<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Times; color: black; ">Announcement and Call for Papers</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Times; color: black; ">ICGL2010: The Second</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Times; color: black; "> International Conference on Global Interoperability for Language Resources</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; color: black; ">City University of Hong Kong</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; color: black; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Optima; "><span style="font-family: Times; color: black; ">Hong Kong</span><span style="font-family: Times; color: black; "> SAR, China</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; color: black; ">18 – 20</span><span style="font-family: Times; color: black; "> January 20</span><span style="font-family: Times; color: black; ">10<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; color: black; ">http://</span><span style="font-family: Times; color: black; ">icgl</span><span style="font-family: Times; color: black; ">.</span><span style="font-family: Times; color: black; ">ctl.</span><span style="font-family: Times; color: black; ">cityu.edu.hk/ </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; color: black; ">Language resources, including not only corpora but also lexicons, knowledge bases, ontologies, and grammars, 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 the “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-purpose ontologies such as SUMO.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; color: black; "><o:p>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. Interoperability also fosters universal access to language resources, enabling researchers who have fewer resources for performing costly and time-consuming transductions to have the same capabilities as others.</o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; color: black; "><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Optima; "><span style="font-family: Times; color: black; ">The </span><span style="font-family: Times; color: black; ">Second</span><span style="font-family: Times; color: black; "> </span><span style="font-family: Times; color: black; ">I</span><span style="font-family: Times; color: black; ">nternational </span><span style="font-family: Times; color: black; ">C</span><span style="font-family: Times; color: black; ">onference on Global Interoperability for Language Resources will bring together designers, developers, and users of language resources, tools, frameworks, and infrastructures from across the globe, in order to:</span></span></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; color: black; "><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Optima; "><span style="font-family: Symbol; color: black; "><span>·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times; color: black; ">assess the state of the art in methods and schemes for resource representation, annotation, processing, interlinkage, and access;</span></span></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 24pt; text-indent: -24pt; "><span style="font-family: Symbol; color: black; "><span>·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times; color: black; ">consider the ways in which web technologies are and may be used to enable resource accessibility, interoperability and inter-linkage;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 24pt; text-indent: -24pt; "><span style="font-family: Symbol; color: black; "><span>·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times; color: black; ">consider the requirements for (and obstacles to) full interoperability, especially with regard to multi-lingual and multi-modal data;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 24pt; text-indent: -24pt; "><span style="font-family: Symbol; color: black; "><span>·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times; color: black; ">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;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 24pt; text-indent: -24pt; "><span style="font-family: Symbol; color: black; "><span>·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times; color: black; ">work toward the definition of best practice guidelines and standards for language resource representation, annotation, and use that will enable interoperability;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 24pt; text-indent: -24pt; "><span style="font-family: Symbol; color: black; "><span>·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times; color: black; ">consider means to map or harmonize linguistic information in order to better enable cross-lingual studies;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 24pt; text-indent: -24pt; "><span style="font-family: Symbol; color: black; "><span>·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times; color: black; ">provide direction for developers of resources for less widely used languages;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 24pt; text-indent: -24pt; "><span style="font-family: Symbol; color: black; "><span>·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times; color: black; ">promote collaboration and cooperation among developers of language resources and tools across the globe;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 24pt; text-indent: -24pt; "><span style="font-family: Symbol; color: black; "><span>·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times; color: black; ">consider ways to provide central or distributed access to language resources developed throughout the world. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 24pt; text-indent: -24pt; "><span style="color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Times" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><b><i>This year’s conference will include a special focus on the use of web-based technologies for </i></b></span></font></span><span style="color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Times" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><b><i>interoperability and open access to language resources.</i></b></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; color: black; "><o:p> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; ">Topics</span></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; color: black; ">Paper submissions are invited on (but not limited to) the following topics:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; color: black; "><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Optima; "><span style="font-family: Symbol; color: black; "><span>·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times; color: black; ">web-based technologies for resource interoperability, inter-linkage, and access;</span></span></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in; "><span style="font-family: Symbol; color: black; "><span>·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times; color: black; ">multi-lingual and/or multi-modal language resources, with focus on the mechanisms enabling interoperability;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in; "><span style="font-family: Symbol; color: black; "><span>·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times; color: black; ">support for multi-linguality and multi-modality in systems/frameworks for resource creation, annotation,<span> </span>use, and access;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in; "><span style="font-family: Symbol; color: black; "><span>·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times; color: black; ">existing and proposed standards for language resources, including standards for linguistic annotations at any and all linguistics levels;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in; "><span style="font-family: Symbol; color: black; "><span>·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times; color: black; ">systems, frameworks, and architectures to support the development and use of interoperable language resources;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in; "><span style="font-family: Symbol; color: black; "><span>·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times; color: black; ">evaluation of existing resources, systems and frameworks, and/or standards in terms of support for interoperability;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in; "><span style="font-family: Symbol; color: black; "><span>·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times; color: black; ">harmonization, integration, and/or linking of language resources, including corpora, wordnets, framenets, ontologies, etc.;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in; "><span style="font-family: Symbol; color: black; "><span>·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times; color: black; ">ontologies for language resources, especially for support of<span> </span>multi-linguality, multi-culturality, and multi-modality. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Times; color: black; ">Proceedings<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; color: black; ">Accepted papers will be included in the </span><span style="font-family: Times; color: black; ">conference proceedings</span><span style="font-family: Times; color: black; ">. A selection of outstanding conference presentations will be published in a special issue of the journal <i>Language Resources and Evaluation</i>. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Times; color: black; ">Submissions<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; color: black; ">Submissions should be </span><span style="font-family: Times; color: black; ">no more than </span><span style="font-family: Times; color: black; ">8</span><span style="font-family: Times; color: black; "> pages in length, including bibliography and any appendices. Author instructions will be posted on the conference web site. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Times; color: black; ">Important dates<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; color: black; ">Paper submission deadline:<span> </span>15 </span><span style="font-family: Times; color: black; ">October</span><span style="font-family: Times; color: black; "> 200</span><span style="font-family: Times; color: black; ">9<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; color: black; ">Notification of acceptance:<span> </span>15 November 200</span><span style="font-family: Times; color: black; ">9<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; color: black; ">Camera-ready papers due:<span> </span>30 </span><span style="font-family: Times; color: black; ">November</span><span style="font-family: Times; color: black; "> 200</span><span style="font-family: Times; color: black; ">9<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; color: black; ">Conference dates:<span> </span><span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times; color: black; ">18 – 20</span><span style="font-family: Times; color: black; "> January 20</span><span style="font-family: Times; color: black; ">10<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Times"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; color: black; "><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Optima; "><b><span style="font-family: Times; color: black; ">Conference Organis</span></b><b><span style="font-family: Times; color: black; ">ing Committee</span></b><b><span style="font-family: Times; color: black; ">:</span></b></span></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; color: black; ">Conference C</span><span style="font-family: Times; color: black; ">onvener</span><span style="font-family: Times; color: black; ">:<span> </span>Jonathan Webster, City University of Hong Kong</span><span style="font-family: Times; color: black; "><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; color: black; ">Conference Co-Chairs:<span> </span></span><span style="font-family: Times; color: black; ">Nancy Ide, Vassar College, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; color: black; "><span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times; color: black; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Alex Chengyu Fang, City University of Hong Kong<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; color: black; ">Conference Secretary:<span> </span>Ernest Lam, City University of Hong Kong</span><span style="font-family: Times; color: black; "><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; color: black; ">Conference Webmaster:<span> </span>Kin Tat Ko, City University of Hong Kong<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; color: black; ">Conference Website:<span> </span></span><span style="font-family: Times; color: black; "><a href="http://icgl.ctl.cityu.edu.hk/">http://<span>icgl</span>.<span>ctl.</span>cityu.edu.hk/</a></span><span style="font-family: Times; color: black; "><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; color: black; ">Conference Inquiry:<span> </span><a href="mailto:icgl2010@cityu.edu.hk">icgl2010@cityu.edu.hk</a></span></p></body></html>