Most of the current research studies and papers focus on the technical problems raised by the representation and structuring of knowledge in the ontology.
Many works are also devoted to the problem of formalization and reusability of ontologies.
More recently, new interests bore on the influence of the target application on the task of designing an ontology. In this workshop, we concentrate on ontology design considered as a process stemming from knowledge sources to a structured conceptual model. We claim that texts are an important source of knowledge for any kind of application, in particular because most of the texts contain shared and stabilized knowledge among a community of specialists. Moreover, NLP tools are mature enough to be worth being integrated in knowledge engineering methods. In spite of such potential values, knowledge acquisition from texts for ontology design is hardly studied.