolex
====
MLODE
Contact: John McCrae
Ontolex W3C
Community Group ( http://www.w3.org/community/ontolex/ ): Monnet
Challenge will provide a data bounty for developers who convert
data sets using lemon
==== Apache
Stanbol ====
MLODE
Contact: John Pereira
Apache
Stanbol ( http://incubator.apache.org/stanbol/ ):
Enterprises will have the chance to present their use cases
during lightning talks and we will have a Apache Stanbol Booth
and an install fest to show hands-on how combined usage of
public and closed data can be achieved and what benefits firms
can gain from using the rapidly increasing data pools.
==== NLP2RDF
====
NLP2RDF (http://nlp2rdf.org): the NIF
project will announce the new NIF 2.0 Specification at the
conference. Discussion is currently going on at the Wiki (http://wiki.nlp2rdf.org) and the
mailing list http://lists.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/mailman/listinfo/nlp2rdf
==== Other
Communities ====
* DBpedia
Spotlight (http://spotlight.dbpedia.org )
*
Wiktionary2RDF (http://dbpedia.org/Wiktionary )
===== Program
=====
Most of the
session are already quite clear (see above), just the detailed
time plan is still missing
===== Contact
=====
For any
inquiries regarding the workshop, you can reach the //whole//
MLODE committee at //mlode2012 [at]
lists.informatik.uni-leipzig.de//.
If you are
interested in sponsoring the event, please contact the workshop
organizers (Sebastian Hellmann and Steven Moran) through
//mlode2012-sponsor [at] lists.informatik.uni-leipzig.de// .
Some
financial aid may be available (travel cost or conference fee),
please contact Steven Moran //mlode2012-sponsor [at]
lists.informatik.uni-leipzig.de// .
==== MLODE
Committee ====
Chairs:
* Sebastian
Hellmann, University of Leipzig
* Steven
Moran, University of Munich
Student
Chairs:
* Martin
Brümmer, University of Leipzig
* Dimitris
Kontokostas, University of Leipzig
Community
Committee:
* Richard
Littauer, Saarland University
* Dominic
Jones, Trinity College
* John
McCrae, Bielefeld University
* Jose
Emilio Labra Gayo, University of Oviedo
* John
Peirera, Apache Stanbol
* Dimitris
Kontokostas, University of Leipzig
==== Venue
====
MLODE is part
of the SABRE Multiconference, which is located at the Faculty of
Economics and Management Scienc in the center of Leipzig: http://www.wifa.uni-leipzig.de/en/kontakt.html#c16824
--
Dipl. Inf. Sebastian Hellmann
Department of Computer Science, University of Leipzig
Events:
* http://sabre2012.infai.org/mlode (Leipzig, Sept. 23-24-25, 2012)
* http://wole2012.eurecom.fr (*Deadline: July 31st 2012*)
Projects: http://nlp2rdf.org , http://dbpedia.org
Homepage: http://bis.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/SebastianHellmann
Research Group: http://aksw.org