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<P><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>**********************<BR>Second Call for
Papers<BR>**********************<BR><BR></FONT><FONT face="Courier New"><FONT
size=2><STRONG><FONT size=5>IGCL</FONT><BR></STRONG><FONT size=4><STRONG>First
International Conference on Global Interoperability for Language
Resources</STRONG><BR></FONT><BR>City University of Hong Kong<BR>Hong
Kong<BR>9-11 January 2008<BR></FONT></FONT><A
href="http://icgl.ctl.cityu.edu.hk/"><FONT face="Courier New"
size=2>http://icgl.ctl.cityu.edu.hk/</FONT></A><BR><BR><FONT face="Courier New"
size=2>Language resources, including not only corpora but also lexicons,
knowledge bases and ontologies, grammars, etc. support the development of
language processing applications that are increasingly important to the global
society. Substantial effort has been devoted to the creation of such resources
for the world's major languages over the past decades, and new projects are
developing similar resources for less widely-used languages. Some standards and
best practices have emerged for representing and linking language corpora and
annotations, efforts such as "Global WordNet" and the development of framenets
in multiple languages seek to create and link specific lexical and semantic
resources across languages, and there are efforts to integrate such resources
into general ontologies such as SUMO. As the need for cross-lingual studies and
applications grows, it is increasingly important to develop resources in the
world's languages that can be compared and linked, used and analyzed with common
software, and that contain linguistic information for the same or comparable
phenomena. We envision the eventual development of a "global web" of language
resources, wherein, for example, linguistically-annotated corpora in multiple
languages are inter-linked via the use of common categories, or categories that
are mapped to one another; resources such as wordnets and framenets are linked
not only to versions in different languages, but also to each other; and common
representations enable analysis and use of resources in different languages and
of different types within available systems.<BR><BR>The First International
Conference on Global Interoperability for Language Resources (IGCL) will bring
together designers, developers, and users of corpora and other language
resources from across the globe, in order to:<BR><BR>• assess the state of
the art in methods and schemes for resource representation, annotation,
interlinkage, and access;<BR>• consider the requirements for (and obstacles
to) multi-lingual and multi-modal interoperability and
standardization;<BR>• consider the requirements for achieving
interoperability among multi-lingual resources of different types, including
corpora, lexicons, knowledge bases, ontologies, etc., as well as the systems and
frameworks that enable their creation and exploitation;<BR>• consider the
ways in which web technologies are and may be used to enable resource
interoperability and inter-linkage;<BR>• work toward the definition of best
practice guidelines and standards for language resource representation,
annotation, and use that will enable interoperability;<BR>• consider means
to map or harmonize linguistic information in order to better enable
cross-lingual studies;<BR>• provide direction for developers of resources
for less widely used languages;<BR>• promote collaboration and cooperation
among developers of language resources across the globe;<BR>• consider ways
to provide central or distributed access to language resources developed
throughout the world.<BR></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Courier New"><FONT size=2><STRONG><FONT
size=4>Topics</FONT></STRONG><BR><BR>Paper submissions are invited on (but not
limited to) the following topics:</FONT></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Courier New"><FONT size=2>• multi-lingual and/or multi-modal
language resources, with focus on the mechanisms enabling
interoperability;<BR>• support for multi-linguality and multi-modality in
systems/frameworks for resource creation, annotation, use, and
access;<BR>• existing and proposed standards and best practice guidelines
for language resources, including standards for linguistic annotations at any
and all linguistics levels;<BR>• systems, frameworks, and architectures to
support the development and exploitation of interoperable language
resources;<BR>• evaluation of existing resources, systems and frameworks,
and/or standards in terms of support for
interoperability;<BR>• harmonization, integration, and/or linking of
language resources, including corpora, wordnets, framenets, ontologies,
etc.;<BR>• web-based technologies for resource interoperability,
inter-linkage, and access;<BR>• interoperability of ontologies for language
processing research;<BR>• support for multi-linguality, multi-culturality,
and multi-modality.<BR><BR>In addition to full-length paper presentations, the
Programme Committee invites proposals for posters addressing any of the above
topics. Posters describing existing or developing resources or tools that
provide an assessment of needs and/or considerations for interoperability are
especially encouraged.<BR></FONT></P></FONT>
<P><FONT face="Courier New"><FONT size=2><STRONG><FONT
size=4>Proceedings</FONT></STRONG><BR><BR>Accepted papers will be included in
conference proceedings. A selection of outstanding conference presentations will
be published in a special issue of the journal Language Resources and
Evaluation.<BR></FONT></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Courier New"><FONT size=2><STRONG><FONT
size=4>Submissions</FONT></STRONG><BR><BR>Submissions should be no more than 8
pages in length, including bibliography and any appendices. Author instructions
are provided on the conference web site (<A
href="http://icgl.ctl.cityu.edu.hk/2008/html/paper.jsp">http://icgl.ctl.cityu.edu.hk/2008/html/paper.jsp</A></FONT></FONT><A
href="http://icgl.ctl.cityu.edu.hk/submissions.html"><FONT face="Courier New"
size=2></FONT></A><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>).<BR><BR>Submissions will be
handled electronically by the START system. To upload your paper, please go to
</FONT><A href="http://icgl08.cs.vassar.edu"><FONT face="Courier New"
size=2>http://icgl08.cs.vassar.edu</FONT></A><FONT face="Courier New"
size=2>.<BR></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Courier New"><FONT size=2><STRONG><FONT size=4>Important
dates<BR></FONT></STRONG><BR>Paper submission
deadline: 31 August 2007<BR>Notification of
acceptance: 30 September 2007<BR>Camera-ready
papers due: 31 October
2007<BR>Conference
dates: 9-11
January 2008<BR></FONT></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Courier New"><FONT size=2><STRONG><FONT size=4>Keynote
Speakers</FONT><BR></STRONG><BR>Nicoletta Calzolari, Consiglio Nazionale delle
Ricerche, Italy<BR>Christiane Fellbaum, Princeton University, USA<BR>Charles
Fillmore, International Computer Science Institute, UC Berkeley, USA<BR>Nancy
Ide, Vassar College, USA<BR>D. Terrence Langendoen, University of Arizona and
the U.S. National Science Foundation<BR>Eric Nyberg, Language Technologies
Institute,Carnegie-Mellon University, USA<BR></FONT></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Courier New"><FONT size=2><FONT size=4><STRONG>Conference
Organising Committee:</STRONG><BR></FONT><BR>Conference
Convener: Jonathan Webster, City University of Hong
Kong<BR>Conference Co-Chairs: Nancy Ide, Vassar College,
USA<BR>
Alex Chengyu Fang, City University of Hong Kong<BR>Conference
Secretary: Ernest Lam, City University of Hong Kong<BR>Conference
Webmaster: Kin Tat Ko, City University of Hong Kong<BR>Conference
Website: </FONT></FONT><A
href="http://icgl.ctl.cityu.edu.hk/"><FONT face="Courier New"
size=2>http://icgl.ctl.cityu.edu.hk/</FONT></A><BR><FONT face="Courier New"
size=2>Conference Inquiry: <A
href="mailto:icgl2008@cityu.edu.hk">icgl2008@cityu.edu.hk</A><BR></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><FONT size=4><STRONG>Programme
Committee:</STRONG></FONT><BR><BR>Eric Atwell, Leeds University, UK<BR>Harry
Bunt, the University of Tilburg, Holland<BR>Bran Bogureav, IBM, USA<BR>Nicoletta
Calzolari, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy<BR>Key-Sun Choi, Korea
Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea<BR>Khalid Choukri,
Evaluations and Language Resources Distribution Agency, France<BR>Chris Cieri,
Linguistic Data Consortium, USA<BR>Arienne Dwyer, University of Kansas,
USA<BR>Alex Chengyu Fang, City University, Hong Kong<BR>Christiane Fellbaum,
Princeton University, USA<BR>Charles Fillmore, International Computer Science
Institute, UC Berkeley, USA<BR>Sadaoki Furui, Tokyo Institute of Technology,
Japan<BR>Eva Hajicova, Charles University, Czech Republic<BR>Erhard Hinrichs,
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany<BR>Mark Huckvale, University
College London, UK<BR>Nancy Ide, Vassar College, USA<BR>Hitoshi Isahara,
National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan<BR>Toru
Ishida, Kyoto University, Japan<BR>Kiyong Lee, Korea University, South
Korea<BR>Duo Li, Peking University, China<BR>Inderjeet Mani, Georgetown
University, USA<BR>Srini Narayanan, International Computer Science Institute, UC
Berkeley, USA<BR>Adam Pease, Articulate Software, USA<BR>Sameer Pradhan, BBN
Technologies, USA<BR>James Pustejovsky, Brandeis University, USA<BR>Laurent
Romary, Max-Planck Digital Library, Germany<BR>Vasile Rus, the University of
Memphis, USA<BR>Pavel Smrz, Brno University of Technology, Czech
Republic<BR>Maosong Sun, Tsinghua University, China<BR>Takenobu Tokunaga, Tokyo
Institute of Technology, Japan<BR>Piek Vossen, Vrije University,
Holland<BR>Jonathan Webster, City University, Hong Kong<BR>Peter Wittenburg,
Max-Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Holland<BR>Yihua Zhang, Guangdong
University of Foreign Studies, China<BR></P></FONT></BODY></HTML>