gerhard paass gqthkytuagejaisfraunhoferde apologies receive multiple copies message call papers learning extending lexical ontologies using machine learning methods workshop international conference machine learning icml 2005 bonn germany august 11th 2005 httpwwwaisfraunhoferdekdais_workshopws_learning_and_extending_lexical_ontologieshtml topic motivation workshop concerned learning extending lexical ontologies means machine learning methods lexicalsemantic ontology learning emerging field combines machine learning techniques recent advances natural language ontology processing considerable amount research use lexicalsemantic ontologies wordnet improves performance variety natural language processing tasks information retrieval word sense disambiguation document clustering document summarization others turned simple hierarchies sufficient capture semantic relations words semantic fields instance may used represent semantic connections among groups lexemes drawn single domain semantic selectional restrictions allow lexemes post constraints semantic properties constituents accompany sentences hand multiple data sources might included linguistically statistically preprocessed documents combinations multiple crosslingual corpora web well existing dictionaries ontologies machine learning provides new techniques learn rich structural properties aim workshop bring together researchers machine learning well nlp related fields progress area may foster understanding semantics language may considerable economical impact submission submissions pdf format fonts included english longer 10 pages full paper 5 pages short paper following springer lncs style accepted long papers presented oral sessions accepted short papers posters submissions invited aspects interaction ontology acquisition machine learning topics may include necessarily limited ontology induction large corpora candidate generation classification ontology extension derivation ontology relations knowledge discovery databases semistructured data text multimedia ontology learning extensionevolution andor ontology mapping mergingintegration ontology domain adaptation important dates apr 1 2005 paper submission deadline apr 22 2005 notification acceptance may 13 2005 final paper deadline aug 11 2005 workshop held organization cochairs chris biemann university leipzig germany contact person uamzinformatikunileipzigde gerhard paass fraunhofer ais sankt augustin germany gqthkytuagejaisfraunhoferde program committee markus ackermann university leipzig germany eneko agirre basque country university spain enrique alfonseca universidad autónoma de madrid spain paul buitelaar dfki saarbrücken germany javier farreres universitat politècnica de catalunya spain jürgen franke daimlerchrysler ag germany thomas gärtner fraunhofer ais sankt augustin germany karina gibert universitat politècnica de catalunya spain vasileios hatzivassioglou columbia university new york usa rattikorn hewett texas tech university usa gerhard heyer university leipzig germany eduard hovy university southern california usa tang enya kong universiti sains malaysia malaysia pedro larrañaga basque country university spain bernardo magnini itcirst italy suresh manandhar university york united kingdom inderjeet mani georgetown university usa alexander mehler university bielefeld germany elisabeth métais cnam cedric paris france antonio moreno university rovira virgili spain roberto navigli universtià degli studi di roma la sapienza italy claire nédellec laboratoire mathématique informatique et génome jouyenjosas france rainer osswald fernuniversität hagen germany patrick pantel university southern california usa youngja park ibm research usa thierry poibeau université parisnord france uwe quasthoff university leipzig germany deepak ravichandran university southern california usa german rigau universitat politècnica de catalunya spain horacio rodriguez universitat politècnica de catalunya spain myra spiliopoulou ottovonguerickeuniversity magdeburg germany vojtech svatek university economics prague czech republic wed 06 aug 2008 061759 0100 uai cfp icml05 workshop ontology learning