Overview

The goal of this workshop is twofold:

• First, to provide a venue for researchers to describe and discuss practical methods and tools used in the construction of semantically annotated text collections, the raw material necessary to build knowledge-rich applications. We expect such tools to include lexical and semantic resources with a focus on the interlinking of concepts and entities and their integration into corpora.
• A second goal is to report on the on-going development of new tools for providing access to the rich information contained in large text collections. Semantic tools and resources, notably, are reaching a quality that makes them fit for building practical applications. They include ontologies, framenets, syntactic parsers, semantic parsers, entity linkers, etc. We are interested in examples of cases that make use of such advanced tools and their evaluation in the field of digital humanities.

We particularly invite submissions addressing multilingual and cross-lingual aspects of semantic processing of text

Topics of interest

• Construction and use of ontologies for text collections
• Entity nomenclatures and bridging
• Integration of lexical knowledge in text collections
• Visualization, user interfaces
• Semantic repositories: Entities and propositions
• Interlinking of concepts and entities in multilingual text
• Representing inter-textual relations
• Semantic search and information retrieval
• Tools for semantic annotation
• Timeline-based approaches such as “culturomics”
• Technical infrastructures and standards
• Quality evaluation
• Applications in digital humanities