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Apologies for multiple postings<div style="word-wrap: break-word;"><p>=====================================================</p><p><span lang="DE"> Call for Paper Submissions</span></p><p>
LREC 2010 Workshop on </p><p> Supporting
e-learning with language resources and semantic data </p><p><span lang="DE"> May 22, 2010, Valletta, Malta</span></p><p><span lang="DE"> <span style="font-style: italic;">Submission
Deadline: 15 February 2010</span></span></p><p>
<span> </span><a href="http://www.lt4el.eu/ws_elearning.php" target="_blank">http://www.lt4el.eu/ws_elearning.php</a></p><p>=====================================================</p><div><br></div><p><b><br></b></p><p><b>Background</b></p>
<div><span style="font-size: 12px;">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, 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></div><div><br></div><b><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px;">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></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Topics</span><span style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px;"><span> </span>of interest
include, but are not limited to:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px;">* Relevance of language
resources, semantic data (i.e. ontologies, social media data) and tools
in eLearning;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;">* Use of social media
applications and social networks in enhancing eLearning;</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;">* Methods to link semantic description of learning
objects to semantic web data;</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;">* Ontology
Design in the eLearning domain;</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;">*
Different methods of employing LRs such as written and spoken corpora,
grammars, lexicons, and linguistic databases in eLearning; </span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;">* Use of multilingual language resources in
facilitating knowledge exchange within eLearning applications;</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;">* Use of language and speech technology for
improvement of language learning applications;</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;">* Use of language and speech technology to provide
feedback in eLearning applications; </span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;">* Exploitation of semantic data and language
resources for the development of intelligent functionalities in
eLearning systems;</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;">* Collaborative
development of semantic data describing learning objects;</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;">* Methods to re-use linked data in the development
of learning objects; </span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;">* eLearning
applications enhanced with language technology tools and semantic data
in facilitating education access in Mediterranean partner countries.</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Submissions</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px;">Abstracts
should be 5 pages long and submitted through the START Conference
Manager submission site:<span> </span><a href="https://www.softconf.com/lrec2010/E-learning2010/" target="_blank">https://www.softconf.com/lrec2010/E-learning2010/</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;">Accepted papers will be published in the workshop
proceedings and should adhere to the style sheet.</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;">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></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;">For
further information on this new initiative, please refer to </span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;"><a 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></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Important dates</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;">Submission of abstracts:
15 February 2010</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;">Notification of
acceptance: 22 March 2010</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;">Final
version for the proceedings: 28 March 2010</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Organisers </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px;">Paola
Monachesi, University of Malta and Utrecht University</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;">Alfio Massimiliano Gliozzo, ISTC-CNR</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;">Eline Westerhout ,Utrecht University</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;"><br></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Programme Committee</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;">Claudio Baldassarre (Open University) </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;">Roberto Basili (University of Rome Tor Vergata)</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;">Eva Blomqvist (ISTC –CNR) </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;">Antonio Branco (University of Lisbon)</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;">Dan Cristea (University of Iasi)</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;">Ernesto William De Luca (TU Berlin) </span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;">Philippe Dessus (Univ. Pierre-Mendès-France,
Grenoble)</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;">Claudio Giuliano
(FBK-irst)</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;">Wolfgang Greller (Open
University of the Netherlands)</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;">Alessio
Gugliotta (Innova spa)</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;">Jamil
Itmazi (Palestine Ahliya University)</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;">Susanne Jekat (Zürich Winterthur Hochschule)</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;">Vladislav Kubon (Charles University Prague)</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;">Lothar Lemnitzer (Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie
der Wissenschaften)</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;">Stefanie
Lindstaedt (Know-Center, Graz)</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;">Angelo
Marco Luccini (INSEAD)</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;">Manuele
Manente (JOGroup)</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;">Dunja Mladenic (J. Stefan
Institute)</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;">Mattew Montebello
(University of Malta)</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;">Jad Najjar
(WU Vienna)</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;">Valentina Presutti, STLab
(ISTC – CNR)</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;">Adam Przepiorkowski
(Polish Academy of Sciences)</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;">Mike
Rosner (University of Malta)</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;">Doaa Samy
(Cairo University)</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;">Khaled Shaalan (Cairo
University)</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;">Kiril Simov (Bulgarian
Academy of Sciences)</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;">Stefan
Trausan-Matu (University of Bucharest)</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;">Cristina Vertan (University of Hamburg)</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;">Fridolin Wild (Open University)</span></font></p></b></div></div></span>