[Corpora-List] MLR2004: post COLING 2004 workshop on Multilingual Linguistic Ressources

Fri Apr 30 10:00:54 UTC 2004

                   FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS

                        Workshop on

             MULTILINGUAL LINGUISTIC RESSOURCES
                          MLR2004
                     August 28th, 2004

         To be held in conjunction with COLING 2004
                    Geneva, Switzerland
                [ http://mlr2004.imag.fr/ ]

    ** PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED: May 11th 2004 **

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION
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In an ever expanding information society, most information systems are 
now facing the "multilingual challenge". Lexical resources play an 
essential role in these information systems. Such lexical resources 
need to provide information on many languages in a common framework and 
should be (re)usable in many applications (for automatic or human use).

Many centers have been involved in national, european and international 
projects dedicated to building harmonized language resources and 
creating expertise in the maintenance and further development of 
standardized linguistic data. These resources include dictionaries, 
lexicons, thesauri, wordnets, and annotated corpora developed along the 
lines of best practices and recommendations. However, since the late 
90's most efforts in scaling up these resources remain the 
responsibility of the local authorities, usually, with very low funding 
(if any) and few opportunities for academic recognition of this work. 
Hence, it is not surprising that many of the resource holders and 
developers have become reluctant to give free access to the latest 
resources. It is therefore currently rather unclear what the actual 
status is of these language resources.

The goal of this workshop is to study problems involved in the 
development/management/reuse  of lexical resources in a multilingual 
context. Moreover, this workshop will provide a forum  for reviewing 
the state of language resources. The workshop is meant to bring to the 
international community qualitative and quantitative information about 
the most recent  developments in the area of linguistic resources and 
their use in applications.

As the workshop takes place in Europe, special attention will be given 
to submissions  on resources for European languages (especially Central 
and Eastern European languages),  but submission of innovative 
developments involving any language will be welcome.

The intent of the workshop is not only to review academic developments 
but also to hear from industry, how these resources are used in new 
technology developments and what the current needs are in the field. 
Presentations, project notes and position papers are welcome.

WORKSHOP TOPICS
---------------

Authors of papers on multilingual linguistic ressources are encouraged 
to apply. Papers could be on - but not limited to - any of the 
following topics:
	- 	models for language/application-independent linguistic data
	- 	linguistic data acquisition and maintenance
	- 	building multilingual linguistic resources
	- 	lexical architectures to link data between languages
	- 	use of linguistic resources for applications in a multilingual 
context
	- 	reuse of existing lexical resources in a specific multilingual 
application
	- 	human use of lexical resources in a multilingual context
	- 	quality evaluation and standardization

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
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Papers should be original, hence report on previously unpublished work. 
They should emphasize completed rather than intended work. Papers 
submitted to other conferences must reflect this fact on the title 
page.

As the review process will not be blind, papers should contain the 
names and affiliations of authors.

Submissions must be electronic only, and should consist of full papers 
of max. 8 pages (inclusive of references, tables, figures and 
equations). Project notes and position papers should not exceed 4 
pages. Authors should follow the  COLING 2004 formating guidelines, 
available at: 
http://www.issco.unige.ch/coling2004/coling2004downloads.html.

All submissions should be made through the MLR2004 workshop web site's 
submission form (http://mlr2004.imag.fr/). They should consist of a 
single PDF file. Before submitting your document, please verify that 
all non-standard fonts are correctly embedded in your PDF document (you 
can do this by disabling the "Use Local Font" option when viewing you 
PDF document with Adobe Reader).

Formating requirements for the final version of accepted papers will be 
posted as soon as they become available.

IMPORTANT DATES
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  Deadline for submission of Papers:  May 11th 2004
  Notification of Acceptance:  June 5th 2004
  Deadline for final paper submission:  June 16th 2004
  Workshop:  August 28th 2004

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
--------------------

Gilles Sérasset, GETA-CLIPS, IMAG, Université Joseph Fourier- Grenoble 
I, France
Susan Armstrong, ISSCO, Université de Genève, Suisse
Christian Boitet, GETA-CLIPS, IMAG, Université Joseph Fourier- Grenoble 
I, France
Andrei Popescu-Belis, ISSCO, Université de Genève, Suisse
Dan Tufis, RACAI, University of Bucharest, Romania

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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Gilles Sérasset, GETA CLIPS-IMAG, Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 
I, France (chair)
Susan Armstrong, ISSCO, Université de Genève, Switzerland
Pushpak Battacharya, IIT, Mumbai, India
Igor Boguslavski, IITP, Moscow, Russia
Christian Boitet, GETA CLIPS-IMAG, Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 
I, France
Pierrette Bouillon, ISSCO, Université de Genève, Switzerland
Jim Breen  Monash, University, Australia
Nicoletta Calzolari, CNR, Pisa, Italy
Dan Cristea, University Al.I.Cuza Iasi, Romania
Patrick Drouin, OLST, University of Montreal,Canada
Sanae Fujita, NTT, Kyoto, Japan
Ulrich Heid, IMS-CL, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Hitoshi Isahara,  CRL, Nara, Japan
Kyo Kageura, NII, Tokyo, Japan
Chuah Choy Kim,  USM, Penang, Malaisie
Mathieu Mangeot, NII, Tokyo, Japan
Alain Polguère, OLST, University of Montreal,Canada
Andrei Popescu-belis, ISSCO, Université de Genève, Switzerland
Jean Senellart, SYSTRAN, France
Mandel Shi, Xiamen University, China
Virach Sornlertlamvanich, Thai Computational Linguistics Laboratory, 
CRL, Thailand
Pr. Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii, Tokyo University, Japan
Philippe Thoiron, CRTT, Université de Lyon 2, France
Dan Tufis, RACAI, Uni Bucharest, Romania
Michael Zock, LIMSI, Orsay, France

CONTACT
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mlr2004 at imag.fr

--
Gilles Sérasset
GETA-CLIPS-IMAG (UJF, INPG & CNRS)
BP 53 - F-38041 Grenoble Cedex 9
Phone: +33 4 76 51 43 80
Fax:   +33 4 76 44 66 75