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<P><FONT face=Verdana>On behalf of the organising committee,<BR>Ernst D. Thoutenhoofd</FONT></P>
<P><STRONG><FONT face=Verdana>Abstracts are invited for a one-day workshop on sign language corpora to take place following the 2008 LREC conference.</FONT></STRONG></P>
<P><FONT face=Verdana>Recent technological developments allow sign language researchers to create relatively large video corpora of sign language use that were unimaginable ten years ago. Several national projects are currently underway, and more are planned. This workshop aims to share experiences from current and past efforts: what are the technical problems that were encountered and the solutions created, what are the linguistic decisions taken?<BR></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Verdana>We invite abstracts for 20-minutes papers or posters (with or without demonstrations) on the following topics:</FONT></P>
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<LI><FONT face=Verdana>Experiences in building sign language corpora</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT face=Verdana>Proposals for standards for linguistic annotation or for metadata descriptions</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT face=Verdana>Experiences from linguistic research using corpora</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT face=Verdana>Use of corpora in teaching and eLearning contexts </FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT face=Verdana>Language documentation and long-term accessibility for sign language data</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT face=Verdana>Tool development</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT face=Verdana>Lexicon construction</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT face=Verdana>Linking corpora and lexicons</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT face=Verdana>Computer recognition of sign language</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT face=Verdana>Steps towards automatic annotation of sign language</FONT></LI></UL>
<P><FONT face=Verdana>Short papers of both paper presentations and posters (4-6 pages) of this workshop will be published as workshop proceedings that are included in the conference package.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Verdana>Please send your abstract (max. 500 words) by email to lrec2008 (at) </FONT><A href="http://sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de/" target=_blank></FONT><FONT face=Verdana>sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de</A><FONT face=Verdana> not later than Feb 1st, 2008. Further information on the sign language workshops is available from </FONT><A href="http://www.sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de/lrec2008/workshops.html" target=_blank></FONT><FONT face=Verdana>http://www.sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de/lrec2008/workshops.html</A><BR></P>
<P><FONT face=Verdana>On behalf of the organising committee,<BR>Ernst D. Thoutenhoofd</FONT></P></BODY><br/>
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