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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b><span
lang="EN-GB">CALL
FOR PAPER<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span
lang="EN-GB">Workshop
on</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b><span
lang="EN-GB">Web
Services and Processing Pipelines in HLT:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b><span
style="font-size: 11pt;" lang="EN-GB">Tool Evaluation, LR Production
and Validation<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span
lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin: 0cm 47.25pt 0.0001pt 49.5pt; text-align: center;"
align="center"><span style="font-size: 11pt;" lang="EN-GB">To
be held in conjunction with the 7th International Language Resources
and
Evaluation Conference (LREC 2010)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b><span
lang="EN-GB">17-18 May 2010, Mediterranean Conference Center,
Valletta, Malta<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span
lang="EN-GB"><a
href="https://www.softconf.com/lrec2010/WebServices2010/">http://workshops.elda.org/wspp2010/</a><i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><i><span
lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><i><span
lang="EN-GB">Extended
deadline for submission: 26 February 2010<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt;"
lang="EN-GB">Workshop Description<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB">With
the emergence of large e-infrastructures and the widespread
adoption of the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) paradigm, more and
more
language technology is being made available through web services.
Extending
such services to linguistic processing pipelines, tool evaluation or LR
production
and validation involves considering both the methodologies and
technical
aspects specific to the application domains.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB">Distributed
architectures such as web services allow communication
and data exchange between applications. They are a suitable instrument
for
automatic, less often semi-automatic, tool evaluation as well as
resource
production processes<span style=""> </span>both for practical
and conceptual reasons. At a practical level, web services support
quick
results, centralised data storage, remote access etc.; at a conceptual
level,
they allow for the combination of more than one processing components
that may
be located on different sites. Such processing pipelines are set up to
tackle a
particular analysis task. To support these, new techniques have to be
developed
that organise well-established practices into workflows and support the
exchange of data by standards and open tool architectures.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB">The
workshop focuses on current uses and best practices for the
deployment of web services and web interfaces in the HLT domain,
including
processing pipelines, LR production and validation, and evaluation of
tools. It
highlights relevant aspects for the integration of linguistic or
evaluation web
services within infrastructures (e.g. authorisation and authentication,
service
registries) and infrastructural requirements (e.g. interface
harmonisation,
metadata generation). The workshop also aims at demonstrating different
approaches on how to combine linguistic web services into<span style="">
</span>a composite web service.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB">The
expected outcome of the workshop is a comparison of the
practices in architectures and processing pipelines that people build
and
discussion of the issues involved. Topics of interest include, but are
not
limited to:</span></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span dir="ltr"><i><span lang="EN-GB">Technical
aspects</span></i><span lang="EN-GB">: approaches, protocols,
management of huge
amounts of data, data structures and formats, performance, manual
components
(e.g. annotation or evaluation), composition and configuration,
interoperability, security, monitoring and recovery strategies,
standardisation
of APIs, tools and frameworks supporting HLT services deployment,
architectures. </span></span></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span dir="ltr"><i><span lang="EN-GB">Scientific
aspects</span></i><span lang="EN-GB">: influence of web services on
evaluation or
resource production, meta-evaluation / validation of architectures,
annotation
agreements, needs for tools evaluation and resource production, status
of the
data produced.</span></span></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span dir="ltr"><i><span lang="EN-GB">Commercial
aspects</span></i><span lang="EN-GB">: licensing, privacy, advertising,
brokering, business possibilities, challenges, exploitation of the
resulting
data. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt;"
lang="EN-GB">Chairing Committee<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="" lang="PT">Núria Bel
(Institut Universitari de Lingüística
Aplicada, </span><span lang="EN-GB">Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB">Olivier
Hamon (</span><span style="" lang="PT">Evaluations
and Language resources Distribution Agency (ELDA)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""
lang="PT">Elke
Teich (Technische Universität Darmstadt)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt;"
lang="PT"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt;"
lang="EN-GB">Organising Committee<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""
lang="PT">Peter Fankhauser (L3S Hannover, Germany)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB">Maria
Gavrilidou (Institute for Language and Speech Processing,
Greece)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB">Gerhard
Heyer (Department of Natural Language Processing, University
of <em><span style="font-family: "Nimbus Roman No9 L";">Leipzig,</span></em><span
style=""> </span>Germany)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""
lang="PT">Zdravko
Kacic (University of Maribor, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and
Computer
Science, Slovenia)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""
lang="PT">Mark
Kemps-Snijders (MPI, the Netherlands)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""
lang="PT">Andreas
Witt (IDS Mannheim, Germany)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt;"
lang="EN-GB">Programme Committee<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""
lang="EN-US">Sophia Ananiadou (</span><span lang="EN-GB">School of
Computer Science,
University of Manchester, England</span><span style="" lang="EN-US">)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB">Victoria
Arranz (ELDA, France)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Volker </span><span
lang="EN-GB">Boehlke (University of Leipzig, DE)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""
lang="ES">Gaël de Chalendar (CEA, France)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""
lang="EN-US">Key-Sun Choi (KAIST, Korea)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB">Dan
Cristea (University of Iasis, Romania)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB">Thierry
Declerck (DFKI, Germany)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""
lang="DE">Christoph Draxler (LMU München, Germany)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB">Nicola
Ferro (University of Padua, Italy)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="ES">Riccardo del
Grata (ILC, Italy)</span><span style="" lang="ES"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""
lang="EN-US">Iryna Gurevych (</span><span style="" lang="PT">Technische
Universität Darmstadt</span><span style="" lang="EN-US">, Germany)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""
lang="DE">Yoshihiko Hayashi (Osaka University,
Japan)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""
lang="ES">Nicolas Hernandez (Université de Nantes,
France)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span lang="EN-GB">Radu Ion
(Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Romanian Academy,
Romania)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""
lang="EN-US">Yoshinobu Kano (University of Tokyo,
Japan)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""
lang="EN-US">Yohei Murakami (NICT, Japan)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB">Jan
Odijk (University of Utrecht, the Netherlands)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""
lang="DE">Patrick Paroubek (LIMSI, France)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""
lang="DE">Kay Peterson (NIST, U.S.A.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Maciej Piasecki<span style="" lang="ES"> (</span><span
class="WW-Absatz-Standardschriftart111111111">Instytut Informatyki
Stosowanej</span><span style="" lang="ES">, Poland)</span><span style=""
lang="ES"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""
lang="DE">Mark Przybocki (NIST, U.S.A.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB">Matej
Rojc (University of Maribor, Slovenia)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB">Felix
Sasaki (W3C / FH Potsdam, Germany)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""
lang="EN-US">Junichi Tsujii (University of Tokyo,
Japan)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""
lang="ES">Dan Tufis (RACAI, Romania)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""
lang="EN-US">Karin Verspoor (University of
Colorado, U.S.A.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""
lang="EN-US">Graham Wilcock (University of
Helsinki, Finland)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""
lang="ES"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="display: none;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt;"
lang="EN-GB">Important dates<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Extended deadline for
submission: Friday 26
February 2010</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Notification of acceptance:
Thursday 18
March 2010</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Final version due: Thursday 25
March 2010</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Workshop : 17-18 May 2010</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt;"
lang="EN-GB">Submission Format<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB">Full
papers up to 8 pages should be formatted according to LREC 2010
guidelines and be submitted through the online submission form (<a
href="https://www.softconf.com/lrec2010/WebServices2010/">https://www.softconf.com/lrec2010/WebServices2010/</a>)
on START. For further queries, please contact Olivier Hamon at
hamon_at_elda_dot_org. </span></p>
<p class="Texteprformat" style="text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Nimbus Roman No9 L";"
lang="EN-GB">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. For further information
on this
new initiative, please refer to </span><span lang="EN-GB"><a
href="http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2010/?LREC2010-Map-of-Language-Resources"><span
style="font-family: "Nimbus Roman No9 L";">http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2010/?LREC2010-Map-of-Language-Resources</span></a></span><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Nimbus Roman No9 L";"
lang="EN-GB">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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