Description

The course will be concerned with the interaction between ontologies (as originating out of knowledge representation and developed currently in the context of the Semantic Web) and lexical semantic theory and resources (e.g. WordNet, FrameNet, Generative Lexicon) and their role in natural language understanding tasks. In particular, we will discuss the role that foundational and domain ontologies can play in sense disambiguation, discourse and temporal interpretation, and in applications such as ontology-based information extraction and semantic information integration and fusion. Further, we will look at the role that natural language processing and understanding can have in the incremental acquisition of domain ontologies from textual data, i.e. through text and web mining. The course will be suitable for advanced students in the areas of AI, NLP and Semantic Web.

Outline of the Course

Course Reader

Day I. Introduction to Ontologies and Semantic Web (slides)

Day II. Ontologies and Lexical Semantics (slides)

Day III. Ontologies and Natural Language Understanding I (slides)

Day IV. Ontologies and Natural Language Understanding II (slides)

Day V. NLP in Ontology Development (slides)

About the Lecturers

	Paul Buitelaar German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) GmbH Language Technology Lab & Competence Center Semantic Web Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3 D-66123 Saarbrücken, Germany Office Phone : +49-681-302 5325 Office Fax : +49-681-302 5338 Email : paulb@dfki.de http://www.dfki.de/~paulb/home.html
	Philipp Cimiano Institute of Applied Computer Science and Formal methods (AIFB) Department of Knowledge Management University of Karlsruhe D-76128 Karlsruhe, Germany Office Phone: +49 (721) 608 7363 Office Fax: +49 (721) 608 6580 Email: pci@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/Personen/viewPerson?id_db=98