[Corpora-List] 2nd CfP: Pre LREC-2008 Workshop "Uses and usage of language resource-related standards"

[Andreas Witt]

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                         Second Call for Papers

                      Pre LREC-2008 Workshop:

         Uses and usage of language resource-related standards

                          Marrakech, Morocco
                         Tuesday, 27 May 2008


                       --- Deadline extended ---

            New deadline for submissions: March 2nd, 2008


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Uses and usage of language resource-related standards


In recent years more and more standards related to the representation
and processing of language resources (LRs) have been issued by
different organizations (e.g., ISO, Oasis, LISA, W3C, TEI etc.). While
some of these have been designed explicitly for the purpose of
modeling language (e.g., LAF, OLAC, IMDI, etc), other standards in use
in the community are originally geared to the representation of
properties of texts (e.g., TEI). Still others have been defined with
broader, not inherently language or text-related purposes in
mind. Apart from standards for representation and linguistic
description, recently standards for resource management are also
emerging.

The formal standardisation process is only one aspect of the evolution
of a standard. The application and the real use seem to be even more
important. A standard is useful for the community only if it is actually
applied. The workshop will concentrate on standards which are in use,
experiences with standards as well as tools
to enhance the use of standards. In particular we will encourage
contributions in the following areas:

(a) experiences with different types of standards:

- research contexts inviting/impeding the use of standards
- standards and exploitation of LRs
- use of language vs. text encoding standards
- use of standards for representation vs. linguistic description
- standards for different types of LRs (corpora, archives,
  dictionaries, spoken vs. written language etc)
- standards used in the localization process
- competing standards (comparison of competing standards,
  motivations for preferring one standard over another)


(b) use of standards from different vantage points:

- data providers (support for standards, e.g., data category
  registry)
- data users (e.g., standards supporting resource exploitation)
- tool developers (e.g., corpus annotation tools supporting
  standards, standards aware localization tools)


(c) new horizons in standardization

- standardization for resource management (e.g., resource
  validation) and best practices
- efforts to make language resource-related standards communicate
  with each other (e.g., mappings, upper structures)
- interaction of language resource-related standards with
  non-language data standards
- special requirements for multilingual resources
- special requirements for multimodal resources
- methodologies for the evaluation of standards



SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Submissions should not exceed ten (10) pages, including references. We
strongly recommend the use of the LaTeX style files or Microsoft Word
document template that will be made available on the LREC Conference
Web site. A description of the required format will be made available to
those who are unable to make direct use of these style files.

Submission will be electronic. The only accepted format for submitted
papers is Adobe PDF. The papers must be submitted no later than
March 2nd, 2008. Papers submitted after that time will not be
reviewed. For details of the submission procedure, please consult the
submission webpage reachable via the workshop website.

Questions regarding the submission procedure should be directed to
andreas.witt(a)uni-tuebingen.de


IMPORTANT DATES

Deadline for submission of Papers  :  2nd March 2008
Notification of Acceptance         :  18th March 2008
Deadline for final paper submission:   2nd April 2008


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Nicoletta Calzolari Zamorani, ILC, Pisa
Felix Sasaki, W3C, Keio Research Institute
Elke Teich, Technische Universität Darmstadt
Andreas Witt, Tübingen University
Peter Wittenburg, MPI Nijmegen


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Nuria Bel (Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona, Spain)
Lou Burnard (University of Oxford, UK)
Gerhard Budin (Vienna University, Austria)
Key-Sun Choi (KAIST, Republic of Korea)
Thierry Declerck (DFKI, Germany)
Peter Fankhauser (FhG-IPSI, Darmstadt, Germany)
Gil Francopoulo (Tagmatica, France)
Thilo Goetz (IBM, Germany)
Yoshihiko Hayashi (Osaka University and NICT, Japan)
Uli Heid (Stuttgart University, Germany)
Erhard Hinrichs (Tübingen University, Germany)
Nancy Ide (Vassar College, New York, USA)
Fotis Jannidis (Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany)
Kiyong Lee (Korea University, Republic of Korea)
Christian Lieske (SAP AG, Germany)
Monica Monachini (ILC Pisa, Italy)
Laurent Romary (MPG, Germany)
Justus Roux (University of Stellenbosch, South Africa)
Yves Savourel (Enlaso, USA)
C.M. Sperberg-McQueen (W3C, USA)
Sue Ellen Wright (Kent State University, OH, USA)
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