Fifth Ontolex Workshop @ LDK2025
Fifth OntoLex Workshop
Description
The fifth in a series of workshops dedicated to the OntoLex-Lemon model and its extensions.
Date and place
Date: September 9, 2025 in Naples (Italy), co-located at the 5th Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge (LDK 2025) as a pre-conference event.
Time: 08:55 - 17:30
Venue: Room 318 – Third floor, Palazzo S. Maria Porta Coeli, University of Naples “L’Orientale”
Format: hybrid (physical and online meeting).
Organisers
- Philipp Cimiano (Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany)
- Anas Fahad Khan (Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale A. Zampolli, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Pisa, Italy)
- John P. McCrae (Data Science Institute, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland)
- Matteo Pellegrini (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy)
Call for Papers
See Call for Papers
Submission Deadline: 23rd May 29th May (HARD DEADLINE!)
Submission page: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=ontolexldk2025
Registration
Please register on the LDK conference page:
https://2025.ldk-conf.org/registration/
Accepted Papers
| Authors | Title |
|---|---|
| Lorenzo Augello and John P. McCrae | Inferring Adjective Hypernyms with Language Models to Increase the Connectivity of Open English Wordnet |
| David Lindemann | Ontolex-Lemon in Wikidata and other Wikibase instances |
| Paula Diez-Ibarbia, Patricia Martín-Chozas and Elena Montiel-Ponsoda | Bringing IATE into the Semantic Web Family |
| Veruska Zamborlini, Jiaqi Zhu, Marieke van Erp and Arianna Betti | Philosophising Lexical Meaning as an OntoLex-Lemon Extension |
| Fahad Khan, Max Ionov, Paola Marongiu and Ana Salgado | A Lightweight String Based Method of Encoding Etymologies in Linked Data Lexical Resources |
| Theodorus Fransen | Ontologies for historical languages: using the LiLa and OntoLex-Lemon framework to build a Lemma Bank for Old Irish |
Programme
All times are given in Italian local time (UTC+2)
| Time | |
|---|---|
| 08:55-09:00 | Introduction |
| Session 1: Invited Talks (09:00–10:00)
Chair: Fahad Khan | |
| 09:00-09:20 | Compositional Question Answering with lemon lexica Philipp Cimiano |
| 09:20-09:40 | When LiLa Met OntoLex: Lessons learned from a shared journey Francesco Mambrini and Marco Passarotti |
| 09:40-10:00 | Metadata is not an option…
…it's a necessity! |
| Session 2: Presentations (10:00–10:35)
Chair: Philipp Cimiano | |
| 10:00-10:20 | Ontologies for historical languages: using the LiLa and OntoLex-Lemon framework to build a Lemma Bank for Old Irish Theodorus Fransen |
| 10:20-10:35 | A Lightweight String Based Method of Encoding Etymologies in Linked Data Lexical Resources Fahad Khan, Max Ionov, Paola Marongiu and Ana Salgado |
| 10:35-11:00 | Coffee |
| Session 3: Presentations (11:00–12:15)
Chair: John McCrae | |
| 11:00-11:20 | Inferring Adjective Hypernyms with Language Models to Increase the Connectivity of Open English Wordnet Lorenzo Augello and John P. McCrae |
| 11:20-11:40 | Philosophising Lexical Meaning as an OntoLex-Lemon Extension Veruska Zamborlini, Jiaqi Zhu, Marieke van Erp and Arianna Betti |
| 11:40-12:00 | Ontolex-Lemon in Wikidata and other Wikibase instances David Lindemann |
| 12:00-12:15 | Bringing IATE into the Semantic Web Family Paula Diez-Ibarbia, Patricia Martín-Chozas and Elena Montiel-Ponsoda |
| 12:15-14:00 | Lunch |
| Session 4: Joint OntoLex Session (14:00–17:15)
Chair: Matteo Pellegrini | |
| 14:00-15:00 | OntoLex Core. Draft minutes are taken here Chair: Jorge Gracia |
| 15:00-15:30 | FrAC Module Chair: Christian Chiarcos |
| 15:30-16:00 | Coffee |
| 16:00-16:30 | Morph Module Chair: Max Ionov |
| 16:30-17:00 | Demos Chair: Philipp Cimiano |
| 17:00-17:15 | New Modules Chair: John P. McCrae |
| 17:15-17:30 | Closing Remarks |