************************************************************************<br> <br> Second Call for Papers <br><br> Pre LREC-2008 Workshop: <br>
<br> Uses and usage of language resource-related standards<br><br> Marrakech, Morocco <br> Tuesday, 27 May 2008<br><br><br> --- Deadline extended ---<br>
<br> New deadline for submissions: March 2nd, 2008<br><br><br>************************************************************************<br><br>Uses and usage of language resource-related standards<br><br><br>In recent years more and more standards related to the representation<br>
and processing of language resources (LRs) have been issued by<br>different organizations (e.g., ISO, Oasis, LISA, W3C, TEI etc.). While<br>some of these have been designed explicitly for the purpose of<br>modeling language (e.g., LAF, OLAC, IMDI, etc), other standards in use<br>
in the community are originally geared to the representation of<br>properties of texts (e.g., TEI). Still others have been defined with<br>broader, not inherently language or text-related purposes in<br>mind. Apart from standards for representation and linguistic<br>
description, recently standards for resource management are also<br>emerging.<br><br>The formal standardisation process is only one aspect of the evolution<br>of a standard. The application and the real use seem to be even more<br>
important. A standard is useful for the community only if it is actually<br>applied. The workshop will concentrate on standards which are in use,<br>experiences with standards as well as tools<br>to enhance the use of standards. In particular we will encourage<br>
contributions in the following areas:<br><br>(a) experiences with different types of standards:<br><br>- research contexts inviting/impeding the use of standards<br>- standards and exploitation of LRs<br>- use of language vs. text encoding standards<br>
- use of standards for representation vs. linguistic description<br>- standards for different types of LRs (corpora, archives,<br> dictionaries, spoken vs. written language etc)<br>- standards used in the localization process<br>
- competing standards (comparison of competing standards,<br> motivations for preferring one standard over another)<br><br><br>(b) use of standards from different vantage points:<br><br>- data providers (support for standards, e.g., data category<br>
registry)<br>- data users (e.g., standards supporting resource exploitation)<br>- tool developers (e.g., corpus annotation tools supporting<br> standards, standards aware localization tools)<br><br><br>(c) new horizons in standardization<br>
<br>- standardization for resource management (e.g., resource<br> validation) and best practices<br>- efforts to make language resource-related standards communicate<br> with each other (e.g., mappings, upper structures)<br>
- interaction of language resource-related standards with<br> non-language data standards<br>- special requirements for multilingual resources<br>- special requirements for multimodal resources<br>- methodologies for the evaluation of standards<br>
<br><br><br>SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS <br><br>Submissions should not exceed ten (10) pages, including references. We <br>strongly recommend the use of the LaTeX style files or Microsoft Word <br>document template that will be made available on the LREC Conference <br>
Web site. A description of the required format will be made available to <br>those who are unable to make direct use of these style files. <br><br>Submission will be electronic. The only accepted format for submitted <br>
papers is Adobe PDF. The papers must be submitted no later than <br>March 2nd, 2008. Papers submitted after that time will not be <br>reviewed. For details of the submission procedure, please consult the <br>submission webpage reachable via the workshop website. <br>
<br>Questions regarding the submission procedure should be directed to<br>andreas.witt(a)uni-<a href="http://tuebingen.de">tuebingen.de</a> <br><br><br>IMPORTANT DATES <br><br>Deadline for submission of Papers : 2nd March 2008<br>
Notification of Acceptance : 18th March 2008<br>Deadline for final paper submission: 2nd April 2008 <br><br><br>ORGANIZING COMMITTEE <br><br>Nicoletta Calzolari Zamorani, ILC, Pisa<br>Felix Sasaki, W3C, Keio Research Institute<br>
Elke Teich, Technische Universität Darmstadt<br>Andreas Witt, Tübingen University<br>Peter Wittenburg, MPI Nijmegen<br><br><br>PROGRAM COMMITTEE <br><br>Nuria Bel (Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona, Spain)<br>Lou Burnard (University of Oxford, UK)<br>
Gerhard Budin (Vienna University, Austria)<br>Key-Sun Choi (KAIST, Republic of Korea)<br>Thierry Declerck (DFKI, Germany)<br>Peter Fankhauser (FhG-IPSI, Darmstadt, Germany)<br>Gil Francopoulo (Tagmatica, France)<br>Thilo Goetz (IBM, Germany)<br>
Yoshihiko Hayashi (Osaka University and NICT, Japan)<br>Uli Heid (Stuttgart University, Germany)<br>Erhard Hinrichs (Tübingen University, Germany)<br>Nancy Ide (Vassar College, New York, USA)<br>Fotis Jannidis (Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany)<br>
Kiyong Lee (Korea University, Republic of Korea)<br>Christian Lieske (SAP AG, Germany)<br>Monica Monachini (ILC Pisa, Italy)<br>Laurent Romary (MPG, Germany)<br>Justus Roux (University of Stellenbosch, South Africa)<br>Yves Savourel (Enlaso, USA)<br>
C.M. Sperberg-McQueen (W3C, USA)<br>Sue Ellen Wright (Kent State University, OH, USA)<br><br><br>