THE SEMANTIC WEB AND LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY
Its Potential and Practicalities
July 28 - August 8, Bucharest - Romania

Theme

Motivation

The topic of the EUROLAN 2003 Summer School has covered all aspects of the developing Semantic Web technology and considered its potential and the practicalities of applying it to enhance language processing applications.

The so-called "Semantic Web community" encompasses several research communities that have previously worked independently of one another, including researchers in knowledge representation, ontology development, and "knowledge exploitation"; web developers (including developers of standards such as XML, RDF, OWL, etc.); and those who directly need to exploit knowledge in applications. Linguistic knowledge used in language processing at its various levels-morphological, syntactic, lexical, discourse, etc. includes a substantial part of general knowledge and poses a significant challenge to Semantic Web developers in order to handle the precision and complexity required for language processing applications. Whatever the Semantic Web may evolve to be, researchers and developers in language technology clearly need to learn what it is and how it can be exploited for language processing, and at the same time, work with Semantic Web developers to ensure that the Semantic Web infrastructure is maximally usable for language processing applications.

Main Topics

• What is the Semantic Web?

• Potential and limitations of the Semantic Web

• Supporting web technologies (XML, RDF)

• Ontologies, ontology design and development

• Ontology exploitation via inferencing

• Description logics and other approaches to inferencing

• Lexical semantics and the Semantic Web

• Use of the Semantic Web and related technologies in language processing applications