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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Appologies for
multiple postings<BR><BR>FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS<BR><BR>Workshop on "EXPLOITATION
OF MULTILINGUAL RESOURCES AND TOOLS FOR <BR>CENTRAL AND (SOUTH-) EASTERN
EUROPEAN LANGUAGES"</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><BR>23rd May
2010, La Valleta, Malta<BR><BR>organised in conjunction with LREC 2010
Conference (17-23 May 2010, La Valleta, Malta)<BR><BR></FONT><A
href=""><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>http://www.c-phil.uni-hamburg.de/view/Main/LrecWorkshop2010</FONT></A><BR><BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>Papers submission deadline: 7th March
2010<BR><BR>The reconciliation of differences in the availability of
language resources and tools for more intensively and less intensively
spoken <BR>languages has been the main concern of several European
initiatives. Central and (South-) Eastern European languages can be the
subject of <BR>a case study in that respect: integration of diverse
languages into a broad language community.<BR><BR>The main result of these
initiatives was the increased production of language resources and
especially language technology tools for <BR>Central, Eastern and Southern
European languages in recent years. While monolingual systems have achieved
performances comparable to <BR>those for intensively studied languages,
still a lot of work has to be invested in multilingual tools for
applications such as machine <BR>translation or cross-lingual information
retrieval. At least three major issues have critical influence on the
performance of such systems:<BR><BR>- the availability of the appropriate
quantities of data for training and evaluation<BR>- the analysis of
structural linguistic differences among languages so as to be able to
improve statistical methods with targeted linguistic <BR>knowledge;<BR>-
the availability of knowledge bases for incorporation into
language processing systems.<BR><BR>The identification of key aspects of
linguistic modelling and resource supply for multilingual technologies
involving Central, Eastern and <BR>Southern European languages can have
impact not only on the local improvement of such systems but also on the
overall development of <BR>multilingual technologies. The same holds for
well established or emerging linguistic knowledge representation
frameworks, which can <BR>only benefit from embedding components for
Central, Eastern and Southern European languages.<BR><BR>We are looking for
submission of original, unpublished work related to Central and
(South-)Eastern European languages in the following areas:<BR><BR>- Automatic
identification of comparable or parallel corpora<BR>- Extraction of linguistic
knowledge from comparable or parallel corpora<BR>- Improvement of statistical
methods with knowledge extracted from comparable or parallel corpora<BR>- Domain
adaptation of statistical methods in multilingual context<BR>- Multilingual
systems involving Central, Eastern and Southern European languages<BR>-
Production, management and interfacing of knowledge bases including Central,
Eastern and Southern European languages<BR>- Machine translation for Central,
Eastern and Southern European languages<BR><BR>A special section of the workshop
will be dedicated to machine translation issues and a special call for
participation will be issued <BR>respectively at the beginning of January.
The registered participants for this section will receive a set of English
texts and they will be <BR>asked to translate them by means of existing
on-line or other in-house MT tools. They will be asked to analyse
criteria like syntactic <BR>/semantic correctness, intelligibility of the
translations, as well as to distinguish typical and repetitive mistakes at
morphological <BR>/syntactic, and semantic level.<BR><BR>Accepted papers
will be published in workshop proceedings. We also intend to publish
revised versions of the papers in a volume in LINCOM <BR>Series.
Demonstrations of existing systems are also wellcome.<BR><BR>Submission
Details<BR><BR>Submissions have to be made through the START system of the main
LREC conference under<BR> </FONT><A href=""><FONT
face="Times New Roman"
size=3>https://www.softconf.com/lrec2010/MultiLR2010/</FONT></A><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3> .<BR>Contributors should submit a PDF file no
longer than 10 DIN-A4 pages. The formatting details should follow the LREC
conference formatting <BR>details. Papers will be blind reviewed by
minimum 3 members of the Programme Committee.<BR><BR>When submitting a
paper from the START page, authors will be asked to provide essential
information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e. <BR>also technologies,
standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the work
described in the paper or are a new result of your <BR>research. For
further information on this new iniative, please refer to:<BR></FONT><A
href=""><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2010/?LREC2010-Map-of-Language-Resources</FONT></A><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>.<BR><BR>Important Dates<BR><BR>- Deadline for
paper submission: 7th March 2010<BR>- Notification of acceptance /
rejection: 25th March 2010<BR>- Submission of final papers: 10th April
2010<BR>- Workshop: 23rd May 2010<BR><BR>Organising Committee<BR><BR>- Stelios
Piperidis, ILSP, Natural Language and Knowledge Extraction Department,
Athens Greece<BR>- Milena Slavcheva, Bulgarian Academy of Science, Institute
for Parallel Processing, Linguistic Modeling Department, Sofia,
Bulgaria<BR>- Cristina Vertan, University of Hamburg,
Arbeitsstelle "Computerphilologie", Hamburg, Germany<BR><BR>Programme
Committee<BR><BR>Galja Angelova(IPP, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)<BR>Bogdan
Babych (Centre for Translation Studies, Leeds, UK)<BR>Damir Cavar (University of
Zadar, Croatia)<BR>Tomaz Erjavec (Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia)<BR>Maria
Gavrilidou (ILSP, Athens, Greece)<BR>Walther von Hahn (University of Hamburg,
Germany)<BR>Cvetana Krstev (University of Belgrade, Serbia)<BR>Vladislav Kubon
(Charles University, Prague)<BR>Petya Osenova (University of Sofia,
Bulgaria)<BR>Stelios Piperidis (ILSP, Athens, Greece)<BR>Gabor Proszeky
(Morphologic, Hungary)<BR>Adam Przepiórkowski (IPAN, Polish Academy of
Sciences)<BR>Milena Slavcheva (IPP, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)<BR>Kiril
Simov (IPP, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)<BR>Dan Tufis (Romanian Academy of
Sciences)<BR>Cristina Vertan (University of Hamburg, Germany)<BR>Dusko Vitas
(University of Belgrade, Serbia)<BR><BR>Contact<BR><BR>For further questions
please see the web page of the workshop at: <BR></FONT><A href=""><FONT
face="Times New Roman"
size=3>http://www.c-phil.uni-hamburg.de/view/Main/LrecWorkshop2010</FONT></A><BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>or contact Dr. Cristina Vertan under:<BR>cristina
DOT vertan AT uni-hamburg DOT de<BR>tel:
+4940428384767<BR><BR>=====<BR><BR></FONT></FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>Milena
Slavcheva</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Linguistic Modeling Department<BR>Institute for
Parallel Processing<BR>Bulgarian Academy of Sciences<BR>25A, Acad. Georgi
Bonchev St.<BR>1113 Sofia, Bulgaria</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>phone: (+359) 2 979 2812<BR>e-mail: <A
href="mailto:milena@lml.bas.bg">milena@lml.bas.bg</A><BR>URL: <A
href="http://lml.bas.bg/~milena">http://lml.bas.bg/~milena</A></FONT></DIV>
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