ONTOBRAS 2023: 16th Seminar on Ontology Research in Brazil Universidade de Brasília Brasília, Brazil, August 28-September 1, 2023 |
Conference website | https://www.inf.ufrgs.br/ontobras/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ontobras2023 |
Abstract registration deadline | June 21, 2023 |
Submission deadline | June 21, 2023 |
Call for Papers
ONTOBRAS 2023 - 16th Seminar on Ontology Research in Brazil
(held with the 14th International Conference on Biomedical Ontology - ICBO 2023)
August 28 to September 01, 2023, Brasília – DF, Brazil
https://www.inf.ufrgs.br/ontobras/
Ontology is an interdisciplinary field that studies concepts and theories that provide the foundation for building shared domain conceptualizations. In recent years, we have noticed a growing interest in the application of ontologies to solve modeling and classification problems in several areas, such as Computer Science, Information Science, Philosophy, Artificial Intelligence, Linguistics, Knowledge Management, Semantic Web, and others.
The Seminar on Ontology Research in Brazil (ONTOBRAS) aims to bring together the community of researchers and students investigating Ontology in Computer Science and Information Science, as well as professionals in the information industry, providing opportunities and a scientific environment to exchange knowledge on theories, methods, languages and tools for ontology engineering and experiences in applying ontologies to solve various problems.
In its 16th edition, ONTOBRAS 2023 is part of a tradition that comes since 2005 in Brazil, and that was defined by the Brazilian Ontology Community as a unique forum, highly scientifically qualified, for presentation and discussion of ontologies and application cases. The seminar aims to expand and strengthen the Ontology community in Brazil, through the exchange of experiences among researchers, students and professionals, and by encouraging proximity between Academia and Industry, allowing cutting-edge solutions designed in these environments to influence real applications in different sectors.
This year, ONTOBRAS will be held with the 14th International Conference on Biomedical Ontology (ICBO 2023).
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit theoretical, technical, and practical research contributions that directly or indirectly deal with the topics of interest presented in the call for papers. Papers ranging from philosophical and theoretical foundations to new technologies and innovative applications are welcome.
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission Deadline: June 04, 2023 June 14, 2023 June 21, 2023
Author notification: July 07, 2023 July 12, 2023 July 14, 2023
Camera ready: July 21, 2023
ONTOBRAS: August 28 to September 01, 2023
TOPICS OF INTEREST
Topics of interest for ONTOBRAS 2023 include, but are not limited to:
- Ontologies and Conceptual Modeling:
- Ontological foundations for conceptual modeling and metamodeling
- Foundational and upper ontologies
- Semantic consistency
- Ontology-based conceptual modeling tools and environments
- Ontologies and knowledge organization:
- Facet Theory and Theory of Concepts
- Terminology, Folksonomies, Thesauri, Taxonomies, Metadata
- Documentary languages
- Knowledge discovery and reasoning
- Knowledge representation and management
- Ontology governance
- Ontology Engineering:
- Methodologies, techniques,practices, languages and tools
- Composition and modularity
- Interoperability between ontologies, integration, mapping and alignment
- Ontological language interoperability
- Ontology patterns and anti-patterns
- Ontology evaluation and validation
- Integration problems, practices and methods
- Ontology Enrichment and semantic enrichment
- (Semi-)automated ontology development
- Semantic Web:
- Modeling
- Information retrieval
- Ontology-based search
- Linked open data (LOD) applications
- Ontology and Natural Language Processing (NLP)
- Linguistic ontologies applied to text processing
- Computational linguistics
- Access, integration and exchange of data based on databases and ontologies on the Web
- Knowledge graphs (construction, maintenance, reasoning) and virtual knowledge graphs
- Social and human aspects of the Semantic Web
- Ontology Applications:
- Ontology for e-science, life sciences, e-business, multimedia and cultural heritage
- Domain ontologies (Education, Health, Smart Cities, Government and others)
- Ontology-driven information system design
- Ontology-driven business modeling
- Ontology tools: construction, reasoning, evaluation
- Data management and FAIR principles
- Ontologies and data science, machine learning, artificial intelligence
- Ontology Visualization
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Submissions should be written in ENGLISH (preferred), PORTUGUESE or SPANISH. We strongly encourage authors to submit their papers in ENGLISH so that the papers can reach readers in many different countries. Submissions in PORTUGUESE or SPANISH must have an abstract and keywords in ENGLISH.
All submissions will undergo peer review by experts in the field.
All papers must be original and cannot have been submitted simultaneously to another journal or conference. The following types of papers are welcome (page limits exclude references):
- Full papers (up to 12 pages): High quality papers on a wide range of topics with a focus on consolidated ontology research contributions. They may be even more specialized, theoretical, technical, and practical research contributions that directly or indirectly address or are related to the areas listed below. They may also be papers by advanced students whose dissertations or theses are in final stages and have not been completed at the date of submission, but already show substantial results.
- Short articles (up to 6 pages): These are usually student papers, but not limited to, may discuss new ideas that are in an early stage of development or may report partial results of ongoing research, dissertations, or theses.
Authors should indicate in the submission the type of the paper. Additionally, it is suggested to indicate as a footnote on the first page of the type of the paper.
Submissions should be made via EasyChair.
All submissions should be in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) and should follow the CEUR-ART template, single column. Microsoft Office Word, Open Office and LaTeX templates can be downloaded at: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip. Overleaf template is available at https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/template-for-submissions-to-ceur-workshop-proceedings-ceur-ws-dot-org/hpvjjzhjxzjk.
Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of ONTOBRAS 2023 at CEUR-WS as part of the IAOA series. Publication of accepted papers requires registration of at least one of the authors at ONTOBRAS, as well as presentation of the paper during the event.
Double-blind
ONTOBRAS adopts a double-blind review process. Thus, submitted papers must conceal the name and affiliation of the authors. In addition:
- Citations to the authors' own work should be written in third person (e.g., use "in the work of Fulano et al." instead of "in our work");
- If the submitted paper is an evolution of an previous work of the authors, one can anonymize the reference in the References section. For example, instead of "this paper evolves the proposal of Fulano et al.", one can use "this paper evolves the proposal presented in [ref]" and the reference [ref] can be presented as "[ref] Reference omitted due to double-blind review" in the References section;
- The use of terms that allow the identification of authors (e.g. university or project names) should be avoided;
- If the paper includes links to artifacts related to the work, repositories or websites that allow the identification of authors should not be used. The provision of research artifacts should be done anonymously.
If the article is accepted, information omitted in the submitted version must be included in the final version.
Desk Rejection
Submissions that are out of the scope of ONTOBRAS or not in compliance with the required submission format and double-blind rules, will be rejected without review.
Best Paper Award
The ONTOBRAS Program Committee will select a full paper to receive the Best Paper Award.
ORGANIZATION
General Chairs
Luan Fonseca Garcia (UFRGS, Brazil)
Rita Berardi (UTFPR, Brazil)
Local Chair
Fernanda Farinelli (UnB, Brazil)
Program Committee Chairs
João Rebelo Moreira (University of Twente, The Netherlands)
Monalessa Perini Barcellos (UFES, Brazil)