Call: Multilingual Linked Open Data (MLOD) 2012 Data Post Proceedings | www.semantic-web-journal.net

"Researchers in NLP and Linguistics are currently discovering Semantic Web technologies and employing them to answer novel research questions. Through the use of linked data, there is the potential to solve many issues currently faced by the language resources community. In particular, there is significant evidence that RDF allows better data integration than existing formats,[1] in part through a rich ecosystem of tools provided by the Semantic Web, such as query[2] and federation.[3] In addition, the Semantic Web has already been used by several authors[4] [5] to define data categories and enable better resource interoperability. The utility of this method of publishing language resources has lead to the interest of a significant sub-community in linguistics.[6] The focus of this special issue is language resources including language data such as written or spoken corpora and lexica, multimodal resources, grammars, terminology or domain specific databases and dictionaries, ontologies, multimedia databases, etc. [7] In addition, we require that these resources are published as linked data using appropriate technologies such as RDF and OWL. Furthermore, we will also accept submission of resources used to assist and augment language processing applications, even if the nature of the resource is not deeply entrenched in Linguistics, but only as long as the usefulness is well motivated (DBpedia redirects and disambiguation pages are one example[8] ). Overall, our vision is to boost a decentralized, collaborative, interlinked and interoperable Web of Data[9] in the area of multilingual language resources."