Voice, Natural Language and Semantic Web Technologies (VNLSW2005) Workshop at ESWC 2005

Call for Papers

In this workshop we want to bring together researchers and practitioners from the R&D areas of Voice Recognition and Generation, of Natural Language Processing and of Ontologies and the Semantic Web. The main objective is to have discussions about how these different but complimentary technologies can be integrated together so as to provide added value multi-channel services to content and service providers, as well as to end users.

In the current state of the art we can find successful and unsuccessful stories of the isolated use of these technologies in different types of applications, as well as of the integration of any of the combinations of two of them (voice and natural language, voice and Semantic Web, and natural language and Semantic Web). However it is not easy to find these types of stories about the integration of the three types of technologies. For instance, in a recent survey of EU IST projects performed in the context of the EU IST project HOPS, it was found out that many of them dealt specifically with only one of these areas, and around 10 projects looked at more than one area, but never at the three of them.

Therefore in this workshop we encourage submissions about the following topics (although not limited to them):

• Successful and unsuccessful stories, and lessons learned about the integration of the three technologies.
• Dialogue modelling, strategies and evaluation in the combination of these three technologies.
• Visión papers about the added value that the integration of these three technologies can provide over their isolated application or over their partial integration.

The objective of this workshop is to stimulate cross-discipline discussions. Hence we will aim at having extensive time for discussion following each presentation.

This workshop is supported by the EU IST 2002-507967 project HOPS, whose objective is the enabling of an intelligent natural language based Hub for the deployment of advanced semantically enriched multi-channel mass-scale Online Public Services.

All workshop participants must register at the main ESWC 2005 conference.

Important Dates

First call for papers: January 28th, 2005
Deadline paper submissions: March 15th, 2005
Notification of acceptance: April 15th, 2005
Camera ready deadline: May 1st, 2005
Workshop: May 29th, 2005

Submission and Proceedings

Interested authors should submit an electronic PDF version of their papers to Oscar Corcho prior the paper submission deadline. The first page of submitted papers should include: title, author names, affiliations, postal addresses, e-mail addresses, telephone and fax numbers for all authors, and a brief abstract. All correspondence will be sent to the author mentioned as contact person in the electronic title page (by default, the first author). Submissions should not exceed 12 pages and should be formatted according to the guidelines of the main conference (Springer LNCS format).

Workshop Organising Committee

The workshop organising committee contains members from the three main areas identified in the workshop proposal (Ontologies and Semantic Web, Voice Technologies and Natural Language):

Oscar Corcho (Contact Person) Intelligent Software Components (iSOCO) C/ Pedro de Valdivia, 10 28006 Madrid, Spain Phone: +34 91 3349745 Fax: + 34 91 3349799 Email:ocorcho@isoco.com Home: http://users.isoco.net/~ocorcho/index.html

Paolo Baggia Loquendo SpA (Italy) Email: paolo.baggia@loquendo.com Thierry Declerck DFKI GmbH (Germany) Email: declerck@dfki.de

Members of the Program Committee

• Dr. Alain Légér, FranceTelecom R&D (FR)
• Dr. Aldo Gangemi, Laboratory for Applied Ontology (IT)
• Dr. Asunción Gómez-Pérez, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (ES)
• Dr. Dave Raggett, Canon/W3C
• Dr. Deborah Dahl, Conversational technologies and chair of W3C Multimodal Interaction Working Group (US)
• Dr. Farouk Toumani, LIMOS, Université Blaise Pascal (FR)
• Dr. Franciska de Jong, University of Twente (NL)
• Dr. James L. Larson, Intel Corporation & Co-chair of W3C Voice Browser Working Group (US)
• Dr. Jesús Contreras, iSOCO (ES)
• Dr. Johannes Heinecke, FranceTelecom R&D (FR)
• Dr. Leonardo Lesmo, Politécnico di Torino (IT)
• Dr. Marcello Federico, IRST Trento (IT)
• Dr. Marta Gatius, TALP, Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña (ES)
• Max Froumentin, W3C
• Dr. Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles, Université P. Sabatier (FR)
• Dr. Norbert Reithinger, DFKI (GE)
• Dr. Richard Benjamins, iSOCO (ES)
• Roberto Pieraccini, IBM (US)
• Dr. Scott McGlashan, HP, Chief Technologist, Interactive Media Products
• Sheyla Militello, Loquendo (IT)

Related events

The members of the workshop committee have been members of the programme committee in numerous conferences and workshops related to the different areas involved. Although this is the first workshop where the combination of Voice, Natural Language and Semantic Web technologies is explicitly proposed in the call for papers, in the past years there have been many workshops where some of these technologies have been put together (usually held together with main conferences like ACL, ISWC, ECAI and IJCAI)