WEO-DIA 2013 - WEO-DIA'13 - 2nd Workshop on Well-founded Everyday Ontologies ? Design, Implementations & Applications

The linguistic investigations concerning national and multi-language semantic lexicons provide, among other resources, also the top-level ontologies. The second considered research area addresses the problem of using such ontologies (possibly accompanied by other linguistic resources) to build well-founded and tractable domain conceptual models.
Most ontology-building approaches proposed by computer engineers employ algorithimcs (i.e. data mining, machine learning etc.). Even though they benefit from the automation at the same time they suffer from the bad (ontic) quality of obtained ontologies. Thus, issues concerned with bridging the gap between bottom-up automatically engineered ontologies and foundational/top-level manually created ones, constitute the third scientific area we are strongly interested in.
Topics
These topics are strongly recommended but are not limited to:
Foundational approach-driven practical ontologies
Foundational issues of ontologies: identity, change, vagueness, granularity, kinds of entities, basic relations in the context of applications
Linguistic top-level ontologies in practice
Relations between computational lexicons and thesauri and ontologies
Bridging the gap between bottom-up automatically engineered ontologies and foundational/top-level ones
Ontology integration and comparison
Experiments with well-founded ontologies in different application areas, among others:
law,
biomedicine,
engineering,
humanities,
business enterprise,
geography,
library science,
social interactions,
dialogue and argumentation,
semantic wiki