Description and Aims

Since some decades, ontology is used for supporting semantic analysis, both in linguistics and computing. In both fields, this lead to intensive interdisciplinary discussions between these fields and philosophical ontology. This colloquium aims at providing an interdisciplinary forum for researchers from relevant disciplines such as linguistics, computing science, information science, and philosophy. It brings together instalments of two series of events:

• The Semantics and Philosophy in Europe (SPE) colloquia provides a forum for presenting research in the interface between linguistic semantics and various areas of philosophy (philosophy of language, philosophy of mind/cognition, metaphysics, and philosophy of mathematics). This year's colloquium Semantics and Philosophy in Europe (SPE13) wants to foster in particular the dialogue between applied ontology, as a semantic technology in computer science, and linguistics and philosophy.

• The newly named OntoBRIX series intends to connect researchers from the Euroregio Tyrol–South Tyrol–Trentino and beyond; it has been inaugurated with a meeting in Brixen in 2023.

Confirmed speakers

• Riccardo Baratella, University of Genova

• Stefano Borgo, Laboratorio della Ontologia Applicata (LOA), Trento

• Massimiliano Carrarra, University of Padova

• Michael Gruninger, University of Toronto

• Giancarlo Guizzardi, University of Twente, Enschede

• Ludger Jansen, PTH Brixen College & University of Rostock

• Christian Kanzian, University of Innsbruck

• Oliver Kutz, Free University of Bolzano

• Friederike Moltmann, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Nice

Conference fees

There will be a conference fee of 50 Euro for the whole event. The conference fee includes lunches and coffee breaks. When registering, the conference fee should be paid by bank transfer to Priesterseminar Brixen: IT64Q0604558220000000113000 (Südtiroler Sparkasse); please mention OntoBrix 2026 and the name of the participant. Social dinners will be self-paid.

Organizing Committee

•  Ludger Jansen, PTH Brixen College & University of Rostock

•  Riccardo Baratella, University of Genova

•  Christian Kanzian, University of Innsbruck

•  Giorgio A. Ubbiali, PTH Brixen College

Adviser for S&P:

• Friederike Moltmann, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Nice

Contact

Please address all inquiries to ontobrix@gmail.com.