LINGUIST List 21.3576 Thu Sep 09 2010 Calls: General Ling, Ontology/South Africa Editor for this issue: Di Wdzenczny <dilinguistlist.org> LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Directory         1.    Thomas Meyer, Australasian Ontology Workshop Message 1: Australasian Ontology Workshop Date: 07-Sep-2010 From: Thomas Meyer <tommie.meyermeraka.org.za> Subject: Australasian Ontology Workshop E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: Australasian Ontology Workshop Short Title: AOW 2010 Date: 07-Dec-2010 - 07-Dec-2010 Location: Adelaide, South Africa Contact Person: Thomas Meyer Meeting Email: tommie.meyermeraka.org.za Web Site: http://krr.meraka.org.za/~aow2010/ Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics Other Specialty: Ontology Call Deadline: 24-Sep-2010 Meeting Description: AOW 2010 is the sixth in a series of workshops on ontologies held in the Australasian region. Deadline for submissions is 24 September 2010. AOW 2010 is the sixth in a series of workshops on ontologies held in the Australasian region. The primary aim of the workshop is to bring together active researchers in the broad area of ontologies. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Ontology models and theories - Ontologies and the Semantic Web - Interoperability in ontologies - Ontologies and Multi-agent systems - Description logics for ontologies - Reasoning with ontologies - Ontology harvesting on the web - Ontology of agents and actions - Ontology visualisation - Ontology engineering and management - Ontology-based information extraction and retrieval - Ontology merging, alignment and integration - Web ontology languages - Formal concept analysis and ontologies - Ontologies for e-research - Linking open data - Significant ontology applications The proceedings of all previous Australasian Ontology Workshops were published in the CRPIT Series and this will also be the case for AOW 2010. Call For Papers Authors of the best papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their AOW 2010 papers as chapters in a forthcoming Springer book. For the second year running, AOW 2010 will have a best paper award, with a prize of $250(AUD) being awarded to the author(s) of the best paper. Important Dates: Paper submission deadline: 24 September 2010 Notification of acceptance/rejection: 22 October 2010 Camera-ready copies due: 12 November 2010 AOW 2010: 7 December 2010 Papers must be submitted via the EasyChair system at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aow2010 Workshop Chairs: Thomas Meyer Meraka Institute, South Africa tommie.meyermeraka.org.za Mehmet Orgun Macquarie University mehmet.orgunmq.edu.au Kerry Taylor CSIRO ICT Centre Kerry.Taylorcsiro.au Program Committee : Franz Baader (TU Dresden, Germany) Arina Britz (Meraka Institute, South Africa) Werner Ceusters (SUNY Buffalo, USA) Michael Compton (CSIRO, Australia) Oscar Corcho (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain) R. Cenk Erdur (Ege University, Turkey) Aurona Gerber (Meraka Institute, South Africa) Dennis Hooijmaijers (University of South Australia, Australia) Bo Hu (SAP Research, UK) Renato Iannella (NICTA, Australia) Ken Kaneiwa (NICT, Japan) Marijke Keet (Free University of Bolzano, Italy) Kevin Lee (NICTA and UNSW, Australia) Laurent Lefort (CSIRO, Australia) Costas Mantratzis (University of Westminster, UK) Lars Moench (University of Hagen, Germany) Maurice Pagnucco (UNSW, Australia) Debbie Richards (Macquarie University, Australia) Rolf Schwitter (Macquarie University, Australia) Murat Sensoy (Bogazici University, Turkey) Markus Stumptner (University of South Australia, Australia) Boontawee (Meng) Suntisrivaraporn (Thammasat University, Thailand) Sergio Tessaris (Free University of Bolzano, Italy) Nwe Ni Tun (National University of Singapore, Singapore) Ivan Varzinczak (Meraka Institute, South Africa) Kewen Wang (Griffith University, Australia) Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 09-Sep-2010       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.