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<b>Call for Papers </b><br><br>Workshop on <br><font size="4"><b>Supporting eLearning with Language Resources and Semantic Data </b></font><br><br>To be held in conjunction with the 7th International <br>
Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2010)<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b><span lang="ES">22 May 2010, Mediterranean Conference Centre,
Valletta, Malta</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span lang="ES"><a href="http://workshops.elda.org/lrslm2010/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB"></span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://www.lt4el.eu/ws_elearning.php" target="_blank">http://www.lt4el.eu/ws_elearning.php</a><br>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB">Deadline for submission: 15 February 2010</span></i><br><br></div><br style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><font style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;" size="4"><b>Description </b></font><br style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">Language
resources are of crucial importance not only for research and
development in language and speech technology but also for eLearning
applications. In addition, the increasingly availability of
semantically interpreted data in the WEB 3.0 is creating a huge impact
in semantic technology. Social media applications such as Delicious,
Flickr, YouTube, and Facebook, provide us with data in the form of tags and
interactions among users. We believe that the exploitation of semantic
data (emerging both from the Semantic Web and from social media) and
language resources will drive the next generation eLearning platforms.
The integration of these technologies within eLearning applications
should also facilitate access to learning material in developing
economies. </span><br style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">The workshop aims at bringing together computational linguists,
language resources developers, knowledge engineers, social media
researchers and researchers involved in technology-enhanced learning as
well as developers of eLearning material, ePublishers and eLearning
practitioners. It will provide a forum for interaction among members of
different research communities, and a means for attendees to increase
their knowledge and understanding of the potential of language
resources in eLearning. We will especially target eLearning
practitioners in the Mediterranean Partner Countries. </span><br style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><font style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;" size="4"><b>Topics</b></font><br style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: </span><br style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">
<ul style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><li>Relevance of language resources, semantic data (i.e. ontologies, social media data) and tools in eLearning;</li><li>Use of social media applications and social networks in enhancing eLearning;</li>
<li>Methods to link semantic description of learning objects to semantic web data;</li><li>Ontology Design in the eLearning domain;</li><li>Different methods of employing LRs such as written and spoken
corpora, grammars, lexicons, and linguistic databases in eLearning;</li><li>Use of multilingual language resources in facilitating knowledge exchange within eLearning applications;</li><li>Use of language and speech technology for improvement of language learning applications;</li>
<li>Use of language and speech technology to provide feedback in eLearning applications;</li><li>Exploitation of semantic data and language resources for the development of intelligent functionalities in eLearning systems;</li>
<li>Collaborative development of semantic data describing learning objects;</li><li>Methods to re-use linked data in the development of learning objects;</li><li>eLearning
applications enhanced with language technology tools and semantic data
in facilitating education access in Mediterranean partner countries.</li></ul><br style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><font style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;" size="4"><b>Submissions</b></font><span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">Abstracts should be 5 pages long and submitted through the START Conference Manager submission site: </span><a style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;" href="https://www.softconf.com/lrec2010/E-learning2010/" target="_blank">https://www.softconf.com/lrec2010/E-learning2010/</a><br style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings and should adhere to the style sheet.</span><br style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">When
submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to
provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e.
also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been
used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of your
research.</span><br style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">For further information on this new initiative, please refer to </span><a style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;" href="http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2010/?LREC2010-Map-of-Language-Resources" target="_blank">http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2010/?LREC2010-Map-of-Language-Resources</a><span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">.</span><br style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">
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</span><br style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><font style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;" size="4"><b>Important dates </b></font><br style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">Submission of abstracts: 15 February 2010</span><br style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">Notification of acceptance: 22 March 2010</span><br style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">Final version for the proceedings: 28 March 2010 </span><br style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;" lang="EN-GB">Workshop: 22 May 2010</span><br style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><font style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;" size="4"><b>Organizing Committee</b></font><br style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">Paola Monachesi, University of Malta and Utrecht University</span><br style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">Alfio Massimiliano Gliozzo, ISTC-CNR</span><br style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">Eline Westerhout, Utrecht University</span><br style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><b style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><br><br><font size="4">Programme Committee</font></b><br style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">
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Claudio Baldassarre (Open University)</span><br style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">Roberto Basili (University of Rome Tor Vergata)</span><br style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">Eva Blomqvist (ISTC –CNR)</span><br style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">Antonio Branco (University of Lisbon)</span><br style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">Dan Cristea (University of Iaşi)</span><br style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">Ernesto William De Luca (TU Berlin)</span><br style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">
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Philippe Dessus (Univ. Pierre-Mendès-France, Grenoble)</span><br style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">Claudio Giuliano (FBK-irst)</span><br style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">Wolfgang Greller (Open University of the Netherlands)</span><br style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">Alessio Gugliotta (Innova spa)</span><br style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">Jamil Itmazi (Palestine Ahliya University)</span><br style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">
Susanne Jekat (Zürich Winterthur Hochschule)</span><br style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">Vladislav Kubon (Charles University Prague)</span><br style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">Lothar Lemnitzer (Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften)</span><br style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">Stefanie Lindstaedt (Know-Center, Graz)</span><br style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">Angelo Marco Luccini (INSEAD)</span><br style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">
Manuele Manente (JOGroup)</span><br style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">Dunja Mladenic (J. Stefan Institute)</span><br style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">Mattew Montebello (University of Malta)</span><br style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">Jad Najjar (WU Vienna)</span><br style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">Valentina Presutti, STLab (ISTC – CNR)</span><br style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">Adam Przepiorkowski (Polish Academy of Sciences)</span><br style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">
Mike Rosner (University of Malta)</span><br style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">Doaa Samy (Cairo University)</span><br style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">Khaled Shaalan (Cairo University)</span><br style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">Kiril Simov (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)</span><br style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">Stefan Trausan-Matu (University of Bucarest)</span><br style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">Cristina Vertan (University of Hamburg)</span><br style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">
Fridolin Wild (Open University)
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